Recent content by Alabama Fly

Unplug the turner, it has a marked cable that jack's in on the top of the unit. Remove the turner grid also.

Thank you for this post. I am on my third generation of pet quality Kikirikis. I think they are beautiful, interesting, Little Birds and I am totally in love with them. I have some that are very small under 7 oz and a few that go as large as 12 oz. I have been reaching out to a few breeders to...

I regularly overfill my incubators at the beginning of incubation. In 4 days you can candle and odds are some of the eggs will not be forming embryos and you will have more room when you remove those. If you have an automatic Turner just hand turn for those first few days.

My girls don't leave a trace of eggshell, and barely even wet spot. They will break and eat the eggs and embryos out from under a setting hen. My hens have to set in cat crates. I got them to stop eating the nest box eggs by putting mustard filled eggs in the nest. Oh and a Hawk got the smart...

Are your nest boxes wooden? It's possible that this may be happening , I've seen my hens do this. A hen scratches around randomly in the Box, knocks the egg up against the wood, cracking it. And proceeds to eat the egg, and has learned that if she gets in the box and scratches around hard enough...

Looks like a brahma to me.very pretty and one of my favorites.

Welcome!

2 day old showgirl silkie, I will love him, and squeeze him, and call him Ostrich.

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I had a large rat infestation that caused me much anxiety and had me considering liquidating all of my stock because I was so repelled. The sheer amount of waste in the feeders and waterers every morning, and the fact that they had no fear of me at night had me frantic. I decided to declare war...

Did you purchase her from a hatchery or local breeder? I ask because of the other feather types associated with silkies. I raise showgirls, sizzles, frizzled and silkie feathered silkies and I often see chicks with bare bottoms. Unless they are showgirls they usually feather out fine without any...

I also hatch my silkies and game bantams, which are very small together with my large fowl egg layers. I often brood them together for several weeks without any issues.

Yep. That's exactly how they act in my yard. Have also seen them maneuvering in and out of small gaps where netting had come loose or wasn't meeting up properly. I previously believed that they needed a wide open space for a snatch and grab. I've been proven wrong.