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    Time of year for incubating

    Thank you! I think he would like to know that he can. We are usually really good about baking bread and other foods before a hurricane arrives… so we’re well prepared. But he would love to know he can do something several days in. Great suggestion! 🙏🏻❤️
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    Time of year for incubating

    Exactly!! I don’t have enough soace to do eggs from just one hen, every year. I lost one hen last year to a very bad yeast infection. I hope to stay on any possible illness, so I don’t lose any more chickens for a while. I only have enough room for maybe 5 more hens, at most, with my set-up...
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    Round Eggs?

    I know this is a super old thread, but I was looking this exact thing up and found this. Lol! I have one hen, out of my 7 hens, that lays a ridiculously round egg. Not completely round. But I’m saving eggs in case I get a broody, so I’m keeping the eggs with the larger rounded side up, to...
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    Time of year for incubating

    Out of curiosity, how many chickens do you have in your flock?
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    Time of year for incubating

    Thank you for all this Florida-specific info!! 🙏🏻 Exactly the kind of experience I was hoping to hear about! The place we would have the broody hen sit is covered on the sides, which is where rain would come in with the larger summer storms. (Splash-rain) The bottom of our coop is mostly...
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    Time of year for incubating

    I don’t need our dish washer or range. If he can get the washer to run when we have the power off, that would be good. Because he does need to wash his work clothes if we’re out of power for 90+ hours. But his work has their own huge generators with laundry facilities… so even if we didn’t have...
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    Time of year for incubating

    I let my husband know that you said this about the electric oven. He really wants to be able to use the electric oven while our power is out. Not sure why. Maybe just wants to feel as “normal” as possible? I don’t really care. I’m fine with just the BBQ & propane gas stove tops outside. I think...
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    Time of year for incubating

    Dang! You are set up. Good job. 🙏🏻
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    Time of year for incubating

    We have a 250 gal propane gas generator for most things, but we were without power for over 90 hours after Helene. It’s fine if you’re out of power for 36 hrs or so, if you don’t have your generator hooked up to your AC… but after that it gets painful. We bought a new generator for this...
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    Time of year for incubating

    Oh that’s awesome! We only have one coop & a hoop run. Anything we set up needs to be within that very well protected coop & run. But the coop is way drier than the run, consistently.
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    Time of year for incubating

    I have three breeds of hens. 2 French Black Copper Marans, 2 Alchemist Blues & 3 Azure Eggers (leghorn crosses). the only hen that has gone broody was one of the Alchemist Blues, twice, last year. But she was a bit TOO easy to break of it, so that was concerning. 🤷🏼‍♀️🤔
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    Time of year for incubating

    How do you deal with reintroduction of the hen with her chicks? I’ve had sick hens only in the house for a week, and the other flock members are brutal when I’m trying to get her back integrated with the flock.
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    Time of year for incubating

    That’s awesome. I would use our screened porch, but I had a black soldier fly box on our screened porch for one night, and something (I think a raccoon) tried to jump up onto the porch. Didn’t get in but scratched up the screen real good. 😳 We have lost power during storms, but we have a...
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    Time of year for incubating

    I’m cycling the eggs. I want one chick from each hen plus two from the hens that do the best with our climate. What is grafting? 🤔 I put a dog crate in the coop as the nest to give a broody hen a place to sit, with food & water in it. But all the hens now prefer laying in there over the regular...
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    Time of year for incubating

    By the way, I bought the incubator just in case we have a broody hen that decides to bail out on the eggs a week or two in. I never planned on incubating eggs. But with how abstinent our hens have been, I might have to use it for hatching. 🤷🏼‍♀️ Yes, that’s exactly what I’m doing. 😋
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