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    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    I will set 41 eggs in my homemade incubator on March 10 @ noon; these are true barnyard mix. Hoping for success.
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    RETURN TO THE FLOCK BY AWOL MEMBER

    Well, here is the outcome with my chicks. There are no survivors. I had only three left and something (predator) killed them and only ate one of them. The three with difficulties I culled previously, after it became obvious that their quality of life was just a struggle with no possibility of...
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    RETURN TO THE FLOCK BY AWOL MEMBER

    I've been thinking about my problems with my chicks. Originally, I had three with splayed legs. After splinting effort, one was successfully rehabilitated and I placed him back in the flock. I'm wondering if he was the latest one that died. May of had other unobserved problems? I'm going to...
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    RETURN TO THE FLOCK BY AWOL MEMBER

    Okay - Here's the other video (I thought an 0 was an O so my URL didn't compute (pardon the lame pun). So here's my poor lame chicks.
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    RETURN TO THE FLOCK BY AWOL MEMBER

    I loaded my videos on YouTube (Thank You, rjohns39 for the suggestion) - took awhile. I'm not too familiar with the inner sanctum of my computer.:barnieSo now I'll try to post the url here on BTC One video disappeared but I think this one covers most of the problem chicks.
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    RETURN TO THE FLOCK BY AWOL MEMBER

    Yesterday morning, I found another chick deceased. It was not from the previously mentioned affected three. So now I have three "healthy" and three with problems. :(
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    RETURN TO THE FLOCK BY AWOL MEMBER

    I made a couple of videos of the affected chicks. I'm not sure of the solution (cull?). Wife says let nature take it's course. As long as they are eating and drinking & not in any distress. And she is an RN so I guess that's the plan. No luck loading video; i'll retry later.
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    RETURN TO THE FLOCK BY AWOL MEMBER

    Here's an update on my second attempt; there was an area wide power failure here in Palo Cedro, CA that lasted approximately forty-five minutes. My incubator is in my metal shop building and the temperature was probably around forty degrees at the time. I had no way to maintain the incubator's...
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    RETURN TO THE FLOCK BY AWOL MEMBER

    Started the Lock Down on my second clutch; hoping for much better results this time. I have been placing the eggs in cut down egg cartons and keeping them vertical. In the past, I've just laid them on the bottom of my hatching tray (made of metal screening). After several chicks hatch, they...
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    RETURN TO THE FLOCK BY AWOL MEMBER

    Wow! I appreciate all the welcomes from folks; I had forgotten how friendly you all are. Thank you. I splinted my chicks (Two with cloth wrap & tape, & one with very small plastic ties). The latter because he seems to have two splayed legs and wasn't able to stand with the tape. I restarted the...
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    RETURN TO THE FLOCK BY AWOL MEMBER

    Several years ago, I built an incubator using an old RV refrigerator. I was proud of it (it actually worked!). I joined BRC and submitted an video of it; Recently, I dug it out of my shop and used it for another hatch. I had a component failure (bearings in the squirrel cage blower froze up)...
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    Appropriate saying for thermostats as well

    This is an old Oriental quotation; the man with one watch must accept the time indicated; but the man with two (if different), has a more complex decision to make. (Of course, the two watches will respectively be exactly correct two times a day; but you won't know when that occurs without the...
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    Appropriate saying for thermostats as well

    A man with one watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches isn't sure.
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    Hello, from Shasta County, Northern California:

    I've visited this site many times but never signed up. I joined to share my homemade egg incubator. We have had chickens for several years and enjoy them a lot. (What I don't enjoy is burying hens killed by domestic dogs & cats, which happens too often). We have 5 acres and try to let the...
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