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    13 hours and this is the progress. Should I help?

    Ok thanks everyone
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    13 hours and this is the progress. Should I help?

    I should add that humidity did drop last night but I have brought it up to 70% this morning when I got up. This is also day 20. Thanks
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    13 hours and this is the progress. Should I help?

    Hello everyone, this is my first time incubating. I've read you are not supposed to help but it's been 13 hours since the first pip to this. Doesn't look like much more is happening. I can hear the odd cheep but I think it's coming from another egg. The other one is like the koolaid man breaking...
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    Lid to incubator fell off day one :( any chance they will be ok??

    Wow, did any chicks hatch with temps that high?
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    Lid to incubator fell off day one :( any chance they will be ok??

    Yes I notice that too, the one I have is about 2-3 degrees too hot.
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    Lid to incubator fell off day one :( any chance they will be ok??

    Thanks, that's reassuring. I'm planning on candling them Friday.
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    Lid to incubator fell off day one :( any chance they will be ok??

    Oh I hope so, thanks for the reply. I'm using an incuview incubator
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    Lid to incubator fell off day one :( any chance they will be ok??

    Hello everyone, I'm completely new to hatching eggs. I just put eggs in an incubator Friday and and everything was fine up to last night. When I woke up this morning (Sunday) the lid was partially off. It appears the arm which turns the eggs wasn't seated properly and pushed itself off the tray...
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    Lethargic hen

    Good morning everyone, Last night I saw one of my hens puffed up under the cedars near our house. She was awake but not moving around. Her wings were a little droopy. I picked her up and she didn't fuss too much, flapped her wings a little but that's it. I looked it up online and one...
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    coop flooring

    Thanks for the reply. Should I insulate the floors or is straw enough to keep them warm in winter? I'm planning on insulating the walls.
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    coop flooring

    Hello, I'm looking at building a coop and was considering using old pallets as a subfloor and screwing plywood on top. I figured this would make it easy to clean/shovel out when the time comes. Now after reading a number of posts I see it's more or less 50/50 when it comes to flooring. Some go...
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    New Rooster ran away :(

    Update: went for a walk after work today an low and behold my rooster was strutting his stuff in the middle of my neighbors horse pasture. So after about an hour of running around, getting soaked shoes and multiple scratches from thorn bushes, my rooster is now back with the hens. Phew, time for...
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    New Rooster ran away :(

    Hi everyone, So we just got our 4 hens back who were spending the winter with relatives (our coop isn't winterized yet). While our hens where there they also got a second rooster. Unfortunately this new rooster didn't get along with their "alpha" rooster and I ended up taking the new one home...
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    Converting a shed to a coop

    Good day everyone, Been a while since I posted last but I'm back. After a successful season last year keeping 4 hens in a tractor, the wife and I would like to up the ante and have a year round coop and possibly more hens. At first I was thinking of building from scratch however we do have a...
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    hunger strike?

    My hens are older...I was hoping this system would be better than what I previously had. I had a dog dish in the coop portion of my tractor. The hens enjoyed sitting in it and kicking all the feed out. I was hoping this feeder would reduce waste.
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