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    Agressive chick

    I have a 3 month old Jersey Giant cockerel I named Black Bart. I candled him in the egg, and he was doing aggressive martial arts a week before hatching. He started pecking me at 6 days of age, and has never stopped. He pecks at everything and everybody, and attacks any other chickens he can...
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    Is my rooster aggressive?

    I recently bought a chicken coop from a local Amish man. He told me that his two year old granddaughter literally lost an eye from being attacked by a grown rooster in her mother's chicken pen. What a horrible story! But it bears witness to the need to need to react promptly to bad...
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    Hands on hatching and help

    I did not add any air holes, and all 7 hatched normally, beginning the end of Day 19 for the first one. The last one was 14 hours into Day 21. All are healthy. I know my incubator's reading are nonsense. I had a couple of those battery powered hygrometer/thermometer I found on Amazon. I...
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    Hands on hatching and help

    I think my incubator is overly humid (57%) and it is possible my temperatures have been higher than they should be: 100.5 to 101. I had egg movement at Day 15 on two of 7 eggs, and on day 17, all eggs were moving. These are from a jersey giant rooster with a mixed of JG, barred rocks, buff...
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