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  1. Ranger 45

    My eggbox supprise!!!

    Yeaster day was a hot humiday in the south and so i didnt bother to check for eggs till about an hour before sunset. So i went about my normal routine and feed the girls and then watered then. In my egg boxes i have some golfballs painted brown to stop them from eating their eggs. When i lifted...
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    Day 21 No Chicks

    What is the absolute latest a living chick will hatch?
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    Day 21 No Chicks

    It is now day 21 for my chicken eggs that were fertile. On day 8 i could see little chicks in 4 of em. I cant believe they havent even peeped yeat. I turned them 3 times a day and never missed turning them and the temp was always around 98. I stopped turning on the 18 day. So what happened? are...
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    fast incubator ideas

    Here is my incubator. Sorry i ive benn working all day and just decided to call it quits. here i have put a small pice of wood on the foil to stop the wind from blowing it off. It is critical to place the lamp where it wont touch anything for it may catch fire. Notice i also put a cleaned...
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    Air rifle help

    Quote: x2 put a silencer on it
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    fast incubator ideas

    Quote: Will do. Also i keep mine in my garage and on cool nites i put a pice of alminum foil over the glass. I have subscribed to this post so when i get any results i will post on it. So keep an eye out for it and good luck
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    fast incubator ideas

    my incubator is an old coler that i took the top off of. if u were to take a top and didide into thirds that 2/3 is covered by a paine of glass and the other third is the old lamp. I then covered the lamp portion with alminum foil. for air flow i just slide the pice of glass back and forth...
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    Will this kill my chicks???

    I have some eggs that due to hatch sterting on the 11th of this month and others a few days after. I was doing some reasearch online about what to expect when they hatch and i read they you are not suppose to turn the eggs the last 3 days or they will die. Is this true?
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    Good or Bad Eggs?

    Ok thanks i plan to keep them in the incubator as long as possible i just doent want one to explode and put all the other eggs to waste.
  10. Ranger 45

    Good or Bad Eggs?

    I am trying to hatch sexlink eggs, that are dark brown and hard to candle to begin with. My first 2 eggs are now on day 8. I have candled them since day 6 and havent seen something untill toady. Inside i can make out a dark blob with a darker blob inthe middle of the light blob. I cannot make...
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    Best way to candle eggs?

    My eggs are going on 8 days and i cant see crap when i candle em. I cant even get a light through them and i can only get like one or two little dots on them where i do.
  12. Ranger 45

    Best way to candle eggs?

    These are sexlink eggs and maby one leghorn idk who laided em but i know they gotta be fertilized because i cracked open some eggs for breakfast and they looked to be fertilized.
  13. Ranger 45

    Best way to candle eggs?

    Ive got some eggs that are now 6 days in the incubator. What is the best way to candle them? I have tried a powerful led flash light and a regular desk lamp, but the egg shells are to thick to see through correctly.
  14. Ranger 45

    Fart egg

    Well it looks like u may have what ive refer to as a pullet hen. They just naturally lay small eggs that are about the size of a robin egg. Thats all that particular hen(s) will ever lay.
  15. Ranger 45

    Himidity?

    well i took an old cooler that its lid broke off. Its about24' by 14" and about 14" high. i put a pane of glass over a third of it so i can keep an eye on the temp. For the other third is an old lanp that is like one of the lamps in the movies when the fbi interrigates some one. I positioned it...
  16. Ranger 45

    Fertile Eggs?

    k thanks alot ive been raisin chickens all my life but im new to the hole fertilize and hatch em ur self part
  17. Ranger 45

    Fertile Eggs?

    how would i tell if i did crack one open?
  18. Ranger 45

    Fertile Eggs?

    k thanks ill keep on putin them in the incuibator
  19. Ranger 45

    Fertile Eggs?

    How long dose chicken mateing need to last for the eggs to be fertile. My rooster only sits on their backs for 3 to 5 mississippi's in counting, is this long enough?
  20. Ranger 45

    Himidity?

    Just Started incubating some eggs this after noon. what is the best way to get the humidity right in there. I for now cut the botton off a 2liter bottle and filled that with water. I placed that directly under the lamp. is there a better method? If so please share this the...
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