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4/6/12 at 9:05am

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Originally Posted by ChestnutRidge

Originally Posted by kathyinmo

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChestnutRidge

(Question: If the rooster is SS and the hen is SA, is it "SS over SA" or "SA over SS"?)

Male over female.

Thanks! That's what I have been saying, but then I started to doubt myself.

How I remember it is, visualize the process of fertilizing the egg, rooster over hen. Keeps it simple and easy to remember.

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4/6/12 at 9:10am

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Hearing cheeping from the styrobator!!!!!

Turkey Hatchalong!

Each little flower that opens, Each little bird that sings, He made their glowing colours, He made their tiny wings.

Turkey Hatchalong!

Each little flower that opens, Each little bird that sings, He made their glowing colours, He made their tiny wings.

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4/6/12 at 9:11am

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WOOT! Woke up to 3 pips, went to look 15 min later and there was a 4th!

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4/6/12 at 9:11am

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Two more chicks out! A meat cross/Buff orp mix and a Americauna/Buff Orp mix. Takes me total up to 4 out of 26 hatched so far.

Incubator addict........

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4/6/12 at 9:18am

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I heard cheeping today when i organized the hatching trays. :)

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4/6/12 at 9:24am

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Originally Posted by meepitqueenie

I heard cheeping today when i organized the hatching trays. :)

That's always a good sign!!!

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4/6/12 at 9:29am

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Ohhhh My Goodnesss I went into my guest room this morning to turn an incubator of eggs that are some of the last I have in my old incubators and there are my Easter Egglings pipping like crazy !!!! I have Massive pipping going on !!!! They are ready to come out and play Yeahhhhhhhhh

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4/6/12 at 9:32am

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Attention wolftracks!!!! I have a chick and it came from a purple egg! Only thing I have at the moment so hoping I didn't fry all it's siblings! But now that I have 1 I don't feel as if all is lost.

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4/6/12 at 9:40am

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Have a whole bunch of pips now, basques and some frizzle bantam cochins from chookschics. Wrong end pip still not moving along.

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4/6/12 at 9:42am

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I also can't post from my regular computer today, only from my droid

Home of the world's cutest dachshund, one crazy blue heeler, two cats,
one fat pony, and many (but not too many!) chickens

Can anyone tell me, how many are too many chickens?

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Home of the world's cutest dachshund, one crazy blue heeler, two cats,
one fat pony, and many (but not too many!) chickens

Can anyone tell me, how many are too many chickens?

My Chickens
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