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    My name is Leslie and I have a wonderful family of three children Nevaeh age 6, Tommy age 4, and Melissa age 2. I am 24 years old and my husband Jeff is 28. We have been married for 3 wonderful years and recently discovered our love for chickens. We have buff orpingtons, Black Giants, 2 rhode...
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    CONTEST: When will I hit 10k posts? Free hatching eggs for prize!!!

    2-14-2011 good luck!!!
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    Setting 26 eggs today (June 27th) Anyone else?

    The roos will have a straight line of feathers all even hens will have two layers staggered its really easy and has worked for me really well. Sorry I didn't reply earlier but I have been so busy trying to get everything ready for school to start back. I do apologize. There is a video of a girl...
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    What breed and gender do you think this is? someone help please

    thank you guys for your advice I have never heard of a black minorca before. I know it is really fast and skidish and also the others don't like it for some reason.
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    What breed and gender do you think this is? someone help please

    I can't tell if it is a blue but we have bantam chickens too and it holds its wings and looks like them more so then the bigger chickens. The people we got it from had really pretty chickens. Our older chickens keep picking on him so we had to seperate it from the rest.
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    What breed and gender do you think this is? someone help please

    it is suppose to be a blue andylusia and he is about 12 weeks old
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    Setting 26 eggs today (June 27th) Anyone else?

    well two more of the 15 eggs died so that is three down but I have twelve chickies..... On another note I went to clean the incubator up and set it up for lockdown with the bantam eggs and when I got them out of the turner to lay them flat I heard cheaping needless to say I turned them over and...
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    Setting 26 eggs today (June 27th) Anyone else?

    Yay now I have three yellow chicks and still have two in the incubator pipping and two doing nothing keeping my fingers crossed still that they will hatch too
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    Setting 26 eggs today (June 27th) Anyone else?

    Well I have 7 chicks that have hatched and 7 in the incubator still one pipped nothing from the others. One died last night it pipped and busted through the top alittle but just didn't make it It was coming from a very small deformed egg so I kinda figured it was gonna have problems I was just...
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    Setting 26 eggs today (June 27th) Anyone else?

    I guess I better rephrase that I haven't tried to sex bantams I have heard that they are really hard to tell but the bigger breed chicks I can sex for you.
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    Setting 26 eggs today (June 27th) Anyone else?

    I can tell you better when they are around 3 days old if you spred the wings out. Its better when what I call there primary feather shoots start putting the tip of the feather out on the wings. I could possibly tell you on day 4 but that would be pushing it cuz it gets harder to do the older...
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    Setting 26 eggs today (June 27th) Anyone else?

    Yay I woke up this morning and I have three more pipped only one had pipped when I went to bed last night!!! My lil chick that hatched a day early yesterday is so lonely he/she need another lil chicky friend.... Yay sportchick I was hoping you would still have some babies after the turner...
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    Setting 26 eggs today (June 27th) Anyone else?

    well the first one is black I am hoping to get a few different colors this time.... We have barred rocks, columbian wyandotte, silver laced wyandotte, red stars, black astrolourpes and leghorns/rhode island whites Not sure on them.
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    Setting 26 eggs today (June 27th) Anyone else?

    Thank you pippy chicken!!!
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    Ducks are drying in egg. Advice?

    when I had my homemade incubator and of course it wasn't perfect I had to assist many of my chicks hatch. I would start with peeling the the drying membrane back some because I left one alone by advice from reading on here and it dried so bad to the chick I couldn't get it off. I would peel some...
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