My name is Heather, I live with my husband and our blended family of 5 children on 42 acres in WNY. We have a small startup hobby farm/homestead. We started with chickens about 5 years ago. We are now currently rebuilding our flock after our chickens were stolen during a move.
We are working...
I am looking into getting my NPIP certification this year. I have goats within close proximity to my one chicken pen. How do you all handle the care of your goats and chickens while maintaining biosecurity?
I am aware of cryptosporidiosis. Are there other transmittable diseases that I should...
I originally had them in a homemade incubator. I had to move them out of the homemade incubator because we were having problems regulating the temperature in our house, causing fluctuations in the temperature in the incubator. The morning that I moved them, the incubator was down to 91...
First-time incubating my own eggs. I have two sets of eggs in the incubator. The eggs are 5 days apart. My plan is to remove the automatic egg turner on day 19/20 (before they pip). And then make sure that the humidity returns to an appropriate level.
I do not have a backup incubator to move...