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    Set eggs today 29th Feb if anyone wants to join me :-)

    I've got five in a plastic drawer sitting in the sunshine. Number 6 is drying out. 3 more pipped, and one that I can hear tapping. Looking like a pretty good outcome here. I'll get some pictures this evening.
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    Set eggs today 29th Feb if anyone wants to join me :-)

    Came in to double check everything in the bator tonight (day 20) and I've got 2 pipped and one rocking. The two that are pipped are all sorts of loud :) This is the first time I've even had a pip, so I moved the bator from the floor in the closet to a table so it was easier to sit and watch. I...
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    Heavy Assorted Pullet bin, what breed did I end up with?

    Yep, the reds are sex links that came in the mail this morning. Do you know what the yellow one with the darker colors are by chance?
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    Heavy Assorted Pullet bin, what breed did I end up with?

    I made the mistake of looking at chicks at Big R today when I went in to get a waterer and some silicone. And there were chicks, and I knew there would be, but I still looked and I bought 8. 6 austrolorps and two of these. Light buff colored bodies, yellow on the head, and the silverish stripes...
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    Hoovers Hatchery

    Our chicks came first thing this morning about 20 minutes after the PO called to see if we wanted to pick them up. They said they would be the first package delivered, so we didn't make the trip. All arrived alive, but we have lost three over the course of the day. All three were very slow and...
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    Mahonri's 3rd Annual, BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

    We had some pretty bad weather in west central/ central Indiana today, but southern IN got some horrible storms. I spent the day in Indy picking up some birds from a fellow BYCer and came home to tornado reports just miles from where my family and my in-laws live. All have reported some damage...
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    Incubator "malfunction" - did I lost my eggs?

    While I can't imagine it being great for eggs, I can only imagine that it was a slow decline from 100 to 55 and just because the incubator was 55 degrees inside doesn't necessarily mean that the eggs ever got that cold internally. I wouldn't give up yet and candle for progress here in the next...
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    Hoovers Hatchery

    I have only ordered chicks once before, and that was from Estes Hatchery last spring. Also a great experience for anyone looking at different hatcheries. I ordered from them again this year for a later shipment and Hoovers. My shipment was supposed to go out yesterday, but the order is still...
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    Set eggs today 29th Feb if anyone wants to join me :-)

    I'm only on my second go. I tried about a year ago with 6 eggs from a friend. 5 never started and one made it to the end, but never pipped. I think my humidity was way too high. Right now my humidity is running around 35% with no water in the bator. Seems that's as low as the current humidity...
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    Mahonri's 3rd Annual, BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

    I spent the last 3 1/2 weeks of my 42 1/2 week pregnancy at 3cm. I was 7 when I got to the hospital, and only because the hospital was an hour away.
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    Mahonri's 3rd Annual, BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

    My new incubator came today! So I thought I should probably go ahead and test it out before the hatch-a-long. I figure I will use the LG as the hatcher, because I'll have to take the eggs that went in today out for the new eggs. Does it matter that I'm going to a still-air for hatching or would...
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    Set eggs today 29th Feb if anyone wants to join me :-)

    I was going to wait for the hatch a long, but decided since it's been warm and my hens have been laying well, I would go ahead and throw a dozen or so in the new incubator and see what happened. Plus, I really want to see how well the new bator performed so I would know ahead of time what I need...
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    Information on Estes Farm Hatchery/Country Poultry in Springfield, MO?

    I got to peaking at my order, and yes, they were almost $5. $4.66 to be exact.
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