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    Hatching The Patriots 6 2010

    Our 1st experience hatching eggs under one of our broody hens & in the incubator. Its June 25th, 2010 Our granchickie arrived last Monday for her summer break stay. I had started some eggs under one of our broody hens hoping to be able to experience a hatch with the granchickie. We ran into...
  2. Addin To The Coop

    Addin To The Coop

    March additions includeda run for the Squawk Box ......and 17 new chicks! Thanks to all the great shares about what folks used for brooders, we utilized an extra stock tank for our brood. Yeah uhuh, that beeee a Christmas Tree on the left. Sometimes I need a reminder...
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    Up Close And Personal

    Thank You, BYC members, for helpin' us to identify what kind of chickens we have! White Cochin/Bantam Rooster, "Winchester" Birchen Cochin/Bantam Rooster, "Remington" White Cochin/Bantam Hen, "Special" Birchen Cochin/Bantam Hen, "Miss Kitty" Light Braham Hen...
  4. Bloomies Chicken Coop

    Bloomies Chicken Coop

    Jackrabbit Johnson's Homestead Nomans Land, Rural Nevada ~ The Squawk Box ~ Our monthly visits to the feed store always include a looksee at the "for sale" bulletin board. Bein's I had chickens on my wish list I was delighted to see 6 hens & 2 roosters for sale. But then I was quickly...
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    How many Eggs did you Sell today?

    Quote: My eggs peel very nicely and they're usually no more than two days old sitting in my chicken basket. Have you tried poking a little hole on the bottom of the egg with a little thumb tack? I do that when I have my boiled eggs in the morning and I always have a perfect peel with pretty...
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    Nevadans?

    Quote: Thank you! Good luck finding a companion closer in age to Uno. I feel for you, it's a tough time of year to find chicks. Daniel I could use 10 of those waterers myself. If you do order more be sure and let me know and I'll run my share over to you. I like the idea of saving on...
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    Nevadans?

    Quote: Yup got the auto-egg turner....I agree its a worthwhile investment. Also from my brief experience with the LG I have to say adding plenty of humidity wells would be a plus. I had aquarium tubing running thru the small holes on the top of the LG to the wells, a dish, and 2 sponges ...
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    Nevadans?

    SunnyDawn Bloomie, most of the fires are in Nevada from Reno to Lovelock. That system that came through and dumped all that hail on us also touched off several fires. From what I've heard on the news almost all of them are completely contained or pretty close. The one north Of Genny...
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    Newly hatched babies !!! Please tell me Im doing this right !!!!

    Quote: I'm learnin' right along with ya, Rene'. My henhouse is on level ground with the pop-out door leadin' to the run, so I never gave thought to that situation. Ya made some good changes.
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    Nevadans?

    HorseFeatherz NV What a day yesterday! Thunder, lightning, wind, rain, hail, flooding and power outage. Ran around like a crazy chicken lady getting everyone in who needed help, trying to shield them from the grape sized hail. Course not a drop fell on the fire - which I can see from my...
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    Nevadans?

    Quote: That's some incubator!!!! Are you going to start a chicken ranch on that land ????
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    Newly hatched babies !!! Please tell me Im doing this right !!!!

    from the boonies. Bein' new to hatchin' I also search out info on BYC......from what I've read it sounds like ya have the right set up and just need to make sure the Mama hen and babies can get out of that box ya have the nest in so they can do exactly what Perolane wrote ya. My set up is a...
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    Nevadans?

    Howdy from Nomans Land Ya'll are talkin' about the hot weather while we're feelin' a cool and damp 65 o'r here on the homestead. We went from the high 90's to 65 never know what the new morn will bring! The heat had been a concern for me as well. We installed fans in both coops to circulate...
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    LG incubator humidity question

    Quote: I'm curious about the solutions folks find for the LG humidity issue. I have an LG Forced Air unit and went into lockdown Thurdsay.....had 2 pip & hatch this afternoon and 3 more have pipped tonight. The first 2 were stuck in the membrane so we assisted....it wasnt what I preferred to...
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    The coop ideas section

    I dont see any harm in listing ones state, even if they do ya still have to take yer own climate conditions into consideration. We took an idea off BYC that was submitted from a member in a much warmer climate than ours. It used part of a shed row for the horses. We tweaked it to work for our...
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