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How to Start Selling Chicken Eggs and Make MoneyGood article! I actually put a link to it in one of my articles.
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Trouble-shooting when your eggs don't hatch.Thank you greatly for this write-up. I did the 4H Embryology program with my stepdaughter and had only 3/12 hatch. We were so disappointed, but...- mirmbuzz
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Aggressive Baby Chicks and How to Stop the BehaviorMirror works for adult birds too...especially when isolated for sickness or injury recuperation. For adults we leave the radio on a talk program...- Sylvester017
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Inside the Legendary Blood Ring! (warning: embryo pics)Great explanation for those new to hatching. I love the photo of the eggtopy. Could you try get a better picture for your first one though...- Debbie292d
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Easy Brace For Splay Leg ChicksThis is fantastic! I struggled so badly trying to use vet wrap on my feather-footed chick. Bookmarking this article for next time!- thecatumbrella
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Assisting Call Duck HatchesThis tutorial thoroughly helped me hatch my call ducks. I still had less than half survive. I realized that I made the emergency air hole too...
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Inside the Legendary Blood Ring! (warning: embryo pics)Very interesting article that promotes much thought. Pictures were good and detailed, and the writing was well done, being easy to understand.- Lacy Duckwing
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.
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 will walk you through how to incubate and hatch most common types of poultry, such as chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese, etc.
Choosing an Incubator...
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Chicken Math 101 – with Quiz!
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Dear esteemed colleagues, there is a well-known and documented phenomenon known as “Chicken Math” effecting our coops, though there is little... -
Reasons for Tossing Out Your Indoor Brooder and Start Raising Your Chicks Outdoors
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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... -
Guide to Assisted Hatching for All Poultry
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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... -
Candling Pics Progression Through Incubation Of Chicken Eggs
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CANDLING PICS: Progression Through Incubation Thanks to ZooMummzy, I am doing a test run of my little plywood bator and her little rooster... -
Development of a Chicken Embryo Day by Day
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Guide to Letting Broody Hens Hatch and Raise Chicks
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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... -
Integrating new birds at 4 weeks old
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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... -
How To Tame Chickens from the Start
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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... -
Incubation Humidity
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Relative Humidity (RH) “humidity” – simplified, is the amount of moisture present, relative to the amount that would be present if the air were... -
Adventures in Hatching - When Things Don't Go Quite as Planned
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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... -
Yes, You Certainly Can Brood Chicks Outdoors
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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... -
Aggressive Baby Chicks and How to Stop the Behavior
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Brooding Chicks: The First 6 Weeks
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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... -
How To Raise Baby Chicks: The First 60 Days Of Raising Baby Chickens
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Raising Baby Chickens—The First 60 Days Getting and raising chicks is exciting and may even be a little nerve-wracking time for backyard... -
Step by Step Guide to ASSISTED Hatching
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Tips for Successfully Sexing Your Chicks
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Tips for Successfully Sexing Your Chicks Well, it’s that time of year. The chicks are in, we’ve fallen in love with their adorable appearances... -
Broody Management - From the First Turkey Strut to Weaning the Chicks
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Sterilizing hatching eggs
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Proving soaking hatching eggs in an Odoban solution won't kill a chicken embryo.