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    spraddle leg

    Okay here goes... I have a little chick who I suppose was born with spraddle leg. It hatched out on Monday, but I didn't notice until Tuesday because I was just trying to get all the chicks out alive. (issues with thermometers during hatch led to a super late and lengthy hatch. I had to assist...
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    This is so sad...

    I hatched eggs in my classroom a few weeks back. I kept the chicks in the classroom for two weeks, then the students with permission were able to adopt them. I screened the families, spoke with parents, and tried as hard as I could to be absolutely sure the chicks were going to good homes. (I...
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    Baseball sized squishy crop

    Okay... My one year old hen has been developing this giant crop for a bit now... It seems she's now losing feathers from it... I've tried offering more grit, but I'm not sure what to do... It's baseball sized and squishy... No bad smell.
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    What IS she?

    Hatched her from a brown egg from Ideal last year... She will be one on April 18th... [/IMG] She lays light brown eggs.... She's pretty small compared to my other hen (who is a production red I think)
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    ugh. I think I broke both of my digital thermometers

    I was trying to calibrate my digital thermometers... I put the probe into a folded over ziplock bag with ice water... now the thermometer reads a good 5-10 degrees lower than the plain old glass red liquid thermometer that came with the incubator. I calibrated both of those, and they were spot...
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    sad times

    I just dropped an egg putting it in the fridge...my heart breaks a little every time that happens. Then the guilt sets in, and I feel the overwhelming need to run outside and beg for forgiveness from my girls for wasting their hard day's work.
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    Humidity?

    I just finished a hatch where I had 20 perfect embryos for lockdown, but 9 didn't hatch. I've been doing some research, and I opened up one egg to see what went wrong, and I'm thinking that maybe humidity was to blame. I was trying to keep it at that 40-50% the first 18 days, then 65% after...
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    Getting eggs Sat, want to set them Sun.. How to store?

    Okay, so I'm a teacher, and we just finished my classroom hatch. My daughter wanted to know why my students got to do all the "fun" stuff, and she never gets to... SOOOO... I found a local source for fertile eggs, and I will be getting them this Saturday. I do not have a cool basement to...
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    What kind of Polish chicken... and gender huh?

    Okay, so I wasn't expecting to be able to tell gender, and maybe I'm reading too much into this, but my little day old classroom chicks seem to have a few that are really screaming ROO to me... The way they stand, constantly... acting in charge... I'm really wondering... Also.. These are...
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    Wanted to show off my babies from my classroom hatch. :)

    Meet the new babies. :)
  11. misskeeter

    when do I lock down again?

    I set eggs on Feb 4th at noon... I thought I was supposed to lock down Sat at noon. I was informed today that the church is doing a retreat in our building, and we are not allowed in there at all until after 5:00... so it's either lock down late Friday night, or after 5 on Sat...
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    Advice on removing hatched chicks...

    Okay... So I know you aren't supposed to turn eggs during the last three days. I did that with my first hatch ever last year. I also followed the advice of leaving the hatched chicks in until they were all dry. I ended up with several eggs that never hatched, and I assumed it was because they...
  13. misskeeter

    Setting next week. :) Hatching in the classroom beginning 2/6 or 2/7 Hatch-Along

    So excited. :) Our agrilife extension girl came today to bring the book and things to prepare for incubation. This will be my second time hatching in the classroom. Last time I got 16 chicks out of 24 eggs. I'm hoping for more this year. I have purchased a better incubator and an automatic egg...
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    my girls are spending the night outside alone... so nervous

    Okay... so the girls are staying out in the coop for the night for the first time. These are my first chickens, and everything I've read preparing to be a good chicken mom has scared the pants off of me... I've been imagining all sorts of predators breaking into the coop and snacking on my...
  15. misskeeter

    5 weeks old... Breed and Gender guesses? (VERY picture heavy.) :)

    Okay... I think the brown one is a Production Red. The black one looked like a chipmunk when it was tiny. I have no clue on gender. HELP! Here are Eleanor and Ginger (I hope!)
  16. misskeeter

    4 week old chicks... little help here. :)

    So I hatched eggs in the classroom. They gave the eggs to me free, but the deal was that they just came as an assortment with no information whatsoever. Which was fine for what we wanted. ANYWAY... I had an assortment of brown and white eggs, and of course, they mostly hatched overnight so I had...
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