Recent content by NagemTX

It will be hard to get away from the solid color. Technically bbs can be treated as black. Breed to a patterned bird and continue from there but using the offspring. Bbs alone to another color won't give you much but leaky bbs. If you can use the chicken calculator it will help guide you in a...

Power was back up at 8pm ish. Hatcher only got down to 97, the incubators that were on day 1 and day 2 where down to 88. I had 3 towls on the Hatcher. Lost one of the brood momas babies to drowning, had to move an outdoor brooder baby to the garage for warmth. The garage holds heat pretty well...

Welcome to the Texas thread! Came back on at 8pm. Hatcher was at 97 when it came back. Brooder babies in garage were good. Had to move an out side Brooder baby to the garage group and lost one from the mom's outside to drowning. 😞 The late eggs I opened this morning and they probably quit...

I need it to stop knocking my power out when I'm incubating and brooding.

Powers out and I've got chicks in the brooder that hatched this weekend and chicks still hatching! Every time it rains now power goes out and I'm running incubators and brooders. Incubator is covered with towels, power went out right as I got home. At this rate I need to invest in a generator.

So it was in the 80s at 5am this morning and now it's in the upper 60s.

OMG, bad storm here and power is now out. I have 24 eggs in lockdown and 3 to 5 pipes this morning on latest from last lockdown.

I'll be keeping two brahmas and maybe two Crevecoeur and two silkies.

Anyone with color guesses on these silkie babies? Note: there are some chicks in the group pictures that are not silkies.

Welcome to the Texas thread!

I like it. There are issues for me tho. One of those is I work 10hr days and having to refill the water for humidity is kind of a problem. Also I like the try turning for shipped eggs over the side rolling due to air cell damage from said shipping. It has made a great dedicated hatcher for...

I just hatched dark brahma and some blue columbian brahma. They where shipped eggs and where developing on time as normal. Also set silkie with them, they where shipped eggs as well and as per usual being that they are bantams some hatched a little early. Notes: I'm running a 56ex incubator...