03-19-2022, 03:12 PM
(03-19-2022, 02:10 PM)VioletDove Wrote: This bird flu scares the shit out of me. I have a pretty large flock of different varieties. I even have a guinea hen in the mix. When it is chick time I can’t seem to leave the store without at least 4. My last haul was 7 Easter Eggers. I don’t even like eggs.
I’ve been trying to think of a way to keep them all safe and now it seems like I need to work harder to do that as, according to that map, cases are spreading closer to my state. Sometimes birds get in their runs to eat any food that they’ve left so I’m thinking the first thing may be to try to bird proof them.
@"TheRedneck" I’d be interested in seeing your thread on the homemade incubator if you decide to do one. I don’t have a 3D printer but I do like to see how other people put stuff together. We’ve been thinking of buying an incubator but haven’t decided which one to get. My neighbor has game hens so he hatches his the old fashioned way. He took a few of my silkie eggs and put them under one of his hens for me. Hopefully they hatch.
My Brother's chicks are doing great. He has quite a few double yolkers.
The layers he has now, are the ones he incubated from the eggs his hens produced. He has a couple that are brooders, and he is letting them do their thing.
He gets about 30 to 35 eggs a day. He is a fanatic about what he feeds them, and is all about them being cage free and non GMO.
All that and he does not sell them. Neighbors and friends are the beneficiaries of his hard work.
He said that is why God has made his hens so productive.
For every one person that read this post. About 7.99 billion have not.
Yet I still post.
