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    Set eggs 3/5. Looking for others to hatch with!

    Howdy All; up date from lastnight, I now have 3 out of the shell & into the brooder :1 black australorp , 2 Golden cuckoo Marans; So now I just have to hope the rest will pull through. temps 100-101F humidity 55%
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    Set eggs 3/5. Looking for others to hatch with!

    WE HAVE THO EGG"S PIPPED Golden Cuckoo Marans YE HAW YOU ALL !!!
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    Set eggs 3/5. Looking for others to hatch with!

    Hello all: WELL ;Here is my up date on my on my hatch, Tommorow is hatching day ...I Hope ... I did'nt candle the eggs so it's going to be a surprise ,Because of my bator temps & humiodity % I will start watching for possible signs of hatching starting tonight 15. Black Australorps 14...
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    Set eggs 3/5. Looking for others to hatch with!

    Well I am a bitt late to the hatch along; But here goes ... This year is my second year for hatching eggs ON march 4th I set 29 eggs into my homemade ice chest bator .tomorrow I start their lockdown. I have had a few temp spikes as high as 104 f for short periods of time ,, and two or...
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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    Hi all I got my first egg two day's before thanksgivihg then another one on turkey day , they are a creamy brown in color. The girls are twentytwo weeks old & are barred plymouth rocks. did'nt get an egg song with the first egg, Then the day before thanksgiving I had several false alarms but no...
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    South Carolina

    :)Hello all; Let tell you about my morning. My two jack russell's awakened me this morning at o5:30 so I turned on the back yard light. and I opened the back door to let them out ,& was greeted by all of my roo's taking their turn crowing. they must have crowed four or five times each one...
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    South Carolina

    DIXIEBEAST; I have a hawk that hang's around in our neihborhood , He's the DEVIL ... The other day he flew right up into a big pecan tree that stands over my chicken pen/coop, and just sat there eying the chickens,till as luck would have it a mob of neihborhood BLUE JAYS drove him off. I like Jays
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    South Carolina

    Hello to all ( gvilledh) your picture of your cuckko maran look's just like what my suposed to be barred rock hen's look like. thanks for the photo. I ordered my the egg's from the web, the egg's were advertised as barred rocks HOWEVER once they hatched out & got all their plumage 'the roo's...
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    My girls won't roost in their brand new coop at night...

    Indy; when i built my coop/ pen ,my 5 wk old chickens first night out side was in two medium sized dog crates to try to get them used to being outside. then I placed the birds into the coop/pen and that first night in it i had to put each one into the coop . The next night only half had to be...
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    South Carolina

    Amy: I get the same type of chicken rush every time that I bring anything out to the pen/coop. The chickens act as thogh I never feed them. if someone was watching the way they act they would think that I never gave my birds anythihg, allmost every morning I give them some pears ,cabbage leaves...
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    South Carolina

    Hello out there. I 'm in the sumter area and have Barred Rocks i was reading about the predators in S C . in this thread .I have lived hear 20+years And in all that time rarely have I seen any till Now I have in the last week,in my back yard and in the neihbors trees have seen a hawk,a fox...
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    Good evening!

    I guess that I will shortly become very popular with my neihbors sinc I have 7 br roo's I can't imagine all of them going off at the same time
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    NEWBEE Chicken owner

    First off; I am not sure if I am in the right place for this entry . I am new to the site ,Was a lurker for a while used alot of the info from here to help me get started with my chickens . I ordered my eggs from the internet ,Used the part of this site to plan and build my homemade incubator.it...
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