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    Chicks just hatched in the last 2 days.... anyone with me? UPDATE!

    So far 8 hatched today with more on the way... so mine should be the same age as yours.. rirs and triple sex with rir roosters.
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    Huge Frickin' Egg

    I get a huge egg like that once a week from one of my older rirs.. The shell is the same as well..I always figured it was because of the hard time she had squeezing it out lol. Always a double or triple yorker and always firm and tasty.. Cant get it into a cartoon so I just have to eat it.. its...
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    how do I increase humidity?

    I have been reading a lot about my babies.. to raise the humidity, it is not the amount of water but the size of space used.. a pizza pan thinly covered worked wonders for me in my old bator when I needed it up. My new bator has about the same size coverage.. sponges did not work well as they...
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    42 eggs due tomorrow

    6 little ones born.. mothers are rirs and triple sex and the dads are rirs... ten eggs pipping and still more to come.. One big guy did not make it.. he was so big that he had no darn room in his shell to move and he was trying in the night during the four hours I managed to sleep lol I spent...
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    42 eggs due tomorrow

    Since we already have 70 chickens I would have done around 15 but my husband never does any thing in small measures lol.It holds 42 eggs so he filled it up. Oh well..I work 6 days a week and he does the chickens so I guess if he is willing to clean for that many it is fine. The biggest problem...
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    42 eggs due tomorrow

    Well we have 42 eggs in the new bator and the hatch is set for tomorrow... so far three already have small cracks which makes me happy to see. Sometimes you wonder if any will make it.. I never candled any this time.. just checks the temps and hum, and left them alone.. It will be interesting to...
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    What dog breeds can be taught NOT to hurt my chickees?

    I have a brother and sister.. but different fathers.. Thors is a greater swiss and he is 145 lbs.. della we are not too sure but she is 70 lbs. both were just 6 months old when we got chickens.. We let them all run on the same piece of land and spent a lot of time yelling..NO CHICKENS.. bad dog...
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    MARCH HATCH-A-LONG come join in

    42 eggs went into the bator today.. First time with the new bator and egg turner so I am interested in how it will go. All three of my roosters are rirs and also half of my hens.. I am thinking I might want to get a few more breeds of roosters to keep the breeds clear, but for now this will...
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    Darn bears

    Yeah I know..this bear is a regular to our place..we are on his route and he is always in the yard. so far he just sits and watches the chickens. He is not too crazy about my dogs either even tho he has about 300 lbs on them lol my boy thor is 140 but he is still small compared to ben.. that's...
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    Darn bears

    Sooo...I have chickens, 55 to be exact, road island reds and sexlinks,and three rooster, opps plus two 2month old and 12 eggs in the bator. I work for a soup kitchen in my town, I run the thrift store that is attached to it and so I get to bring home a lot of goodies for my hens.. We have a...
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    First time hatching

    Soooo...I got tired of paying ten dollars for a point of lay hen and tried to incubate my own..What a sweet thing. Our incubator is an old one and so it is all hands on but I prefer that. The two chicks we hatched look so different from thier moms but of course they are only two weeks old so...
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