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    Hands on hatching and help

    Another disasterious hatch I ended up w/ 6/20 Araucana which isn't horrible considering they are hard to hatch but only 4/10 local sussex eggs... as I sat yet again scratching my head over this expensive cabinet of chick death.... I decided to do a quick temp check using an alternative...
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    Hands on hatching and help

    Please keep fingers crossed for me my Araucana eggs are due this weekend I'm hoping the slight adjustments I have made to this dang cabinet bator worked as if they aren't hard enough to hatch 20/42 made it to lockdown so I would be thrilled w/ 50% followed all the recommendations even "misting"...
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    BYC members in Massachusetts?

    I have bought the Poulin the gentlemen that run the company were at the show in Springfield super nice and well informed guys! I liked their feed a lot but at my local dealer it's a little more expensive than some of the other feeds and I have to drive farther to get it.
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    NY chicken lover!!!!

    I know someone was looking for some brown leghorns at some point I hatched some for a friend (his parents) they had only wanted white egg layers now they only want brown egg layers so I have them as extras with a few Easter eggers that appear to be mostly pullets. My brooders are starting to be...
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    NY chicken lover!!!!

    Th They are super cute they look similar to a golden cuckoo Marans pullet I hatched or even a golden laced brahma they look husky lol! Please post pics of them as they feather out
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    Not an Emergency...Marek's in the Flock

    My old flock (a few still living w/ my mom) had contracted Mareks about 4 years ago and were initially misdiagnosed at the state lab until the cellular/blood tests came back so it wouldn't be hard to miss it since I had an experienced professional do so. Also some of the birds exposed never...
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    NY chicken lover!!!!

    Totally ticked! My fall hatch pullets just started laying and it appears I have an egg eater!!! I had a nice dark speckled egg in the nesting box late morning thought maybe leave it to see if that got others to lay there as well.... It was gone but the remnants of yolk on the shavings and a...
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    Hands on hatching and help

    The white paper membrane is fine unless it starts to brown or they aren't making progress (zipping) after 24 hours from my experience and reading others. Also I keep a closer eye if they aren't pipped on the air cell end those I tend to need to assist more often. I set some same time frame as...
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    Hands on hatching and help

    So following my last cpl messy hatches w/ my new cabinet bator (one set dried out and one super wet way more than usual DIS and even deformed) I called the manufacturer to trouble shoot. I'm a total ding ding even tho it wasn't anywhere in the info/directions the vents on the back weren't open...
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    NY chicken lover!!!!

    I only have gotten one box of chicks this year and it was super cold (it was one of the warm then freezing snaps) they were a full day late and I too live close to the distribution center. Well they finally arrive at my po and being the spaz that I am I checked the tracking at 530 am and ran...
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    Chat Thread for the New Crazy 24 hour Auction

    I just had an awesome hatch from TJ's d'uccle eggs!!
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    NY chicken lover!!!!

    Based on what I read it appeared to be distemper. My fiancé used gloves and an old shovel handle so he didn't actually touch it. I was at work when the officer came and after it started walking aimlessly towards her she was finally convinced by my fiancé to shoot it she didnt want to...
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    NY chicken lover!!!!

    So we have had a strange raccoon wandering the neighborhood in the mornings totally disoriented not afraid of cars etc. well it decided to camp out behind our garage this morning out in the open.... we ended up calling the local PD they sent an officer after some convincing she did put it out of...
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    Ny-chicken-lover chickenstock '17

    I will also have the AM chicks as well if someone elsewhere doesn't
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    NY chicken lover!!!!

    Yes I'm coming I'm hoping to keep the 5 I bought for breeding. I need to clear out some of the others I was going to use mottled and solid blue/black AMs now that I was able to acquire these!
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