So I have a nice little flock of various laying hens, and after my RI and Silkie roosters passed away, a local breeder gave me a nice Aracauna roo to woo the ladies. She had kept him solitary for a long time so that her better rooster would be breeding the hens, so needles to say as soon as I put 'Romeo' in with my hens, they were all rather happy to see each other. So as of Wed Mar 3, he'll have been in there playing Casanova for a week.
Is this long enough to have fertile eggs on my hands? I don't want to waste a perfectly good omelet.
I have purchased a Little Giant still air incubator and egg turner from TSC for starters. And I'm cheap. Both parts come with a lengthy instruction manual, and I figure if I buy something and I HAVE to read up on how to use it, then I'm doomed. I'm going to follow the directions best I can, but if there's anything that may not be mentioned in the book that you may want to add, I'll eat the info like candy.
So i'm thrilled to have BYC around to help walk me through the whole process and hopefully I can be a peep-making machine by the end of summer.
-JAK
Is this long enough to have fertile eggs on my hands? I don't want to waste a perfectly good omelet.
I have purchased a Little Giant still air incubator and egg turner from TSC for starters. And I'm cheap. Both parts come with a lengthy instruction manual, and I figure if I buy something and I HAVE to read up on how to use it, then I'm doomed. I'm going to follow the directions best I can, but if there's anything that may not be mentioned in the book that you may want to add, I'll eat the info like candy.
So i'm thrilled to have BYC around to help walk me through the whole process and hopefully I can be a peep-making machine by the end of summer.
-JAK