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Crowing
So I crossed my FBCM hen with my Whiting True Blue rooster, grabbed whatever eggs of hers I had sitting around in my kitchen, and put them in the incubator. Will they hatch??? I don't know... The hen lays every 2-3 days, so getting enough eggs to fill the incubator in 7 days isn't going to happen. Going through all my eggs from the last 2-3 weeks, I found a total of 12 eggs. I've washed them with hydrogen peroxide (some of them were nasty, and I've done this before with good results), and placed them in the incubator last night. Eggs weigh 54-58 grams, most of them 55 grams. The hens lays a 7 on the FBCM egg darkness scale. Incubator is NurtureRight 360. Running right at 99.5F and 54% RH. Pic of my roo and hen attached. Will take one of the eggs shortly. Wish me luck!!!
[FYI, I just rehomed 3 hens from that coop and put a bunch of chicken saddles on everyone, so hopefully that will head off the feather picking/over grooming they started this past month. Why do my chickens always do this in the coldest part of winter when it's most difficult for me to address?]
[FYI, I just rehomed 3 hens from that coop and put a bunch of chicken saddles on everyone, so hopefully that will head off the feather picking/over grooming they started this past month. Why do my chickens always do this in the coldest part of winter when it's most difficult for me to address?]
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