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    Thermometer/Hygrometer (Govee mini) Question!

    I just got my first Govee mini for my NR360. I’ve had 2 successful hatches in it so far (3 using the same brand, but 2 in this specific incubator). Both hatches have been on time, with chicks emerging day 21. 19/19 chicks, and then 11/13 with one quitting early and one that was malpositioned...
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    Bread/Pastry Themed Hatch-a-long!

    Hey y’all! I’m hatching again. Maybe I have a problem but there are worse things to do in my spare time, right?! I took some ideas for a theme, and someone mentioned bread/pastries and I actually thought some fun and cute names could come from that! They can be breads/pastries from around the...
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    Pretty Rooster - any guesses on breed?

    Hi! This is sort of a “just for fun”post, but I’m also curious because I thought he was quite striking and beautiful. If he’s a recognizable breed that would be nice - I definitely wouldn’t mind having one like him in the future! But if he’s probably just a mix, well, then I’ll have to just...
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    Another Hatch-a-Long! Western Theme - Yeehaw!

    That’s right, I’m literally right back at it, less than a week after my last hatch! :oops: Another family wanted 12 chicks, so here I am hatching more! I will be hatching them at home, and all eggs are from my own chickens, now that most are laying again. I am actually quite excited to see some...
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    Mrs. Viss' Classroom Hatch-a-Long!

    Hi all! I haven't been as active on BYC lately as I have been in the past. However, I am doing my annual hatch-a-long with my class, which is my favorite project! I won't be keeping any chicks but several of my students will be (provided we have a successful hatch!) I will be setting 18 eggs...
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    Strange egg, the shell sounds like metal? Video included!

    So this is a new one for us! I collected eggs yesterday. Our young pullets have just started laying within the last two weeks or so. I know to expect odd eggs, shell-less, double yolkers, etc, but this is a whole new experience. I'm not really concerned about it, but found it fascinating, and I...
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    Rooster is perfect to all hens, except one?

    Hi all. I will try to give as much context as possible here, I’ve never experienced this degree of targeting. Our flock consists of 3 older hens, 6 pullets and one young rooster (5 months). He is the son of our original rooster Hawkeye and we kept him out of all the boys because he had the best...
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    Silkies - pullets or cockerels?

    Hey y’all! These aren’t my birds, I’ve never kept silkies personally, but a friend of mine is starting her first flock. She bought all “pullets” from her local feed store, and we know how that goes. I had to tell her that one of her buff orpingtons is indeed a cockerel, as is one of her barred...
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    Hopeful Newbie to Showing Chickens

    Hi all! I am very interested in showing chickens as a hobby. None of my current birds are show quality (some crossbreeds, and the rest are hatchery stock). I'm having a hard time finding a "how-to" or figuring out what essentials to know before getting started. The best advice I've found is to...
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    Help please! Buff Orp. X Speckled Sussex 4.5 weeks, both cockerels? Pictures included.

    My struggles continue. I hatched out 6 eggs from my flock, 4 were BO x SL Wyandotte, sex linked, 3 white males and one red female. 2 were BOx speckled Sussex, hoped both were female but one of them quickly seemed to be male with a large pink comb at 3 ish weeks(see photo comparison). However...
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    Chick not thriving, tried to offer yolk slurry

    I got some pullets yesterday. One of them, my blue australorp, was teetering, really wouldn’t lay down, and was not eating or drinking at all while her siblings were. She also appeared to be chirping frequently, but very little if any noise would come out. Her wings were very droopy from the...
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    BO x Speckled Sussex chicks 3 weeks old, is one a cockerel?

    We hatched 6 eggs from our flock after they were taken out by neighbor dogs. 4/6 were BO x SL Wyandotte and were sex linked (3 were boys, 1 was a girl, one didn’t hatch and was a girl of course!) 2 were BO x speckled Sussex. I was hoping both are female so I can keep as many as possible. I’m...
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    Hopeful Hatch Grow-along

    Here is where I will post pictures and updates of the 6 chicks that hatched from the 7 eggs of my original flock, killed by neighbors dogs. I'm over the moon to have some of their babies to raise. Two are Buff Orp x Speckled Sussex (orange with no markings) and 4 ended up being (I believe) Buff...
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    Buff Orpington Roo x Silver Laced Wyandotte chicks! Sex-linked?

    So we hatched out some eggs from our flock and I ended up with three (maybe four) that I know are Buff Orp Roo x our Silver Laced Wyandotte hen. Everything I have read about this pairing says they should be sex linked, but I can’t find anything with pictures of chicks or solid enough...
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    Humidity Dropped randomly overnight in Nurture Right 360 during lockdown!

    Hi everyone, my incubator is in my classroom and today is day 20 which should be exciting. My humidity has held at exactly 70% for days 18 and 19, it was 71% when I left for the day around 3:30pm yesterday. I came in this morning at 6:45 am and it had dropped to 46% overnight randomly! Can't...
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    Humidity in Nurture Right 360 Question!

    I am on day 18 of a dry hatch in my Nurture Right 360. I have been slowly adding water to the chambers, and waiting 10-15 minutes to see what happens. It has slowly gone up from 29% to 66% in the last hour that I've been working on this. I am going slowly as this is my first hatch and I do not...
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    Hopeful Hatch-a-Long

    (I posted this in the wrong location the first time. Sorry!) The short of it, we had a devastating start to our week with two neighborhood dogs breaking into our backyard and killing our chickens. We had only one survivor and we didn’t know it until she came clucking back into our yard in the...
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    Hopeful Hatch-A-Long

    The short of it, we had a devastating start to our week with two neighborhood dogs breaking into our backyard and killing our chickens. We had only one survivor and we didn’t know it until she came clucking back into our yard in the evening looking for a place to roost. After weeping over our...
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    Incubating & Hatching Eggs for the first time - A few questions!

    Hi there! I am a fourth grade teacher, and each year we study birds. I always thought it would be fun to hatch eggs in class, and this year we added a rooster to my flock and based on what I'm seeing from the eggs I consume he is doing his job well. I have read through the sticky thread about...
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    Integrating Pullets and a cockerel to Existing Flock

    Hi there, So, back in March I purchased 4 chicks to add to our existing flock. One turned out to be a cockerel, which we will be keeping. They are about 8 weeks old now, and we have them in a separate coop and run out in the yard with our older girls (4 two year old hens). We let them out for...
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