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    Trouble shooting failed hatch with all live at lockdown: turkeys and FCBM

    I also heard you want to lower the temperature down to 98 for hatching too much humidity and high heat is not good, you can go to http://www.porterturkeys.com/egghatchingtips.htm and that will help you out a lot
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    Anyone know where cackle"s blue Ameraucana"s come from?

    Anyone know where cackle"s blue Ameraucana"s come from? which lines ? good lines? Do anyone in the group have some from them ? pictures ? I figured if anyone knew this is the group to ask
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    Brooder heaters

    I bought both, the brinsea eco for 20 chicks, it is kind of on the small side and oh was it hard to get those legs on and after plugging it up and the chicks under it I loved it although hated that the chicks were crawling all over the top within a week so Tried putting tin foil or paper...
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    Embdems or pilgrim geese which is best?

    I think metzer farms are supposed to have some above average embdens , Its just so hard to choose Is pilgrim geese hard to get to reproduce and embdens easier I wonder?
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    Embdems or pilgrim geese which is best?

    I have some tufted buff geese , Love them, but am going to get a few more different breed of geese, and am trying to figure out which type, anyone raise both types? which do you prefer and why? is pilgrim geese hard to get to reproduce ? and emdems a lot easier? I do have kids who...
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    Not happy with this round of shipped eggs

    I have hatched out great hatches buying guinea eggs off ebay in the summer I would say a 90% hatch rate, I did make sure I bought within 500 miles or so .
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    Homemade bator " try'n it out !!!!"

    interesting.
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    Chick NAMES?????

    too many to Name and most look a like, kids have named a few like queen, ect..
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    Heritage Turkey Hatchery...opinions?

    what hatchery?
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    I need advice on dealing with a big fat murderous raccoon!

    I had what I thought was a big rat getting some of my baby chicks as some was dead with bloody eyes and some missing so put one of those large animal traps in the house, (took chicks out)baited it with boiled eggs and about midinight went out and found a large raccoon who must have pushed and...
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    Turkey Pics from my Hatch

    They are cute!! They look a lot different then the bourbon reds I hatched.
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    Best incubator?

    I bought me a eco brinsea bator , directly from them and its easy to turn the eggs just turn the whole bator, I LOVE IT>>I HAD TO BUY A SECOND ONE>>also hold around 24 eggs, so far I have had about a perfect hatch everytime minus a couple of eggs, I have hatched turkey eggs, silky eggs and...
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    What brand of incubator should I purchase?

    brinsea eco 20 is what I just bought, I did a lot of research bought a little giant had so many issues with keeping the temps right and hard work turning the eggs that I could not stand it and got rid of it and bought a brinsea and put a load of turkey eggs in and so far I have candled twice...
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    keeping 2 breeds of geese info

    Sounds good, THANKS!!
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    keeping 2 breeds of geese info

    thinking about getting tufted buffs 2 pairs (way too cute) and wanting a few pairs of pilgrims (because so easy to tell the sex) but wanting to keep them from interbreeding so if I kept them together but separated them in breeding season would that work or would I always need to keep them...
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