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    Insomniacs unite!

    So, i have 50+ chicks now ranging from newborn to close to 8 weeks old. I thought that as they got big enough I’d let them out to free range with my 9 older chickens. I caught 3 with a fish net and turned them loose. But now only an hour later I can’t find them anywhere. I thought they would...
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    Insomniacs unite!

    Hello from the Rooster Rancher in west Texas
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    Insomniacs unite!

    Sleep is not easy for me either. I get by on 3-5 hours … and 5 is rare.
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    Insomniacs unite!

    I’ve found my peers. Unfortunately I get very little sleep myself.
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    Continuous Hatching

    I’ve been adding babies to the older chicks for a few months now. I did lose one chick that I added on her first day so that’s definitely too soon but just to give them 2-3 days and they have survived and soon they blend in.
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    Continuous Hatching

    You’re right
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    Year round hatching

    I have a red heat light that I turn on
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    Year round hatching

    I know of no reason to wait for spring. I’m planning to continue hatching eggs through the winter. Is there any reason I should not?
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    Continuous Hatching

    I’m trying to have all jungle fowl but I’m down to one hen although I have 4 roosters. She gives me one egg per day so I add one per day. But my chicks now number 25 jungle, 30 New Hampshire Reds and about a dozen crossbred.
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    Continuous Hatching

    So I had this idea to use one incubator up until lok down and a 2nd incubator for lok down only. It’s working. I mark the eggs with the lok down date. Transfer them on that date. I use fully dry hatch only.
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    Granny's gone and done it again

    A guardian dog. Now that’s interesting. My problem is that the FM road in front of my house has been the death of many of my dogs over the years
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    Granny's gone and done it again

    This looks like where I’m supposed to write. I’m currently rebuilding my flock. I have 8 mature birds of which 4 are roosters. Jungle Fowl actually and that’s the ones I’d like all to be but that will take time. I have about 25 jungle hens but they are about 30 days old.Then I just received 30...
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    Granny's gone and done it again

    Well, I’ve got this to say about that …
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    My new plan

    You’re right, 3 incubators are not necessary. I wanted to have a system that would allow me to add eggs and have a continuous process going. Two incubators would work. I think the key is having the eggs marked and keep up with when they should go into Lok Down. The eggs are at 99.5 degrees and I...
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    My new plan

    I don’t see it as any different than removing chicks while there are still eggs waiting to hatch. It’s quick and the temp of the eggs doesn’t change.
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