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Need help fast!! Today is lock down day.. Opened the bator to remove turner and I have a chick hatching!! It's day 18! What should I do? I dry hatch.

So it's like 100 degrees here n very high humidity. I have my week and half old chicks outside in our non air conditioned shop. The light is just too much for them. I have been finding the panting, huddled in the corner away from light so I decided last night to just turn the light off. Will...

Background: We have been hatching eggs since Sunday night. I have two broody hens whom had a total of 9 eggs among the two. I remove my chicks because my hens start fighting over chicks and nest once they start hatching, often bullying my bantam hens out of the nest if not killing the chicks...

Trying out my new incubator and I have an incubator full of EE/EE, EE/Dominecker and Maran (pure and crossed) Any idea how I should go about identifying which is which ones I take them out? Can they be sexed if I wait till hatching is over to remove them? So far I have black (which I...

Not sure where this goes, so I am asking here. How long are farm fresh eggs good after refridgeration? How long can they sit out before going to fridge? Does sitting out add to natural expiration date?

Sooo... kind of a dumb question, but is the cuckoo maran bred to be barred or is it crossed with another breed or what? Where does the barring originate from? I can't find anything online. I am now the proud owner of two barred cockerels that hatched from Maran eggs. None of my hens are...

I put my hatching eggs in the incubator last Monday afternoon (May 25), so am I on day 7 or 8? What will my lock down day be?

Just wondering if anyone can tell an EE from an ameraucana. I've had about 7-8 mature EEs and they looked nothing like him, but from what I read it is hard, if not impossible to tell.

I have this rooster I purchased in February, who is great with the girls.. but hates people, well just about everything except chickens! He runs over the hens to get to me or whoever is near by. It has gotten to the point that my little cochin bantam rooster basically steps in to defend me at...

What ages are ok to mix in a grow out pen? It just dawned me that I will have 3 sets of chicks, all a month to month and half different in age. Can I mix them together as they get old enough to go to the grow out pen?

I purchased a new Hova-bator and turner in March, and just now getting around to using it. This is my first time incubating. So I put my eggs in Monday, and thought everything was going great until this morning when I noticed my turner was in the exact same place it was the night before. So I...

Hope this is in the right section. Soo.. I'm purchasing some French Maran chickens this week and hopefully breed for chicks and hatching eggs to sell. My goal is not only to raise my own flock, but to help off set some cost from my chicken "addiction" and feed cost. We lost a lot of chicks and...

Not really sure where to post this one.. So how do you protect yourself when purchasing items over? I've had two "negative" experiences over the past week trying to purchase items through FB. Luckily no money was exchanged. 1. The guy was taking "orders" for some 12 month old sexlink hens...

Hey guys. My name is Allison. I'm from Arkansas. Although I'm a newbie to the BYC forum, I am an active on the BYC Facebook page. I'm currently the owner of 12 chickens. Looking forwards to increasing those numbers in the next few week. (Chicken MATH!)