I have built several coolerbators, and despite the family buying me a Brinsea, I still have my active coolerbator in constant use. I had grown out of just two incubators, lhowever, and needed to build a third. I decided "Go big or go home", and set my sights on a cabinet. I searched...
I'm building yet another incubator, and I am going to be doing my first cabinet setup. As I accumulate supplies, I've been noticing that there are a bazillion different ways people have set up their autoturning units. I'd love to know what has worked well for everyone, and what hasn't. I'm...
We finally are having our spring thaw, and my mother goose walked out of the run in shed looking like a drowned rat. Her nest had flooded overnight, and she was sitting on four eggs that had been half submerged in melt water. I gave her a waterproof nesting box, but pulled the clutch she had...
Got a batch of eggs in this morning. One looked like it had a little barnyard debris on it, no biggie, but when I went to write the weight on it after weighing, the point felt somewhat soft and not fully calcified. I assumed it was a young layer, and the egg was intact, but closer inspection of...
I'm looking for hatching eggs for both call ducks and sebastapol geese. I'm planning on filling two incubators in the beginning of March with waterfowl, and would like a full load of the harder to hatch eggs in my high end incubator (right now I only have enough to fill a single row due in next...
Hi all! I'm Janay (LadyHawkeAvry), and together with my daughter Briana, we run LadyHawke Aviary. I'm here to share what I know, and learn the stuff I don't. We produce ducks, geese, quail and pheasants, and are about a year into our production business. I have raised and shown chickens in the...