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    MARCH Hatch-A-Long 2015: Please Read the First Post to JOIN the H-A-L

    Well I candle my eggs this morning out of 60 eggs set I had 17 that were clear the rest appear to be fine hatch day is next Saturday for me lock down Wednesday night
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    Hi from Seattle.

    You will never regret getting chickens, and this is a great place to get all kinds of information about raising them. Welcome
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    MARCH Hatch-A-Long 2015: Please Read the First Post to JOIN the H-A-L

    Saturday will be Day 6 for 60 eggs I will be doing my first candling that day and I have to say I am pretty nervous, For one it is a brand new bator and two I have never candled before always just waited to see what I go in the end. So Saturday will be a happy day or a do over. I am also...
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    Little Giant Incubator Tricks

    Okay fan is installed and working bringing bator up to temp I will either set eggs late this evening or tomorrow
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    Little Giant Incubator Tricks

    Thanks for the picture all I have to do is pick up some small bolt and nuts I got this, if everything goes according to plan I will be setting 40 on Sunday
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    Little Giant Incubator Tricks

    Quote: If it is to much trouble could you please post a picture of this thanks, Just reading this post has given me hope for my LG up until now I haven't got a 50% hatch rate on in but I will try this on the hatch
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    May 10th due date Anyone else close?

    I agree about May hatch not doing well I hatched 15 out of 30 in April and 6 out of 40 for May will be starting another run as soon as I collect 2 dozen eggs.
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    New hatch with be due 12 May if all goes well

    Well I don't know what I did different this time than last but out of 41 eggs I got 6 chicks. Oh well that is 6 more than I had. now collecting eggs for next run I think this time I will only do 24
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    New hatch with be due 12 May if all goes well

    Ok looks like they are coming a day late, wife just called me at work and they are two hatched so far.
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    May 10th due date Anyone else close?

    Congratulation, tomorrow I take mine off the turner and raise humidity to 80% if all is well hatch Saturday or Sunday
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    Well its Monday

    Well yesterday was Monday 6 May 2013. Pretty much a normal start to the week. It was a very beautiful afternoon lot of sunshine so I took advantage of it by starting 181 more tomato plants in seed cups, turned two compost piles and got 6 free thornless blackberry plants just by thinning out...
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    New hatch with be due 12 May if all goes well

    great i hope you have a good hatch
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    New hatch with be due 12 May if all goes well

    well one week form today is hatch day and Mother's Day anyone else hatch that day?
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    North Carolina

    well here we are another gray cloudy windy dreary day in NC imagine that. Will we every see the sun again? Good Morning Everyone.
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    North Carolina

    Good Morning Everyone T.G.I.F 1/2 day to day can't till lunch Have a Great day!
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