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The bear has gone to heaven. Looked like a garbage bear which you don't want to eat. Yes, electric fencing is about the only thing that works but you need a powerful one and a very good ground. Other wise they will plow through.

Gets even better yet. Was down to last four birds from this spring.Gave a friend one for Christmas. Was leaving the last three to butcher when I needed them. Went there today to check the feed and the big tom hanged it self. Its wing some how got stuck and tangled on a rope hanging where I would...

It was a bear. Came back for more. All my problems are gone now.

Can't believe it. I was going to slaughter off the six hens and one tom that were my breeding stock tomorrow and this morning I went to the pen and a predator climbed the chain link and ripped through the bird netting on top. Five dead, one severely wounded with only one escaping damage. Its...

Also one of the four survivors is deaf. I thought it was the most sound sleeping turkey i have ever seen but it acquired that skill by being deaf. I have thought it was dead a few times already because it sleeps so sound and doesn't hear me when I come in the cope and had to touch it a few times...

Yes they are but I think it is from putting poults into the breeding stock that were helped or assisted in hatching so the malpostion genetics are being passed down along with other unwanted genetics. The breeding stock is already crossed so my thoughts are that inbreeding is not the problem...

Up date on how the hens did. One hatched out of over thirty eggs from 3 nests. It lasted about 5 days and died today. And one of the five from 107 eggs kicked the bucket last week also. So from 107eggs I tried and over 30 the hens tried I have 4 alive.

Down to 2 from the last 24 eggs. So my grand total this year is 6 live (so far) out of 107 eggs that were placed in the incubator. What a waste of time and energy. I am going to cult the flock this fall. See how I feel in the spring.

Yes I do. Because I never marked or separated the years before poults that I have helped hatch I believe that one of them or more must have made it to my breeding stock. If I marked them as "butcher only" and separated them from being possible breeding stock then the malposition wouldn't or...

One hatched by it self and I helped 6 more. The one hatched by itself died plus two others. 4 alive right now with one looking week. There were more malpositioned so looks like I am going to have to kill off the flock.

100% can't do much better unless twins. lol Good on you.

So what happened feedman77 ? Have any luck? My last lockdown today. 24 eggs and 10 making it to lockdown and 14 clear. Its is the best percentage this year. After this batch I am putting the incubators away and will have to see what the two hens can do for me. They are sitting on around...

The hen is two. But just wait a second here. I just got back from the pen and a different hen is sitting on the egg pile by the fence. looks like she is laying. Last years poult. So many eggs there now that she can't even sit and cover them all. So I went to the nest that I made in the...

The hide out is in the open, no covering on them. Its like she would have taken them farther away but the fence stopped her. She was broody for awhile sitting on a rock for weeks. So I can't see a magic number she is waiting for when one rock did the trick for her. None of the eggs are hers...

That is what I was thinking until today. The hen is still sitting on the nest I built in the little shelter but 15 feet away along the fence I found 14 eggs. I never looked under her because whats the point. Why would she do that? Move all the eggs and sit on an empty nest? I feeling the...

Down to four poults from 83 eggs. That is around 8 kg of eggs. Would have been way better off eating the eggs then wasting them in the incubator. Stuck a dozen eggs under a hen. Will have to see if she can do better.

One of the eggs that didn't hatch had a developed malposition poult. So looks like I have at least one hen transferring the deformity.

The malposition poult died. Four eggs didn't crack so today I will open them to see what's up with them.

Well the 4 poults from 62 eggs is down to three living. latest batch. Out of 21eggs 8 made it to lockdown. 4 are alive but one was malpostioned. That one has leg issues but is breathing heavy so I will wait to see if it is even worth it to fix the leg.

That is something I can do with very little effort. Thanks for the tips. Last year I ran it a little warmer and I was getting eggs hatching at the 25 day. What I found is the eggs get warmer then the air in the incubator.