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Would anyone know of a home for my 5 Rhode Island Red roosters? I live in southern Connecticut.

Great thanks, do you anybody want the 5 roosters?

I hatched these Rhode Island Red 10 weeks ago, I was hoping to get some hens and all but one looks like a rooster.

The foam is about an inch thick. I didn't have too many temp fluctuations, I bought a mini thermometer and hygrometer on Amazon. The temps and humidity that the incubator read were off. You need to check it often to take care of the humidity.

I had that exact incubator, my chicks just hatched a few days ago. I used shipped eggs and 11 out of the 13 eggs hatched! I kept the incubator in foam that it came in. The only problems I found was it was difficult to maintain the humidity and sometimes stuck a paper clip under the top so the...

Thanks for your reply! He is still hanging in there. I determined the yolk was coming out of his navel and it eventually started pulling the intestines out too. The only way to stop the rest of his bowel from coming out was to cut off the yolk. Then I pushed the intestines back in and gave him...

Chicks hatched! 11 out of 13 eggs hatched(5 buffs and 6 Rhode Island reds). One of the chicks had some trouble hatching and now has a bloody vent. I tried to clean it with warm water but what looked like the yolk started coming out so I put him back in a separate brooder and i put some...

Chicks hatched! 11 out of 13 eggs hatched(5 buffs and 6 Rhode Island reds). One of the chicks had some trouble hatching and now has a bloody vent. I tried to clean it with warm water but what looked like the yolk started coming out so I put him back in a separate brooder and i put some...

Help! My incubator did not turn the eggs for the first 24 hours(a wire had come loose) will this effect my hatch rate?