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    When is it too cold to risk buying fertile eggs to hatch?

    We're hatching a new round of chicks this year, after our banties from last year keeled over in the first bitter cold snap we had this fall. :'/ Last year I was so new at it, I didn't think anything about time of year or temperatures outside, so I got eggs New Years' Day and actually hatched 18...
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    Splayed leg in three week old? - new questions

    I have three week old banties in the brooder right now. I noticed this morning that my smallest chick was really wobbling around, moving slowly, struggling to walk, etc. So I took her out and checked her, seemed fine, put her back in and kept watching, and thought maybe she had splayed legs (she...
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    Feather-pecking baby chicks?

    I've got 8 chicks in the brooder together, all just over 2 weeks old, all seemingly thriving. But I've got one super odd looking chick, biggest by far, with strange feathers (to me, anyway, but this is my first hatch and my first chicks, so I know very little). Anyway, this chick has been...
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    Guess the baby bantams! Breed ideas on this mixed hatch?

    I hatched out 18 bantam chicks 2 weeks ago, just a barnyard mix. I know the two bantie cocks were bb red bantam and silver spangled, the five hens were all different, although there was also a bb red hen and a silver spangled hen. So I might have some pure breeds, and also a bunch of...
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    Help! Brooder bedding options for 1 week old bantams

    Help! So, I just bought what another friend uses in her brooder...the mixed cedar shavings from atwoods. My chicks are doing awesome, no worries, nothing stinks, healthy as larks, etc. But then, I'm reading on here today that cedar is bad for them? Help, what now? I have been planning to use the...
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    Bantam chick hatch

    This is my first attempt at incubating chicks. A friend found a source for local Black Copper Marans, and the breeder also raises bantams, my particular favorite. 40 banty eggs in the Hovabator tonight at 10:15. Yikes! I'm excited, but trying not to get my hopes up. My friend just finished...
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