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    Chicken Curse

    I agree their like your responsibility, and i felt so badly, but i did all i could do. i only got to bury one of them, where the other two are or went is unknown. thanks for your response, you did help :) im not the only one.
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    Chicken Curse

    thanks im so confused as well, they were like dogs they would follow me everywhere, thanks for reading
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    Chicken Curse

    Dear BYC, As crazy and sad as it seems, i seem to have a problem with raising chickens. Back in June i Picked 3 eggs at random out of my hen house, on like june 30th they hatched within 4 days of each other, two were a buff orphington mix, and the last was a rhode island. The rhode island needed...
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    Raising newborn chicks

    Thanks!. just making sure shes all good. thanks for the reply!
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    Raising newborn chicks

    Hi BYC, One of my chicks has just hatched while i was sleeping, I heard peeping when i woke up, and checked on him/her, it was doing fine. just starting to fluff up a little bit. But i notice shes sort of hopping, and sitting afterwards, instaed of walking. do they normally do that? or does it...
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    incubating positions

    thanks! just making sure i'm doing everything right. thanks for your reply
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    incubating positions

    Dear BYC, I am getting back into the chickens, and are currently in about the 8th day of incubation. the incubator i have is designed to hold the eggs in an upright position. but i like to incubate them on there side, so its more like how they are in nature. is this ok? thank you very much...
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    Getting back into the Chickens.

    Dear Redsox, Thank you very much for the warm welcome. I appreciate it! I always wanted to live in Kansas or Oklahoma. I love it out West. I'm stuck in New Jersey for now. Thanks for the luck! i'm all nervous, this is my first incubation. i've done it before, but that was when i was younger. i'm...
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    PLEASE HELP!!

    yes, Kernal Cluck is right. they just came out of the egg, so there use to a 97-100 degree environment. 97 is fine, just as he stated, just make sure they can move away from it if they get hot. happy hatching!!
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    PLEASE HELP!!

    just a minute. :) when the chicks are born, they may be hyper, usually they just want to br warm, and sleeping. I would put him in his heated cage, about 90-95 degrees. before their born, they gain the ni=utrients of the yoke sack, which can feed them up to 3 days. so give him his heat source...
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    best humidity for incubation

    In my experience, i leave it up to nature, i have never introduced any un natural humidity, i leave it up to nature, and have always had a good 90% hatch rate. i even turn the eggs by hand. But that's my opinion my humidity is usually between 56% and 86% humidity, which is just the humidity it...
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    Getting back into the Chickens.

    Dear BYC, I have recently decided to get back into the chicken raising for the spring of 2013. I usually raise rabbits, then i missed the simplicity of chickens. Quite honestly, the chickens got me back into the business. i came into my coop, and found three of my chickens seriously...
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