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    16th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

    I'm in!, I have set 6 silkie eggs in new incubator. This is first time with an incubator and I'm already on day two! Brinsea Mini II
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    advice wanted on brinsea incubator

    update: I had the egg plate upside down. Now eggs can be turned without opening incubator.
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    advice wanted on brinsea incubator

    I am trying to hatch with incubator for first time. I have silkies and bought eggs online because my roster is not good stock. I got egg turner insert for mini 2 and the eggs don't turn when I turn it. I am using 7 egg insert. 6 eggs. Everything else is setup according to instructions...
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    Review by 'featherpickingfool' in article 'Using Deep Bedding in a Small Coop'

    This explains the system well.
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    Teaching silkies use ramp

    My silkies have used a ramp since the beginning. I have used boards with cleats, but now I use a ladder ramp. You can't make it too steep. I helped them up the ramp a few times and they caught on. Now they teach the chicks to go up. It wiggles back and forth sometimes. That doesn't phase...
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    picking eggs to hatch

    I don't want any double frizzles. I think the only way to keep the black frizzle away from hen would be to get rid of him and my wife wouldn't go along with it.
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    picking eggs to hatch

    I'm not trying for frizzles. I have one hen that is not one of original group. My newer rooster is a bearded white silkie non frizzle. My older rooster is a black frizzle for sure and maybe a double frizzle. This is his third spring. The eggs would be from yellow smooth bearded hen.
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    picking eggs to hatch

    The cellar is about 50 degrees. I don't want more frizzles from my original birds. I also want more variety in color.
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    picking eggs to hatch

    Spring is here and I thought my perpetually broody silkie could hatch some chicks. My problem is of my two roosters, one is a frizzle. Two of my hens are frizzle but one hen from last spring is normal so I want to pick out her eggs to make a clutch of 6 or so. What is the best way to do this...
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    Pressure treated shavings in run?

    I am making a door for my barn and I have a garbage can full shavings from planing the wood. Could I put it in chicken run? Bad idea?
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    Illinois...

    I wanted to say Smoke and Charlie went to a new home Tuesday. I found them a home by talking about them to everybody I knew and a friend in another state called her DIL and she knew someone who had just lost her silkie rooster to a coon.
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    Free range flock and fox

    If I did my math right, spacing on that fox fence is two inches. My spacing is hot at six inches and 12 inches, ground at 18, then two more hot wires at 24 and thirty. I hope I don't have to deal with foxes.
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    Free range flock and fox

    I spent a day last week putting an electric fence together. We have had visits from raccoons. I used the rope wire and was wondering to myself if it would keep a fox out as we saw one earlier this fall. I got to see one of the coons get its nose zapped last night so it seems to be working. I...
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    Free range flock and fox

    sorry for your loss. My dog, an aussie saved the birds from a hawk attack last year. A good dog is a must in a good life.
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    Illinois...

    I have two silkie bearded boys. Hatched May 9th. Both almost black. Near Edwardsville, Madison County.
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