Hi all! I am wanting to breed multiple chicken breeds in the future but want to keep them all pure bred.
I’d love to see your breeding coops/pens and how you manage keeping your breeds apart.
I have a runner ducky that started to pip internally, on Thrusday afternoon. it is now Saturday midday and is make a pip big enough for its beak to fit through. it hasn't started to zip or anything. but its still tapping away strongly. Ive read that is can take up to 2 days for ducks to hatch...
hi guys,
just wondering about the hover Bator. what sets it apart from other incubators, or is the same as most? it says that the hover bator has circulated air, whats that? is that any better then a normal incubator (like a Brinsea)
thanks in advanced :)
hi,
im planning on getting a new breed of chook this spring and i have three breeds that i want. so can you guys help me narrow it down to one breed? so if yo have any pros or cons please tell me :)
im wanting:
- lavender perkins because i love the lavender colour and their biggness.
-...
hi everyone,
im in great need of help! ive recently gotten a bunny and lately ive noticed its eyes getting puffy, today I went out to feed and check up on it and its eyes are fully covered over, or stuck together I should say, with guncky stuff that looks like sleep and it also is having trouble...
every now and then one or two of my roosters (two atm) get little black bits on their comb and wattle. after a couple of weeks I goes away, and they are all got, until it comes back again. I'm pretty sure it's nothing bad cos they are all healthy and im thinking it might be just from them...
i'm not sure if this is the best place to post thsi tread, so sorry if it isnt!
so my question is how to get show quality silkies? i'm not actually wanting to show my silkies, but i see other peoples silkies (and some of those people dont even show their silkies) and they are big and fulffy...
hi everyone,
I've been trying to find some aussie runner duck breeders on BYC but not having much luck!?
I'm wanting 3/4 ducklings(female, if possible) posted and am just wondering if anyone can fulfil my request!
if anyone can help me please reply, im kinda wanting them before it gets too...
hey BYCer's,
I really need help. lately my chooks haven't really been laying, they're getting old think is the problem, so I went out and brought 20 new pullets!, the man I got them from said that they're free of coccidiosis, intestinal worms, external lice, and mites. at the moment i have them...
hi everyone,
I'm interested in getting some colourful silkies or some polish hatching eggs, I only want 9-5 eggs, my incubator can only hold up to 9 eggs, and I also live in Australia so I'm not to keen on getting eggs from over seas, but if anyone's interested to sell some eggs let me no!
thanks!!
hi BYCers
I just brought a janoel 12 incubator (off eBay) and I don't think there's a humidity control button, so I think I have to control it by how much water I put into it, I says to put in 100mls, but I dosent say how much to put in on days 18-21,
does anyone know how to control this??
thanks
hi everyone,
i've been looking at peoples broodies, and their chicks. while i was looking i saw chicks out wiht the rest of the flock and they were only 1/2 weeks old,
when can you let your chicks out, i wait till they're have all their feathers, but can i let them out earlier then that??
hi everyone,
just wondering if anyone's brought this book and if so if they have made/reinvented a chicken coop from the ideas in the book.
if you have can you please post some pic, I'm really interested how they turned out!!
thanks
hi everyone,
I've read about everyone (most people) saying to not put your drakes with hens, but I'm wondering if I can put my roosters with my ducks-when I get some...
will my roosters try to mate with them and if so will my roos injure my (future) ducks??
thanks for any advise :)
just out of curiosity, I'm just wondering if anyone's been really lucky and had an all pullet hatch, or if you had not-so-good-luck and had an all cockerel hatch??
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I'm thinking of getting ducks, but I'm not sure what to do with water. can ducks drink out of the poultry nipples? and would my chooks try to drink out of the duck pond?
thanks
hi, i'm planning on upgrading my chooks water system to the poultry nipples, but when I looked at the reviews some people said they have had trouble with their chook getting water out of the nipple. so I'm wondering if the cup ones are better??
thanks
hi,
I have about 17 hens (3 which are silkies, so I don't expect so many eggs out of them), they are all pretty healthy (they do have lice which I'm trying to overcome) and a few are a couple of years old, but I only get about 6 eggs a day on average, 10 if I'm lucky, would they have poor laying...
hi everyone
I'm planning to make some nest boxes for my chooks, but I need help with the measurement and supplies part.
I have about 16 laying hens so, how many boxes do you think i'll need??
here are some pictures of what I want them to look like.
thanks for your help