Quick Candling
This morning was LockDown for a batch of eggs — Day 18. I want to do it quickly so they don’t get chilled or dry. Here we go:
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This morning was LockDown for a batch of eggs — Day 18. I want to do it quickly so they don’t get chilled or dry. Here we go:
Dalia Monterroso, author of Let’s All Keep Chickens, and President of Chickenlandia, honored us with an invitation to be a Bawk Tawk guest. And, as you know, I love to chat about chickens, so off we went.
Hatching eggs! You can order now for pick-up or shipment when it suits you, pending availability.
All my best tips for hatching healthy chicks with loads of pictures and videos.
With over 5K eggs hatched, here are many of the things I wish I had known when I started.
A peek behind the door into the room where all the magic happens.
Watch from pip to zip. 8 seconds time-lapse.
As we enter the stormy season, you can buy yourself a little peace of mind in the event of a power outage.
Brooder Set-up Tips for Healthy Chicks and Hatchlings. Best waterers, best feeders, best brooders for your baby chicks and hatchlings.
Squee! Your pullet laid her first egg and it is so pretty and cute and you want more. You want to hatch this precious little egg. But don’t.
We don’t like to talk about it. We don’t like to think about it. And we certainly don’t want to discover it in our brooder in the morning. But chicks die. Some perfectly cute floofy little chicks just don’t make it, which is why hens reproduce themselves almost every day.
Little floofs moving into their big brooder.
One thousand, three hundred, and fifty-six chicks later, and I still get excited when they hatch. Live-stream hatching link in the post.
100% fertility. 100% hatch rate. And a cute kitten.
Quick Candle — don’t even pick them up.
Nurture Right 360 Incubator: What it gets right and what it gets wrong.
Brinseas: What they got right and what they got wrong.
Girl Chick? Boy Chick? How is one to know?
Sexing chicks. Alas, not as easy as we would wish.
Mom, why is your b**b chirping?