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    Rooster collar how to keep it on?

    Thanks for the responses. So we have roosters as my son wants to sell fertilized eggs and far as I know the roosters are needed for that. My city doesn't forbid roosters but city over does. And my neighbors on one side are in the other city. Either way I want to be a good neighbor. Not sure...
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    Rooster collar how to keep it on?

    I have two roosters and live with neighbors nearby. The boys started to crow so I got rooster collars. They seem fairly effective when I get them on and tight enough. These are the Velcro type and seem to be on tight. But the have been able to get them off a number of times. The end of the...
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    How to get chicks to not be afraid

    I was going to have the title of the thread how to get chicks to like us but figured that might get us off to the wrong start. I have 13 week old black french marans that are very very skittish. My son or I walk in or reach into feed them and they freak out. Any suggestions? We also have 2...
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    3 weeks old - what breed and sex?

    I got these eggs from a guy that said he had something like 80 chickens. I am guessing there could be some serious mixes.
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    3 weeks old - what breed and sex?

    I have two chicks left from my incubation project with my son. We have another batch in the incubator (I didn't know it was addictive). One is gray and one is brown. The pictures with more than 2 the brown one on the corner is the one we have left. There is only one all grey which is the...
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    What sex - Orpington one month old

    Update - pictures at six weeks. Of the two that are lavender ones comb seems a bit longer. Did I end up with two boys and one girl?
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    What breed are these ladies?

    I got them from an egg seller on craigslist. The eggs were all different colors and sizes so I don't think they are the same. Seller said he had something like 80+ chickens so could easily not be pure bread.
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    What breed are these ladies?

    I got a bunch of eggs and these are what hatched. What do you think?
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    What sex - Orpington one month old

    What sex are these ladies (hoping)? I got Lavender Orpington eggs and these three are what I have. The breeder says the black one must have been a misplaced egg as clearly not Lavender - she said only one rooster so half Lavender Orpington but the other half not sure. Looks like black...
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    What went wrong? Suggestions on how to improve?

    First of all thank you for the feedback and encouragement. I just got done with the third try and it was a charm. I made the following changes, I upped the temp a bit, pulled those plugs for ventilation and went with less humidity. I put the eggs in the incubator at 5pm which I count as day...
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    What went wrong? Suggestions on how to improve?

    So this 11% calculation is each day supposed to lose the same amount of weight? If for example the 11% is say 18 grams would I expect to see each day 1 gram of weight loss?
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    How much fluid inside egg when do eggtopsy?

    So on day 26, I gave up and eggtopsied the 14 eggs out of 18 that didn't hatch :(. 10 of them had what looked to be chicks really close - most had absorbed the yoke and everything. When you take off the membrane how much fluid or how wet do you expect it to be? The membrane definitely was...
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    What went wrong? Suggestions on how to improve?

    I didn't take any pictures. I had planned to but didn't. They looked about the same as the four that hatched. Breed is Lavender Orpington.
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    What went wrong? Suggestions on how to improve?

    During lockdown the temp was the same (99.6ish near the top and 98ish near the bottom). The humidity was 60-65, but not super confident in the reading.
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    What went wrong? Suggestions on how to improve?

    So I tried a homemade incubator and had no success, after doing some research that is not shocking. So I bought a used incubator, a Brower Top Hatch. It comes with a small thermometer that sticks in the tray dividers that are used to turn the eggs. I also bought a regular thermometer that...
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