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    Trouble Incubating Leghorn Eggs

    Heredity is sort of my thought as well. Our eggs tend to hatch day 19 or 20. We'll see if the leghorns just need a little more time undisturbed with the baskets, or if they are just poorly primed for hatching.
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    Trouble Incubating Leghorn Eggs

    We have pretty decent hatch rates among the other eggs, losing one or two - generally early in incubation. But the leghorn eggs make it to lockdown and then just don't hatch or hatch right towards the end of the group.
  3. 1941Ransom

    Trouble Incubating Leghorn Eggs

    Definitely something to keep in mind for future hatches! Thank you.
  4. 1941Ransom

    Trouble Incubating Leghorn Eggs

    Has anyone ever struggled with incubating leghorns? Both hatches I've done the leghorn eggs make it to the end and just don't seem to hatch. I've got five leghorn eggs in the incubator this hatch and those eggs seem just a touch less developed than the others. The couple leghorn eggs that have...
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    Cross-beak Contest! (Closed)

    Our flock has two lovely crossbeaks! The slightly more timid Applesauce who is happy to let her sister be the boss and once ate so much scratch that she had to fast a day to clear her crop. And Mary Sanderson, who is the bossiest bird in the coop. No matter what time you show up to feed her you...
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    Hello everyone!

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Not new to chickens, but recent enough! I started by in 2021 with my first three birds (part of my roommate's flock). Now the flock is just as much mine as hers. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? 26 hens and two roos in...
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    Chick from the mixed breeds straight-run bin

    Origin: Hoover's Hatchery via Murdoch's Bin: 'Rare' Breeds Straight Run Purchase Date: March 13, 2025 (shipped from hatchery on the 11th) Age in Photos: approx. 17 days When I picked up chicks at Murdoch's store this year, it was a zoo! Not the leisurely activity of the past. :) I was shuffled...
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