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  1. cindyanne1

    Lone baby Silkie for two weeks... will he/she be okay?

    I had one Silkie hatch from the eggs I was setting, and it seems really healthy, but I'm worried because there's only the one. All of my other chickens are way too big to put with it and I don't have any broody hens at the moment. I had been hoping to hatch two or three Silkies that I would...
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    The Full Story

    ...on them. May 12, 2009: I received my new babies from My Pet Chicken.com. I LOVE THEM SO MUCH. They are so cute and helpless and soft and fuzzy! *apparently photobucket is down at the time I'm writing this... I will edit and add the pictures of the new babies when I can* May 13, 2009...
  3. cindyanne1

    Is it okay to incubate pullet eggs?

    Since I only had one chick hatch from my R-Com Mini, I wanted it to have some friends. My husband said NO MORE when it came to buying day-olds or fertile eggs (phooey, lol) but I've been getting quite a few fertile eggs from my young layers and decided to pop three of them into the Mini. These...
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    If only one chick hatches, what do you do?

    I know it's still too early to be worried, but I still only have one chick out of the three eggs I set in my R-Com Mini. We're at day 21 now, and there are no signs of life out of the other two eggs. The one hatchling I have is peeping loudly and sounds so pitiful. I haven't seen it eat or...
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    Early chick hatched... leave it or take it out of incubator?

    My R-com Mini still has one more day of incubation to go, but one of my eggs pipped yesterday and hatched last night. The other two eggs aren't doing anything at all yet, and the lil' guy is in there with them just panting and panting! The instructions for the incubator say to leave all the...
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    First fertile egg today!

    So today I got my first fertile egg... See the bulls-eye? What was funny was there was a white smear on the outside of the shell of this egg that I assumed was a bit of poo. Now I'm wondering if that's what it was! My oldest rooster isn't even three months old yet! But he's been...
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    Lolcats type macro I made yesterday!

    I couldn't resist, and made this macro from a picture of one of my chickens. It's now my desktop wallpaper, too!
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    Singing?

    I've heard about hens singing when they lay. Well, a few of mine have started to lay and all I've heard is a loud, angry-sounding BUCK BUCK BUCK BEGOCK sound, lol! Although I don't mind the sound at all (it makes me laugh, actually!) it doesn't sound like singing to me at all! So what is...
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    Is 5 ft. too high for roosts?

    I agree with the PP's... leave it as it is and add some lower roosts also.
  10. cindyanne1

    Having trouble figuring out if some eggs are fertile...

    ...the time apparently, lol. Anyway, on the lightest egg, we can see an embryo with an eye, and it's moving around. Good. On the next lightest, I *think* I see a dark spot inside and I think it *might* be moving, but I'm not sure. On the darkest egg I can't see anything inside, but I do see...
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    Our first egg today! Update! More eggs... with a surprise!!

    Shelly... of course I don't mind if you use the name Pumpkin! You're right it is a perfect name for that color! I have three red stars but they are all slightly different in coloring. The lightest one is Pumpkin... then there's one who is mottled with lots of white like her but with darker...
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    Our first egg today! Update! More eggs... with a surprise!!

    Thank you! I'm really excited... and this is only the beginning! I'm still floored over all of those double-yolk eggs!
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    Our first egg today! Update! More eggs... with a surprise!!

    Oh my gosh you guys!!! Pumpkin laid another egg today, and so did Petunia! Now get this... Petunia's egg was cracked, so I decided I'd use it right away and bake a cake since I had three eggs. I finshed cracking Petunia's egg into a bowl... It was a double yolk! Small yolks, for...
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    Our first egg today! Update! More eggs... with a surprise!!

    How could I have forgotten a picture of Pumpkin? Here she is! I tried to get her to look up at me but she was too interested in what she was scratching up, lol! And here's Petunia... the White Rock who was checking up on Pumpkin in the nest box. She was still hanging out with her...
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    Our first egg today! Update! More eggs... with a surprise!!

    We have an egg!!! I had noticed Pumpkin, one of my Red Stars, was acting oddly this morning when I went out to feed at about 9:00am. She was making loud "whining" type sounds (louder than usual) and kept climbing in and out of one of the nest boxes. She'd climb in, sit, whine, and then climb...
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    Question about R-Com Mini 3-egg incubator

    Greenwood... that's EXACTLY what the problem was!! I realized it about five minutes after I posted my question and was looking through the manual of the incubator again. So hopefully since I got the problem straightened out during the first day of incubation, things will still proceed...
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    Question about R-Com Mini 3-egg incubator

    Hi everyone! I received my R-Com Mini incubator a few days ago and today I received the fertile hatching eggs I'd ordered from My Pet Chicken in the mail, so I put them in the incubator and followed the instructions to turn it on. I might be having a problem, but I don't know. There are two...
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    Shade trees/shrubs ideas for run?

    My husband got the run/pasture fenced in yesterday and my only complaint about it is that there just isn't a whole lot of shade. There's shade from the chicken house building itself, but I'd like to plant about four trees or shrubs in there too and I'd like some ideas. Something that the...
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    Good incubator suggestions for a newbie

    Hi everyone! I don't plan to do a lot of egg-hatching (keyword being PLAN, lol... we all know how that can go though! ) but I'm thinking about buying an incubator. I want one as foolproof as possible. I don't want to have to worry about temperature, humidity, egg-turning, none of that. I...
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    Peeps Against Twilight club

    If Legolas made me some cookies, I'd totally eat them. Totally.
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