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    Which Chickens to Breed

    x2 breed to all.
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    Which Incubator to get?

    Very simple set-up. However, If your using the still air (no fan), make sure the room temps remian very stable. If you use a fan, the room themp can fluctuate without messing up the incubator. My house varies from 55 degrees at night to 70 degrees during the day, and i have no problem...
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    How to build a good candler

    I use a small table lamp with a 15 watt flourescent (corkscrew looking) bulb. The bulb is not nearly as hot as a conventional bulb. I cut a hole about the size of a quarter in the bottom of a dark plastic cup and place it over the Bulb. To force all the light upward, I wrap the cup and bottom...
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    Which Incubator to get?

    Although many will curse little giant incubators, I have two of them and have great hatch rates (90+%). Holds 45 eggs. Cost $49.00 at tractor supply. Many of eggs have hatched from this still air unit. It does require some attention to detail during the incubation period, but it works fine...
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    Help with Identifying Gender, Please

    All hens.
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    breed ??s

    All apear to have yellow legs....look like leghorns to me.
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    Can I justify a LAYING flock of EEs?

    My dad crosses EE rooster with Brown leghorn hens. He keep the chicks with pea combs, muffs/beards and green legs. Makes a great flock of prolific colored (usually shades of blue) egg layers. They have a cross called a cream legbar in Europe that uses this cross and barred rock to get a...
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    Computer fan for LG

    I found a really cool laptop fan at radio shack for 10 bucks. What makes it cool is that it is clear and has 4 blue LED lights that light up the incubator. I use cut pieces of a BIC inkpin as spacers (3/4 inch works for me) and mount the fan so that the air blows up (away from the eggs) and...
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    What breed is this guy?

    Ee
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    Wing size difference

    Those look like two different breeds and different breeds devlope at different rates....They look normal to me!
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    Incubating a big egg

    I think most would say that the pefect egg to incubate would be an "average" size egg for the type chicken. I usually cull (eat) the really big and really small eggs. I incubate the average eggs.
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    EE sexing question ** PICS ADDED**

    Those two are pretty hard to judge but by comb along I would say #1 female And #2 male.
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    What kind of EE's/sex are these

    They look like ordinary EE to me. Pretty.
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    What's in YOUR 'Bator Right Now???

    50 barred rock, 43 black aussie, 7 easter eggers
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    Guess the possible breed

    Maybe a white rock or buff orph.
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