We're so happy you've decided to join us 
Hello from Nova Scotia and welcome to BYC! You’ve joined a great and resourceful community! Enjoy your journey!
Thank you! Could you let me know where I can get some help with finding a new very good incubator appropriate for both chickens and turkeys? I’m so fed up with this generic foam still air starter one we have. The sensors are so inaccurate and the ‘system’ is so ineffective that it feels like a cheap toy. Worst of all I believe all the work we’ve had to do to raise the humidity in there during hatching (adding sponges, warm water basins, raising temp, opening/closing too often) has harmed some developing embryos that didn’t end up making it, every time we’ve set.
Christmas update: Thank you everyone for welcoming us! Still learning how to navigate the site. Bare with us! Special thanks to @R2elk who took the time to confirm and explain that both are beautiful black turkeys are indeed hens. We have given our Leghorn rooster to the neighbors (trading livestock is big out here) - good thing too as we have a gorgeous hybrid rooster a few weeks out from maturity AND the only little pure Leghorn chick spawn from the relocated daddy is showing signs of being a little roo already too. Hoping to dive into the BYC world more this week with family coming to help out on the farm. Got lots of questions!Hey there we are ag farmers and novice homesteaders out in the Eastern TX country. We have to manage all types of environmental factors to keep our young flock healthy and happy - so far so good. We rely on good information and consistency which is why this forum has become a regular go-to for us.
We have a breeding pair of leghorns, Golden sex-link hens, their pure leghorn & sex-link hybrid chicks, a mixed bag of some sort of bantam hybrid poults which we need help identifying because they are beautiful and came from parents whose breeds we now know have definitely been misidentified and two Spanish Black/Norfolk Black heritage turkeys who are just over a month out from reaching sexual maturity yet we still don’t know their genders for sure - Another question I’m looking to tackle on here as we are committed to conserving heritage turkey breeds and want more but have to plan according to whose already here. We love all our birds. Ok maybe our turkeys a little more but I think fellow turkey owners understand. In addition to more probably Spanish Black and Royal Palm turkeys, I’d like to raise a few more chicken breeds and hope to find some locally to avoid having eggs shipped to us (the probability of over half arriving dead scenario is upsetting). Definitely on the look out for Araucanas, Marans, Olive Eggers, Deep Lavender Buffs....
I really like this forum being someone who typically isn’t into or thinks much good comes from spending much time on them, however in addition to constant work, research, trial & error (which has been tough at times) information on this forum has helped me go from never really interacting much with livestock to full blown thriving bird mom, nurse, and breeder in under a year. Because of that we’d like to get involved. To share and gain experience so we can do our best for all our critters.
Happy to be here
