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    Do the "need" water?

    Thanks guys! So I should look at pekings? They only need 8 weeks before butchering age?
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    Do the "need" water?

    I am well aware that it's a silly question. We had a few runner ducks years ago that we kept in an old garden with a kiddie pool as their "pond". Now I want to get a few ducks strickly to raise for food. I was going to keep them with my meat chickens but we don't have a pond or an area we can...
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    Favorite Breed?

    I have 35 chickens coming next month but I have an opportunity to get a few more however I'm undecided on the breed I want to add. I'm in love with the black austalorps, and the blue laced red wyndottes. I have a few different breeds currently and of course I love them too. Just wondering what...
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    ease of humidity regulation in incubators

    It might not be the bator that's the issue. It's naturally much drier in the winter time and that can affect humidity. I had a really hard time keeping my bator at least 50% these last couple weeks and that was with the 3 troughs full.
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    Fertilized or Not?

    I bought some eggs online from a BYC member. Put them in the bator and 28 days later I didn't get a single bird. This is my third time trying to hatch eggs. The first was quail (bought from ebay) and most of them hatched, the second I only had one baby chick hatch (bought from ebay) who died a...
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    Hostlie Roo

    I have 10 hens and 1 beautiful Roo. He's my buddy. He takes very good care of his girls and always comes over to see me or say hello when I'm outside. I went away for a few days and hubby was taking care of them. My hens also just started laying eggs the day before I left. I get back today and...
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    Eggs not hatching :(

    Thanks for the kind words! I feel bad for my one lonely chick hanging out in the brooder though. I did candle them at around 7 days and thought I saw veins and stuff in my wyndottes eggs. I couldn't see anything in the maran eggs because of the super dark shells. Who knows! I'll try again and...
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    Eggs not hatching :(

    So today is day 30 and nothing else hatched. I performed several egg-topsies this morning to see what went wrong. There was only one egg that had a fully formed, albeit small, chick inside. It was pretty liquidy under the membrane and the yolk sac was still present. As for the rest of the eggs...
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    Eggs not hatching :(

    I think I'll wait till day 30 and just dispose of them if nothing hatched. I opened up one of my maran eggs last night. The shell is so dark I couldn't candle them and I was curious. There was a full grown baby chicken inside with the yolk sac still attached. It was completely still. It gave me...
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    Eggs not hatching :(

    Thanks Barbedwirecat I appreciated the help
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    Eggs not hatching :(

    I don't have anything that measures humidity. This is my try incubating eggs. My BIL incubates quail and I just did what he told me basically. I keep the water chambers full was that not right? There is no water in them now. Should I see anything when candling? Meaning all I see is darkness...
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    Eggs not hatching :(

    I just listened to them all and didn't here a single thing
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    Eggs not hatching :(

    Monday, my eggs would have been 21 days and ready to hatch. I had removed the turner and put them on lock down friday night before bed. Well it's almost 7 days later and only one egg has hatched. They were fertilized and when I candled them last week, most of them had grown chickens in them. So...
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    Missing Feathers?

    I "chicken sat" for a friend of our who went away over the long weekend and I noticed that a number of her hens were missing several feathers. One had a huge bald spot on her back, other had them missing around they're legs. I just found it odd and wondered if it was because she had so many in a...
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    Scared for life!

    Well not really but while I was out taking care of my birds for the night I caught one of my roosters having a jolly ole time with a hen. They're almost 3 months old but I thought it would be quite a while yet before they start laying. Are they just practicing? Should I get nest boxes into the...
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