I've been raising chicken for 3 years now, i have bard rock, polish, silkie... etc. I always feed them 70% corn and wheat, and 30% egg layer feed. And the egg production is acceptable.
I recently moved them to my friend's farm, he isn't as professional about his work, sometimes he feeds 50%...
Maybe 3-4 months, the hens have a well put together crest, as for the roosters it's spikey and dangling ( usually ), also at some point you will see the difference in the tail feathers this could be at 5-6 month i'm not sure, because i raised polish and they are now 10 months old and i can...
He's a beautiful and a working rooster so i don't want to get another one i'm going to try and fix it but yes i believe it is the spring effect on my polish roosters.
I have three laying polish hens as well, i take great care of them, once i got two eggs in a day, then two eggs the next day as well, but right now it has been two days and no eggs at all, i think this is just how they lay, they are too random, plus polish don't lay a lot of eggs so you have to...
I've been raising chicken for three years now, it's a hobby and a small business project as well, i'm an agricultural student and i live nature, i started with 5 Coshin bantam chicks, they all turned out to be roosters and i was able to trade them for a pair of white frizzles, later on i baught...
I had quail before but i didn't enjoy them like i enjoy raising and watching pheasants, pigeons and chicken, coturnix quail almost all look alike and it's annoying to keep watching them to make sure you got all the males out because having too many males is terrible, they've killed each other...
I'm planning on making a business out of it once i move to the country, we own a small piece of land and we're going to start building a house which could take up to 6-7 years, i don't think i could keep them on the roof that long, because of the neighbors, even though i've invested three years...
Hello, first of all thank you, no in my avatar photo i am holding a hubble bubble which is something you can google as well, it's something used for smoking and very common in my country, but it does exist in the US as well.
As for the eggs, i have spent the past two years building up a small...
Sometimes i get 50% with shipped eggs, but i had 5 eggs a couple of months ago from a friend who lives 1 minute away by car so not far at all and all 5 eggs hatched, 3 bantam, 2 bard rock, meanwhile i had 13 silkie eggs from my farm and only hatched 2, could be a problem from the parents i'm not...
So i shouldn't be afraid of putting it at 37.8 C? It wond damage the eggs or anything? And i've already put a batch in my old incubator they are two days through the incubation at 37.7 C can i turn it up to 37.8 C now or should i wait for the next batch?
I have been incubating eggs and hatching chicks in my real 49 incubator ( great incubator btw ) for the past year and i've always set the temperature at 37.7 C, even tho it was advised that at the last 3 days of incubation it should be lowered to 37.2 C ( i don't do that because i found no...