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    Will this work? Advice needed on fitting all eggs in incubator

    I have a hovabator incubator with a turner and am about to start my third hatch. I picked up two different sets of eggs and both sellers gave me extras. Certainly no complaints, but now I have more eggs than my turner can hold. I am able to fit all the eggs in using paper egg cartons and have...
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    Dry incubation and silkies/ are silkies harder to hatch?

    Going in to lockdown I had 19 silkies and 5 large fowl mixes. End of day 21 I have 11 silkies and 4 of the mixes. My first hatch I had a 100% hatch rate of all my backyard mixes. I used dry incubation for both hatches, 1st 18 days was between 15 and 20. % humidity (although I live in Oregon, so...
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    Humidity drop halfway through hatch!

    Yesterday was day 20 and by 10:30 last night 8 of the 19 eggs hatched. 2 more had pipped and hatched overnight. Humidity was around 70 or 75 when I went to sleep. I woke up and the humidity had dropped to 45 or 50. I brought it back up to 65, but is the damage done to the remaining 9 eggs...
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    Dark Grey Egg from Indian Runner duck?

    Hi everyone, I have 3 indian runner ducks that just started laying within the last week. The first eggs were white and then we got one with a green tint. Well, yesterday we got a dark grey and this morning there was another one, but lighter in color. While the picture below doesn't show the...
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    When to start lockdown?

    Hi, I set my eggs in the middle of the day on a Saturday. Lockdown is this week, but I'll be working during the day. Is it better to go into lockdown and up the humidity in the morning or evening after work? Or does it not matter either way? This is my first hatch! I candled a few days ago...
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    Is this Wry neck?!? Looks really bad!

    I have 4 silkie chicks that are about 5 -6 weeks old. I came home from work last night to find one with his head pretty tilted. Did some research on BYC and got pro-visol tonight after work. I came home and its looking worse. Does this look like wry neck, or is this something else...
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    Molting or Illness or ?

    Hello, We have 1 hen that we bought at about 1 year old when we got tired of waiting for our 10 other pullets to start to lay. A few days ago I noticed that the older hen spent all day in the coop and a lot of her feathers appeared to be on the ground. I figured she was just molting given the...
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    Hazelnuts safe for chickens?

    We have several untreated hazelnuts trees, so most of the nuts have worms. I was cracking the shells to feed the worms and they were also eating the nuts. Is that safe for chickens? Thanks!
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    Found hidden eggs - are they still safe to eat?

    Last week we had our third hen start laying and I progressively found the egg farther and farther from the nest box. I've always found the eggs completely in the open, but haven't seen one in a few days and went hunting for a secret nest. I never found a nest of the color egg I was looking...
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    Clipping wings and roosting

    My chickens are in a .3 acre paddock that is seperated from our main yard by a 5 foot fence. The last 2 weeks the barred rocks have been flying over the fence and foraging in the yard. I can't believe my dog hasn't done anything to them yet, but I don't want to keep tempting fate. Will...
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    Any tricks to keeping duck water clean?

    I got 3 Indian Runner ducklings a few weeks ago and I feel I must be doing something wrong with the water. The ducklings free-range with the chickens and have several waterers around the yard and all end up with mud in the bottom each day. It doesn't seem to matter if the water is near the...
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    RIR vs. Cochin Rooster?

    We have 13 chickens that we raised since they were chicks. 2 turned out to be roosters - the RIR and the black Cochin. Which rooster should we keep for a mixed breed flock? They are only between 4 - 5 months old and both have been moderately friendly. Is one breed better/worse to have as the...
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