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    I just candled my eggs

    With my brown eggs I found that two light sources helped me. I had a homemade candler I would sit the egg on top off and a very bright LED flashlight I would have best success with from the end not on the candler. I would move the LED light around finding the best view to see what I needed to...
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    Screws and Washers ..Just wanted to tell

    If you have an air compressor with an air gun stapler that shoots 3/4 inch staples, that works well and really fast too! I put hardware cloth on my closed in section of my run (8 x 10 area) by myselft up to the roof level in about 30 minutes that way and the coons try almost every night to find...
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    My hubby hates BBQ, so what to do with these

    My favorite non-BBQ/Grilled way to cook and eat ribs are as follows: Honey/Ginger Ribs Marinate the ribs in the following for one to twelve hours (longer is better) by placing the ribs and the following in very large zip lock bags: 2 cups apple cider or apple juice 1/2 cup brown sugar 1/4 cup...
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    WANTED: Looking for maran and gold laced wyandote eggs central Texas

    nobody in the greater Austin, Waco, San Antonio (even Houston) area has Marans or Wyandote eggs for sale? How about just hatched chicks? Anyone?? PM or Email me. Thanks!
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    WANTED: Looking for maran and gold laced wyandote eggs central Texas

    If anyone has them, I am looking to buy 6 to 12 Maran or Wyandote (preferably Gold Laced) eggs (would also consider any other dark dark brown egg laying breeds) in the greater Austin/San Antonio area. If the providing party is close enough, I would like to even try and arrange picking them up...
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    How early can you put new hatched chicks in pine shavings in brooder?

    Thanks for everyone's input. They are several days old and eating/drinking very well. I just noted the picking at, and in some cases eating of some pine shavings and was not sure if I had made a mistake.
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    How early can you put new hatched chicks in pine shavings in brooder?

    I just finished my first hatch of eggs from my small flock. 16 of 19 made it through in my hand made incubator and hatched out Friday night and Saturday. My question now is when am I able to place them in pine shavings in their brooder? Right now they are on paper towels. My concern is that...
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    When do roosters start to crow?

    Mine usually starts around 3:00 am for some strange reason. Back to the question however - my experience has been whenever they feel the urge. My first rooster - a RIR began to crow (try to actually) at 8 weeks - and my latest mutt rooster (who we thought was a hen for 7 weeks and the girls...
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    Bread Box Incubator

    I tried several bulbs - wound up with a 40 watt clear oven bulb working best...but I had to have a fan in between the bulb and the eggs so as to not have direct heat build too fast on the eggs closest to the bulb. All other bulb wattages made temps rise too fast or else made temps way too wild...
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    Bread Box Incubator

    I have a second false floor that will go in above the light and fans, that will be inserted quickly as hatch day arrives. The turning mechanism comes out then. It is installed with the mindset of being able to convert for hatch day.
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    Bread Box Incubator

    speckledhen What worked for me in the cooler incubator was to not put the thermostat up high, cover my cooler lid with blankets (the lid is typically the least insulated part of the cooler) and to have a high rate of air circulation inside the cooler. There is an air thermal layer inside that...
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    Bread Box Incubator

    The water wiggler is for simulating the interior temp of the egg - which you want to be as close to 99.5 degrees as you can keep it. Buy a thermometer with an external probe - put the probe in the water wiggler (picked these up from the dollar store and KB Toys). Helps with making sure you are...
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    Bread Box Incubator

    Shawn I have a recommendation that might help. I made my own incubator as well using plans found on the forum plus some inovation of my own and I am currently in day 15 incubating 19 eggs from my 4 hens. Temp inside rolls from 97 on the low end to 102 on the high. All my eggs are fine - its...
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    Anyone want to do test run of hatching eggs?

    Please count me in for a future small batch if possible - say shipping around April 6th? I am just finishing up a batch in the incubator now. Would you consider a run of 6 eggs. Thanks!
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    New to chickens - sick flock - need advice please

    Let me thank everyone in advance. I have enjoyed lurking these forums through my decission to get chickens and all of you and your wonderful experiences, tales, and examples of how and what to do made my decission for me to join the chicken club. With that said, I need your help for this...
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