Considering ordering some Muscovy eggs. I’ll be out of town from days 18-23ish and I’m wondering if I can dry hatch them (but increase humidity at lockdown) so I don’t have to worry about the humidity while I’m gone. The humidity would naturally be around 25% in my incubator.
Thanks.
Well. Upon looking at pics of bronze hens I don’t think she is one. Maybe a golden narrigansett? I still don’t see a match for her poults on porters calculator. lol. Weird. Unless it’s a very diluted rusty slate or very diluted rusty black. Hmm.
Oh! What do you think she is? I got her as an assortment and assumed she was a Narrigansett. Could she be a bronze? If my memory serves me correctly I don’t think bronze was an option in the assortment but who knows.
I have a blue slate tom that I am crossing over my Narragansett hen. Porters turkey calculator says this should be producing barred slate and barred black poults but I am getting these light brown/yellowy looking poults. I don’t know what breed to label it. Any ideas?
Posting pics of poult...
He has the slate feet as he should, but he has a lot of yellowish feathers that I'm not sure he should. He came from Murray McMurray. I planned to breed him to FBCM hen, splash marans hens for blue copper marans, and to whiting true blue and cream Legbar hens for olive eggers.
My Narragansett hen has a few of these weird yellowish bumps on her head along with some yellow residue. Is this the start of fowl pox? Or something else? Is there anything I should be doing for her? She is with another hen and a Tom who do not currently have these bumps.
I’ve googled and can’t seem to find an answer. Is it wise to incubate a turkeys very first egg? I’m waiting on my Narragansett to lay a few more, but wondering if this one can be included in the hatch. It seems a bit small to me but not sure as this is my first experience with heritage breeds.