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    Light Brown Leghorn & Dark Brahma Rooster NW Indiana

    I have a single Light Brown Leghorn Cockeral hatched Jan. 7, 2014 from some eggs shipped from NC, show lines. Unfortunatly none of the other eggs hatched and he's a he, so seeing if anyone local may be interested. I'm just getting started raising chicks so am not NPIP at this time. Also have...
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    Assorted Chicks. Guesses?

    potential breeds are: giant cochin, silkie, rhodebar, bielefelder, maran x, and delaware (I believe those are it) Most of the eggs were of med-large size and light tan-brown(only 3 total could of been silkie) 10 of these hatched on day 20 and I lost track after the first 3 of which eggs. it's...
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    Tips on Telling Autosexing breeds apart?

    Is there a website or book, article that talks about different autosexing breeds, and their phenotypes? I have a trio of cream legbars and planning on getting some bielefelders. I also have possilble rhodebars and bielefelders in the incubator.... I keep an eye on auctions, ebay among others and...
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    Incubator was turned up during hatch!!! any ideas of how to keep them alive?

    So my neices were over today and of course my own kids, its' day 21 for an hatch, we already had 3 hatch yesterday and 2 were pipped. Anyways in the process of the kids watching the eggs someone turned up the heat. I've got 2 live chicks one newly hatched and 1 from last night. the other two...
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    i transported the eggs. so should they rest?

    Picked some eggs to hatch should I let them rest as with shipped eggs? Trip was about 2 hrs total for the eggs. No rough handling or issues driving. Thanks
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    Our Coop is finshed! Photos fixed!

    Chickens enjoying their breakfast! we need to move the roosts down but they're using the nest boxes like good girls!
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    Wanting to raise Leaner/Cleaner meat, any suggestions?

    My DH will hardly eat any chicken I buy due to the globbs of fat and blod clots seen in the meat. So we are going to raise some chicks next year to butcher. My thought was to avoid the typical fast growing cornish crosses. We got our laying hens from Townline and will probably order from them...
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    Hi from NW Indiana

    Hello. Just joined we have 9 hens and 1 rooster, these are my first chickens in a LONG time. We got them for pets and for eggs. (the rooster was an oops) So have been working on their coop all summer and since I"m a SAHM am thinking of getting an incubator to raise some chicks to sell (next...
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