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  1. phrogg

    Hiland Naturals feed

    Just wondering what type of experience/ info about the company is out there. I have been using them for a while and have heard conflicting reports about some of their business practices. Surely some of you are using this feed, let's hear what you think!
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    Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

    I received 15 blacks and 10 lavs from John Blehm about 2 weeks ago. This is my first time owning true ameraucanas. They are about two weeks old at the moment and SUPER flighty. I have other birds just about a week older from my mixed flock that are calm as can be, but these ameraucanas freak...
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    48 hour long hatch?? Advice please!!! (first time hatching)

    home from work and still no more pips. The one that was peeping last night did not make it. I opened up the egg after jarring the bator a little and hearing no peep. The membrane was a little dry, chik was obviously expired upon removal from shell. My guess is that the rest of the eggs are...
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    48 hour long hatch?? Advice please!!! (first time hatching)

    So.... this is one part of the process I guess I kinda forgot to research.... I guess I had 17 eggs set in the bator. Beginning saturday morning they started hatching, and the last one (of 12 chicks) hatched yesterday (sunday) morning. All chicks went to the brooder yesterday evening. There...
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    First Hatch, Homemade Bator, (Update: Hatching! on 04-03-2010 PICS!!!)

    My EEs came from Ideal Hatchery, all were chipmunk at chick stage if I remember correctly. My hens are 4 barred rocks and 14 EE's. The EE hens are a variety of colors, from wild type, and other things I don't know the name of.... silver lookin ones, red heads with brown bodies, light brown...
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    First Hatch, Homemade Bator, (Update: Hatching! on 04-03-2010 PICS!!!)

    11 out of 17 so far, black ones, a black one, a black one with a white belly, black ones with white wing tips, a chipmunk one, a mottled brown/red looking one (not really "mottled" but you know), and a couple whitish ones. No yellow chicks. I wonder what you can tel about adult plumage from...
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    First Hatch, Homemade Bator, (Update: Hatching! on 04-03-2010 PICS!!!)

    man, hatching can be a little nerve racking huh? I think there are six chicks hatched now... several more pipped, some visibly rocking back and forth. I know it has been less than 11 hours since I saw the first chicks, but it sure does seem like everyone else is taking a long time to hatch. I...
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    First Hatch, Homemade Bator, (Update: Hatching! on 04-03-2010 PICS!!!)

    2 chicks running around... 1 zipped half way... 3 or four more pipped... I guess it must have been a little warmer in there than I thought they are from a flock of EE's with a few barred rock hens... the first two chicks out are black, very different than the EE chipmunk chicks, I can't...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    14/18
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    First Hatch, Homemade Bator, (Update: Hatching! on 04-03-2010 PICS!!!)

    Hah! I just realized we go into lockdown on April fools day. I hope that turns out alright. Everything is looking pretty dark in those eggs... I think I have a "yolker" though... It's mostly clear with just a round dark spot opposed to the others that look mostly dark except the air sac...
  11. phrogg

    Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

    It's almost here, ship date for chicks from Blehm, and really, I don't care much what color they are. I can get some blueberries to eat them with if they are not blue enough
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    First Hatch, Homemade Bator, (Update: Hatching! on 04-03-2010 PICS!!!)

    they are developing fine.. we can see the little legs in one of them that is pretty easy to see through... still cant see in the green eggs, even with a 3 LED light. We're keeping our fingers crossed!
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    New non-GMO mash with pro-biotics.../ feeder issue

    My birds have consumed about twice the normal feed weight in the past week. That is gonna have to drop down signifigantly...
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    First Hatch, Homemade Bator, (Update: Hatching! on 04-03-2010 PICS!!!)

    Candled tonight Saw all kinds of developing emryos and veining. My light is only 1 led and i think could stand to be brighter. I cannot really see anything more than a dark spot in my green/blue eggs. I think the shell just needs more light to penetrate and unveil the veining and what not...
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    New non-GMO mash with pro-biotics.../ feeder issue

    FYI, drilling more holes in the hanging feeder to adjust the gap worked beautifully.
  16. phrogg

    New non-GMO mash with pro-biotics.../ feeder issue

    I appreciate the feeder comments.... we just have to all remember to support what we believe in.... you can't want healthy food for your community and yourself if you sell pies made with ingredients from save-a-lot at the local market. There is a fella by me right now who has a SARE grant to...
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    First Hatch, Homemade Bator, (Update: Hatching! on 04-03-2010 PICS!!!)

    Temps are holding strong, I never did calibrate my hygrometers, hopefully they're right and hopefully my actual humidity is alright. I would post an update on the eggs progress but you know, I don't figure they've made much right now...hehe I'll candle here sometime and post some pictures...
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    New non-GMO mash with pro-biotics.../ feeder issue

    I googled the things i listed in the ingredients above(fermentation extracts and such)... didn't find much, does someone have a source of info on the specific ones i listed in the first post? I was worried because the eggs I got the past couple days were tiny, but they are back up to size...
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    First Hatch, Homemade Bator, (Update: Hatching! on 04-03-2010 PICS!!!)

    One thermomter will range from 99 - 102. Another hits 97.2- 100.8 That awesome pawpaw glass in there is my simulated egg. I rolled up a gallon ziplock, stuck it down in the cup, placed my thermometer probe in the middle of the roll and filled the bag. It seems that would be a good indicator...
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    First Hatch, Homemade Bator, (Update: Hatching! on 04-03-2010 PICS!!!)

    My homemade "lame water heater thermostat" incubator has been rockin steady with my simulated egg temp right at 99.4/99.5 Humidity stays right around 50-55%. Adding a larger tray bumps it up towrd 70% humidity. It's been on it's test run for about three weeks now. I put 18 nice eggs from...
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