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    First, early and incomplete incubation... Wisdom needed

    Thanks for the guidance, Amy. That will be my game plan.
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    First, early and incomplete incubation... Wisdom needed

    Update: the last 4 that pipped hatched and have made it to the brooder with the rest. The few that have not pipped will get 2-3 days to show. Since technically today around 10:00pm would mark day 21, these could still be "on time"... Any suggestion as to how long to leave them?
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    First, early and incomplete incubation... Wisdom needed

    23 eggs set in incubator around 10:00pm on February 27. Yesterday afternoon, pipping on 2, one hatched around 10:00 (top of day 19, right), one early morning before daylight. Through the course of today 10 more pipped and hatched over 2-4 hour spans each. 4 more have been pipped several hours...
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    My chickens are NOT EGGspert layers!

    They are sex-links; I chose that breed for the "excellent" egg laying.... The older one produced very well up until that point. The coop/ run they are in has no other hiding places for eggs; they are not allowed out of the "compound"; The structure (coop, nest boxes and roof of the run) is...
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    My chickens are NOT EGGspert layers!

    What gives... 7 hens, no eggs since August. Three are 2-3 years old, the others are just under a year. They have been living together the whole time, no signs of a stressful social pecking order. They have been wormed twice in that time (no evidence of an infestation). No sign of mites...
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    Rooster confirmation

    Thanks everyone! At least I right
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    Rooster confirmation

    Both birds are roosters... Right?
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    Longest egg laying streak...

    Junibutt, I have not posted on this thread in a while because... well, the girls just haven't given me something to post about lately. I guess several factors have contributed to the short streaking... In the spring, a friend of mine wanted me to go with him to get some more birds for his...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    The best streaks my birds had were 84 & 80... which ended the same day. A fox was lurking around and spooked something out of them (not eggs!). They didn't lay again for 11 days, then went back to normal. Since then added 5 new hens to the original 3, now getting 3-5 per day (the original 3...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    Uh... I am guessing this is an April fools joke. You have April 2 in the chart, but today is April 1.
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    ———— The pecking order got established fairly quickly... the boss hen from the old set and new set squared off pretty aggressively; but after about an hour, my rooster (already here) stepped in and put both of them in their places! :D Friday after I posted, I went back out to see how the...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    3 of 3 today...; BUT, just afternoon added 5 more girls to the flock!!!!!!
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    7 year old suspended from school for shaping breakfast bar into "gun."

    Ahhhh... THE QUESTION! Try taking a parent to the Veterans Hospital... That question is asked there too. Another way the federal government is finding out who has guns... Big brother is ALWAYS watching!
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    Longest egg laying streak...

    So, we are up to 84 & 80 straight days... I thought I was going to have to report the end of one of the runs, but it was a false alarm. I went out Friday to "collect rent" and only found 2 eggs (one large one and one from the girl who's eggs are smaller and come every other day); BUT...
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    Longest egg laying streak...

    Today marks 70 & 66 straight for the original two. The third one that was laying every day has held out for the last four days.
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