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    Outdoor Temperature for Chicks

    We got day old Golden Comet chicks 1 month ago. They have been in a large cardboard box in the garage with a heat lamp. But the dust they are creating is awful ! and the house is starting to smell like a chicken coop. If it was July, I wouldn't be aftraid to put them outside in the coop, but...
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    Eggs are smaller than the cups in the turner

    Thank you nurse_turtle, I may do that next time. They are due to come out of the turner Tues. eve. so we will see how they do. Thanks for the encouragement.
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    Eggs are smaller than the cups in the turner

    mstricer, I am hatching Buckeye Chicken Eggs. They are due to come out of the turner Tuesday eve.
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    Eggs are smaller than the cups in the turner

    Has anyone else tried to incubate chicken eggs that are smaller than the cup size of the turner? My eggs are rocking / knocking back and forth when the turner goes to the far right or left. Is this going to effect the embryo ? Will it effect my hatching sucess ?
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    chicks not hatching when almost fully developed

    I too have had this same problem, but no answers
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    Tips for cleaning your styrofoam incubator?

    I didn't know about the bleach, if it would hurt the incubator, but I stuck the bottom and the screen in the tub with bleach. My turner didn't appear stained or dirty, so I washed it by hand with a damp soapy rag, and then a clean damp rag. I didn't do any cleaning to the lid. I had also used...
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    Incubator temp

    This is our third incubation this Spring. I took the last 4 unhatched eggs out of the incubator yest. Cleaned it all up and plugged it back in. I had it at a temp. of 101 for about 13 hrs. I filled it with eggs 6 hrs. ago and the temp. has not risen above 99. Do I just need to be patient...
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    By hatchingisfun

    We are not new to chickens. We have had chickens for 4 years. We tried 4 years ago to hatch our own, but did not have much success. The ones that did manage to hatch, didn't survive for very many hrs. We ended up buying some chicks. We provide the food, Our (now) 14 yr. old daughter has...
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    how to lower the humidity in...

    How do you calibrate thermometers and hygrometers?
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    11/2 week old chicks

    They are both Buckeye chicks. The smaller one of the two is VERY vocal. Seems to want to make sure we know it is there. To the two chicks born last week, we have added 24 more Buckeye chicks that we also hatched on Monday in our Little Giant styrafoam incubator with turner. We kept them...
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    11/2 week old chicks

    A week ago we successfully hatched 2 chicks, each a day apart. A week has passed and 1 chick is 4Xs larger than the second chick. Is this a good sign that the larger one is a rooster ? I do not know which chick hatched 1st.
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