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    Transition to outside

    Music to my husbands ears 🤣
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    Transition to outside

    Our chicks hatched on June 6th. Third time raising chicks in a brooder and these 9 are messy!! They’re honestly bigger than my other flocks were at this age. My partner wants to move them outdoors to our small chicken coop/run. It’s attached to our main chicken run, so they’ll get some...
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    • advice brooder advice messy chicks tired of the dust transition outdoors
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    • Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
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    Dust bath

    Hello! 🙂 I ended up using a plastic kiddie pool from Walmart and drilled holes in the bottom for drainage. Filled it with all purpose sand from Lowe’s, and wood ash from our wood burning stove. Since this post I have let my chickens free range again. I purchased two wavy men from vevor. They...
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    Hen or roo?

    I picked her up today and she fanned out her neck feathers- I said well mam, are you a sir? Lol
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    Hen or roo?

    Lol! 18 weeks
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    Hen or roo?

    18 weeks
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    Hen or roo?

    18 weeks
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    Hen or roo?

    We were told these were all hens but I don’t know - this one is looking like a rooster to me. Thoughts? 18 weeks old.
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    How long can chicks stay in the incubator

    e surprisingly, almost everyone hatched and the final egg shows signs of one pecking through! I’m going to wait until tomorrow morning, hopefully it’ll hatch by then. That’ll make 24 hours from the first one that hatched.
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    How long can chicks stay in the incubator

    Never-mind my message below, the last chick is starting to peck through. I’m going to wait until it hatches. Tomorrow morning at 8 would make 24 hours for the first one hatched. Okay, so most of them hatched minus one egg. Should I wait until tomorrow morning, this way I can keep an eye on them...
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    How long can chicks stay in the incubator

    I see so many answers on this. Today is day 20 and all of the chicks minus 2 have hatched. The first one hatched around eight in the morning, and they have continued to hatch throughout the day. How long can I leave them in there before I open it to transfer them to the Brooder? Most of them...
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    Hatched eggs and high humidity

    Update: I used a paper towel and absorbed some of the moisture in the channel without opening the incubator. It went down one degree - hoping it helps. I don’t want anything to happen to them now. Multiple were starting to hatch last night, only one has so far. 🤞🏼 This is the first time I’m...
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    In shock or deceased

    My one girl was attacked by a hawk this week. I keep replaying what I could’ve done to help her - wishing I went outside. We found her lifeless in the woods not far from where her feathers were. More than likely it happened shortly before we found her because my rooster was running around angry...
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    Dust bath

    Unfortunately, a hawk got one of my hens last week. I’ve been keeping them in the coop and run for now until time passes, and the hawk hopefully goes elsewhere. What can I use for a dust bath in their run? It’s been raining a lot where I live and their run is muddy. Ty!
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    Newbie to incubating

    unfortunately, a hawk got one of my hens yesterday. I want to incubate her last eggs and see if I can at least let her live on through a little one. I set up the incubator this morning. Temp is 100 degrees and humidity is at 69%. How long do I wait before I put the eggs in? Anything I should...
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