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    Breeds Please?

    Just a followup on this. I found out where the chicks came from and they were from a Faverolles rooster over Silkie and Marans hens. Cute assortment. Thanks for the help at the time :).
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    Breeds Please?

    The last ones (partridge color) do have 5 toes and so do some of the mottled ones, lol. Yep, barnyard mix sounds right. Faverolles was mentioned in there somewhere to by the person that hatched them. One of the chicks has salmon colors in the feathers but no 5 toes but does look a lot like a...
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    Breeds Please?

    They come from a person that was given hatching eggs by another person, and somehow I inherited them. So in all of the passing around, Marans, Wyandotte, and Silkies were mentioned by the person that hatched the eggs (from what he remembered the person he got them from and what was written on...
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    Breeds Please?

    Would a better photograph of anything specific help?
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    Breeds Please?

    Thank you. Bumping in hopes for responses on the other birds.
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    Day 24 and 1 Pip

    Oh, I think you're right!! The 48-egg fully automatic Brinsea. I'll tell him you said so!
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    Breeds Please?

    Can anyone tell me what these might be? This is a large fowl w/lightly feathered feet. No bars. Some white spots. Not the best picture. Same bird with other 2. One is bluer than the other 2 which are more black. Still hard to see the spots and white tips on the tails...
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    Day 24 and 1 Pip

    Well I had a very successful hatch last year with a styrobator with no circulating air and no turner and no hydrometer! It was in a completely different part of the house and a different month. Where it is now is way downstairs in an area where there is a wood stove running full steam. Last...
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    Day 24 and 1 Pip

    Great read, thank you for the info. I'm thinking I don't want to try another styrobator. This has been too emotionally and financially taxing! Saturday, my husband played a joke on me and taped 2 egg shells he'd had for breakfast together to make it look like they'd hatched and placed them...
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    Day 24 and 1 Pip

    Good to know about humidity. The instructions with the bator said to keep it at 55 to 60%. Last year I didn't even use a hydrometer with the still air incubator and had great success. I'm afraid to even try again with this one.
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    Day 24 and 1 Pip

    The humidity was steady at 50-55% for the entire period. I had 2 hygrometers, the one that came with the incubator and an extra I bought, and they meshed. So, it's not sounding so good then! It's the temps in the corners that is the only fault I can find, but you'd think that would only...
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    Day 24 and 1 Pip

    I have about 30 eggs in the incubator from all over. Some were shipped, some are mine, some I bought from local breeders. I expected hatch day to start Friday (April 3rd) at 2 p.m. I put the eggs in lockdown Tuesday, March 31st. Incubation has been uneventful. Temps on top of the eggs have...
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