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Hi all, I was just wondering what you candle your eggs with? The OvaView looks like the most practical product available but £25/£40 + £23 for the OvaScope seems excessive, in line with other Brinsea products. I was previously using a lava lamp bottom inside a small cardboard box with a round...

We have been feeding our chickens Marriage's organic pellets and corn for almost as long as we had them. We started the ex-battery hens on crumb as per recommendation, but turned out that they were more interested in food than what form it came in, and I've used the Marriage Flubenvet medicated...

Hi all, back in warm September I was about to set my first eggs for hatching and had some questions about incubators. Marigold reminded me that it would be a good idea to follow up on that hatch (which I am usually very lazy about) and I think it might be good for me to give some background for...

I just saw Chris mention in a different topic about separating cockerels into a small pen as early as possible to restrict movement so that they are most tender for eating. I am wondering if there is anything else that others do to prepare the excess cockerels? What is the optimum age for...

I have my fingers crossed for a hatch on Thursday, which leads me to a feeding question. I have raised two lots of chicks so far and my last lot of chicks picked up coccidiosis when they were relatively young, which resulted in poor growth (so they are smaller than the first lot of chick was at...

The air in the house (around the incubator) currently has 60% humidity while outdoors, it is around 90-100% (daily fogs, pretty much solid walls of water, grass wet for the whole day even in full sun shine and so on). When I first tested the fan-assisted incubator prior to starting the...

Hi all, I've been keeping chickens for a few years now and have been lurking around the forum for a while so I thought it was about time to register. I currently keep ex-battery hens, Norfolk Greys and Wyandottes, and I am expecting some Light Sussex hatching eggs today. The ex-battery hens...