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    County Fair chicken show

    My daughter participated in our local county fair poultry show today with her pen of three Buckeye pullets in the production pullet class. Our fair requires these birds be hatched in the 2011 calender year and we hatched these birds in late January. The good news is that she won her pullet class...
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    Scalped Hen! Help! *Graphic Pics*

    We had the exact same thing happen to our Copper Maran pullet last summer when I had her in too small of a pen with too many Buckeye pullets and cockerels. We kept her isolated until the wound healed and slowly put her back in with the main flock where she still is today. Other than the bald...
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    Meat & Egg chickens

    I assume south Mississippi stays fairly hot for long periods so try to research birds that are more tolerant of the heat. My experience is only with cold-hardy birds here in Ohio as I type this out during a snowstorm. My personal feeling, you need a rooster just for the entertainment value he...
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    Hova Bator Help I'am New.

    I just hatched 24 out of 36 Buckeye eggs in a 1602, forced air Hovabator. I did have a bit of a sweat issue under the incubator so a towel may help or maybe set it up a little on some wood strips to allow air underneath. I agree with the other posts, get your temp set for a day or two before...
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    Time lapse between hatching eggs question

    I have an LG forced air that I just hatched 24 out of 36 Buckeye eggs and should have had at least one more if I had not shut down the incubator after the third full day of hatching. I broke open the remaining eggs thinking no more would hatch and found a full term chick that was still alive in...
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    Day after Christmas predators

    I am in west-central Ohio with at that time, a mixed flock of 23 with a Barred Rock rooster, 8 Barred hens, 3 R.I.R., and 11 buff cross. This flock has free roamed around our yard and 3 acre woods all year and only lost 1 bird until the 26th when we lost 7 in one afternoon. One of the birds came...
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