I live on a farm in west Tn and have a fan cooled chicken house and lots of shade. It gets around upper 90’s in July up here, but is probably cooler than where you are. Where are you in FL?
Let me know if you change your mind. I want to breed some from my Dellie girls that came from a hatchery, but are actually really decent shape and form, but I really need a good roo to get better stock. They are getting hard to find from breeders.
This sounds crazy, but I had some hens that stopped laying and started adding dried, red pepper flakes to their feed and they started back. Old time farmer says when their bodies get hot they lay again and the pepper flakes makes their heat go up. Sounded goofy but actually worked.
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...