I have 1 roo and 3 hens. Free to a good home. They do have rose combs. Don't know anything about the quality and do not have pictures. They are very healthy and laying, but not great layers. Roo is friendly but very active. Likes to fly out of the pen and roam all over the property. PM...
Grading papers. Making lesson plans for next week. Getting my incubator ready so we can hatch eggs in class instead of practicing for the "TEST." Yes!!
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I don't know your situation, but I can give some ideas. Chickens can eat whole kernal corn right off the cobb unless they are little or have some particular reason they can't. You can hand shell it and just throw it in there to them. I feed mine all table scraps and stale cereal...
Max days I've ever hatched from was 10. 7 is best. If you can keep them separate, go ahead and stick them in with the others. The whole bator will just smell really bad by the time the last ones hatch.
Yes, my friends and I did it last year, and it is not quick and easy. I might be crazy, but as far as I know none of us involved in the project had any problems.
First, I treated all the birds I was going to use with antibiotics and Eprinex and quarantined them in individual pens for 30 days...
Thanks, Kev. You answered my question. I thought I'd just have to do a random shoot with the white roos. I'll just breed them to the hens and see what happens.
I want to buy about 6-8 BCM eggs from good laying lines. The 4 birds I have are Wade lines but I need to add another line. Mine don't seem to lay very well. Does anyone have really good, pure BCM's that are laying and would be willing to sell me some close to West TN? I need them before next...
I have a Brower that I use only for hatching (last 4 days). I really like it for that. I broke it last fall and just now sent to back to see if they can fix it. When they get it in the mail they may think I am a real nut job, but I broke the light post off, and without it fixed I can't use...
All these birds have peacombs so that is not really helping me with the "egg" issue especially with the white ones since the white hens lays a pink/light brown egg? Any other factors to consider. Would the roos be more likely to carry the blue egg gene than the hens??
I have 6-7 barred rock laying hens and 2 roos that I need to sell to make room for this year's crop of chicks. These were hatched last May 2010 and stopped laying Oct. 15-Dec. Started laying again right after Christmas and have been laying since. This is not a breed I normally keep and just...
I hatched some EE's last year from a black/white/gold mixed roo over one white EE, one wild-type colored EE, and one brown/blue EE. From that group I have gotten 3 solid white birds. 1 solid white EE hen-lays pink eggs and 2 solid white EE roos. The other EE's from that group all lay blue...