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    Brinsea technical support lacks technical know-how

    I recently started up my Brinsea Ova Easy 100 to join the Easter hatch a long, but discovered that it would not heat up. I checked everything I could and could find nothing wrong, so I called Brinsea. Now I should say, some of what I will write below I found out on my own after talking with...
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    Value ratio between cockerels and pullets

    I am looking for your opinion on the ratio between cockerels and pullets when it comes to selling them. I know the average price of a cockerel in my area, how many times more than that price should a 6 month old pullet be? For example, if a cockerel of my breed is $20, should a pullet be $80...
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    Hatch-a-long for people who don't have much time

    So, this is my 5th hatch of ~100 this year. Things are getting better, I have an 80% fertility rate and an 80% hatch rate, so 64 out of 100 now. I'm hatching my own eggs, creating generation 2 of my own breed. My layers have come back into their own and are now giving me 25 or so (from 38...
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    Eggs, then no eggs, and now a broody hen at 31 weeks??

    About 5 weeks ago I was getting 15 eggs a day out of some 30 odd laying pullets (older than 28 weeks). Then we had a severe cold snap and egg laying more or less stopped, 5 eggs a day. The cold snap ended and I was down to 2 eggs a day. Now I have a 31 week old pullet who has gone broody, I...
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    Something happened, but what?

    So about a month ago my layers were giving me a good 13-18 a day. Not spectacular (there are 50 birds 20 weeks or older), but decent. Then we had a ridiculous cold spell, temperatures lower than had ever been recorded. The run/coop was well protected, so I don't think they got blasted, but...
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    Brinsea Incubator Octogon 40 Advance EX Package

    The Octagon 40 Advance is one of the most high-tech small-use incubators in the world. It is completely digital, using reliable environmental-sensing technology, it constantly monitors the conditions inside the incubator, sensing temperature and humidity. This package includes internal humidity...
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    Effect on bator RH due to ambient intake air

    I am trying to understand results I have gotten, but my searches have led to conflicting information. Forced air incubator in a room. Room RH is 58%, temperature 65F. Bator temperature is 99.6F, and it says the RH is 28%. This is a Brinsea Ova Easy 100, so the equipment should be accurate. My...
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    I think I may have put cockerels into my laying flock pen by mistake, now they are 22 weeks, how do

    My birds are a cross between BCM roosters, and red-sexlink hens. As such, there has been an explosion of color, comb size, leg feathering, etc... I have been moving birds at 12 weeks based almost entirely on comb size. Small comb, pullet. Well, now at 22 weeks I have a number of birds with...
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    Setting 100 on 1/6/16 in new Ova Easy 100...hatch along

    This will be my first of 13 settings in 2016, as I try to progress with my inbreeding project. My laying pullets are all 1st generation cross between a single BCM rooster, and 23 Red Sexlink hens. I've since added 2 unrelated BCM roosters to the flock. I estimate I will have 21 of these Gen1...
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    Bandette users only please...

    I have BCM chicks to hens. My goal is to band them all, and I have decided I would prefer to use a Bandette. What I am trying to figure out is; What size of bandette from 4 weeks to 12 weeks What size of bandette from 12 weeks to 1year Cockerels will not need to be banded after 18 weeks...
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    Identifying sets in a flock born over many settings

    I am looking for a good solution to identifying my sets. I did 8 incubations over this year and now have a laying flock of my project breed. Next year, I will want to cull those pullets at or under 1 year old, with the oldest birds being culled first. I have not yet tagged these birds in any...
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    Cheapest way to cull a laying flock for dog food

    I am attempting to breed my own birds, and now that I have a fairly decent sized flock of layers of my 1st generation, I want to cull the original layers. They are 3 year olds, as well as 1.25 year olds (23 altogether). My poultry processor will pluck and quarter them for me for C$4.70 each...
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    Setting 80 on 9/8, 10/1, 10/24, and probably 11/16

    This is a continuation of my other hatching thread; Setting 41 on 6-15, 7-8, 7-31, and 8-23 feel free to join in at any time. You do not need to read that entire thread to join in, but reading the first message might give you something to consider before setting. Lots of good advice in that...
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    Integrating young roosters into a flock with a mature rooster

    My flock has had a mature rooster for 7 months now (he was 1.5 yrs old when put in, the 15 hens were 6 months old, and I added another 12 3 yr-old hens when I added the roo). All is well there, and he's been doing a decent job with a 90% fertility rate. But I am growing my layer flock to 100...
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    Setting 41 on 6-15, 7-8, 7-31, and 8-23 feel free to join in at any time

    Hi all, I am starting my 3 setting of 41 on June 15, with a goal of getting 34/41 fertile eggs, and hatching 100% of the fertile. This will give me 100 1st generation layers of my project breed this year...part of my project goal. My first setting resulted in 50% hatch rate, I did things...
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    6 sets @ 3 weeks apart

    I am doing 6 sets of ~34 birds 3 weeks apart. The first chicks are going into their own coop in a week, and each additional set will be added to that coop at roughly 3 weeks old. @ 10 weeks old the layers will be pushed into the main coop with the other layers (some are in their 3rd season...
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    Planning now for 2016

    I run a small farm, and am trying to get my layers up to 100, and ideally have them all hens of my project birds. Feel free to discuss my project birds in their own thread, I hope you will overlook that here. Point is, I have had 2 sets in the last 6 weeks (one set are now 3 week-old chicks, the...
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    BCM Roo x Red Selinks - 3 generations and they're a new BCM?

    Hi, if there is already a thread on this, please point me there, I don't want to rehash a discussion that's been had. A trusted friend of mine, with credentials to back her up, told me that if I crossed a good BCM roo with my "Frey's Special Dual Purpose" hens (essentially that hatchery's red...
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    My first dead hen

    This morning I found a hen dead on the floor of the coop, under the laying boxes...not a typical place they stand. It appeared to have fallen on one side, and its neck was in an S shape?? No mites or obvious infestations, no irregular poo, lots of fresh water and food. She was 1 of 15 I got at...
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    Coop modification planned, suggestions solicited

    So, I have just had my roosters processed into meat, and am left with 15 16-week old females who all seem healthy and happy. They’re “Frey’s Special Dual Purpose”, which lists them as being quiet and healthy. They look like Red Sex-Link, but are larger birds, and Frey’s say they don’t produce as...
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