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    Delaware Chicks and Salmon Faverolle Chicks in Southern Indiana/Louisiville KY area

    Chicks hatched March 26. $6 each. Will not separate chicks of same breed (both sexes are in each batch). 3 Delaware $18 for all. Delaware hens lay large-XLrg brown eggs. Known for laying in winter. 4 Salmon Faverolle $24 for all. Faverolles lay Med-Lrg light brown eggs. Located 5 miles off...
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    Please Critique Modifications to Hova Bator 1588

    So sorry I haven't replied; have been recooperating. You have probably hatched eggs in your bator by now, as have I. My modifications worked fine; hope yours did too. Seems to me the hole over the fan is to drawn air into it.
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    Please Critique Modifications to Hova Bator 1588

    In order to make it easier to add water to my Hova Bator 1588, I rotated the top so the air vent is closer to the water troughs' fill wells. I can now poke a plastic tube down through the air vent and over to the wells or sponge to add water without lifting the top or disturbing eggs. The...
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    How to choose chicks from a batch...

    I see you, Jake Sully
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    How to choose chicks from a batch...

    You sound like my hubby. I guess there is something to be said for science . But folklore and old wives tales are more fun
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    INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

    I love gardening too!! My raised beds are made with locust logs (they will outlast me). Every time I go grocery shopping I get cardboard boxes with no print (or just black print) on them. These are taken apart and put down on the paths as weed barriers. I also cut spaced holes in cardboard to...
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    How to choose chicks from a batch...

    I have heard if you pick a chick up (gently!) by the back "scruff of the neck" that the females will kick and settle down, but the males will put up more of a fight. I have tried this and it seems to work most of the time. Do you think this works?
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    fan or no fan in homemade incubator?

    I only have experience with one homemade incubator and one recycled HovaBator. I got used computer fans free from the local PC repair store. (covered them with hardware cloth to protect chicks) One incubator was a rectangle styrofoam box I think probably came from a florest shop. It was about...
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    Delawares

    My Dels interacted more with us when they were young - we handled them a lot, and they perched on us and followed us around. We never fed them out of our hands after they were 5 or 6 weeks old. As they got older they got more independent. One roo had to be held down every couple days to keep him...
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    INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

    Amazing how that so mysteriously happens!!
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    INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

    So sorry for your loss...
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    INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

    I sell a dozen of mixed egg colors, medium to large size eggs, for $3.50. (You'd be surprised how many people ask if I colored the blue and green eggs!!) I too use recycled egg cartons; just put a new collection date on them. Right now our family consists of a little red hen (large brown egg)...
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    Delawares

    Here are a few of my Delawares checking out their run after a big rain. They are sometimes more aggressive, or maybe just more sure of themselves, than my Americauna, EEs, and BAs. A Del rooster I had once before was particularly aggressive, and even tried to kill a dominant BA hen. Because I...
  14. Rubber band is fitted into notches of plastic circle and across the bottom of the base. Fill water bottle, screw on your drown-proof base, and hang at appropriate height for your chicks. My chicks didn't have any trouble finding the water slot after they were shown, and this waterer was adequate for 12 chicks for several weeks.

    Rubber band is fitted into notches of plastic circle and across the bottom of the base. Fill water bottle, screw on your drown-proof base, and hang at appropriate height for your chicks. My chicks didn't have any trouble finding the water slot after they were shown, and this waterer was adequate for 12 chicks for several weeks.

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  15. Place rubber band on waterer base as shown, so it's opposite the slot on the top.

    Place rubber band on waterer base as shown, so it's opposite the slot on the top.

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