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    I'm going on an adventure!

    I've Let Pip and Helena out into the big pen after letting them out for 'a bit' the last couple of days. I sat out with them for a couple of hours and now I'm periodically checking the Blink cam to make sure things are okay. I had to close off their coop and pen as the Big Girls were going in...
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    Sapphire Gem Egg or…?

    Between twenty and twenty-one weeks. But my last flock of Legbar and Legbar crosses were thirty-one weeks before they started to lay. So, you might have quite a wait! But I hope not. Rain is the one that's laying, she's the first one in this photo.
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    Sapphire Gem Egg or…?

    At the moment, about every 3rd day. I collected her 4th egg today. At least one of my others should be laying within the next week to ten days.
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    Sapphire Gem Egg or…?

    Yes, none of those are from Cream Legbars. This is cream legbar: In my experience, at least for the Legbars I've had, they lay a sort of a light teal rather than what I would call a true blue. Although this may be subject to change as only one of my four is laying as yet.
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    I'm going on an adventure!

    Well! Rain figured it out :) . The one with the "x's" is the ceramic egg, so I can tell the difference.
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    Manual turners: how are we holding our eggs?

    The reason I quantified with how the incubator is designed. Computer fans are cheap, so I would assume forced air. And, here's a thought, on humidity issues, doing a dry incubation for the first couple of weeks after which as you point out turning (or tilting) either one wouldn't be as necessary...
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    I'm going on an adventure!

    Along with the frozen 3L ex-cranberry juice jug I put in the big waterer two or three times a day, I've also been putting one in the nestbox area of Pip and Helena's coop. I put a flake of straw in there, mostly just to differentiate it from the main coop area, but I thought it might be a good...
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    Manual turners: how are we holding our eggs?

    I think at least part of the answer might depend on the design of the incubator itself. Just a guess, but it seems to me the absolutely simplest thing would be to put them in egg cartons and tilt the incubator itself (45°?) however many times per day. That would keep you from having to open it...
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    I'm going on an adventure!

    Welp, went by Tractor Supply this morning to pick up feed, and checked out the chicks as per usual (no, I didn't succumb!) and I did see that they've got the Cinnamon Queens in with the bantams so that's one thing absolutely verified. I suspect they may all come from the hatchery like this and...
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    Never had a broody hen

    I suspect it's more a matter of mass. An ant can fall a hundred feet and not be bothered, an elephant would go splat.
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    Asphalt drive too hot?

    Can you just asphalt the drive and gravel the courtyard? Geogrid, or Permeable Paving.
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    I'm going on an adventure!

    Amber, the nosiest of the bunch, checking out the new coop. Helena and Pippin have settled in. One thing I do not like about this coop is the lack of ventilation. Not long after I took this picture, I ripped the plastic off the "window" and stapled on a piece of hardware cloth. Other than...
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    I'm going on an adventure!

    Coop came yesterday evening (after FedEx had said "delayed" and "rescheduled", but that's another story,) and I spent the morning with Mr. RoseHawke's assistance assembling it. Assembly went very smoothly which pleased me no end. I think the worst flat pack we ever put together was a computer...
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    Brooder size

    Some chicks are just nuts. I've got two 8-week chicks in a 16 square foot pet play pen, and they make use of every square inch occasionally running amok.
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    I'm going on an adventure!

    The Pippin Floof is 8 weeks old today.
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