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    February 2023 hatch-a-long

    Update on my hatch...not good news unfortunately. So as per my original post, had LOTS of ebay eggs come in. Good news is, most of them were fertile and developing and no real issues with shipping. Now the bad news.... I have a Farm Innovators incubator that has served me well the last year...
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    Incubator got unplugged for 9 hours 😭😭😭

    Ok so I have a similar question - in my case, the incubator wasn't unplugged and we didn't lose power. BUT!!!! I have had a few eggs hatch, and been taking the babies out to put them in the brooder (have about 30 eggs or so in the incubator - 6 have hatched so far). My question is - it seems...
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    Did anyone succeed in hatching a month old on-the-counter eggs?

    I had success hatching refrigerated eggs that were 3 weeks old - out of 7-8 eggs 6 of them hatched successfully.
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    February 2023 hatch-a-long

    I am sad - but I ended up finding another listing of 15+ blue copper marans that look super cool. I like oddball and unusual color combos and breeds, so these will make me happy if I win this bid...(fingers crossed I don't get snookered in the last 30 seconds of the auction...). I was...
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    February 2023 hatch-a-long

    So i didn't win the bid on the Wheaten eggs...some jerkball outbid me literally in the last 2 minutes of the auction. I call FOWL!!! I got 🐓 blocked!!!! (lol)
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    Countdown to Baby Chicks 2023 edition

    I got my first shipment today of polish eggs - they all look like they are in pretty good shape! Candled them and don't see anything disturbing. Probably will set them sometime tomorrow or Saturday - waiting on some other shipments. I would love to know who you are buying from on eBay! Send...
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    Funniest Picture, Joke, Meme or Video You’ve Seen. 🥴

    All tha' pretty girls.... (click the link - totally safe I promise) If you know, you know. :D
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    Countdown to Baby Chicks 2023 edition

    I ordered from...eBAY! Hatching eggs...yea I know. Here's what's coming in the next week or so: Dominiques Golden Comets Polish Silkies Ayam Cemanis And if I win the bid: Wheaten Ameracaunas Wheaten Marans You really never can have too many chickens....
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    February 2023 hatch-a-long

    So it's been a minute or two since I have been out here to the backyard.... Just finished up another successful hatch of my own chicky-poos. They were blue eggs from Ameracaunas, but the jury is still out on who the baby daddy is. :) I have several roos. I had a couple unhatched eggs (day 21...
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    Hatch-A-Long; GemmaGA's Very First Incubator Hatch!

    UPDATE 03/29/2022 Initial incubated chicks (7) are doing well and growing like crazy! Second incubator batch is still 12 days from hatch. Out of 16 eggs, looks like about 10 of them are developing, I'll provide another update in about a week before I go into lockdown!
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    Hatch-A-Long; GemmaGA's Very First Incubator Hatch!

    Update! 1/3 Ayam Cemani eggs successfully hatched. One chick was positioned upside down in the egg and died trying to hatch - unfortunately I did not realize it soon enough :( So for the first batch - I had approx 23 viable eggs - and ended up with about a 40% hatch rate +/-. It was actually...
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    GemmaGA: My Suburban Homestead/Self-Sufficiency Journey!

    Thanks for following me! I have a few other videos I haven't posted yet - hopefully this week! Congrats on getting chickens!! It really is the gateway drug to farm life. :) I am very excited about my garden I am planning for this year, also have plans to grow stuff for my chickens, but also...
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    GemmaGA: My Suburban Homestead/Self-Sufficiency Journey!

    Thanks! now that the weather is getting back to normal, I hope to get some additional content out into the internet universe soon!
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    Chick is making noise - no external pip all the way through membrane - what next????? (First hatch!! help)

    Hatched, but took it a loooong time. Unfortunately that chick has some issues with its feet legs that we have tried helping to correct but it doesn't seem to be working. Since then I had 4 other eggs hatch, all healthy chicks from eggs that had been refrigerated for about 2 weeks before being...
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    Hatch-A-Long; GemmaGA's Very First Incubator Hatch!

    Just checked - THREE MORE eggs have pipped from my own eggs! I think I put in 6-7 of my own chicken's eggs so it looks like at least 4/7 of my own eggs will be hatching! That is after having them in the fridge for about 2 weeks - they were still viable! That is very cool, amazing, and...
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