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    The Titanic of brooders

    Basement is 62, I'm going to move them out to the big coop which is insulated and evict the adults to the little coop. I raised the lights today.
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    The Titanic of brooders

    Yeah, usually they are in the bathroom for awhile (I have a huge bathroom) and the dust is crazy. This is an unfinished basement and I plan to put sheets of plastic up around this area to help contain it.
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    The Titanic of brooders

    Due to an unfortunate coyote incident I lost my rooster and 12 hens. Of the 5 hens left I collected eggs for a week and had a New Years hatch. I ended up with 13 chicks in the middle of the winter and with the nursery coop being drafty uninsulated I'll need to keep them inside longer than...
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    Cowardly Rooster

    It's about 16 Sq ft with different levels of roosts. He generally stays on the top rung. There are only 5 chickens right now. They have a large run and most days I let them free range since we have 5 acres. Even when the girls are free ranging he won't come off his perch. The chicks are 4...
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    Cowardly Rooster

    I picked up a 5 month old rooster about a month ago to replace one taken by coyotes. I'm very familiar with typical rooster behavior and have eaten my fair share of agressive roosters. Now I have the opposite problem. The new rooster was raised by a city dwelling chicken lover who allowed the...
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    First incubator batch

    Maybe daddy was an Easter Egger. Some have poofy cheeks. I splurged and bought an automatic humidifier from Incubator Warehouse. I think it made things a LOT easier. It was great not worrying about the incubator going dry.
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    First incubator batch

    I think I'm going to end up with 13 out of 17. 2 of the unhatched eggs are extremely large and I didn't really want to incubate anyway and two I'm not sure why they aren't pipping. My husband talked me into the two big ones. Not giving up on them yet.
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    First incubator batch

    8 hatched 3 pipped 2 unzipping 4 pending with tapping noises. One of the pipped ones has me concerned. It looks like there is a little blood around the pip hole like maybe he pipped too early. He seems ok for now though and is cheeping up a storm.
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    First incubator batch

    3 have hatched and the 4th is still working on it. 2 more have pipped . They are mutts at this point. I was told daddy was an Easter egger but he didn't have puffy cheeks. He was a great rooster and if I didn't feel so guilty about his death I would have just ordered chicks in the spring. I...
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    First incubator batch

    Chick 2 is here and 2 more have pipped.
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    First incubator batch

    First one is out after only 4 hours. 2 have pips. It was great, the entire family was watching as he came out.
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    First incubator batch

    Eeek! The first two are pipped. So excited to have New Years babies. Maybe I'll make it to midnight tonight.
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    First incubator batch

    I did the first candling and weight check. I only had one with a blood ring and the rest look fine. I did chart the weights and locations in the incubator and I found a pattern that the eggs toward the top seemed to be losing weight more quickly than the ones at the bottom. There wasn't any...
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    First incubator batch

    I've had an incubator for a long time but I've never used it before other than when I had a broody mama get off her nest after half her eggs had hatched. Last weekend a couple coyotes got into the coop and took 10 of my 15 chickens including my rooster. I collected eggs for a couple days and...
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    Hearing peeps from under my sitting mama.....need help leaving her alone!

    Looks like all is going well.
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