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  1. weaversfarm

    Desperate for some answers, chicks dying.

    I will try to be as thorough as I can. I have been hatching eggs now for years with an excellent hatch rate, 85-90%. I have always used the Little Giant incubators without fans and never used a hygrometer. This year I bought a Farm Innovator incubator and also have 2 Little Giant incubators...
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    Please help save these chickens

    On April 1st, I made the 4 hour trip up to buy some Black Copper Maran chicks, about 8 weeks old. Because it was 4 hours back home, it was late and while we were unloading, I heard one of them with raspy breathing. They were in a room where the temp was 60 degrees. The birds were transported...
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    72 eggs and not 1 hatched!!

    These were Maran, Barred Rock, and Wyandotte eggs. Being brown eggs it's hard to candle and see what's going on. All I could make out were dark shadows. I left them in the incubator until day 20 when I started noticing an odor. I broke one open, then another and another, not one single egg...
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    Don't know what to do about these chicks

    I have 37 chicks that are 6 days old. We have the brooder set up in a room with no heat other than the heat lamp for them. Our outside temps are at 10 during the day and below zero at night. I lost one chick yesterday, breathing was labored. I brought her in and gave her some warm...
  5. weaversfarm

    What Happened???

    I made a one hour trip to pick up 3 dozen hatching eggs from a farm rather than have them shipped. They are barred rocks, wyandottes, and copper marans. When I went there to pick them up she told me they might have gotten too cold, but they should be ok. When she opened the egg cartons for me...
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    Am I doing this right???? (Feeding fermented feed for the first time)

    I made the fermented feed for my 6 week old RlR's using 10 pounds of feed. Today is the first day I have used it. I filled 2 of the red plastic feeders you use when they are small, I took the top part off and used the bottom feeder part. Altogether I fed them 4 of those during the course of...
  7. weaversfarm

    Hello, I am also new here.

    If I may take a minute to introduce myself, my name is Brenda and I live in New York with my husband, son, daughter and grandson. We have a small farm with beef steers, dairy goats, and of course, chickens and ducks. I was raised on a farm in NY, moved to PA in 2000 and had a small farm there...
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