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    EMU eggs for hatching!!

    Looking for 2-6 emu eggs to hatch. Please pm with the price per egg and the shipping price. My zip is 83607 if needed. Thanks!
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    Help! micro switch hits eggs not allowing me to close incubator

    I have a hova-bator with the turbo fan and I just bought an automatic egg turner. I went to put the lid back on after setting the eggs and 3 eggs hit the microswitch unit. I took them out and it closes perfect. It is the universal 41 egg hatching rack. The eggs are medium sized. I have the...
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    hova-bator egg turner making sound.

    I bought a hova-bator automatic egg turner and it makes a clicking sorta sound every time it turns I guess. Its not really a click but that the best I can explain it. I think it is the plastic making the sound, but should it be making the click sound or is there something I can do to fix it or...
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    questions about my black copper marans

    I have a friend who saved some bcm eggs for me. She has 4 bcm hens and 1 bcm rooster. and 30 other various hens. She saved me the darkest colored eggs, but apperently another hen layed dark eggs and i ended up with a yellow chick also. I have a few questions though. If a chick is only half bcm...
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    How big of a coop for 60-100 laying hens??

    I am looking into have a coop built instead of having coops all over the place. I have 60 some pullets/hens right now and would like a coop for around 75 or 100. not totally sure as to how much i will be charged. So how big of coop for say 75 and 100?? This is more a coop for roosting and...
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    peeper questions

    I have golden sexlink pullets and a few easter eggers. 3 month old. I have always had problems with golden sexlinks pecking and killing each other, no matter what. room, protein, boredom, you name it ive basically tried it. I was told to debeak them, by barely getting into the quick cauterizing...
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    my eggs chirping!!!

    Iv'e been candling this egg every day or so, trying to figure out when hatch time/ lockdown is. Well i guess today! The only problem is i have other eggs a week and 2 days still left that i have to turn. I stopped turning on monday because i knew the egg was close. today i started hearing...
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    Temperature spiked 2 degrees in the night why?

    turned the eggs last night like normal and added water. Temp was 100. It usually stays 100 but sometimes on cold mornings it is 99. It was 102 this morning. I turned it down and watched it cycle a few time to make sure it was steady. The one thing I did last night was I turned the lid one turn...
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    What would the humidity be??

    So what should the humidity be? It's a homemade bator with the fan and PVC egg turner. I have read many diffrent things of what the humidity so I'm not sure. Thanks!
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    What should I be doing to clean/ sanitze coop for pullets?

    I am cleaning my coops, and just wondering what i should use? I don't want even 1 mite hanging around in there, so will bug bombs do the job or what? What does DE do? where do you get it? Any thing else i should use to ensure my pullets don't get any diseases that could be lurking? I got rid...
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    chicks out of the blue are pecking and killed a guinea

    I had, 48 chicks. 41 golden sex link, 7 EE's all pullets, plus 5 guinea keets. They are around 8 days old. They are all in one of those big hermiston watermelon boxes. I went to check on them this morning and i found a poor guinea keet dead. They pecked its wing and he basically bled to death...
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    DIY incubator questions

    I went to some yard sales so i have all the basic things for my bator. SO far i am up to, 13 dollars. Questions: will the water heater thermostat need modified?? who knows of a good DIY egg turner? What is a good thermometer/ hygrometer, for a reasonable price?? more questions to come...
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    Fertilized eggs question

    When a rooster and hen mate will her eggs be fertilized from just one mating? Or does it take a few matings before they are?? How long are her eggs fertilized after she is removed from the roosters run??
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    mareks vaccine for at least 53 chicks or more

    I marked I wanted the hatchery to vaccinate them but it didn't happen, so now I get to. I really don't want to pay for a bottle that will go bad before I use it. So if anyone has enough for 53 to even a half bottle left I will buy it from you. Please pm me with price and how many doses. I...
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    which fan for a DIY incubator

    theres this place close but I might get the CPU fan from, except which one do I need?? The inside measurement of the strofoam box is 13'' by 15 and a half inches. Which fan size or specific fan or what do I need?? I found them for 4-5 dollar on here. http://www.thefanvan.net/servlet/StoreFront...
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    How many hens??

    Just wondering how many square feet I should provide my hens? Right now I have 10 left in a 23' by 19' feet. I am waiting for my golden sex links to come available, so I was just trying to figure it out. So how many in a 23' by 19' feet run? The coop is 8' by 8', with 12 nest boxes. I might...
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    Could it be mareks??

    I have this black sexlink/ austrolorp something like that that started one day couldn't walk. She is around 5 years not sure. I caged her, and gave her some stuff in her water. After a couple days she began to get better, being able to prop herself up and after a while starting to stand . She...
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    Cany guinea fowl give calves diseases???"

    A ya long time ago my aunt had guinea fowl, probably 100 plus roming out all over. My uncle was going to raise calves and someone said the guinea will give the calves something, so I was just wondering is this true??? I am ordering 50 pullets starting over ad my flock is getting close to 3...
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    Cany guinea fowl give calves diseases???"

    A ya long time ago my aunt had guinea fowl, probably 100 plus roming out all over. My uncle was going to raise calves and someone said the guinea will give the calves something, so I was just wondering is this true??? I am ordering 50 pullets starting over ad my flock is getting close to 3...
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    how do i save the giblets?

    I have been selling my cornish cross chickens like crazy! i started with 25 two lost the first week and once I butcher and another guy takes his live i am sold out. I had an elderly lady up the road show me how. anyway one of my customers wants the giblets. I know how to do the gizard and...
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