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Quote: Originally Posted by hoppy  your price is in the right area, did you save the egg shells, people like to see what egg color they came out of. baby chicks produce alot more dust then adult chickens because...

ok couple things real quick here. 1st. topic is: wife thinks she has some allergy to baby chicks. Not adult chicks, just baby chicks. I've read about chicken allergies, the symptoms are just like any other allergy. I don't think it's...

oh forgot to mention that if anyone in the southern maine area is looking, i have some marans chicks for sale. straight run of course, i'm not sure just yet on the sexing part., i will look and see what i was sent for eggs as far as...

I ran the incubator this hatch and the wife sat by and watched. She got tired of me telling her she was doing it wrong and told me to try it if I'm so smart. Her first 2 hatches were a flop, the next three were staggered hatches and...

  Quote: Originally Posted by klf73  I was having horrible hatch rates as well, then I upped the humidity and have been having good results. This is with my own eggs. As far as shipped eggs, I don't do the same...

On another note. Our hatch rates have been horrible. We've run probably 40 eggs through our incubators (we have 1 with a turner and 1 with out so at day 18 we put them in the bator without the turner) and have only gotten 10 hatched...

Haven't been on in a while. 301 unread posts lol. So I'm building another coop, 6foot x 6 foot. I have it just about done. nice creamy tan color with black stained trim. the trim isn't on it yet but hopefully this week. I just scored...

welp, out of the 7 eggs that were in lock down 4 of them hatched. not too shabby. we got a bunch more in the bator going into lock down sunday night and setting a new batch that we got in the mail. the batch we got in the mail came...

we set 7 eggs in lockdown wednesday night. we have 3 hatched already and 1 moving all around in the egg getting ready to pip through. the other 2 eggs show no sign of movement. we'll be setting 12 more in lock down sunday night.

welp we lost our first batch of eggs in the incubator. we have a bunch of eggs in 1 incubator (staggered hatches) and we just set 8 eggs in lockdown in our second incubator. Yep 2 incubators now. one for 1-18 days and the other for 19-...