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  1. thegreypony

    HELP - humidity TOO high during hatch

    I tried a quick search but couldn't find what I needed fast. We have a Hovabator with the warm air circulator. - DD is hatching broilers for a 4-H project; agent gave us 60 eggs. 30+ have hatched and the inside of the bator is "raining". We are 36 hours into this hatch. I can't read the humidity...
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    NC Peeps help me out? broiler eggs to hatch??

    We usually have 5-7 hens that go broody every spring/summer. Some I can break, others hatch out more layers for me, etc. I don't have room or need for more layers and would like to utilize their broodiness to fill the freezer, so to speak. I've bought hatching eggs before from various sources...
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    cross posted from wrong forum: ID this pullet please

    I answered an add on craigslist last week as I was looking to add 3 birds to our flock. The gentleman orders his babies 1 day old from Meyers - had a variety of babies, various ages - and then sells the babies to folks in town who can't do a whole order. I really wanted older birds and asked if...
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    Buff Laced Wyandotte or washed our BLRW??

    I answered an add on craigslist last week as I was looking to add 3 birds to our flock. The gentleman orders his babies 1 day old from Meyers - had a variety of babies, various ages - and then sells the babies to folks in town who can't do a whole order. I really wanted older birds and asked if...
  5. thegreypony

    Epidemic Broodiness making me crazy!

    So we have a flock of 19 hens (5 are Seramas) and 1 crazy brown leghorn rooster who until the heat wave has been very amorous with his favorite ladies. About 2-3 weeks ago, one of the young Ameraucanas decided she felt a little broody. This developed into full on broodiness and egg collecting...
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    XS Egg Syndrome...your thoughts/opinions pleeeeeaaaaaaasssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeee :)

    So our 5 mo Ameraucana pullets just started laying - a couple of weeks now. One of the big splash pullets laid a teensie egg (the size of one of the Serama eggs but a beautiful blue); then a medium sized egg and now she's laying M/L sizes eggs. One of the pullets is not yet laying at all but...
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    When will their eggs get larger?

    So we hatched some purebred Ameracauna eggs last fall and I ended up keeping 6 beautiful pullets - 3 splash & 3 blue. Four of them have been laying for a little over a week now & the eggs have all been not much bigger than the the eggs our Seramas lay. I expected the first eggs to be little...
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    Rooster Question for the Ol' Timers ;)

    Greetings, Ol' Timers, I humbly beseech you to lay some rooster wisdom on me... We've got a flock of 19 hens (5 are bantams) + 1 beautifully dumb 9 month old Brown Leghorn "rooster-ette" (he looks too grown up to be calling him a cockerel though that is what he technically is). Sam is a very...
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    Seramas & Cold Tolerance - Quantify Por Favor :)

    One of last summer's medicinal hatchings (remedy for a perpetually broody Buff Orp) was a dozen Serama eggs from a friend. 6 hatched, 1 died (not thrifty from the get go) and 1 got snatched by a hawk. So we now have these 4 little hens running the show & laying like crazy. We had planned to give...
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    Marek's ?s & Assistance Please (apologies for being so long)

    So 3 years when we got into this backyard flock stuff, I'm 99% positive that the week old chicks we got had Marek's (carriers?) as one of the pullets becamse paralyzed around 4 mos old and ultimately died @ ~ 1 yo. One of the roosters died suddenly at 6 mos old (appeared healthy & ate his...
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    1 Duckling! Need YOUR advice on set up & care PLEASE

    We bought some fertile eggs for a broody hen to hatch and the breeder threw in a couple of duck eggs from his breeding pair of Silver Appleyards (these are purebreds and he spent almost a year working with another breeder to get them). Anyway, the SAs are very young and I think he really didn't...
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    Help w/late baby!

    Broody hatched her nest out by around 2 pm on Wednesday. 2 eggs were left and showed no signs of anything but she kept pulling one underneath her and listening. By Thursday morning, the egg had a good start. Around 2 pm on Thursday she had left the nest box with her babies and the last egg to...
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    broody hen(s) & hatching drama...need advice PLEASE

    Our BO (Thelma Lou) decided she would not be broken from her broodiness despite EVERYTHING I tried. So got her a dozen eggs to hatch (2 are duck eggs I'm pulling to put in the bator tomorrow morning). She was so happy but then boycotted her nest on Day 17. Not to fear, the tiniest of our bantams...
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    Duck & Chix Eggs under Broody Hen - Advice Please

    I posted this in the duck forum but maybe it should be here, too....might get a quicker answer... ???????? We got some fertile eggs from a friend for our broody Buff Orp to hatch out. He put two duck eggs in the carton...now we have 10 chicken eggs and 2 Apple..something or another duck eggs...
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    Need help w/duck eggs under a chicken...

    We got some fertile eggs from a friend for our broody Buff Orp to hatch out. He put two duck eggs in the carton...now we have 10 chicken eggs and 2 Apple..something or another duck eggs under this hen. Eggs have been under her for 7 days and she's being a very protective mom. What do I need to...
  16. thegreypony

    Need Advice re: Broody Hen (several ?s)

    One of our Buff Orps went broody a few weeks ago. After trying unsuccessfully to break this broodiness, we gave up and I got a dozen fertile eggs for her to hatch out in the hopes that this will satisfy her need to be a momma. Put the eggs in "HER" nest box this past Monday (5/24) and she...
  17. thegreypony

    strawberries & egg shell color

    No the shells are not red or pink but I've been giving the girls strawberry caps and a quart of berries that were just old & deflated looking...NO MOLD. Course they loved them but now I've got one hen whose eggs look like the shell has flecks of strawberry colored (dark red), well, flecks...
  18. thegreypony

    Hens on strike...what the fig newton?!?!

    The ladies kicked up production about 3 weeks ago - the 12 of them giving us on avg. 7 eggs a day. Charlotte (who didn't molt last fall) has just started molting and she was an egg a day kind of gal - obvious why she's out of commission right now. But what's up with the others?!?! Do they think...
  19. thegreypony

    Molting NOW??!?!?!?!

    I went out to the coop to collect eggs a few minutes ago and noticed that one of the GLWs is missing copious amounts of feathers under her neck and around her vent. The skin does not appear inflamed, scaley...it just looks normal. It was stressing her out for me to try and catch her so I just...
  20. thegreypony

    humidity train wreck?!? need advice...

    day 2 of a hatch (will never do this again - too stressful) and 4-H info inadequate to do this correctly IMHO... anyway, I pulled the vent plug this afternoon and now after returning home 6 hours later two of my "starteds" appear to have dried up membrane at the holes... I know - "DONT HELP"...
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