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    Setting Eggs 12/27 Anyone else?

    Funky crosses
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    Setting Eggs 12/27 Anyone else?

    Quote: Good luck, keep us posted on how she is doing on staying on the eggs..and then from there! Thanks, I will defiantly keep you guys posted. Hard conditions for my girl, but I have faith! Pics soon
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    perchie.girl : Quote: Umm... This might sound really dumb, but I have NO idea what either of those are... Could you tell me what they are???? Internal pip is when they break the membrane that surrounds them. External pip is when they actually break the shell open...... Then zipping is...
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    Quote: Good to know that someone else has a silly broody in the winter. Sounds like our mama hen will be hatching chicks around the same time as mine! What is the breed of your broody? My Brahma has been getting off her nest once a day at around 11am to eat, drink and relieve herself. I have...
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    Quote: To quote, click on bottom right corner of the page you would like to quote. sounds like you are close to seeing a baby chick. Congrats!
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    Chicks / Eggs

    pictures of the chicken in question would help and make us happy!
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    Quote: Looking forward to the update! How is an internal pip different than an external pip? Does an internal pip not actually break the shell?
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    unknown

    Me & Jack : LOL! Why not just say something in a foreign language no one will understand? That way nobody will have a heart attack at the thought of little chicks being boiled alive in a microwave!
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    Quote: Hope you can find some fertile eggs. Go Cochin!
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    Quote: Good to know that someone else has a silly broody in the winter. Sounds like our mama hen will be hatching chicks around the same time as mine! What is the breed of your broody? My Brahma has been getting off her nest once a day at around 11am to eat, drink and relieve herself. I have...
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    I have a broody Buff Brahma that has been sitting for 7 days. I gave her 3 of our eggs to sit on. We have 22 chickens, 2 of which are roosters (one Silkie roo that I don't count as a real chicken). I have been reading up on BYC about hatching chicks the old fashioned way, particularly in winter...
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    RIR Roosters

    Free roosters, to anyone in or near Boone, NC, 4 weeks old, hand raised, very sweet
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    Looks Like We Have 2 New Moderators! Welcome, ddawn & Happy Chooks!

    Quote: The moderators are the ones who keep this forum clean and friendly. Cool, thanks for the info. Clean and friendly is good. Congrats ddawn and happy chooks
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    Looks Like We Have 2 New Moderators! Welcome, ddawn & Happy Chooks!

    What does it mean to be a moderator?
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    My new fuzzy butts! now up to 6 ducklings & 19 chicks!

    I read on the BYC raising chicks page that if you don't use medicated started feed the chicks might get coccidis and you could lose 90% of them.
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