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    easter chick hatch failure

    I just bought a store bought incubator with egg turner and all and upgraded from my home made ice chest water heater thermostat project and was finding worse results than before with the home made one. So i had some chicks baking for a few days before easter weekend and had miserable results 2...
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    man they grow fast. How do you keep the dogs from eating their scratch? lol

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    interesting hatch

    ok its not a chicken but i caught this footage on vacation figured you might enjoy.
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    crowing

    my oldest chickens are less than 8 weeks old and the darndest think this morning I was out in the yard and I heard some amatuer crowing going on. I didnt think they started this behavior this soon!!!
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    coop cam

    I moved them out of the brooder and into the coop a week ago. I moved the cam last night. There are two sizes (22 days apart hatch dates) you can see the remarkable difference in the two! http://mattblackburn.net/?page_id=53 firefox or safari only sorry!! Enjoy
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    Self watering device

    I built one if I can do it you can!! http://mattblackburn.net/?p=539 Complete construction pics and commentary included.
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    mealworm frenzy

    Close hd footage of my chickens eating some meal worms! http://mattblackburn.net/?p=464
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    3 week and a couple days comparison

    The big ones are nearly 4 weeks the little ones are nearly a week. Enjoy The little ones are still on cam growing up at my website. I wish i could put a second cam so you could choose to view smaller ones or bigger ones to check in on either. I may one day have a...
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    hatch is over not bad 12 new chicks from home made incubator

    I did pretty good got 12 of 15 , culled one (prolapsed innerds rather not let it suffer) The chicken cam is back live but now pointing and the new younger chicks. Pretty cute. feel free to watch if you like (firefox recommended) See them at: http://mattblackburn.net Click on link on top...
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    hatch starting - live video of hatch

    One egg has a hole started by tommorrow it should be on if not later tonight. View live as you wish at : http://www.mattblackburn.net enjoy
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    5 days till live hatch

    My live feed at mattblackburn.net will move from brooder to incubator to catch a live hatch soon thursday or friday. But please if you can help identify what my baby chicks are and the future baby chicks set to hatch. They all came from the same rooster and the same flock of hens that can be...
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    strange aroma

    i noticed a strange aroma in my incubator. almost like hard boiled eggs then it got stronger. last night it was pretty bad and found liquid on an egg. I sniffed it and immediately had to fight to keep myself from vomiting. I have bad alergies and have no sense of smell but in a second i was...
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    different batches of baby chicks

    I have a batch now and will be hatching next friday another batch they will be about 23 days apart in age. will the older chicks hurt the new batch or can they exist in the same brooder?
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    live chick cam

    It can be seen at mattblackburn.net if you get an error or timeout let me know. I am just getting it going and the server it streams off of may need some settings tweaking as in max number of clients etc. or i may find with 15 users it takes too much bandwidth who knows. Matt
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    upgrade from a cardboard brooder

    they were almost big enough to jump out of the cardboard box so we built them a new home. 8 foot long 23 inches deep 23 inches high with a bottom and a mesh top. I also have cat 5 ethernet ran to the wall above this brooder so i will be able to stream live webcam footage of the activities...
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    new batch set 6-22

    so i had my dad save me another batch of eggs (he has the working rooster) my first batch i set 2 week old eggs learning the dynamics of my incubator i overheated them to 103 the first day adjusted to 99 (high end) it was cooling down to 94-95 on the low end result 40% hatch from day one i...
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    chicken fight (viewer discretion advised)

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    ultimate chicken coop (hope the humans dont mind)

    i found this online and it takes raising chickens in suburbia to the extreme: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/chickam2008
  19. mattblackburn

    late hatch

    i had four hatch so far 3 that i saw movement candling. 2 remains that had movement earlier on candling. i had two maybes i candled later one i changed to a yes (it hatched) in my notes and one that i was sure made no additional progress (doubtful) so in my notes i have 2 of 5 left that i...
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    identification of chickens

    anybody hear of or use a leg band for keeping track of who's who?
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