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    Day 17 air cells

    For reference, in the first picture, the two blue with the brown in between all seem to have rather small cells compared to some of the eggs to their left
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    Day 17 air cells

    I am on day 17 with my eggs, tomorrow evening will be technically when I put them in the incubator 18 days ago. Some of the eggs seem like their air cells are in a good place, but some seem too small. Is there anything I should do over the course of today and tomorrow to remedy the eggs that...
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    Egg Color and Hatch Success

    So, the eggs made it past day 7 when they died. I just candled a new batch that I am trying and once again all are doing great, veins, movement in the embryos, etc. So, 17/18 eggs are developing. I am trying a larger hatch as I had to get rid of my rooster sadly. This is where the air sacs are...
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    Egg Color and Hatch Success

    This is where my brain went, the porosity of the colors potentially being the factor that changed the outcome of the eggs. I’m in Colorado, so I read to keep the humidity a bit higher out here. It was around 40-45 and then 65-70 for lockdown. I did group the eggs together by hen, although I feel...
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    Egg Color and Hatch Success

    They’ve been laying for just over a year. Maybe closer to a year and a half. The eggs were all collected within the week, and stored in the coolest part of my house in a carton, pointy side down.
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    Egg Color and Hatch Success

    I would have assumed the same had the others not developed. 3 of 4 of my blue eggs developed good looking veins (one I tossed early as nothing happened with it), but when I candled them at 14 days they were all sloshy. The other light brown ones haven’t hatched (it is day 22, so I am still...
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    Egg Color and Hatch Success

    So, I just hatched my first set of eggs from my incubator. Out of the 11 eggs, only 4 hatched. Three were from the same hen that lays darker brown eggs, her eggs hatched at an 100% success rate. One egg hatched from my hen that occasionally lays brown to a creamier pink color. The egg that...
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    Roo Breed

    Hi there! Over the summer we picked up some eggs to hatch for a broody hen and got this rooster, our boy Wallace, out of it. I have emailed the farm with these photos to ask what they think he might be, but haven’t heard back! Any thoughts here? He is very calm with us, not necessarily...
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    Struggling with Coop Build

    Hello everyone, I really need to build a new coop and ideally I would like to build a 6x6 walk in. However, I am really struggling to find coop plans for these dimensions. Is a 6x8 that much easier to build? 6x8 is just a bit tight for the space that I have. I live north of Denver, so it does...
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    Roo or pullet?

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    Roo or pullet?

    I know the red one just stands so tall and lanky!
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    Roo or pullet?

    Hi I picked up a couple chicks from a lady near me when they were around 4 weeks old, she says they are EE… I’m wondering now if they are roo’s? They are now 11 weeks old. The combs still aren’t very big or red, but the feathers are throwing me off. Thank you for any input :)
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    Age, gender??

    When we picked them up 2 months ago they were tiny little things! All four of them fit in a box that was about 1x2 foot and had plenty of room to spare, and one chicken could fit in your hand! And he was just a random guy whose family started their own flock, so not sure how much actual...
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    Age, gender??

    Thank you Leah! I appreciate it so much, we’ve always adopted hens that needed rehoming, so the young chickens are throwing me for a loop!
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    Age, gender??

    Hi everyone! I’m a long time reader on this site, but new to post! We purchased 4 chicks at the first of May. It was a man in my neighborhood who had gotten too many and needed to let go of a few. He insisted they were all female but he also said they were 6 months... which they absolutely were...
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