How is your flock today?

[BlueBaby]

Now, you might have to build more pens to keep all your roos apart for pure-bred Red Dorkings! I sure hope those guys survive your summer and make some hatching eggs for me! The cross beak Red Dorking was crowing this morning, looks like next week I'll be tasting some rare bird meat! He is not putting weight on with that beak, though.

How will you keep him quiet until then so that that neighbor doesn't turn you in again?

 

[Parront]

I had to add water to my 360 every morning, but the humidity never got too low, it dropps to 40%, I add water, back to 50% in less than an hour. Be sure to use distilled water!

 

[Parront]

How will you keep him quiet until then so that that neighbor doesn't turn you in again?

Knife and scalding pot.

 

[Parront]

He is not loud, yet, and is in the brooder shed still.

 

[BlueBaby]

I had to add water to my 360 every morning, but the humidity never got too low, it dropps to 40%, I add water, back to 50% in less than an hour. Be sure to use distilled water!

Yes, that's the water that I am using. My DH uses that kind for his CPAP machine so it's already on hand.

 

[BlueBaby]

@416bigbore I just did a candle on those 6 egg's tonight, and all 6 of them look like they have little spider's in them. I set them on July 25th.

 

[416bigbore]

@BlueBaby That is so awesome, thank you for the up-date!

 

[Sally PB]

Good thing I got chicks in June. I keep reading the brooding/hatching stories on here, and I'd have a BAD case of chick fever if I didn't have some of my own.

Maybe next year I'll have a broody, and can join in the hatching fun. Hmmmm... my neighbor really wants a cockerel, and she has a big enough flock for two, possibly...

 

[416bigbore]

@Sally PB are you thinking of incubating eggs or letting it happen naturally?

 

[Sally PB]

I don't have an incubator, so if I do hatch any, it would have to be with a broody.