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    easter chick hatch failure

    I just bought a store bought incubator with egg turner and all and upgraded from my home made ice chest water heater thermostat project and was finding worse results than before with the home made one. So i had some chicks baking for a few days before easter weekend and had miserable results 2...
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    live chick cam

    Sorry it's been down a while they are mature and laying eggs I have had to butcher 5 roosters because of the annoyance of many roosters in a neighborhood and have two left may butcher one or both depending on how loud they are ill hatch More in February and put cam back up
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    man they grow fast. How do you keep the dogs from eating their scratch? lol

    sorry i was just being funny. I dont mind them eating the bird seed they dont get much they just think its treat time and treats for birds means treats for them. Its fun to watch. I throw garden stuff and they will go pick it up and carry it a bit then drop it for the birds...they just want...
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    man they grow fast. How do you keep the dogs from eating their scratch? lol

    usually the feed is in the pen but when i let them out and the door open the dog will sometimes eat from their feeder this day i spread some on the ground when i let them out to scratch for it. The dogs and chickens were eating side by side...they follow me when i treat the chickens like they...
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    man they grow fast. How do you keep the dogs from eating their scratch? lol

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    Self watering device

    i revamped this system. kept the drinking cups the same but cut a hole in the coop and ran 1 " pipe outside and converted it to a 2 " elbow and stuck an ozarka bottle in the elbow to make it a vacum waterer just like the ones you buy at feed store. The difference is you can change the water...
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    Self watering device

    get a five gallon waterer or get a nipple system. This was not that expensive but the toilet float valve needs pressure to operate so unless you plumb it into a water hose or pipe fed by water system youll constantly be having to pressurize the line to unseat the valve. I found this out the...
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    Can we influence the male/female outcome?

    but hatcheries will tell you males are more hardy to conditions outside of acceptible range. If your temp is way off (11/32 hatching could be key if they were all fertile) then maybe only the males survived and the females perished. You should be close to 50/50 if your conditions are...
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    interesting hatch

    my camera was waterproof i as going to follow it in the surf and swim with it but the waves were kicking it around so much i was afraid to accidentally hurt it so i opted not to, but this was good enough for me just to capture it the night before 20 or so hatched would have been awesome to catch...
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    interesting hatch

    ok its not a chicken but i caught this footage on vacation figured you might enjoy.
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    crowing

    I have four roosters in the first batch and a few on the next. Probably dinner time
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    crowing

    my oldest chickens are less than 8 weeks old and the darndest think this morning I was out in the yard and I heard some amatuer crowing going on. I didnt think they started this behavior this soon!!!
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    coop cam

    my dsl modem is offline now not sure if i have power at the house. check on it in a bit it will be back up matt
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    coop cam

    thanks!
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    coop cam

    I moved them out of the brooder and into the coop a week ago. I moved the cam last night. There are two sizes (22 days apart hatch dates) you can see the remarkable difference in the two! http://mattblackburn.net/?page_id=53 firefox or safari only sorry!! Enjoy
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