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    piggie

    Thank you every body for their welcoming thoughts!
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    piggie

    I have had chickens and pheasants along with finches canaries and budgies my whole life... Now I just have chickens (chooks) Have candled eggs for fertility I have kept all sorts of breeds, Hatched out of incubators with 98% success rate Grown chickens out to maturity successfully Have...
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    chickens

    My chickens were in there pen and have been for 4 months earlier in the week I lost 5 to a wild cat....what a mess night before last I lost another 9 by the same problem...wild cats....but have only picked up 7 chickens not 9...so assume they have taken two with them...maybe to feed wild kittens...
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    3 week old chicks outgrowing largest tub I could find!!

    I also have chickens, and am about to put them in to a wooden chest with a piece of weld mesh over the top and run a light as well.. i have one on his own cause he was splay legged and now he is fine I want to mix the rest of the group back. so I am going to put the hens back in their pen with...
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    chickens

    3 burst as they were off.....three have hatched and the smell coming from the incubator was just awful, so have cleaned out the incubator and put the warm eggs back in quickly. We had 40*C today so just on dark we did the quick clean. Might as well give it a shot they may still hatch minus the...
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    JUST FOR FUN NOVEMBER HATCH–A–LONG!!! 2015

    never seen a double yolker hatch or survive
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    JUST FOR FUN NOVEMBER HATCH–A–LONG!!! 2015

    This is my second hatch in the month my first was 96% and it was in a new incubator so was pleased. the second has been a roller coaster ride. We have had high temps 30 - 40*C temperature in incubator has been up .1 of a degree but the humidity has been all over the place. I have it in a...
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    hatching early!

    yes it is hot and we had 40*C today as well. but we have had a good hatch none the less in the incubator. The temperature and the humidity has been all over the place. We stand the incubator in a foam tray and we dont have the foam top....but we have a doona and a sheet folded up in 4 on...
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    hatching early!

    western Australia the eggs have sat on the fridge for two weeks being turned temperatures were last week in the high 30's*C and 40*C the incubator is set to zero for the days and count up as they go along the chook was set the next day out of eggs from the incubator.....
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    hatching early!

    this hatch I have had a bird hatch early under a chicken at 16 days and one hatch in the incubator at 17 days......and now one hatch on day 18 both were started the same day only because I had a broody chicken and wanted to see how well she would do but on hatching one she has fouled all her...
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    Dry Incubation or Normal Incubation?

    I have never done dry incubation but may be next time i will try. the humidity goes up and down...but should hold at around 55% when one channel of water is added and a bathroom tile put over the top to reduce the pool available to evaporation. I normally get a 96% hatch so am happy with...
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    chickens

    I set 51 eggs in my incubator and I went outside and collected my hen that had been sitting on her nest for a few days. I put her in a cage inside and gave her 12 eggs...... she pushed 3 out and let them go cold an to my surprise they were empty, she had 9 left and she has sat on them very...
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    stick fasts

    do they not lay their eggs in the ground?
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    stick fasts

    what does any one know about stick fasts and how they take hold on chickens. Have read that Maldison 50 fixes them...for a while. Guess a regular spray of their pen and bedding is the go. Their combs are certainly covered in them and they appear to be so annoying. The attach at one end and...
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