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How do you compare those two breeds?
what is a good source (in central/southern Indiana ) for buying few chicks from these breeds: RIR, barred rock, australorp, wyandotte and buff orpington?
thank you
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what is a good source (in central/southern Indiana ) for buying few chicks from these breeds: RIR, barred rock, australorp, wyandotte and buff orpington?
thank you
I got a Nature Right 360 for Christmas!!!! I hope my DH realizes what he’s done! So this spring I want to hatch blue layers!! Anyone local with Cream Legbars or true Ameraucanas??? Or can someone make any recommendations?
Good choice. I've got one of those & love it. Literally the easiest incubator I ever set up. (I do many hatches in the local schools and although each school own their own incubator, none seem to know how to set them up. LOL) I also love that everything is automatic so you'll really only have to add water.
it has great viewing for kids to watch chicks hatch. It's not as good for taking hatch photos. (Chick fuzz sticks to sides and shape can distort image.)
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Has to be better and more easy than the hand me down the Little Giant styrofoam and homemade cabinet incubators I’ve used in the past! I have very good hatch rates between 75-80% every time but I’ve also hand turned lots of eggs and really had to control the humidity and with the cabinet you can’t watch at all!!
I've done the syrofoam incubators for years. (I've got one hand-me-down Hovabator from the late 1990s. Still works, but I had to replace wafer 2xs and added a computer fan.) They can be a good value, but need a lot of adjustments during incubation.
My DIY incubator is my fav for viewing the hatch and still has the best hatch rate. (However many adjustments are manual, so it's not as fool-proof.) My son did a 4h experiment to find the best incubator. He thought the Brinsea (Octagon Advanced = fully loaded with auto everything - even humidity pump) would be best in all categories ..... but my manual one won for best hatch rate. The Brinsea was 2nd for hatch % but #1 for both set up and operation. With the high price, Brinsea was not an option for us. Last spring, he decided to build his own incubator (using an incu-kit). He wanted an automatic incubator like the Brinsea but affordable. He did a great job and won Best in Show again.
We didn't "need" an incubator, but all of ours are big. (3 to 5 doz capacity) I really liked the small footprint of the NR 360 and found a good sale - bought on impulse, but never regretted it. If I want to do a little hatch, have a staggered hatch, or need a quick place to put abandoned broody eggs or chick ICU, the little NR 360 can be set up in minutes and doesn't take long to stabilize.
We have an 7yr old cream legbar hen who is our only blue egg layer and her eggs were getting few and far between, so we got an Aracauna roo-rumpless and double tufted to mate with her. You know-keep the blue eggs coming since Aracaunas lay blue eggs.
We had the first hatch. One roo -who is rumpless and carries the blue egg gene, and the tuft gene, and a hen from the naked neck-who is an olive egged and is my personal favorite!
We wanted blue eggs darn it! So we tried another hatch.
Success! 3 girls- the chicks were autosexing from the legbar gene-one was rumpless-and one had the crest like the cream legbar does and one that looks like a cream legbar without the crest. Woot-woot!!
Those 3 girls are at laying age. 2 lay blue and one lays pink.
Long story longer-winter is here-the 3 new hens are mature and being fought over by my 2 Roos.
My flock is too small for two Roos.We want to relocate our 1.5 year araucana-mix roo. He’s an Araucana mix or Ameracauna. He is nearly rumpless (improve fertility over rumpless) and carries the blue egg gene, and the tuft gene.
We’re in Indianapolis and I can show you his parents if you have interest-DM me.
Here’s a pic.
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Is it just me or do others have the urge to pluck that tail feather?
Congrats on the pretty blue egg layers. I have a 9 yr old EE hen, so we get very few blue eggs these days. (She tends to start laying a little later each year and stops for the year in August. ) Can't complain, though. She's a very healthy hen and has "personality."
Pluck the butt feather? Oh, yes - we’re tempted a lot, it’s the only thing that keeps him from being rumpless!!Is it just me or do others have the urge to pluck that tail feather?
Congrats on the pretty blue egg layers. I have a 9 yr old EE hen, so we get very few blue eggs these days. (She tends to start laying a little later each year and stops for the year in August. ) Can't complain, though. She's a very healthy hen and has "personality."
Skunk or squirrel, maybe? It’s funny how it jumps like that, so skunk is probably out.In other news, we had a visitor last night. Anyone know what it was?
It spent a lot of time walking around the coop & entire backyard. May have been more than one.
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