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    Pipping in wrong place and then dying

    What is "low"? I see a lot of people say their humidity is low or high, but what number or range do you equate with low?
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    I want ducks!

    Is that cat litter in the bottom? Good idea!
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    Chicken Pics :D

    I always love pics! I really like that darker one with the red face. What a heart breaker!
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    Pipping in wrong place and then dying

    Thank you! That didn't occur to me. There was a LOT of condensation on the viewing window, so that well could have been it! Ugh, I feel like such a dolt, I was so worried about them drying out I didn't think of the opposite problem. How do you keep the humidity down after the first one...
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    I want ducks!

    What do you mean by messy? Poop? Mud? Are ducks particularly messy compared to other fowl? I haven't really met a farm animal yet that wasn't messy in one way or another.
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    I want ducks!

    Anconas to be exact. Does anyone have any references on raising and caring for ducks that are particularly good, books, websites, etc?? Thanks!
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    Pipping in wrong place and then dying

    No ideas? I just thought it was strange that I had 4/12 eggs pip and not zip. Seemed high to me like I did something wrong. I did open the bator, but the humidity stayed high. And the last one that pipped i DIDN'T open the bator after pipping. ::sigh:: just don't want the same thing to...
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    A new breed :-)

    Thanks! Just hatched some of her babies from her little blue eggs out, can't wait to see what they look like! I have two roosters, one mutt (EE x Dom) and one black silkie (her father) and I have a baby from each of them it looks like. One that is black and looks almost all silkie, and one...
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    Chicken Pics :D

    Interesting coloring on those chicks. It will be cool to see what they look like all grown up :-)
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    A new breed :-)

    This young lady hatched out of blue egg, has five toes and black skin, and lays little tiny blue eggs! She has a silkie top knot and Ameraucana cheek fluffs. She's my easter egger silkie! I think she is really adorable.
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    Pipping in wrong place and then dying

    So I just finished my first incubator hatch and I had 4 chicks pip away from the air cell and then die. I gave each of them 24hrs because I read that the will often hatch fine on their own if you leave them be, but each time they were dead when I went to offer assistance. The were pipping on...
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    Only shaft of feathers left

    No, the feather shafts are not falling out. The "feathery" part along the shafts have disappeared on the hard feathers. This is on old feathers, and she does have new ones coming in. I suppose it may be a molt, but not one like I have seen before. The feathers are not falling out, they are...
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    Only shaft of feathers left

    I have a Silver Laced Wynadotte who has a feather issue. She has all of her feathers, they aren't falling out, but the "feathery" part of them is mostly gone. The shaft of the feather is still there. She looks a bit like a porcupine running around. She seems otherwise healthy and I have...
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    Happymorrowss Chicken Coop

    Happy Morrows' Chicken Page The ladies arrived on March 29th! We were thirsty girls! Working the camera. We started out with 33 from Murray McMurray but 19 went home with the folks who ordered with me when they were a week old. Now we have mine: 4 Buff Orpingtons, 3...
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    spurs starting to grow at 8 weeks?

    I have an 8 week old barred mutt with what looks like spur nubs. Do spurs start to grow this early? Does this mean it is definitely a cockerel?
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