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  1. rachelpotter

    URGENT: Eggs at End of Hatch Not Making it... WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?!?!

    I live in Mississippi (around 40% humidity indoors) and dry hatch. This is my 6th or 7th hatch. I recently got a Genesis 1588 to use as a hatcher. This is my third hatch in it. I also have a Brinsea Eco20. I am currently mid-late hatch. I had 12 Wheaten/Blue Wheaton Ameracuana...
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    Raising Serama Chicks with Large Fowl (with pics)

    I recently hatched out 2 Seramas with other LF chicks. (Blue Copper Marans, Olive Eggers and Jersey Giants) They are all doing well and getting along fine. They are almost a week old and this is about the time I start raising/hanging the feeders to prevent the mass wasting of feed...
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    Yolk Sack Rupture in 5 day old Chick

    I have a 5 day old Silkie cross chick that has been a poor-doer since hatching. Lone hatcher, other eggs died with temp spike 4 days before hatch. I have been doing with generalized weakness, curled toes, and now it has what looks like a ruptured yolk sac. At first I thought it was...
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    Hatch in Brinsea or lockdown in a a LG?

    I have 15 eggs that are approaching lockdown in a few days. I'm trying to decide if I should keep them in the Brinsea Octagon 20 or move them to a still air Little giant? Seems like many people like to hatch in the styrobators...I should have plenty of room in the Octagon...these are...
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    Single Hatched Chick... What to do now?

    As part of an "experiment" I set two of our hens eggs.. just to see if the Silkie roo we ended up taking in was actually doing anything when they were allowed to free range. Turns out.. YES he was... So fast forward to this am... one of the two made it to lockdown and hatched this am...
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    Shipped Serama Eggs... To Turn or NOT to Turn.. THAT is the question....

    I have a dozen shipped Serama eggs that I set upright in egg cartons on arrival. Set in the incubator 24 hours later and have NOT turned them up until this point. We are in the middle of Day 3. I have these eggs set along with 18 other shipped eggs in a Brinsea Octagon 20 . I...
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    Automatic Turner (a.k.a. Carnival Ride) Questions...

    I have a Brinsea Octagon 20 that will have its first batch of eggs put in it this weekend! (whoohooo!) I got the automatic turner as suggested by so many on here. However... I'm a bit concerned about a few things. I am using shipped eggs and so planned on using egg crates with the bottoms cut...
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    Hatching two batches at the same time??? Doable?

    Is is feasible to hatch two different sets in the same incubator? Specifically... one set a week to ten days before the other? Can you tell I'm DYING to hatch some eggs... like... NOW! Rachel
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    "Entertainment" for 4 week old chicks in brooder...

    So i'm trying to come up with some ideas to help break up the boredom of the brooder until the coop is done. Any ideas for 4 week old chicks? We take them outside at least once a day for supervised "play" time, but was trying to come up with something for the brooders themselves. I have...
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    Hatching when you work alot...questions

    I have a full time job and work on call and weekends in addition to that. I just got a Brinsea Octagon 20 ECO (yay!) for my birthday and plan to order some hatching eggs later this month. I have a questions. I am planning to set the eggs so that hatch day should be on my day off so...
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    Brinsea Eco... Good Price?

    I have found the Brinsea Octagon 20 ECO and a turner for $224.98.... ($161 for incubator and $61 for turner).. Is this a good price? Does it go on sale anywhere frequently? I'm itching to hatch! TIA
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    New Coop Plans! Starting my Construction Thread!

    We are just about done with the planning stages of our new coop! My dad is an engineer and has made an awesome set of plans and we have bought materials... construction starting soon! So excited! And so are my two week old chicks! Here is the spot where it will be going... right now we...
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    A Brinsea for my birthday...Manual or Auto Turner?

    I'm getting an incubator for my birthday. We'll be using shipped eggs for now. I'm looking at the Brinsea Octagon 20 Eco. What about a auto turner? It's it worth the extra$70?
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    Chick Feed HELP needed!

    First Time Chick Mom here: I have 18- 2 week old chicks. They initially were on Manna Pro Organic Chick Starter (non-medicated- 19% Protein) and after the first bag I switched over to Nutrena Country Feeds Starter Grower Medicated because that is what my PREFERRED store carries...
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    Hardware Cloth Reccomendations

    We are sourcing materials for the new coop ( WHOOP WHOOP!) and in searching hardware cloth I am coming up on some variations. 19 ga. or 23ga? I'm assuming I want 1/2 inch Any particular brand preferred for ease of working with? TIA!
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    Designing New coop... Why all the plans with Elevated Floors?

    We are planning on building a decent sized coop and large run onto the side of our horse barn. When looking at examples of other designs I see a lot of coops where the coops are elevated off the ground and only have a half door. Why is this popular? I guess I'm thinking it would be...
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    Brooder Size Dilema! Bigger less secure vs. splitting flock

    Hey ya'll. New to chickens. I have 2 layers, 2 pullets in a coop and now 18 chicks in a indoor brooder. I'm using a large dog crate (plastic with metal door) and a Brinsea EcoGlo 20. I can see that the current dog crate is not going to be a long term brooder for all 18...
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    When Can Chicks take a outdoor "field trip?"

    I have hatchlings that we acquired from Strombergs last Friday. They are doing well. We have temps in the 90's here and I was wondering about an outdoor supervised visit in the yard/grass? We have never had chickens here, so no exposure to anything other than wild avian species...
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