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Just sold my first live birds ever!! A dozen barnyard mix for $6.00. Buyer has not had chickens for awhile and had a couple young kids with her......a good life is now a great life
sweet!!!!!! so awesome!!!!!!!! glad to have you with us!! pics later!!Last chick just hatched! 11/11, a 100% hatch. Baby is getting a chance to dry off in the incubator and then it will go to the brooder with the others. The 3 chicks that hatched yesterday have started nibbling at food and stood in my hand to eat. They aren't showing much interest in the water yet but we are working on that.
Thus concludes my first hatching! Thanks everyone for your patience when I asked questions.
Think I'll take a nap.
lol you make me smile!!! Go babies go!!!
Buenas Tardes gente loca de pollo!
Soooo, LOL.....
I have to confess, as crazy as I am about incubating, this is my 2nd go round, I still believe I prefer a broody hen to do all the work.
Any whoot, So I did something crazy and it may, or may not, work.I had already place eggs in the incubator while awaiting my eggs to arrive, not thinking like a dummy of course, well, when my eggs arrived, I did candle the ones in the bator and purged the ones that seemed less likely to develop. BUT then I had a crazy idea, and placed all the small banty eggs ontop of the new, larger eggs with the pointy end down, kind of inbetween the eggs.
They are turning, but because they are super small banty eggs, and 2 pheasant eggs, they are doing good so far. Has anyone else tried this? If so, how did it work out?
I also will be borrowing my girlfriends bator to hatch out in since these eggs are 1 week ahead of the new bigger eggs set.
thats cheap even for mix! wow!
