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    Help! I need to know how many chickens I can fit in a ....

    Have you had chickens before? I would start with just a few (3) and go from there. There are all kinds of rules of thumb about how many chickens you can cram into a certain sized space, but the honest truth is that the more space they each have, the better. When you get cramped you start getting...
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    Necropsy pictures, do the intestines look normal?

    They look pretty normal to me, though it's hard to tell with all the feathers mixed in there. I also can't really tell from the photo if the poo is bloody or just a cecal. Did you open the intestines? If so, did you find anything unusual (worms, etc)?
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    Chicks on water oak leaves??

    I am raising 10 chicks for a friend. I started with 12. I have them on water oak leaves because that's what we have available for free. Bedding is changed at least twice weekly and food/water every day. They're in a plastic dog crate in a garage. I've lost 4 so far and have no idea what's going...
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    Araucana thread anyone?

    Hey folks, I have taken a looooong break from BYC (having moved 5 times in the past year was hard on the girls but especially for me!), but I'm back! I got married and settled into a place I can finally relax into. It's about time!! I would like to start looking into replacing my hatchery...
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    McMurray freebie - splash Mediterranean/white layer breed??

    Of the two McMurray shipments I got this year, I identified one mystery immediately (silver spangled hamburg) and one I still can't figure out 2 months later. I'm almost certain it's male, and I'm positive it's splash. It came with 25 black Minorca pullets and has not outgrown them, so I assume...
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    Advice on What Went Wrong--Hatching Experts, I Need You!!!

    HeartMoss - I have had the EXACT same experience. I am meticulous. I picked up the eggs myself and had everything set up before starting the incubation (with 4 day old eggs), but have had trouble keeping the bator humidity up (my room is ~35% and the bator wants to be 16% RH!!!!) and I'm down...
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    How Hard Can It Be

    Did you have blood spot? Maybe make sure to sanitize your incubator. I sanitized with oxine but if they all died of bacterial contamination I did something wrong. I've heard to use bleach and then vinegar and dry in the sun for foam incubators. I'll try this before another attempt.
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    How Hard Can It Be

    I'm having a super difficult first hatch, so I feel ya. Of 32 I lost all but 10 to blood spot by day 7 and am down to one lone survivor at day 14. I left the rest in after I broke open a half-developed chick and I'm praying and praying I'm wrong and some others make it, but they're so empty for...
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    Foam 'bator running TOO DRY?

    So humidity at 16% is not a problem? Or yes? I will sacrifice more eggs on Sunday at day 10 - I believe most are that ruptured yolk. However? I'm not at all clear on why this would happen with eggs that I picked up and transported myself less than 100 'mi? Are there super special requirements...
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    Foam 'bator running TOO DRY?

    Hi. This is my first try at incubating. I am using the renowned and beloved () LG 9200 still-air with an egg turner and using the dry incubation method. Here's the deal. The incubator is sitting on the top rack of a 2-shelf mesh shoe rack, about 12" above the surface of the dresser. Plenty of...
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    Packing Peanut- what am I?

    Where did they come from? That will help narrow it down.
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    Oh Boy, Here We Go Again....

    Unless he's breeding for feather sexing you cannot assume that fast-feathering chicks are female. If he's working toward breed improvement, there's no way he's selecting for feather sexing. The genetics are complicated and difficult to attain, which is why just anyone cannot sex chicks...
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    what color is my hen?

    Yup. Tetra tints are a leghorn/australorp cross and are primarily white with black leakage. Your chicks will likely be very similar.
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    7 wks, marked hen from ideal....breed?

    Dang, them some fat legs you might say! 7wks with wattles like that is almost definitely cockerel. Could be a columbian wyandotte. Hatchery quality birds sometimes have straight combs, and if Ideal has a line that throws them it's possible they'd all have it.
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    Hatchery assorted breeds?

    My TSC had chicks last year that looked like your white one with the spot. They were a leghorn/australorp cross laying machine breed - leghorn white dominant with some random black leakage. So your chick could be a leghorn cross production breed.
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