Recent content by rockethoe

My birds get only a balanced layers pellets. They don't look like this. Sorry to be harsh on what is usually a very friendly message board, but: you don't have any idea what you're talking about.

I have done all my branding already, I'm not an expert but I can do a little. Fair play for offering this to folks, I'm sure some will take you up on it.

I want to separate my birds after hatching - male and female. I've been advised marking them is the best option. Is there a specific poultry marker? Or should I use food die? I want something fairly visible because the birds will be brown. (Slovenian brown, a line bred from rir). We used to...

Also 80% of each episode is just them trying to shill their "breeding academy". I appreciate the hustle, but I don't want to listen to an hour long advert for 5 mins of information.

wine! Although you might need more than 4.

Here's a quick unboxing video I made when it arrives. In a couple days I will do a record my first impressions of it after running it for a couple days with an independent thermometer to see how accurate it is. https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeXnr2fu/

Incubator finally landed from china. It was delayed due to the war apparently. It's about the size of a washing machine.

Incubator finally landed in Rotterdam, apparently the ship had to divert it's course because of the war. So hopefully it will arrive here in Ireland fairly quick now as it's at least in the eu. I've ordered the hatching eggs from Slovenia for a June delivery. They are €0.50 a piece (plus...

That's a good price. Ours works out at just under €16 per 20kg plus delivery. And that's a good deal cheaper than buying it on the local Agri stores. It can be anywhere 18-25 per 20kg around here.

Anyone here ordered layers pellets by the ton? What's the price where you are? We just ordered at €840 a ton for organic.

Looks interesting. I'll have a listen on the train tomorrow.

Started work on rebuilding the shed for our 400 egg hatchery conversion. Knocking down and rebuilding the rotten and woodwormed walks. Video here

I have a TikTok also: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGem4Gynw/

Also I visited my local vetinary office to clarify what I needed to do paperwork wise for importing the eggs. They were very helpful and told me that all I need to do was register as an importer on the "traces" system, and in fact that she would even do that for me.

The incubator should be arriving in Europe in the next couuple of days and then a short hop skip and a jump to us. Work has started on disassembling the shed and rebuilding it into a hatchery. Most of the uprights, and many of the cladding boards are rotten as they weren't treated for about 20...