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    Hydrogen Peroxide on eggs?

    Anyone have some input on this?
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    Hydrogen Peroxide on eggs?

    Would hydrogen peroxide kill any mites if there was any on the eggs?
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    Top beak broken off at tip. Disease? Just got them last night.

    So there isn't any diseases or parasite such as mites, etc. That can cause this??
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    Top beak broken off at tip. Disease? Just got them last night.

    He said no when I asked him via text and that is when he said this breed was like that which I don't believe.
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    Top beak broken off at tip. Disease? Just got them last night.

    My only question is why all three of the blacks ones are this way? The two bantams are fine with no beak issues.
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    Top beak broken off at tip. Disease? Just got them last night.

    The seller told me via text that is the way this breed is. I picked them up after dark so I didn't see this til today. He didn't say he trimmed beaks.
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    Top beak broken off at tip. Disease? Just got them last night.

    Just got these 3 hens. He called them black rambler pullets. Also got two bantam hens. All three black ones have this issue to a degree with the worst being about a 1/4 of bottom beak sticking past upper beak. If you zoom in on pic, you can see the white of lower beak and black top part of upper...
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    Can you rinse chicken eggs or lightly rub them under water prior to incubating?

    The reason I ask this is because the eggs i want to hatch are coming from a flock that may have scaly leg mites and I don't want the hatching chicks to get them. If possible, I would rather be over cautious than not if I can rinse them and lightly rub them to rinse away any possible mites.
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    Hatching eggs from a flock with possible scaly leg mites. Got a few questions

    True on eggs not being a suitable host. But wife said she read they can live a long time without food. Fleas and ticks can live a long time without food so that was the reason for concern.
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    Hatching eggs from a flock with possible scaly leg mites. Got a few questions

    Any other options or advice....
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    Hatching eggs from a flock with possible scaly leg mites. Got a few questions

    Does anyone else have any opinions or input?
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    Hatching eggs from a flock with possible scaly leg mites. Got a few questions

    My brothers flock may have scaly leg mites. Their legs on some of the hens have crusty growths with some bleeding on a couple of them. He didn't know what it was til I researched it last week and I am pretty sure that is what it is. I want to hatch eggs from the flock. I want to know if the...
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    Failures in late incubation *Graphic Eggtopsy photos*

    So does adding a extra lockdown day work better for all breeds of chickens and ducks?
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    Is 72 hrs after hatch ok for duckling to be in incubator?

    My roughly 20 duck eggs were supposed to hatch tomorrow Wednesday the 17th and when I went to do lockdown Sunday night, one had hatched already. So i quickly added water to appropriate water channels and closed incubator. Checked monday morning and a couple more hatched and after work checked...
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    Chicks and ducklings won't dry in incubator

    I have two incubators running. Had 24 duck eggs only in #1 and then had 48 chicken eggs with 22 duck eggs (a lot for a n1602 hovabator lol) in #2. The #1 incubator i had going one week ahead of #2 so the duck eggs from #1 were due to hatch at same time as chicken eggs from #2. So at lockdown I...
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