Utah!

[sideWing]

A kill cone makes it pretty easy too. You can make one out of a traffic cone at Home dept. Once you get past the first two it's really easy.

 

[lizardandchicks]

I wish I could get the nerve up to do my own.!

X2, but I just love my chickens to much.

 

[the-bird-man]

i have put some girls down that needed it but i could never eat them. plus most my girls are several years old so are not such great eating anyway. i do love my girls a lot and even putting some down is super hard. i guess in a emergency i could eat some. i know people who have a hard time eating their own so they find friends with the same issue and just trade birds

 

[rcstanley]

I wish I could get the nerve too. I did have to put down one of my chickens, but she died as I put her in the killing cone. I did learn that my knife wasn't sharp enough. So glad to find out on a chicken that couldn't feel any pain...

On a happier note, I may have hatched my dream silkie. Looks to be white and fluffy probably turn out to be a roo, but I can hope.

 

[the-bird-man]

the first one i did on my own was a very sweet ee. she was blind, and was suffering so bad and she had the most messed up feet i have ever seen. she was such a good girl but was suffering so bad that i had to act then and there, could not wait for my father to do it so i did it. i used a hatchet my self. i keep my blades super sharp. it went as well as it could have. but it was still hard. i guess its good when its hard to take a life.

 

[the-bird-man]

hey red how did the deer hunt go? you did go correct? madchicken are you going this year?

 

[newmarch2014]

My Easter Eggers are finally laying! And a B.O. for comparison.

 

[RJSorensen]

Our EE's are giving us some greenish looking eggs as well. I've yet to get a green eggs and ham photo up, but perhaps soon. I'm thinking of learning to hatch, I have only used broody hens and for the most part on their terms. So… Ace and Red (Others) do you like your Brinsea units and would you recommend them to a bumbling man? Anyone else using something a first timer might be able to press into service? My hopes and dreams as I have noted prior, are to have some very nice BBR or SDW Old English Game Banties. I am about decided that to get 'correct' birds from a hatchery is most likely a bigger gamble that I want to take. Again.

The buy a hundred (birds) to get fifty (hens) and cull 2/3 of those makes those 'chosen' birds worth over forty dollars each. I would suppose one could buy some nice birds from a reputable breeder for a cost savings. Not to mention the feeding and care to raise them to the age of selection and having to 'cull' all of those extra birds. I do not like 'culling' anymore than many of you, from recent postings. SO… if I were to get a trio or such and use them for a foundation flock, if I could then hatch my own chicks and raise birds from stock that perhaps would be good enough to not have to cull so many nor so hard. However all of this is predicated on being able to hatch, and thus my query to the crew here. I am open to thoughts and or suggestions/insight into my thoughts & plans.

The hatchery will only have birds for a couple of weeks, then it is on to next years stock. So I need to at least try to figure a method or plan to put my aspirations to work. I've been over to the Box Elder fair the past two days and they sure put on a nice event. The chicken barn has AC!

If you kind folks have the time to spare and a thought to share, I would appreciate your efforts.

Sorry for those whom have had DOG problems, been there, hate doing that…

Best to all and your birds,

RJ

 

[Sambi89]

Something like that, right??

Bahahahahaha this one got me good!

 

[acemario]

Our EE's are giving us some greenish looking eggs as well. I've yet to get a green eggs and ham photo up, but perhaps soon. I'm thinking of learning to hatch, I have only used broody hens and for the most part on their terms. So… Ace and Red (Others) do you like your Brinsea units and would you recommend them to a bumbling man? Anyone else using something a first timer might be able to press into service? My hopes and dreams as I have noted prior, are to have some very nice BBR or SDW Old English Game Banties. I am about decided that to get 'correct' birds from a hatchery is most likely a bigger gamble that I want to take. Again.

The buy a hundred (birds) to get fifty (hens) and cull 2/3 of those makes those 'chosen' birds worth over forty dollars each. I would suppose one could buy some nice birds from a reputable breeder for a cost savings. Not to mention the feeding and care to raise them to the age of selection and having to 'cull' all of those extra birds. I do not like 'culling' anymore than many of you, from recent postings. SO… if I were to get a trio or such and use them for a foundation flock, if I could then hatch my own chicks and raise birds from stock that perhaps would be good enough to not have to cull so many nor so hard. However all of this is predicated on being able to hatch, and thus my query to the crew here. I am open to thoughts and or suggestions/insight into my thoughts & plans. 

The hatchery will only have birds for a couple of weeks, then it is on to next years stock. So I need to at least try to figure a method or plan to put my aspirations to work. I've been over to the Box Elder fair the past two days and they sure put on a nice event. The chicken barn has AC!

If you kind folks have the time to spare and a thought to share, I would appreciate your efforts.

Sorry for those whom have had DOG problems, been there, hate doing that…

Best to all and your birds,

RJ

To answer your question, RJ, I have decided to include an image of my thoughts. (Just replace the cooked hen with eggs.. Ironic, I know...)

I feel great about the Brinsea. I think 100% of my eggs hat have made it to lockdown looking good have hatched, and most of the ones that haven hatched weren't fertile or stopped developing at the first stages, which I don't attribute to the incubator. I have the mini, and the only thing I wish is that it had a humidity control option, and I think that is available on. More advanced version. These brinsea safe made to hatch very sensitive aviary birds like parrots...