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My second hatch of Serama.Congrats on your hatch!!! Looks like you wound up with a beautiful roo and two lovely hens ☺️ I'm going to be perfectly honest with you; at 6-7... -
Guide to Assisted Hatching for All PoultryI'd be prepared to assist further at any time. It looks like you have an incubator without automatic turning. I found it nearly impossible to do...
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Guide to Assisted Hatching for All PoultryI'd be prepared to assist further at any time. It looks like you have an incubator without automatic turning. I found it nearly impossible to do...
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Guide to Assisted Hatching for All PoultryHi I have a duck egg that pipped 28 hours ago I made the hole bigger and applied olive oil around membrane . When should I assist if I need to ...
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Guide to Assisted Hatching for All PoultryIt is a shame to only be able to rate this 5 stars. It is FANTASTIC. How wonderful of you to...
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Chicken Math 101 – with Quiz!Good for people who have a good math skill but I did not understand any of the pictures like...- ChickForLife
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Hatching Eggs & Raising Chickens
Hatching baby chicks from eggs is an exciting and rewarding process. Learn how to incubate eggs, take care of hatchlings, and properly care for brand new fluffy chicks.
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Guide to Assisted Hatching for All Poultry
Preface If you need immediate instructions on how to assist a hatch, you may skip this section and go to the next one, where the instructions... -
Reasons for Tossing Out Your Indoor Brooder and Start Raising Your Chicks Outdoors
My early brooders Six years ago when I got my second batch of day-old baby chicks, I thought I had arrived at the ultimate solution for a... -
Development of a Chicken Embryo Day by Day
This is an explanation of what is happening each day as a chicken embryo develops, complete with candling pictures. The egg I am using is a silver... -
Candling Pics Progression Through Incubation Of Chicken Eggs
CANDLING PICS: Progression Through Incubation Thanks to ZooMummzy, I am doing a test run of my little plywood bator and her little rooster... -
Chicken Math 101 – with Quiz!
Dear esteemed colleagues, there is a well-known and documented phenomenon known as “Chicken Math” effecting our coops, though there is little... -
Integrating new birds at 4 weeks old
Integrating as young chicks is much much easier than older birds, setting the space up to facilitate might not be so easy but well worth the... -
Guide to Letting Broody Hens Hatch and Raise Chicks
Using a Broody Hen to Hatch and Raise Chicks A broody hen is a great way to hatch chicks for you and your flock. She will do all the work... -
Incubation Humidity
Relative Humidity (RH) “humidity” – simplified, is the amount of moisture present, relative to the amount that would be present if the air were... -
The Beginner's Guide to Incubation
The Beginner's Guide to Incubation This guide is intended to help people new to incubation learn how to properly incubate and hatch eggs. It... -
Adventures in Hatching - When Things Don't Go Quite as Planned
Hi there. I'm long-time chicken keeper with a lot of experience, but even I can get so caught up in making sure humidity is perfect and the... -
How To Tame Chickens from the Start
How To Tame Chickens from the Start Many chicken keepers these days have friendly, tame flocks of birds they consider to be their pets. People... -
A Viewpoint on Managing Roosters
Introduction The content in this article is not intended as a definitive guide to the stewardship of roosters. It is an account of my personal... -
Step by Step Guide to ASSISTED Hatching
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Aggressive Baby Chicks and How to Stop the Behavior
Each spring I see countless cries for help from people with a day-old baby chick who is terrorizing the other chicks in the brooder, pecking at... -
How To Raise Baby Chicks—The First 60 Days Of Raising Baby Chickens
Raising Baby Chickens—The First 60 Days Getting and raising chicks is exciting and may even be a little nerve wrecking time for chicken... -
Yes, You Certainly Can Brood Chicks Outdoors
I brooded my first chicks the way most of us learned to brood chicks...in the house, in a big box, with a heat lamp. It was a hoot at first... -
Brooding Chicks: The First 6 Weeks
Whether you've just hatched your own chicks in your incubator, an ordered batch of chicks from the hatchery has just arrived or you brought home a... -
Egg failure to hatch - Diagnosing incubation problems
Diagnosing and troubleshooting incubation problems and hatch failures Eggs failing to hatch can be a disappointing and sometimes costly...