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    Shipped eggs (JJMR794's) 18 are runnin around!!

    Please, get some flat marbles and dropped them into your water fountain all the way around, as they love to lie upside down in the fountain [get wet and/or drown] and once wet, thats that for the little guy. Congratulations. Its hard to remember every detail, the pro's here are so helpful to...
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    Button Quail with long droppings hanging? Is this digestive issue or

    shelleyd2008, I will post some pic's on the next occurence, it didn't look like yoke, picture thick light brown fresh wet spegetti, about hanging down about 1/4 inch...sorry for the mental picture...lol
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    Button Quail with long droppings hanging? Is this digestive issue or

    Thanks JMR794 will do...
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    Button Quail with long droppings hanging? Is this digestive issue or

    Its possible, I haven't found any, been watching for that and hair and I have two ladies here..lol. I gonna keep an eye on it and see if it looks lethergic compared to the others.
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    Button Quail with long droppings hanging? Is this digestive issue or

    Good Afternoon, I was checking on the chics and I noticed one with a long dropping hanging from its rear, is this some digestive issue or some systemic failure and the chic is dieing? Thanks for any help or guidance.
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    Please show me your brooders

    Everythings Great! I had just a tad over 60% hatch, which I consider great as it was shipped and during the winter cold. I attibute that to the excellant packaging! I was hoping to give a detail report on how many, however my youngest daughter forgot I had them seperated and when she...
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    Please show me your brooders

    Hello Everyone, Here are a few images of my custom built brooder. Please laugh, as it has a funny appearance. Its a small one, and it works great. I found this in the Craigslist Free section...Score! I removed the hinge by drilling out the rivits, then re-attached it to the right side...
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    Brood heating question for you guru's, lightless infrared heat

    Again, thanks to everyone for your help! I am going to see what I can find anything on their light vs. metabolism as I noticed a drastic change in their dropping in less than 8 hours. When I had the brooder light on 24/7 they where on a 5 minute cycle I noticed their droppings where mostly...
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    Brood heating question for you guru's, lightless infrared heat

    Just FYI for where I purchased it....online, I believe the shipping was free, and I bought and 150w model, this one is a 100w. They are said to last 5 years and this is less than 1/2 of the retail price of the ones in the bigbox retailers...
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    Brood heating question for you guru's, lightless infrared heat

    Fantastic! Thank toy everyone for your input! Yes, it's one of those heater bulbs that look like q par38 flood, no light, radiant heat, and the ceramic material makes nice instant burn scars...lol Chics are well today. Yes, I was thinking that their metabolism being much higher with 24/7...
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    Brood heating question for you guru's, lightless infrared heat

    Hello everyone, I'm trying something that I have not done before and I put up my brooding light and switched to a ceramic heater. Temps perfect, however chic activity is way down, sleep is up as compared to the brooding light, which had them on.a continous 5 minute sleep, eat, drink, play...
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    HELP!!!! WHAT DO I DO??? eggs are here, but it took a week... and

    All of these different corporations offering shipping service and they all SUCK WIND! it's a said fact to admit snail mail is superior to all the rest. I stopped using UPS as primary when they stopped caring about customer service and started pushing volume to induce growth ini order to...
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    Who's reliable to buy eggs on eBay?

    Maybe some of you shippers can explain that 50% hatch rate for shipped eggs is typical and also pretty awesome if you know how the shipping works, it's amazing any hatch at all. My last 3 purchases where all shipped USPS priority and all shipped to GA, one came from Michigan, one from Florida...
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