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    My husband installed a fan, temps are circulating and holding great, BUUUTTT....

    He solved it! Lucky stroke--he was able to come home for a long lunch and had some sort of military-grade high tensile line (very thin, like fishing line) that he fed through each corner hole in the fan, then up through the holes in the 'bator and looped through paper clips. Now a glass of...
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    My husband installed a fan, temps are circulating and holding great, BUUUTTT....

    it vibrates the whole 'bator. I have a Hovabator 1602N and have done three successful hatches in it without a fan, but hatch rates were slightly under 50% (two shipped eggs, one local). I could tell that there were hot spots, though. So I got a little knee-jerk the other day and bid on some...
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    WTB Blue-laced red wyandotte and Swedish flower hen hatching eggs

    Will ship or even willing to drive within a 1 hour (give or take) radius of Baltimore. Bonus is finding eggs from a flock of Swedish flower hens that includes birds with the brown/white/black coloration (like a Mille Fleur). The $1 is just for posting's sake...tell me your price, of course.
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    Feeding injured birds in recovery

    The antibiotic they're on has a 3 month withdrawal anyway, so I'm actually really glad that their bodies are resting and not laying...the eggs would go to waste. Better that they use their calories to get their health back methinks!
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    foxes

    My hens got attacked at 1:30 in the afternoon last week, too! Seriously, exact same time. I know this because I caught him or her in the act!
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    Feeding injured birds in recovery

    Thank you, this is exactly what I needed! I felt like I was shooting in the dark with this one and hadn't even thought about the calcium overage! (they each laid one egg after the attack but haven't since).
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    Feeding injured birds in recovery

    A week ago this past Wednesday, a fox scaled our privacy fence in broad daylight and entertained himself with our hens. I caught him in the act and got my 4 with bite wounds to the vet. They're on antibiotics, probiotics, pain killer and are being cleaned with Betadine solution and wrapped...
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    Two blue copper marans chicks, Maryland (DC/Balt/Frederick area) -- SOLD--

    Hatched 11/17, vaccinated for Marek's. I was after blue splash and hatched out these two blues in addition to my splash chicks. One is likely a cockerel. I can deliver or meet you part-way in the DC/Frederick/Baltimore area. They are free to a 4-H poultry project member with proof of 4-H...
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    November/December "Hatch-a-Long"

    I cheered myself up with photos of the happy, healthy babies that I have in the brooder. 8 hatched, I lost the one. I have 5 marans and 2 wyandottes (are supposed to be BLR, but we shall see) I won't bore you with ALL of the photos or ALL of the chicks, but some of my favorites...and you can...
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    November/December "Hatch-a-Long"

    Mine that was born with yolk passed away this evening. She had rebounded and I really thought we were out of the woods and then completely out of the blue she went weak again. She was very quickly gone :( I buried her under some very special daffodil bulbs that my husband gifted me. Pardon...
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    November/December "Hatch-a-Long"

    Yes, I've done every single one of those things. It's still in the cup, it's still getting Bacitracin (without painkiller) applied, I've read several of the threads over and over again. It's just that none of those things appear to be causing the sac to shrink OR to dry up and fall off. It's...
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    November/December "Hatch-a-Long"

    Well, I believe my hatch to be done but I do still have two eggs in the bator on Day 24. I candled them last night and one had a moving chick in it but I need to read about what to do about that. I did not see an internal pip. The other egg is just too dark for me to see into but it feels...
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    November/December "Hatch-a-Long"

    Closing out day 22. I have 7 babies out, 7 eggs still in the incubator. None of the remaining eggs show any indication of hatching. For most of this process I've adhered to the "as little intervention as possible" school of thought, but I went with my instincts tonight and I'm glad I did...
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    November/December "Hatch-a-Long"

    I have one blue copper marans out, one blue splash trying to zip, another marans pipped and one of my two remaining wyandottes pipped! Closing out day 21 here.
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    November/December "Hatch-a-Long"

    Two pips now! The one has been pipped since this morning, just a little progress. The other is newly pipped. They're talking to each other (two eggs right next to each other). I have to be somewhere tonight so I guess I'm going to have to wait and see what has happened when I get home!
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