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  1. PhantomSlayer

    My experience joining 6 week olds with 3 year olds.

    Update: Still a few days short until official count of fertile eggs in the incubator, broody hen still on 12. Haven't candled as I want to only do it once or twice if possible. Only had to remove a fresh egg a few days ago. I'm checking under her roughly every other day as thats when she comes...
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    My experience joining 6 week olds with 3 year olds.

    I went based off of how the flock acts. Their usually fairly tolerant of me doing anything around them. I've even taken our housecat out with a leash and harness and set her in the run while I did morning bird chores. They weren't to alarmed despite never seeing her before. I think part of it is...
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    My experience joining 6 week olds with 3 year olds.

    Guess I'm hatching more this year... Wasn't planned but when broody goes broody you gotta take the chance XD
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    My experience joining 6 week olds with 3 year olds.

    Pictures of our EE's from last winter.
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    My experience joining 6 week olds with 3 year olds.

    Yeah I started putting them in around 3-4 weeks old but I always had to remove the runt because she was in a predator mode. But the chick as well was doing it so it became a hassle so I mainly did it once a week for a couple hours. I'm finding chicks to be quite hardier than people say they are...
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    My experience joining 6 week olds with 3 year olds.

    The timing is actually pretty good because I've been considering pulling the runt out to spoil her with higher protein feed. Before the single chick came along she for some odd reason was sleeping under the roosts on the poop board and I found she was getting her feathers pulled out. Once the...
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    My experience joining 6 week olds with 3 year olds.

    I hatched out 6 out of 12 chicks using dry hatch method with my 36 egg incubator. It drove people insane because it has a low water alarm. I was gone for 2 out of 3 weeks and it was in my room and my mom said the alarm was annoying. Somehow I slept through the alarm at night. Anyways I started...
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    Brooder feed/water systems?

    Yeah its in our basement. Unfortunately that wont work for me. Later I plan on investing in the rabbit hutches with the clean out trays underneath to tweak and use for brooders. But for now I have to use what I have. So I'm sticking to what I can do cheaply and planning ways to upgrade later.
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    Brooder feed/water systems?

    I saw some people take a metal cake pan and put a cooling rack in it. Sounds like it might be worth trying.
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    Brooder feed/water systems?

    I have a metal version of that first feeder with a similar water version as well.. But it uses mason jars. Our brooder is made out of an old dresser. The front has doors with hardware cloth on the front and the top was cut out to be covered with hardware cloth for the heat lamp. Which I've...
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    Brooder feed/water systems?

    Anyone figure out how to prevent bedding in water and feed spillage? If so please share ideas. It seems since my 6 chicks reached around 3 weeks old the food is being spilled daily and its only taking a few hours before the waterer is clogged with bedding. I put them on blocks from our old...
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    First time hatching chicken eggs. First time dry hatching. Hoping for the best lol

    Update! So far 3 have hatched. The yellow (#1) were guessing Buff Orpington egg, The Greyish one (#2) EE egg and once the dark one (#3) dries cause it litterally hatched 5 minutes before the pic either Gold Lace Wyandotte or Black Australorp. There is a 4th egg pipped so we might get a 4th...
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    What to expect with back yard mixes?

    Okay thank you. Its the con to having 7 out of 8 brown laying hens lol not knowing which hen laid which. I still haven't figured it out after almost 3 years of having them. It just looks so much like a buff orpington chick. I was told EE's are basically mutts of the chicken breeds so theres...
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    What to expect with back yard mixes?

    Decided to attempt a dry hatch for future goose incubation. I don't know anything about chicken genetics and how the mix of breeds goes. The first chick has hatched today on day 19 and its got me wondering what to expect from some of our girls. I woke up this morning looked over at the...
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    First time hatching chicken eggs. First time dry hatching. Hoping for the best lol

    First chick to hatch looks all yellow. So I'm assuming its out of a buff orpington egg. Our EE hen lays green/blue egg. Our roo is said to be an americana mix but I'm just calling him an EE as well..
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    First time hatching chicken eggs. First time dry hatching. Hoping for the best lol

    Lockdown has started a tad early. Down to 8 eggs. I have to say I much prefer candling goose eggs lol. 4 out of 12 were green/blue eggs. I can't see very much in them. 3 out of 8 are those. Basically I looked for 3 things. Maintained heat, veins or movements. Those 3 I could barely see squat...
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    First time hatching chicken eggs. First time dry hatching. Hoping for the best lol

    I have a question. I've heard stories about chicks hatching on day 18. But if lockdown is day 18 would it be bad to change lockdown to late day 17? Also tomorrow is day 14 I'm gonna candle again to see if theres any quitters.
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    Two broodies, Six 3 day old chicks and I gave up playing games with one broody. Did I make the right choice?

    So in the end lots of flaws in our set up for chicks. Basically 6 is down to 1. 3 of which drowned in a water bucket I didn't think they could get into yet. So lots of things to fix before letting another broody have chicks. And that second broody who kicked out the 3 chicks before after I left...
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    First time hatching chicken eggs. First time dry hatching. Hoping for the best lol

    Sometimes things can be overlooked if were not careful.
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    First time hatching chicken eggs. First time dry hatching. Hoping for the best lol

    Update! I am home and while letting mamas have babies have failed miserably (its fixable) anyways i couldnt resist candling the 12 eggs. WOW. Only tossed one. However I am having issues with candling 4 greenish eggs.. I mean it looked like they had veins? but not 100% sure. I'll probably still...
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