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    Keeping fertile eggs at 46⁰?

    My fridge door butter compartment stays around 46.5⁰f according my digital thermometer. I know the ideal temp is around 50⁰f. I've only got 3 hens and wanted to accumulate a dozen or more for my 18 egg incubator. Can this work?
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    Automatic door didn't open, hours away. Water concerns

    They're 6 months old wyandottes, raised together. 7 rooster and 3 hens. Only one laying.
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    Automatic door didn't open, hours away. Water concerns

    Went to visit relatives yesterday to stay 2 nights. Chickens made it into the coop as always last night according to our chicken cam at 7:30pm. But this morning it didn't open for some reason. Not planning on being home until tomorrow afternoon. High today is 75°, humidity 57 and their 6'x5'...
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    What would an Olive egger crossed with a Wyandotte be ?

    Fantastic chart. Got links or pics of more for wyandottes, jubilee orpingtons, etc.? I love collecting information.
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    What would an Olive egger crossed with a Wyandotte be ?

    Would they basically be olive eggers? Got a potential rooster olive egger and 4 colors of wyandotte hens. What egg color of layers would come from the offspring?
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    Here we go, wyandottes & olive eggers 😀

    It seems that the silver laced and the olive egger roosters are best buddies. They hang out together and never have any sort of quarrel. As a matter of fact none of them really quarrell much. Other than the normal pecking order stuff. But the new four week old babies that we have are having a...
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    Here we go, wyandottes & olive eggers 😀

    Wasn't guaranteed. I requested hens except for one through FB messenger and got ok in response. He then offered and did replace a chick with a curled foot. They were $10 a piece while Tractor Supply had 2 of the breeds for $4 with 90% guaranteed female at the same time. Kinda kicking myself in...
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    Here we go, wyandottes & olive eggers 😀

    Thanks for the info. Not culling as it seems I have pairings of all the wyandottes that I wanted. I had planned on hatching some eggs in the future to try and get what I wanted for breeding pure colors or mixing for lacing. So if all these guys want to live together great. I've heard that if...
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    Here we go, wyandottes & olive eggers 😀

    Here's a headshot of the blue laced number 2
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    Here we go, wyandottes & olive eggers 😀

    They're all around 8 weeks. Got as 1 day to 5 days old chicks on April 10th 2024.
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    Here we go, wyandottes & olive eggers 😀

    Got my birds from a somewhat local breeder,1.5 hrs away, who delivers through our area to surrounding counties. When I ordered our chicks I stated all hens except for 1 gold laced Wyandotte to be a rooster. He replied through messenger ok and we met up. One blue laced wyandotte had a curled foot...
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    Crackly sounding chirp new chicks, normal?

    They seem to be ok. I think it's just a little different chirping for the breed. No more blowing or anything. Might of been dusty conditions. He was delivering 200 chicks to Missouri and we met him in town which we were going to anyway in our bimonthly supply/grocery run. He had been on the road...
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    Crackly sounding chirp new chicks, normal?

    Got three baby chicks today. From a local breeder. Two were jubilee orpingtons and one a blue laced red wyandotte. The two orpingtons when they chirp, it sounds like there's some light mucus in their nose or possibly the throat/chest maybe. It's not real bad but noticable. Saw some blowing off...
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    Where to get marek's vaccine

    Got them on April 10th. Some were only a couple days old and some were about a week old. Got them from a localish breeder about an hour and a half away. I didn't ask but I don't believe he vaccinates. Feeding medicated feed of course. I just wasn't sure how important it was. They all seem fine...
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    Where to get marek's vaccine

    As far as I know my chicks have not been vaccinated for Marek's disease. How important is that and can I get the vaccine myself and do that? I vaccinate my dogs myself yearly, except for the rabies which the vet does.
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