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    Broody Hen

    Same hen went broody two years ago and I tried moving her and she immediately stopped hatching.
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    Broody Hen

    I recently had one of my girls go broody, I do not have a Rooster so I secured some fertile eggs and placed them under her. She seemed to be satisfied but now the other 4 hens try and use the same nest to lay their eggs and right now I have 2 hens on the same nest with the broody hen. they are...
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    Aggressive Hen

    I would have gotten rid of her but she lays nice green eggs.
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    Aggressive Hen

    I have 5 hens and one of them is acting like a rooster, she bites the other hens and tries to mount them like a rooster. How do I stop her from being so aggressive?
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    Broody hens

    I have two hens who are both broody on the same set of eggs. They both are on the eggs at the same time and on top of that, the other 3 hens crawl in on top of the two hens and lay their eggs. What if anything should I do?
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    Second chicken dead same symptoms as first

    I incubated 4 chicks about 8 months ago and lost one chick at about 6 months, symptoms are not being able to walk and eventually dies today another died with the same problem. Any advice would be appreciated.
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    Humidity and Temperature

    I'm no expert but in my opinion don't do anything to severe till they improve or die. I hatched 6 out of 13 several months ago with a totally handmade setup and several looked terrible the first 2 to 3 days but over night they bounced back and now are young birds doing great. Better for them to...
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    2 week old chicks

    Okay just hatched my first batch on chicks from my homemade Incubator 5 of them out of 13 eggs and about 2 weeks old , moved them to outside coop I made for them, nights are about 72 degrees and days upper 90s. I know it seems soon but they seem happy and have stayed outside for 4 days and...
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    First batch of eggs with home built Incubator!

    I actually have a fan ready to install for the next batch thanks for the response..
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    First batch of eggs with home built Incubator!

    I have 5 eggs hatched so far and sure that is all I will get. Last one pipped and then didn't progress for 12 hrs so I decided to help it and it is now out resting and cheeping up a storm...5 out of 13 is okay with me sure learned a lot so next hatch will be better I am sure.
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    First batch of eggs with home built Incubator!

    Here are results of my first try at incubating 13 eggs with my home built Incubator, I'm thinking I did a lot of things wrong such as turning the eggs every time I passed by the incubator, my auto controls did a great job returning the temps and Humidity to set pts. Set the temps at 100 degF...
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    First batch of eggs with home built Incubator!

    Yes I am getting excited about first candling just hope I have some kind of developing embryo, thanks for the advice will see what candling shows and make adjustments based on that. If I have defined webs and dark spots on majority I will just let it run as is.
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    First batch of eggs with home built Incubator!

    Mixed variety of eggs, white eggs ,several green and the rest brown. I have a fan that I use to lower humidity and if needed I can add water so it raises humidity. I keep room there are in air conditioned and can keep humidity to a level I can control. It is all experimental at this time and...
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    First batch of eggs with home built Incubator!

    Okay after months of research and some original design work I finally put my first batch of 13 eggs in home built incubator. Temp setting is 100degF and Humidity is set at 50%. Control is by electronic temp controller and Arduino Micro processor programmed to control Humidity by cycling fan...
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    Chicken eating eggs

    I have always had problems with very thin egg shells from 3 out of my 5 hens. Lately I am noticing broken eggs and obviously the inside eaten. Not sure if the eggs break as they are layed then they are eaten or they are broken on purpose and then eaten. And what advice can you give to stop egg...
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