yeah, i was wondering the same thing Double Yolked, i use pelleted feed as well and am afraid the chooks would think it was food and eat it....not good, esp. after reading about the dog that got an intestinal blockage from ingesting the pellets....
wow! so nice, you should get some burlap to hang over the fronts as a light blocker too....sure wish you could build me some!! :thumbsup:woot bet your chooks will love you!!
wow, incredible!! i've been following a friend of mine's journey of bee keeping and am very interested, maybe not for this year but eventually....i love honey!!
wow, i didn't think it would really matter with a heat plate? i have my 3 week old chicks outside in the chicken house with a heat plate and they act like it doesn't exist, course it was 90* today but even at night it gets down to 60* or so and still they ignore it....
agree with Callender Girls post!! i have had lots of birds over the years but now stick to chickens mainly as i have trouble keeping them safe from predators around. love them all though!!
thanks for all the replies, I did slip my hand in quickly and got out the dry ones yesterday, them more today...one is still pipping, tonight, if no more hatch, I'll be done.
I have some eggs hatching in an incubator right now! So excited! But I have a question; I'm following the dry hatch method as I have Marans eggs in there, and I've stuck to it pretty well. Question is, I locked down on the 18th day, but then on the 19th day, the first egg hatched! So today...