Most Striking Domestic MALE Fowl Contest! 5th Annual 2014 Easter Hatch-a-long!
Have a gorgeous male in your flock? We want to see HIM! ONE MALE domestic Fowl entry per Member, up to three images of this same Male in order to show all of his STRIKING Features! A panel of judges will determine the winner!
2 Prizes for the top 2 winners!
5 coupons for each winner!
In the form of manufacturer's coupons that may be redeemed for FREE bags! Each coupon is worth a free bag of Nutrena NatureWise or Nutrena Country Feeds!
Is it too late to join?! I had set my eggs on the correct date, but at about 6am since I worked that day.
Set 7 black copper Marans and 9 BLR Wyandotte eggs, candled them yesterday and only had 3 duds. I am so looking forward to this!!
Most people won't be dying eggs yet with their kids, so we've decided to extend this contest. Entries will be accepted until 4/21/14 at midnight PST.
Contest #5 Decorated Egg Contest! 5th Annual 2014 Easter Hatch-a-long! Still dunking an Easter egg in dye? Take your eggs one step further! Now's your chance to show off your eggs-traordinary artistic ability! A panel of judges will determine the winner! All eggs will be judged based on the following factors: The Design (theme, uniqueness, and overall appeal) Artistic & Technical Merit (quality of work with media, clean edges, glue hidden, attractive finishing, etc.)) Creativity (use of unique ideas/materials)
Is it too late to join?! I had set my eggs on the correct date, but at about 6am since I worked that day.
Set 7 black copper Marans and 9 BLR Wyandotte eggs, candled them yesterday and only had 3 duds. I am so looking forward to this!!
I don't know whether you are old enough to remember Mighty Mouse, but the theme song is what popped into my head when I saw this - "Here I come to save the day!"
Howdy y'all. Discovered why my little silkie rooster has been sluggish and sicky. Mites. Tiny little yellow mites and eggs covering the base if all the feathers on his head and neck. I kinda freaked. Bathed and blow dried and dusted the crap out of him with DE (all I had ....) obsessively checked everyone else and their coops and dusted the DICKENS out everyone and everything. He's isolated cuz he's not looking good at all and I didn't find any on anyone else. Is that weird?
Howdy y'all. Discovered why my little silkie rooster has been sluggish and sicky. Mites. Tiny little yellow mites and eggs covering the base if all the feathers on his head and neck. I kinda freaked. Bathed and blow dried and dusted the crap out of him with DE (all I had ....) obsessively checked everyone else and their coops and dusted the DICKENS out everyone and everything. He's isolated cuz he's not looking good at all and I didn't find any on anyone else. Is that weird?
I have LARGE dogs so............................ I have LARGE dog crates. The wire kind. I take the pan out of the bottom. Set it up in the coop that the hen is already in. If my broody is a bantam , I use a cardboard box with a separate lid ( the ones reams of copy paper come in ). Cover the bottom of the crate with wood shavings. Add the box filled half way with wood shavings. hollow out a nice nest in the shavings. Put food and water in the crate. Cover the entire crate with a dark colored sheet, all 4 sides. Wait until dark, put some inexpensive eggs in the nest. Now move the broody calmly & quietly in the DARK to her new home. Leave her alone undisturbed for a couple of days, so you know shes serious. Once you know shes serious, replace the eggs under her with the ones you want her to hatch.
Once I know she's serious and I've given her the eggs I want hatched, I uncover the front of the crate. When it gets close to hatchday I put cardboard all around the bottom of the crate. About 6-8" high, to prevent the chicks from getting stuck in the wires or worse yet killed by the other birds in the coop.
P.S. I've used small crates for my bantams too. Hope this helps !
that's a great idea!!! would the one I kept my first older chicks in work? its the one located inside of the pen.
this is the view from inside the sectioned area of my coop, to the outside in the big coop. I used this when Cadbury's flock hatched....Cadbury and pumpkin are the young'uns, and my NA gals were on the outside. it worked super well!
could I just use this and move my broody to it the night of the hatch and include a trashcan with hay as a 'coop/nestbox' area? I can always put a 'curtain' of wood in from and beside the trashcan to provide privacy....just prop the wood on the outside of the area and nail it in.
would the hen and chicks be harmed by pests?
OR I could try this old quail pen of my neighbors.....he is always offering it to me when I need....but I don't relly trust it for chicks.
(these were my old missed BA gals)
Then again I can always take chicken wire and attach it from the ground to coop top, and just let the broody have the entire coop. its warm enough out for the other two hens and Cadbury to stay on their roosts outside....
We are rebuilding a chicken coop this year since it was originally built to only house maybe 10 chickens but then I kept getting more cause I found other breeds I like, so we will be building a new coop and better securing the pen (and enlarging it) and will be recycling the old coop as a brooder coop/ duck house. I have 4 barred rock chicks and 2 pekin ducklings all ready for spring to get here already! Can't wait to bring them outside finally!
Advice from a hatcher....? My pip is still not going any further. It's still just an x shaped crack in the egg, no beak yet. I am starting to worry, I do hear faint peeping, but it happened at noon today and still no progress. None of the other eggs look pipped. Last time I tried an assist I was too late. Should I just wait it out? It's a Pyle leghorn.
Is it too late to join?! I had set my eggs on the correct date, but at about 6am since I worked that day.
Set 7 black copper Marans and 9 BLR Wyandotte eggs, candled them yesterday and only had 3 duds. I am so looking forward to this!!
Howdy y'all. Discovered why my little silkie rooster has been sluggish and sicky. Mites. Tiny little yellow mites and eggs covering the base if all the feathers on his head and neck. I kinda freaked. Bathed and blow dried and dusted the crap out of him with DE (all I had ....) obsessively checked everyone else and their coops and dusted the DICKENS out everyone and everything. He's isolated cuz he's not looking good at all and I didn't find any on anyone else. Is that weird?
