Poultry Talk Ontario (pto.ca)

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I have a friend wanting me to incubate a full batch of eggs (24 dozen), what is the going rates 🤔 do anyone know or have an idea?

Going to try my hand at incubating a few eggs!
Is March usually a good time? So that by the time the eggs hatch, and the day olds are put into a...

New babies!!! There looks to be 3 Paint and one black or blue Silkie! Yay! I love watching them pop in and out underneath my broody gal.

Seeing as I am only 45 minutes away from Millpond and I plan on only doing 2 breeding pens I am wondering if I would be better off having them hatch...

My two little Easter eggers are super layers, I don't think I ever had bantams this good before, everyday non stop eggs, also my Brahma bantam is...

Do bantam eggs hatch earlier than 21 days?
I just went down to take turner out and add water for humidity and one chick was hatched and dried...

just thinking out loud here.....
on recommendation of my old body, I have decided not to hatch this year and hand the trauma over to Millpond...

I've been wondering what kind of cockerel/pullet ratios everyone has been getting out of their hatches this year. More boys than girls, or more girls...

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I am a sick sick man lol. I couldn't help it! You see one day, after I sold my Ameraucanas, I had all these eggs...

I see this ad on my local Chatham kijiji. Is this done very often, and how does it generally work out? I would be glad to hear others...

This has felt like my most consistent incubation (mostly because I've been able to keep humidity very stable) and tonight I popped the lid off to add...

101_2167 (1).JPG O.K. here are a few pics of my very first Jubilee Orpington chick who pipped and hatched in less than an hour yesterday at 3p.m.

Does anyone have experience having their poultry DNA sexed via eggshell. Can anyone recommend a reliable company in Canada?

We wanted to try incubating some of our eggs and bought a Cheap Chinese Incubator . That was followed by a second one.

The failures on these this...

I seem to remember somebody doing custom hatching in Eastern Ontario,
but not a clue who it was.
At this point it's just wishful thinking, but I am...

Okay I hatched a few turkey eggs last year with okay results. This year planning on hatching more of my own turkey eggs later this spring plus I have...

My previous candling experience is limited to white OEGB eggs and you can pretty much see everything that's going on with those. These brown eggs...

Does anybody have special procedures for hatching geese?
I followed some very particular incubation methods last year with great results! 2, 10 egg...

so i have 15 Polish eggs that made it to lockdown on Sunday.... 3 pips this morning 1 out 2 hours later.. the other 2 just got out and i can't see...

I know incubating has many variables...
I had 24 eggs in the incubator... most of them hatched on day 20.. a couple on day 21 (one I had to help...

So Wiarton Willy predicted an early Spring, sooooo incubators are loaded with 86 eggs. Stuck some in the old Hovo to start and then candle in 7 days...

Does anyone go by this for setting eggs? IMG_4588.PNG