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We have been fighting stick tight fleas so I got rid of all my chickens but 21 chicks. the Fleas are gone (lots of seven dusting bleaching and burning I will have to be desperate to take birds to the local auction again!) . The 21 NHR chicks will rebuild my chicken laying flock but now I am...

We gave away all our adult chickens due to loaded with fleas. My wife is going through cancer treatments so I felt it would be easier to start over. I kept our 21 NHR chicks but now I need to kill what fleas are left. We treated with liquid seven what sould I do next. I intend to repopulate. 1...

Just finished a hatch 35 of 38 new hampshire reds and all of them where sold 2 hours out of the bator.

My hatch completed today. 47 eggs in 42 chicks out. reloaded the 1588 same egg source (our own chickens) and here they are new hampshire reds and 1 maran and here is the bator all nicely loaded

Get this I candeled before lockdown and the eggs were all showing great developement. I came on one egg that was cracked so i put it in the egg crates I have in the incubator. My son says I think I heard it pip, so I asked him to turn on the light and would you believe it I had 6 pipped eggs...

Well it started on the 7th of this month, I filled the turner in my hovabator 1588 then I added 7 more eggs to makeup for the ones I would cull after the first candling (which was today) Wellllll, I candled and wouldn't you know it all but 1 egg showed very good developement. Now I get to decide...

I candled at 2 weeks and culled 4 eggs. I re-candled at 18 days and I am down to 4 well developed eggs. I am using a Hovabator Genesis without the turner (one of the eggs would never fit in the goose turner you would swear it is a double yoker but its not!) My question is when should I stop...

I live in Bushnell (Sumter County) Fl and would love to find 6 deleware pullets

Scored this today, so I brought it home and gutted it. guess what it will be next....

My New Hamshires were hatchery chicks that I bought 7 months ago. I trimmed the 26 chicks down to 10 hens and 1 roo. A few of the hens just started laying (only 3 at the moment). Last night I went out to check on my resent hatch which I have put into a brooder located on a wall in the New...

I tried a search and came up with a gazillion posts so I'm sorry if I am asking a question that may have been asked already. I need to know what cross produces a red star. I have ordered 25 deleware hens and I plan on crossing them with a Rhode Island Red Roo has anyone done this and what...

HOOKED HOOKED....I just placed an order with McMurrays for 26 delaware day old hens but that will be in June. I want to hatch red stars so I'll pair these up with either one of my RIR or New Hampshire roos. I already have Partridge Cochins, EEs, New Hampshires, and RIR .....I would say chickens...

Anyone using home made feeders from PVC pipe? If so can you post pics and or instructions? Our chickens are on watering nipples and I would like to build the feeders with the ability to fill them from outside the coop. My in-laws are both on scooters so going into get the feeders and waters can...

Is anyone using (or have you tried) a waterbed heater and thermostat to heat their bator? It would be easy to clean and has the thermostat wired as part of the heater. Any thoughts?

Has anyone changed out the electronic thermostat in the LG with a wafer thermostat like the Hovabator has? As touchy as this LG is I may consider doing just that. BTW it is the forced air model. In my opinion it is a piece of junk!:he If I had not needed a 2nd bator right now I would never have...

I just added another bator today (my hova bator is full and all the feed store had is LGs) so I bought a LG. The instructions that came with the LG were sooooo incomplete as far I'm concerned. What I need to know is which troughs do you use for incubating and which for hatching? The...

I had to discard 42 eggs that I candled at 10 days and found to be clear. I had bought these for $1.50 per dozen(guess you get what you pay for) I would have been better off eating them!!!! I reloaded the bator with 50 eggs, 3 EE and 47 RIR. I bought 4 dozen RIR eggs for $4 per dozen from a...

I just reloaded the bator with 50 eggs, 3 EE and 47 RIR. I bought 4 dozen RIR eggs for $4 per dozen from a gentleman I had used in the past with great hatch results. I just had to discard 42 eggs that I candled at 10 days and found to be clear. I had bought these for $1.50 per dozen(guess you...

I just finished one hatch on Sunday and here I set another 42 eggs tonight. This time its New Hampshires, White Rocks, and Buff Orphs. Kind of addicting isn't it?

I set 42 eggs in the bator on September 18th and put 3 under a broody hen. (24 “RIR” and 20 Cochin) I candled on the 27th and removed 9 clear or blood ring eggs which brought the total down to 36. I then took the 3 from my broody and added them to the bator. I went into lock down on the 6th of...