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    Double Post Can not remove

    Sorry slow internet double posting
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    Need a Thermometer for the incubator.

    I have a 35 egg styrofoam incubator. I am getting it ready to hatch a batch of eggs. I also have 3 digital thermometers. The three vary by a few degrees. I read the specification of a number of thermometers on line and most have a variance of plus or minus 2 degrees. That is a swing of 4...
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    Request PHOTOS of your nesting box

    It looks like 3 in the top nest. They must like them.
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    High Energy Treats for Baby Chicks ???

    What does sugar do? Does it rot their teeth like in people? . . .
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    High Energy Treats for Baby Chicks ???

    I had a hen brood a few chick in the middle of a TN winter. Temp at night is 32 to 24. They are in an unheated hen house. I want to give them some high energy treats in addition to their starter food. Since I have extra eggs, I am going to fry (scramble) a few eggs in lots of oil and add...
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    will the eggs hatch

    Let her alone. You will know in a few weeks. If you knew that none the eggs would hatch, what would you do?
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    Hawk Attack?

    I have problems with hawks. I wish I knew a way to train the hawks to only eat the Roosters. ... But the hawks seems to like the small hens best.
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    Pen and mixing with chickens

    How large an area do yours free range on. I have 8 acers that joins about 40 acres of woods and farm/hay land. I want to free range, but am worry that they will "go wild" in the "wide open spaces".
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    Request PHOTOS of your nesting box

    Here are photos of my nesting boxes make from used 5 gal dry wall pails. I drilled some small holes in the "bottom side" of the pails to drain out any rain that got into the box and large holes in the "back" for air flow. I think I need to raise the home boxes higher off the ground so I do...
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    Where do you get them?

    In the spring check craiglist or either eggs or keets.
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    When can baby chicks...

    I free range my baby chicks with a mother (or foster mother) hen. For me the question of when to let them go outside is one of $$$. I feed the chicks (and the mothers) on starter feed for a few weeks. When I let them outside with the adult flock my adult flock eats the starter feed...
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    Keets are almost six weeks

    I live in middle-TN. My keets have been free-ranging (with chickens the same age and a foster mother) since they were about 4 weeks old. They now are about 8 weeks old. They come into the coop at night and roost (on a ladder roost) with the chickens and their foster mother. I started with...
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    sexing chicks using a magnet

    Years ago before ultrasound there was a doctor that use this method to tell the sex of a unborn child. If he was wrong you did not pay for this delivery charge, but he charged twice what most other doctors in the area charged to delivery a baby. I am sure it works the same way.
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    Jumbo guineas. Questions

    1. Please explain 2. Google says Jumbos are not fertile
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    Backwashing the Pool and Chickens

    The chemicals may kill the grass in the yard, but I do not think the chickens will get enough to hurt them. When I changed the sand in my pool filter, I dumped the sand in the yard and the chickens scratched it level with the yard. No problems, I I could see.
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