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    New to Chickens Need Advice on a Coop

    I have found that recycling materials is cost effective you can look at building supply stores and see if they have any wooden crates wooden pallets which makes a great base for the fencing of a chicken run.you stand them up and nail together and use a thicker and wider piece of wood as a base...
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    Winter is Coming! Checklists, tips, advice for a newbie

    I live in Michigan and as we don't get as much snow as people out east do but we do get cold.I only have a few birds so I was able to build a small coop that can be picked up and moved.so in the winter I move my girls into what I call their winter home which is a green house with raised garden...
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    need help badly

    yes he didnt make it so should i put a wet sponge in there as well as the water wells in the incubator
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    need help badly

    well i keep the spots the incubator for water filled and it is still in a little sack so i will watch it and if it doesnt make it i will have learned more for next time
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    need help badly

    yes it bled but not sure where the little bit came fromit was moving and peeping i am not going to touch any of them unless they leak i am so bummed out because the first batch of eggs i had i bought fertile and the gentleman i bought them from had them in the frig in his store and none of them...
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    need help badly

    ok so i am on my second batch of eggs this time i rented a rooster so i could use my on girls eggs i dated every egg as to when the where collected now they are brown eggs so i have a hard time seeing inside when i candled. i can smell a cople bad ones so the ones that where due to hatch on the...
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    someother chickies eggs

    i have one who is sitting on them most of the time but not during the day i am thinking i should probably get an incubator its just that i dont plan to make a habit out of hatching this was a one time deal cause a freind of mine wanted more hens and my kids wanted to get to see the start process...
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    someother chickies eggs

    ok i am new at this and i bought 12 fertile eggs from local buisness. i was told to put the eggs in the nest and i marked each one so i would know what was what i have llost 2 of the fertile eggs to smashing and my girls are still laying but not staying on the eggs during the day my one hen has...
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    Can anyone tell me? I have a hen who is setting,

    can you have a hen get off too much that the eggs suffer
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    Incubating and hatching in egg cartons?

    ok i am very new at this and i cant have a rooster where i live so i bought 12 fertilized eggs and was told to set them in the nest i have a hen who is sitting but i have lost 2 of the fertile eggs to smashing and my girls keep laying should i buy another nest or hatch eggs another way?
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