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  1. Stingrayg4

    Home made incubator - now with hatching pics!

    Yes, I turned them by hand. This morning still only ten had hatched so I took the chicks from yesterday out of the incubator. Once they start to get too rowdy I'm afraid they'll trample any late hatchers. One hatched this morning. One died overnight trying to hatch. There are still two...
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    Home made incubator - now with hatching pics!

    Quote: Thanks! The reason this incubator has that huge window on the front is entirely for the purpose of taking pictures. Trying to take pictures inside a Little Giant (the only other incubator that I have experience with) is an exercise in frustration. Ten have hatched now, one looks like...
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    Home made incubator - now with hatching pics!

    One more hatched while I was outside watering the garden. Six more to go. -S
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    Home made incubator - now with hatching pics!

    Quote: Not yet, but I've only been home for about 30 minutes. Three of them are really working on it. -S
  5. Stingrayg4

    Home made incubator - now with hatching pics!

    Quote: We'll see. So far it's looking good. Most of the remaining eggs have pipped. The rest may have pipped on bottom and I can't see it. They're not even supposed to start hatching until late tomorrow afternoon, so I'm still pretty optimistic about the ones that haven't hatched yet. -S
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    Home made incubator - now with hatching pics!

    Had to leave the house for a bit, just got back to find that I now have a total of eight that have hatched. -S
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    Home made incubator - now with hatching pics!

    #3 -S
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    Home made incubator - now with hatching pics!

    Number two just hatched. I thought that all of the white eggs were the same mix, but this one looks like it might have a different daddy than the other one. I think the mix here is 1/2 speckled sussex, 1/4 white leghorn, 1/4 rhode island red. -S
  9. Stingrayg4

    Please please can anybody help me feel less guilty.

    They don't all make it, that's just the way it goes. That one probably wouldn't have hatched or not lived long if it did. Nothing to feel guilty about. -S
  10. Stingrayg4

    Day 29.... no chicks

    If we're talking about chickens I think I'd give it up and toss them before they explode. -S
  11. Stingrayg4

    Fresh Nuggets!!!

    It's the big day for me too, only instead of hatching late, mine are hatching early. Good luck with yours! -S
  12. Stingrayg4

    Home made incubator - now with hatching pics!

    Quote: This batch is as barnyard mix as it gets. I believe that one is 1/4 white leghorn, 1/4 speckled sussex, and 1/2 banty columbian wyandotte. -S
  13. Stingrayg4

    Home made incubator - now with hatching pics!

    Never was able to source any local turkey eggs. Gave up and put some of my chicken eggs in it instead because I just had to find out how well it would work. These pics are of the first one to hatch, all of the remaining white eggs have pipped, a few of the brown ones have too. This is day 20...
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    Raising only roosters?

    That's how raising fighting roosters used to be done back when it was legal here in Oklahoma. Used to see places everywhere like that. Luckily the practice has been outlawed and those places have all disappeared. There's possibly another legitimate reason for raising roosters this way, but if so...
  15. Stingrayg4

    Egg Inside an Egg!

    Crazy! Thanks for sharing. -S
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    my young rooster just killed my old rooster

    Quote: HA! I've had the old rooster kill a young one, but never the other way around. Nature can be brutal. Circle of life and so on. -S
  17. Stingrayg4

    Haven't laid eggs in 2 weeks? WE HAVE EGGS!!!

    Quote: Im not 100% sure about snakes, all we have around here are guarder snakes, and even those are far and few between? Ill keep an eye out for snakes though. Just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there. Snakes are everywhere. -S
  18. Stingrayg4

    Sage is sitting it out

    She's definitely broody. Give her some eggs, she'll do the rest. -S
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    Haven't laid eggs in 2 weeks? WE HAVE EGGS!!!

    Could be a snake eating your eggs. -S
  20. Stingrayg4

    When does "rooish" behavior begin?

    Quote: Agreed completely. Sometimes hens are six months or older before they start laying. I've seen rooster behaviors start very early. I had a five week old boy trying to crow, funny little squeaky peeping noise he was making, but it was obvious that he was crowing. I've had similarly young...
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