I’m a first time turkey mom so I don’t know the first thing about sexing poults 😅. Leif is currently our only turkey (but hopefully that will change soon!), and we currently don’t have any plans to breed them so I’m asking mainly out of curiosity. If it is at all important Leif is relatively quiet unless they are happy or excited, they have a leaf obsession, and they seem to enjoy being held.
I’m curled up under a weighted blanket and she’s laying on my leg but I don’t want to disturb her so now everything from the hips down hurts 😭
I saw her and decided to try my hand at being a succulent momma again. The problem is that I don’t know what species she is 😅
I felt something crawling on my arm and when I turned my head to look I was greeted by this sweet, adorable, curious little face! She appears to be fairly young but surprisingly adventurous! Making a jumping spider friend was not on my 2026 bingo card lol
This turd’s name is Dawn. I just wanted to show him off
And I thought I’d share! Sorry for the poor quality; I took the picture on my iPhone and I zoomed in as much as I could 😅
For those of you who are curious, this is a barred owl and she lives close to my house!
Exactly what the title says. As the hatching day for our eggs approaches I get more and more anxious and I want to be as prepared as possible. Are there any complications I should look out for during hatching? When the keets hatch should we return them to the mother or should we place them in a brooder or do something completely different? Literally any advice at all would be tremendously helpful and appreciated!
This is my (and probably my family’s as well) first time incubating eggs at all, but especially guinea eggs. Last week I discovered one of our guineas was sitting on a nest of a total of 45 eggs and my grandpa decided to buy an incubator for them. The incubator is a Nurture Right 360 incubator. All the eggs have been incubating since the 24th (22 in the incubator and the rest under the hen) and so far everything seems to be going smoothly, but I want to ask for advice anyway since I googled guineafowl egg incubation and each website said something different with the only consistency being how long it takes for the eggs to incubate.
Will the default settings on the Nurture Right 360 incubator work or do I need to change them? How often do the eggs need to be turned daily? And what should we do once the eggs hatch? I feel stupid for asking, but this is my first time and probably the rest of my family’s first time too 😅
Any information would be greatly appreciated!
Edit before I forget again: The default settings for the Nurture Right 360 incubator are 99.5°F, 50% humidity, and it’s supposed to stop incubation 3 days before hatching. It also has an auto turning feature that I tried turning on but I’m almost never in the room so I don’t know if it turns them automatically or not so I turn them myself to be safe. What should the temperature be and what should the humidity be?