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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    So glad I got the coop dealt with before today. It is alternating between light rain and snow this morning.
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    That's an hour north of me:)
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    Hope it's okay to hop in here! Just got my coop cleaned out since the temps were perfect for spending 2 hours shoveling. Next winter we won't have the chickens and ducks cohabitating so winter clean up will be much easier.
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    Gosling hatch issue- time sensitive

    We use a brooder heater plate but the bowl did fit in the incubator. He's feisty. He was moving around the incubator pretty good. Hopefully we didn't cause the last pipped egg any issues opening it but.. I couldn't just watch him die:( Ducklings were much lower maintenance to hatch than these...
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    Gosling hatch issue- time sensitive

    You think it will fit? also, any idea how long it will take for the yolk to absorb?
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    Gosling hatch issue- time sensitive

    I had a gosling prematurely pip ( I believe) due to its hatchmates rolling the egg around. It had its beak out of a pip for 48 hours before I intervened (and only b/c I realized its membrane was drying out). I got it unshrink wrapped but left it still in shell enough that it would have to get...
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    Pipping and Zipping has begun

    Oops forgot to update. 20 eggs. 15 hatched 14 survived Not too bad. The one who didn't make it struggled to hatch, then had splayed leg and just seemed not all there mentally. I tried everything but it passed about 2 days after hatch.
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    Pipping and Zipping has begun

    Day 28 and my duck eggs seem to all be getting pips. A few do have zips as well. We've spotted one little duck bill so far. I incubated 22 and all showed development on day 7. I'm hoping to get a good hatch rate!
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    Hatching Guineas

    They'll be a year old this summer. I read that they often start laying the spring after their hatching. I haven't done a deep dive on the subject yet because I'd been mainly focused on the idea of hatching bantams and geese.
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    Hatching Guineas

    We bought 2 guinea keets last year, managed to keep both alive to adulthood and have them end up being a male and female. I'm interested in hatching some of their eggs this year- any tips? Are they much different to incubate than other birds? Also, I thought they'd look a lot different than...
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    hello all! Jumping in to the chat from the Northern LP (Cadillac area). I've been lucky that our water doesn't really freeze in the bird yard b/c the ducks get it all empty before it can freeze. We do have a heated trough for the goats though.
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    Hello from Northern Lower Michigan

    I had bantams with my main flock and such. However, I was free ranging and they slowly disappeared. Then, my favorite bantam was suddenly dead one morning and looked like another bird had killed her. I could take the rest of the chickens from my main flock and put them in a new coop with...
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    Hello from Northern Lower Michigan

    Hey all! I grew up with chickens and last year my husband, our kids and I moved to acreage in Northern Michigan and added chickens to our lives. I've currently got a mixed coop of ducks, a guinea pair and 2 dozen ish chickens. I plan on building a separate coop this spring to add a bantam...
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