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    Seeking Broody Advice

    Okay, so it's Day 25 of broody Daisy trying to hatch out fertile eggs. Not a pip, a peep or a cheep. Forget about it, right? Candle the eggs tonight (I haven't at all yet)? "Break" her? Poor thing, she's worked so hard...
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    Wanted: Chick born around 11/17/13- Portland, Oregon

    Hi There! To make a long story short, we hatched eggs in an incubator for the first time, and one of them made it! I am just looking for a friend for her, I feel bad that she's all alone. (My 4-year-old named her "Pumpkin". :) Does anyone in the Portland, Oregon area happen to have a chick...
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    Newbie Needs Incubator Culling Advice...

    I have 5 eggs in a Little Giant Still Air incubator at day 17. I have candled on and off... Tonight, 2 of them looked really viable (veins, etc.), 2 looked questionable (their "dark mass" was about half the size of the others and seemed more "fluid"?) The last one, a Black Copper Maran egg...
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    4-Year-Old Reveals Great Candling Tip

    This is my first time incubating. I have 7 "barnyard mix" chicken eggs (I started with 12) in a Little Giant Still Air Incubator in my bedroom, much to my husband's chagrin. :) They are on Day 10. I've done tons of Google searching for candling images, advice on possible "bad eggs", etc. Yahoo...
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    Help!! Mama hen setting 12 eggs just killed by a raccoon- West Linn, Portland, OR

    Emergency incubator needed- minutes ago, we just lost our mama hen who was setting 12 eggs. Have a heat lamp on them now but I've never done this before. Help?? West Linn (Portland) area... Will come pick up...
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    How do you put fertile eggs in place of infertile ones under a broody hen?

    Hello, I just joined BYC but have found lots of answers to my "chicken questions" here since we got our first day-old-chicks in April. I've been letting our free-ranging Buff Orpington, Lucinda, lay a clutch of her unfertilized eggs she had hidden in our fuchsia plants in hopes that she would...
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    Buy Fertile Eggs- Portland, Oregon?

    Hello, I just joined BYC but have found lots of answers to my "chicken questions" here since we got our first day-old-chicks in April. I've been letting our Buff Orpington, Lucinda, lay a clutch of her unfertilized eggs she had hidden in our fuchsia plants in hopes that she would get broody and...
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