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    Sadieville Monthly Small Animal Swap SEPTEMBER 3rd

    Luckily we've only lost two this year, almost three. I found her in time to dunk her in a bucket of cold water. She spent two weeks in a cage in the house. She's doing well now but she's a little...slow.
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    Sadieville Monthly Small Animal Swap SEPTEMBER 3rd

    We decided that we're going to pass on tomorrow since it's going to be so hot. Our chickens were very uncomfortable today, we had to break out the hose and mist everyone down along with the horses. I wish it was going to be cooler, we need a couple of chicks for a single chick we ended up with...
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    Sadieville Monthly Small Animal Swap SEPTEMBER 3rd

    Oh man! I've got five roosters that need a new home! I guess I'll bring them this Saturday!
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    Broody Hen with Chicks started laying on eggs again!

    Our hen hatched out a small brood last week and was exploring the poultry paddock with her new family for a few days until yesterday. I didn't see her or her chicks out and found her and them in the coop. Again today she was in there with her chicks. I checked underneath her and found she was...
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    Sadieville Monthly Small Animal Swap SEPTEMBER 3rd

    It was a fun swap, I don't know how profitable it was due to the lack of outside buyers and spending what money we made on chickens from other sellers. Regardless it was great to meet everyone and put a face to the names here on BYC. I hope everyone has a great weekend and we hope to see you at...
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    quitter at lock down, thick yoke - huge air cell

    I'm having the same thing happen to my eggs. I've left them in there for well over 21 days and when I crack them open they're dead and haven't absorbed the yolk. I've got the temp at 100-101 and humidity at 60%. Please help, I'm tired of losing chicks!
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    Sadieville Monthly Small Animal Swap SEPTEMBER 3rd

    We're planning on bringing two bantam Cochin roosters, one black and the other is blue, they're three months old. Three pairs of Bearded d'Uccles Bantam Mille Fleurs, same age. Three pairs of white silkies, two months old. One Bantam Golden Sebright rooster, three months old and one pair who...
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    In urgent need of advice on 2 day old chick

    I have a 36 hour old chick that I need advice on- - hatched in incubator - I missed the date written on the egg, so he never went into lockdown... Heard peeping coming from the bator (one with the turner, not the lockdown bator) -chick had pipped out a hole, but couldn't move to pip more He...
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    Dead chicks day 21+

    Thanks for all the feedback! Actually now that I'm thinking of it the first two that I tried to hatch were still in the other incubator but not being turned andthe humidity was 50%. It was their failure that prompted me to get the second incubator. I've read and been told that the humidity...
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    Dead chicks day 21+

    I'm having a zero hatching rate and I'm losing the chicks between day 16 and 21. I've had six eggs that haven't hatched. Two I opened at day 23 that were still moving so I put them back in and it was too late they shrink-wrapped. The others were dead, two that hadn't absorbed the yolk and the...
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    Sadieville Monthly Small Animal Swap SEPTEMBER 3rd

    I just got the scoop on the Paris Swaps, the swap held at the Paris stockyard is the second Saturday of every month and the swap held at the Tractor Supply is the last Saturday of every month. Now I just need to find one for the third Saturday!
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    Candled!

    Thanks for the links! I'm going to try to candle again tonight!
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    Sadieville Monthly Small Animal Swap SEPTEMBER 3rd

    Is the Paris swap the same day as the Sadieville swap? May 7th or the weekend after that? Thanks!
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    Candled!

    We've candles at day 4 and at day 15 but this is my first attempt at incubating and though they look like some of the images I googled I still don't feel like I'm fully aware of what I'm looking at or for... Anyone know of a website or book?
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    Is there anyway ( TSC ?)

    Good to know TSC will replace a dead chick. We had one that became paralyzed and died. Here in Kentucky there is a state law about the number of chicks/ducklings you can buy.
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