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  1. Meaola

    Dixie Rainbows Thread

    They still want to impress me...lol. I started getting an egg every other day from these pullets last week. In the last 2 days, I have now gotten 5 eggs! They are just now 19 weeks old. They have passed my Rhode Island Reds and purebred Barred Rocks, as far as start time for laying. I know they...
  2. Meaola

    EMERGENCY HELP PLEASE!!!

    I am so glad to read this this morning...Good job!
  3. Meaola

    EMERGENCY HELP PLEASE!!!

    too hot is worse than a little too cool. Do you have an outdoor thermometer?
  4. Meaola

    EMERGENCY HELP PLEASE!!!

  5. Meaola

    EMERGENCY HELP PLEASE!!!

    My broody hen left her nest with 4 chicks and 2 days later I decided to remove the rest of the eggs...I heard one chirping inside! So, I did something similar to what you are doing. I used a lamp and a box. It hatched 8 hours later and is fine (5 weeks old now and with the other chicks). But, it...
  6. Meaola

    Who else is waiting for that first egg?

    . These are from my 16 week old 2nd generation Black Stars. I hatched them in May of this year. There are 10 pullets and I got these five eggs yesterday. I was so pleased. I figured it would be next month before I started seeing any eggs from them.
  7. Meaola

    Dixie Rainbows Thread

    I am so sorry to hear about them dying. Yes, they have a hard time in the heat. I was very worried about mine this summer. I put a mister near their pen for a while and then moved them under a shade tree instead. I also bought them a couple of kitty litter boxes that I filled with water. They...
  8. Meaola

    Dixie Rainbows Thread

  9. Meaola

    Dixie Rainbows Thread

    I will have eggs in the next few months. Mine are now 17 weeks old. I have 2 roosters and 5 hens. I have been very impressed with them. Very docile birds and boy do they grow fast! Not eating any of these, but will be selling hatching eggs and chicks when I start incubating again next spring.
  10. Meaola

    Wrong end of egg pipped?

    I am back...and very excited. I have 9 Midget Whites and 20 Heritage (mixed colors) turkeys in lock down. Today is day 27. I have 4 hatched and several others piping. I have 2 that are at the wrong end of the egg? Is there anything I should watch for, or may need to help with? Here are pics of...
  11. Meaola

    She said/He said Who's right? Who's wrong? No one!

    I didnt think of that, but it is still strange that all of Ct's eggs hatched 21 and under (most of Ct's eggs hatched "early") and Donald's all hatched "late". One last thing. On lockdown day, I noticed one egg somehow got cracked while in the turner. I use the cheap Walmart fish tank...
  12. Meaola

    She said/He said Who's right? Who's wrong? No one!

    I have a question and observation for the experts here. I noticed in these two hatches, in both bators I had pips on day 19 and several hatches on day 20 and every one of these were from one rooster and his hens.(majority hatched 20 days) Both of the first ones out in each bator were big...
  13. Meaola

    Silver Grey Dorking Hatching Eggs

    Do you have any eggs still available?
  14. Meaola

    She said/He said Who's right? Who's wrong? No one!

    LOL
  15. Meaola

    She said/He said Who's right? Who's wrong? No one!

    LOL...that sounds too much like me!!! I love that the two of you can rib each other! "I kept saying...Look! they think I am their mother, they just want to cuddle and feel safe!" and "Crap, my MIDGET is getting thrown around!" I take a lot of ribbing for being too nurturing. I have cry baby...
  16. Meaola

    She said/He said Who's right? Who's wrong? No one!

    If I am correct, most of you live in a more humid climate? I am in the High Desert in southern California. I know from experience what happens to me when I travel and then come home. It is so dry here...it just seemed to me that after hatching and staying in the incubator at 75%, going straight...
  17. Meaola

    She said/He said Who's right? Who's wrong? No one!

    There is so much great info on BYC. I kind of just took what would work for me, sounded logical, and went with it. I take out the chicks after each is dry, maybe 4-6 hrs or so, and put them in a box that I have set up with clean shavings and then clean paper towels on top of that close to the...
  18. Meaola

    She said/He said Who's right? Who's wrong? No one!

    I have lurked and read both of your philosophies and techniques...and I like things about both. I just finished (well almost done with bator two hatch) incubating for the first time in 25 years with one LG 9300 still air and one 9300 with a fan kit. They have been a lot of work and worry, but on...
  19. Meaola

    So excited! Lockdown :)

    Well, I literally cried this morning!!!! It pipped about 9 am yesterday (day 28)... It made decent progress all day. I even checked it at 2 am this morning and it was starting to zip. I was sure I would wake up to my midget! NOPE! DEAD! It was not shrink wrapped, It was about 1/2 way zipped...
  20. Meaola

    Help. Sick one week old turkey poult

    This turkey is doing great, but I need your help again, please. I just got an order of chicks this morning...19 from Murray McMurray. All but the only two That are Salmon Favorelles are great. These two have runny (clear) eyes and poopy butts. One feels and acts fine. The othe does not. It will...
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