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  1. ChickenHermit

    Need advice on jury rigging an incubator ASAP

    I am have a hard day as a chicken keeper. I had a hen sitting on eggs; a calm japanese bantam. She was doing the broody pose and growls, but otherwise calm. She's on day 21 today, and right on schedule this morning, I heard peeping. I peeked under her and saw an egg hatching. When I went to...
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    Reasons Why You Shouldn't Keep Just One Goose

    This is awesome! And a useful thing to be able to link to. My local feed store gets goslings in once a year from Metzer (I believe) and always has a sign up that they will only sell a minimum of 2 at a time, which is awesome. And how I ended up with geese again... ;)
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    Donut

    I have a dilute EE named Eclair! She's part of what we call the breakfast flock- all named after breakfast foods. My point is, pastries make excellent chicken names. ;)
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    Adding to the flock

    With chickens and a kiddo in the mix, it might be good to get one of the calmer, friendlier breeds- perhaps pilgrims? They're a heritage breed, not too big, and pretty friendly. I've also had good luck with Toulouse being friendly. I have brown chinese and african right now, and they're...
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    Adding to the flock

    What is in your flock now?
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    Solved Alert Challenged

    Mostly. Now and then (maybe once a week?) they vanish for a couple hours but come back.
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    What breed cockerel

    If they're light sussex (white with black tails and black on their neck), then not with this fellow. For sex-linking with him, you would need a yellow or reddish hen- something like a buff orphington or a rhode island red.
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    What breed cockerel

    His plumage looks like he's got lacing genes going on, and he's definitely silver. Because silver is co-dominant, you can actually produce sex-linked babies if you cross him with a red or buff hen- you would get all silver female chicks, and all yellow/"golden" males.
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    New to Geese....

    So glad you've been able to give them a good home, and they're responding to the food-bonding! My geese are both picky and spoiled, and will only eat *specific* types of lettuce. Ridiculous creatures! :rolleyes:
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    2018 Babies!

    I was given an incubator for Christmas, and set a batch of eggs from my mixed bantam flock on Jan. 1. These were the results: I'm now having a lot of fun trying to figure out parentage. These are all results of a mixed flock of silkies, cochins, silchins, japanese bantams, and D'Uccles...
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    January Hatch-a-long 2018

    Yeah...I totally ended up camped out next to the brooder there for a while which the hatching as going on. :rolleyes:
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    January Hatch-a-long 2018

    Just to chime in again: 3 out of 5 of my chicks are half to three quarters silkie.
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    January Hatch-a-long 2018

    Mine didn't start pipping until day 21, and it took until day 23 to hatch. You're still on track! The waiting is the hardest part.
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    January Hatch-a-long 2018

    Just got portraits of my final two:
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    January Hatch-a-long 2018

    My final results are in! Of the five eggs I set, three hatched 1/21, two hatched 1/22, and the final hatched early this morning, 1/23. I'm amazed I got a 100% hatch for my first time with an incubator! Pretty awesome way to start my birthday, I've got to say. So happy! :celebrate:woot:wee
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    January Hatch-a-long 2018

    I know it's important to be very, very cautious about helping a chick out. There's a good set of instructions on that in the articles section here (just as a heads up- some graphic images): https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/step-by-step-guide-to-assisted-hatching.64660/
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    January Hatch-a-long 2018

    I would guess give the egg a shot, and wait to see if it needs assistance when it gets to hatch time? I'm not an expert, but that would be my intuitive response, based on everything I've read about assisting. Hopefully someone else will come along who knows more!
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    January Hatch-a-long 2018

    I love your silver birchen roo there- he's gorgeous! I'm also a big fan of cochins- cochins and cochin mixes make up the majority of my flock. They have such wonderful personalities, and so many colors! Hope you get many girls with your young ones.
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    Probably a dud?

    I got a set of 5 chickens this past april- so about the same age as yours. 4 of the 5 started laying this fall, but the fifth didn't start laying until two weeks ago. Sometimes they're just slow to mature.
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    January Hatch-a-long 2018

    I'm always amused when you can see the traits so early. :)
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