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    Brinsea technical support lacks technical know-how

    I am waiting on a friend to return from his winter Vacay, he may be able to help. Of course if parts are required then I will have to try and find a schematic somewhere...??? Of course you are welcome. I certainly had never heard of bad support from Brinsea before I bought back in 2015...wish...
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    Brinsea technical support lacks technical know-how

    I recently started up my Brinsea Ova Easy 100 to join the Easter hatch a long, but discovered that it would not heat up. I checked everything I could and could find nothing wrong, so I called Brinsea. Now I should say, some of what I will write below I found out on my own after talking with...
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    Value ratio between cockerels and pullets

    Well, I was trying to avoid asking for a specific price, as prices vary (I'm in Canada, so even currency varies). Anyway, these are very good looking Black Copper Marans. How many times more valuable is a 6 month pullet to a 6 month cockerel?
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    Value ratio between cockerels and pullets

    I am looking for your opinion on the ratio between cockerels and pullets when it comes to selling them. I know the average price of a cockerel in my area, how many times more than that price should a 6 month old pullet be? For example, if a cockerel of my breed is $20, should a pullet be $80...
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    Black Copper Marans - Time progression of sexing - UPDATED with WEEKs #1-3 PICTURES

    1. Its been so long since the tag line was changed...I'm pretty sure you have to email one of the admins to get it done, but I don't remember the email address. 2. Ha ha ha...it was an honorary title...;-] My flock is intended to provide me with severely dark brown eggs which I sell as eating...
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    Black Copper Marans - Time progression of sexing - UPDATED with WEEKs #1-3 PICTURES

    I currently have chicks from 3 hatches in my young birds coop. They are all from eggs laid by my own hens, with the same roosters as fathers. The hens and roosters are from 3 different blood lines, but all look solidly BCM. One group are 5 weeks less a day old, others are 1 week old today, and...
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    Its been almost a year since ITL decimated my flock. I have since decontaminated and waited almost 4 months and am about to refurbish my coops. So, I am trying to decide how to repopulate. My goal is to have a BCM flock of between 100 and 200 for eggs and meat. I have an OVA 100 and so I...
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    BCM Roo x Red Selinks - 3 generations and they're a new BCM?

    Yesterday I processed 17 generation 2 birds from my project. The results are extremely disappointing. The majority of the birds ended up between 1.6kg and 2.0kg, and most birds processed @60% of original weight. This results in a terrible yield, especially considering they are at least 20 weeks...
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    Hatch-a-long for people who don't have much time

    I put stress aid in the water before they were put out to the brooder, and each one was dipped in water to teach them, and there are 2 3 week olds in the brooder with them to keep teaching them...??? No sure what else I can do. The last hatch had no such die off. Its certainly possible that...
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    Hatch-a-long for people who don't have much time

    My eggs are coming from Gen 1, so producing Gen 2. I leave the doors open 24/7, actually thinking of putting a fan in there. There are 8 thermostatically adjusted ports, 4 in the ceiling and 4 in the wall.
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    Hatch-a-long for people who don't have much time

    All of my birds have been fathered by BCMs.
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    Hatch-a-long for people who don't have much time

    I get that, I just don't have a solution atm. At night it gets to near freezing, so the plates are needed, but how to turn them off when its > 100F? I have removed one, in hopes the chicks can find enough room to stay at a temperature that will suit them.
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    Hatch-a-long for people who don't have much time

    Day 22 was interesting. I got another 9 chicks hatched, but I lost 10 chicks in the brooder. All died under the Premier1 brooding plates, so that's strange. I put them out at like 3:00pm, so I wonder if they fried...my brooder is in my greenhouse which maxes 116F currently in the day time. I had...
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    Hatch-a-long for people who don't have much time

    Day 20 has finished and I have 53 hatches out of 84 viable eggs. Another 9 have pipped well, so I am at 67.95% hatch rate so far. Interestingly, the ratio of dark chicks to light chicks is changing. Last hatch, lights represented 29% of the hatch. So far, lights are only 21% of this hatch.
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    Hatch-a-long for people who don't have much time

    Day 19 today. 81.63% fertility rate. I've been using the idea of low air flow until day 19, the idea as I understand it is to get weak eggs to fail before the end. I would much rather toss a red ring egg than take out a 2 day old dead chick. Last hatch this worked well, I have very few chicks...
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