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    Bought Little Giant 'Still Air' Incubator.... should I get the fan?

    I was hoping I could get some help but not start a new tread. I have a 9300 little giant incubator sadly my last hatch was a fail so Im doing a trial hatch a long... and trying to find all info to help... iv added a fan its not helping the 5'f temp range in cold spots its 94!! hot 101... im at a...
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    starting a hatch a long after a failed hatch

    yes I have.. thank you. i'm going out in the morning to get a few more thermometers the type than save high and low range. im reading all I can find on the little giant incubators seems the range affects hatch and can make hatch time spand 5 days... one person rotate egg location out of hot and...
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    starting a hatch a long after a failed hatch

    up date! so I think its safe to say this incubator sucks!!! I started with monitoring temp for hot spots and cold spots noticed over a 5F degree range. so I ordered the fan/heater. it was easy to install I hope that it would fix the hot spots by moving the air around!! no luck at all... its as...
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    starting a hatch a long after a failed hatch

    I hatched a lot of chicks last spring and learned a lot! thanks for all the help and advice. my trusted and true hovo-bator died may it RIP. I had a friend who wanted me to hatch for her "shipped eggs" safe to say we had issue after issue everything seemed to go wrong.. with my new incubator...
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    last few days incubation under a bedside lamp

    I love this.
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    Assisted Ducklings, NEED HELP

    That's great. I I have some call ducks to hatch right now not only do they normally need assistance to hatch but the have collapsed air sacs which is hard to deal with. I'm hoping half will make it. I really hope yours are doing good.:)
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    Assisted Ducklings, NEED HELP

    I just assisted hatch 7 chicken eggs out of 17. Broody hen clutch. that didn't hatch by day 24.. 3 fays late. 4 had already died in peep in air but not threw shell. Yolk was absorbed completely or almost.3 I cut around air sack zipped.added lots of humidity. One hatched 2 still got shrink...
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    Humidity for hatching duck eggs?

    OK I need to hatch duck and chicken eggs at the same time how can I do this with only one incubator. I hatch my chicken eggs humidity around 30-40.but was given call duck eggs I was going to pit them in for 1 week then add chicken eggs. So duck eggs are 28 days chicken 21. I'm not sure the duck...
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    Help hatching issue

    Update lost 4 trying to save 2. They never peeped day 24 I candled them the ones that looked dead I opened they were in air sack yolk mostly absorbed. But couldn't hatch and died. 2 I cut open aircas area but then got shrink wrapped. So I added humidity. They are inside and warm. I got electro...
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    Silkie thread!

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    Food Coloring and Silkie( Dying Silkies)

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    Food Coloring and Silkie( Dying Silkies)

    I groom and wash my silkies as they are white. I just added some food grade dye the color it light because its with water but it came out great and they don't mind.its for easter pics ttp://"]www.backyardchickens.com/content/type/61/id/7263811/width/200/height/400[/IMG]
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    Columbian Rock Thread!!!!

    I also made a similar pattern from what I belive is a white rock roo over a barred rock hen Some are barred more then others and only one is showing black in tail pretty sure a roo. I'm planing to try to breed the pattern true.
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    Sex- linked Information

    Thanks I love the coloring and patten I'm going to see if I can get it to breed true. If not I'll be getting columbianrocks. These were a mistake. I do have a silly question . Some of the baby look like pure barred rocks and pure white rocks what's the chance they have color hiden. there's a...
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    Columbian Rock Thread!!!!

    So these aren't true Columbian rocks they are some type of my plymoth rocks that mixed.. but I was trying to find out how the genetics happened and someone pointed me this way. I think the coloring and patters amazing.. mine are mixed from a white or barred roo over a white or buff or barred...
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