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    Emergency help: chick choking or ?

    I have a 1 week old silkie chick that I found laying on it's side opening and closing it's beak like it was choking. I picked it up and started rubbing it's neck and putting a small drop of water in it's beak every minute or so. After 5 - 10 minutes it started to chirp a little and gasp less...
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    Help please (ASAP) - would you use the better incubator for first 18 days or for hatching?

    I now have 2 incubators - one for incubating and one for hatching. Problem is that I'm not sure whether to use the better incubator for the first part or for hatching. Obviously the egg turner will go in the one I use for the first 18 days. The nicer incubator is a HovaBator Genesis 1588 -...
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    Greenfire Barnevelder Roos (Eastern Washington)

    Three beautiful Barnevelder roos from Greenfire fams for sale. $30 each, $75 for all three, or may consider trade for some nice laying hens. I'm not NPIP certified so local pickup only in Eastern Washington.
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    Candling with lots of eggs?

    This is my first try at incubating. We have about 48 eggs in a Genesis 1588 incubator. Temp is holding steady between 99.5 and 100.2 with humidity running between 25% and 35%. Tomorrow will be 7 days so we will be candling them tomorrow night or Saturday night. I don't want to leave the lid...
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    Brooder temperature questions

    Hi, New chick mama here. I set up our brooder with two lights so that I could put a divider in the middle . The thing is, if I hook the thermometer on the wall of the brooder at chick level it shows more than 10 degrees cooler then if I lay it flat on the floor of the brooder under the...
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