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Three days ago +/- I was getting ready to shut down the electric hen, I had seven or eight eggs that did not hatch so I candled them for confirmation. There also was one egg that may have been the first to pip (maybe second) but never unzipped . I expected that egg to be totally dead, I...

But a friend from my church had two Guineas and one died, does the other "need" a Guinea friend or will the chickens be company enough for it to carry on OK? The survivor is still quite young I think maybe 4-5 weeks. Thanks in advance!

A couple of the posters here have asked me to show them how to make a tipover carton. I cannot take credit for it, I saw it somewhere, but this is how I do it. Instead of making one I had one I just finished with, so I'm going to start with the finished product and disassemble it. Its very...

This is obviously a first egg from an A&M hen, if it were laying in a bowl of river pebbles you'd never see it. Its even rough/coarse textured ouch!

I keep seeing a need for this so here it is. I buy a lot of 97 cent plastic thermo's from wally world. they cannot be reset but I just write the correction on them for example this one here has -1 degree F written on it. So if it says 101 its really 100. Hope this helps! 1 Fill a glass...

Just in case anyone is interested I have one dozen Cot eggs in an incubator. These eggs are all firsts and maybe a couple seconds (first laid by a particular hen) I've always skipped the new eggs, but lets find out how it goes. They've been cooking for just over 48 hours and I candled a...