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I had a broody hen, she is a buff orpington, and after a couple weeks of her puffing up and shrieking when I removed eggs I decided to let her give it a try. I made the mistake of not marking the date on my calendar. It's been a while and and I'm now starting to get a batch hatching from my...

Are those prices shipped or is that extra?

Like pedialite? Or is there something specially formulated for poultry?

Its my first time hatching quail and i have two little ones that look like something is wrong. The left side of their feathers are more developed and their head is cocked to the right. They can straighten it out but the natural, relaxed position is to the side. They also seem to have trouble...

Im sure you have hatched way more than me and i get that every thing being perfect helps but sometimes they just die. There is no way a hen sitting on a nest keeps a 1/2 degree variance in temp and maintains a perfect humidity. I know with my last hatch there was things I could have changed to...

I recently hatched some pheasant eggs a buddy of mine gave me in my cooler incubator I built. Went 9 for 11 but two died within a day or two of hatching. He said he was getting a 50% hatch rate so he started feeding better feed and it bumped it up to a 70% hatch rate. All i know is it is...

I didnt see the quail hatch but I couldnt have missed it by much. Went to bed at 1:00 and got up at 6:00 and they were out. I could fit all 4 of them in my hand with room to spare, so tiny. I did get to see the chickens and pheasant hatch. The chickens pipped and hatched in the next 24 hrs, the...

Final tally. 7 for 10 on chicken eggs. (The three that didnt hatch pipped internally but never broke through the shell). 4 for 4 on quail and 9 for 11 on pheasant (but two have since died in the brooder). Planning on setting some more on Friday and trying round two.

First time incubating. Day 21 starts tomorrow. Already 4 for 4 on courtnix quail, 10 of 11 chickens went into lockdown, 2 have hatched, 2 more have pipped, and 11 pheasant eggs still cooking. Im already picking what day would be best to start my next batch. Counting the days down, these are my...

Ya I would like to talk to him. If you could give me his number that would be great.

Im interested in hatching and raising prairie chickens and was wondering if anyone does it or knows where I could locate some eggs or breeding stock. This is still in the idea stage as I dont know for sure if I could legally own them in KS but I cant think of why I couldnt. Any help would be...

No one has anything? Even if a broody hen was sitting on it and it got kicked over to another nest isnt it still weird it hatched while being turned, with the wrong humidity, standing up on end? With everything Ive read it all needs to be perfect to get a good hatch. We were gone during the day...

I built an incubator out of an old cooler I had in the garage. Let it run for a couple of days and was ready to go so a buddy of mine gave me some eggs. I set 11 pheasant eggs, waited a couple day and then set 4 quail and 15 leghorn/game bird crosses (hoping to get lean, mean, egg laying...

I built an incubator out of an old cooler and have questions about turning eggs. Can i just prop up one side of the incubator and alternate sides a couple times a day? That seems like all the auto turners do. Or is it ok to to open it to turn them by hand. Is the heat loss of opening it up that...

I went to Lowes a couple months ago and got paint for most of the rooms in my house and paint for the new trim we installed upstairs. Like seriously almost $300 in paint and supplies. I asked the gal mixing my paint if I could get an opener since I misplaced mine. (they used to hand these out)...

We plan to butcher all but 1 or 2 of the buff cockerels around 18 weeks. As for the leghorns my buddy wants a rooster and we may keep one. The others will be disposed of or given away. Im going to see if next yr we can work something out with the lady where we can choose the breed if we pay...

New to this forum and new to having chickens. Got 16 straight run buff orpingtons from the feed store and 10 white leghorns for free from the local 2nd grade classroom. They are in a brooder in the garage while Im turning an old barn into a coop. Planning on letting them free range during the...