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    How bad is uneven humidity through incubation?

    Thanks for your help and info.
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    How Do I Manage Flies?

    Another way to get those sleeping flies, shopvac them, then spray insecticide into nozzle and no flailing round in close quarters among your sleeping flock.
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    How Do I Manage Flies?

    I put tomato cages cut in half, to eliminate problems with the extra height, falling over from a chicken trying to perch or snagging on my clothes..about 2 feet tall covered in poultry netting on the sides only...lemon balm and mint doing great. So far they haven't realized they can get in at...
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    How bad is uneven humidity through incubation?

    Hi, thought I'd share how I control humidity during incubation..I use a Little Giant still air incubator...only had one hatch so far...terrible time controlling humidity..Central Arkansas has high humidity anyway...struggled with highs all through the incubating period with only 17 of 29 making...
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    How Do I Manage Flies?

    When I raised cornish cross chicks a couple of years ago...eat and poop machines, I hung fly strips that I bought at the co-op. I used them in my coop as well, but I did have a chicken get tangled during a fracas..only time I had a fly problem.
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    Heating pad for incubator?

    Good morning, sun is shining and the chickens are knee high in clover, so a good morning. I've got a barred rock hen setting on too many eggs, I want to incubate the ones that she leaves when she leaves with the early hatchers. Can you share with me how you have you home made incubator set up...
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