Ewe coons! It's good you've not lost any birds. Hope you get everything fixed up enough to deter them.
Awwww babies!
I'm looking forward to not hatching anything else till maybe August/September. Will be getting some Spitzhauben eggs and maybe bantam polish and more silver and blue Ameraucana...
This is what I have for set up.
For just one acer of land. I think we are going to try running 4 strands on the 6 foot fencing. I have the grounding rods but need to get the wire and the hardware for attachment to the fence. Will only be turned on at night for a reason. It's way more powerful...
Cackle would be best, they have a few colors. No silver or wheaten tho. Blue is supposed to be bassed on silver as it helps keep the blue color cleaner. They have limited runs of the buff color.
Yeah. She would get close to the hardware cloth divider and kind act like she wanted to mother them but I found her on the other side slinging one around. :barnie
I have two more troughs coming and she is in the old brooder I built for now and unable to leave it as I put the wire top on it.
So the last rosecomb hatched Sunday night. The others, five rosecomb and one Dusty was left. Two of the five rosecomb quit I would guess at draw down and the other three after the internal pip. The Dusty egg quit before or during draw down.
Also lost a silkie chick. I think Dr Girl friend may...
The OEGB eggs are here! They had a really rough journey tho. On one side of the box two corners were crumpled and damp. Got the box open and packing was good. Auction was for a dozen and they sent eight extras. This was a good thing because after getting the second packing open three of the eggs...
The OEGB eggs are here! They had a really rough journey tho. On one side of the box two corners were crumpled and damp. Got the box open and packing was good. Auction was for a dozen and they sent eight extras. This was a good thing because after getting the second packing open three of the eggs...
You can treat it as a power outage. Need to keep the incubator wrapped up so you don't lose much heat or humidity. For transporting im not sure on that.
I've been through many a power outage with no back up in my last 5 or 6 go around. I'm sure it hurt viability to some degree but I still had...