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    my lonely little pheasant

    i think in the natural world it is not uncommon for a chick to find itself alone , the single survivor of a hatch // i have murry ky radio WKMS npr running in there ,, bird hears voice , sounds music , all day all night long /they playing left of the dial now , i love this little bird ...
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    my lonely little pheasant

    i put handfuls clover from the front yard where the pens will be into the brood shield area , little bird likes those best , really works them over , in 10 days i should get the peafowl eggs in , 30 days then maybe a hatch , maybe little golden pheasant think peafowl chicks friends , do you...
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    my lonely little pheasant

    i had 6 eggs shipped in , got one hatch . such a lonely little bird . the little thing cried so piteously for the first few days , all alone. kinda reminded me of myself, crying for a friend , new hatched in to a new world . i nearly ordered a new shipment of pheasant eggs but thought better of...
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    New Hoop Coop/Run

    looks good to me i agree . too much green house for south louisania ,, think about shade cloth on top i dont know nothing but i would have seeded clover in there a month ago ,, never too late , those chicky gonna love clover sprouts , i think every one should plant a flat with clover , let...
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    New Boy , TN highland rim @ Land between the lakes

    day 27 incubator and so ends my long tedious introductory string . lessons learned. BYC is very welcoming and friendly place with good advice a novice can run a new incubator by the numbers shipped in hatching eggs are a chancy thing , one egg of six hatched such a lonely little bird i think...
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    New Boy , TN highland rim @ Land between the lakes

    one chick out the shell ,no apparent action on the remaining 5 egg .. 10 am i observed a pip . midnight chick out the shell , i opened the incubator added a little water to the humidity chambers , called P P P chick , removed the bulk of the shell , put my finger next to the chick . thing...
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    New Boy , TN highland rim @ Land between the lakes

    i am laminating 1 inch chicken wire 1 1/2 foot around the bottom , it was on hand ,i do custom work why i am so slow ,detail work what with all the doors that thing has the pens are pretty sturdy wire , 1 1/2 gaps ,they provided plastic zip ties to do joining , i am using alumina wire , so...
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    New Boy , TN highland rim @ Land between the lakes

    surely it so , peeper opening its own shell i can see the little thing breath , no sho yet on the 5, i hope this peeper gets out and calls to its cousins to join him . . no help yet on my cages and pens , i am going very slow , i got one these...
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    New Boy , TN highland rim @ Land between the lakes

    Day 24 | I have never done this before . i see the tiniest flake of shell in the tray by one egg , Pip thats Pippin ! i leaned very near the vents in the incubator and called in a high shrill voice " P 'P 'P PIP PIP PIP P Birds .. i think they hear me. i have a booklet circular 514 from...
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    New Boy , TN highland rim @ Land between the lakes

    day 20 incubation , eggs removed from the turner , additional humidity chambers loaded ,, temp set 99.5 , humidity now max as drops forming on the inside of the viewer running about 66% , i am so nervous ...
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    New Boy , TN highland rim @ Land between the lakes

    not a lot of current traffic there , perhaps i can enrich it , with my enrichment project ,i already feel quite enriched , got the gumption to log on here , got a reason to get out of the rack , look at the eggs ,when the hatch comes and i get peepers i might well be overwhelmed with enrichment...
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    New Boy , TN highland rim @ Land between the lakes

    first hatch old buddy .. always a positive remark from this group, day 15, lock down in 3 or 4 more , temp running 99 . ++ humidity about 50 ++ . i try to keep the smallest chamber with water , when i lock down understand i need to bump humidity so i will load the next up ,, did not candle...
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    New Boy , TN highland rim @ Land between the lakes

    i have plans for pens Galore , i like the quick fit hippy done , 1/2 inch pvc pipe . rebar stakes . tees , 4way couplings , pond netting allthose materials very inexpensive . drive the rebar in the ground . fit the pvc to it and Bow it over , use the tees and 4 ways to couple up the pvc...
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    New Boy , TN highland rim @ Land between the lakes

    YOU ALL VERY NICE . day 10 of incubate , i want to candle them however , i fear to handle them ,, i have an auxiliary digital sensor offered by the vendor {GOF] down on the rack , the temps and humidity runs a bit lower on that sensor , smells and looks good to me . my brooding...
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    New Boy , TN highland rim @ Land between the lakes

    middle earth . ya sweetheart i know. , i was referencing chic in shell . they pip it [ first break of shell] then they zip it [ open it the shell] i have never seen this , but in another 20 days i hope to . never done this before i am just doing it by the numbers , just checked the...
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