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    trouble with incubator

    I have an oldie but goodie incubator. It's a lyon, model rx, with a marsh incubator automatic turner. Included pics. This thing has hatched many a chick for me, keeps very even temps, nice humidity levels, blah blah blah. Now I am going to hatch some eggs for a friend, so she can have them...
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    air sac under skin

    My little 5 week Spitzhauben has an air sac under its skin on the chest/crop area. He's very lethargic, and spit up some clear liquid. HELP?
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    ameraucanas blue wheaten/wheaten x lavender

    i have eggs hatching right now that are wheaten roo and blue wheaten roo over 6 wheaten hens and 3 blue wheaten hens. I am thinking of getting some Lavender Ameraucanas. What colors will I be looking at with this cross? I should I stick with the Wheaten, Blue Wheaten crosses?
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    hatching tips

    I want peafowl, I was thinking of hatching some. Is there a great thread or site that I can research?
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    full incubator!

    1 dozen BLRS Wyandotte roo x Gold Lace Wyandotte. 7 BLRSW roo over black australop. 1 dozen polish 8 blue 4 mixed. 1 dozen blue Wheaton Ameraucana over Wheaton Ameraucana. 1 dozen blue/black copper Marans. And the rest EE roo over black australop hen.
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    eye crusted shut

    Here left eye is completely crusted over, or something like that! What can I do? I noticed yesterday it had some crusty stuff around edges, with a film over it. She's also our tiny 5 week old silkie. Here is a pic of her hatch mates Side by side comparison
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    Drinking

    I am getting a wet bar for the chicks. Will the guineas learn to drink from these nipple waterers? and can I give them ACV and garlic just as I will give the chicks?
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    dozen keet!

    Local feed store got them in! I got a dozen of the French Guinea, that's the only ones they had. I'm so in love with them,
  9. oweirdo

    should i help it?

    its been like this for 18 hours. Should I help? Even with 67% humidity in the egg is dry out, and the chick is weak
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    all 9 chicks are dead

    I had 9 5week old chicks, we had them out in the brooder barn. And I would let them out during day. My year old rooster loved the chicks, but when I went out this afternoon to close them in, they were all dead. The rooster was standing over one, the only wounds are small triangular wounds on...
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    mixing guineas keets and chicken chicks

    Thursday I will be getting guinea keets! I assume I can put them in the brooder box with my 2-3 day old chicks?
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    totally free range chickens

    I have a rather large "shed" I think it was horse stalls originally. It's closed in on 3 sides, open to the southeast. I was thinking of using that for our roost and laying area. And letting the chicken be totally free range, as the rest of our animals are. Most people I've talked to don't...
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    We are locked down!

    We are now locked down, however I am worried. I could not find the right wick for my wet bulb and a farmer friend suggested using a oil lamp wick, banded tight. My humidity has always read high, according to charts, mid-50s. I locked down, put the extra water in and now I'm reading, real...
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    getting back to the chickens

    I'm a renewed chicken owner! I raised them as a kid, but stopped in high school. Now we have 4 acres and I'm back to raising them. I have 1 Ameraucana rooster, 3 silkie chicks, 6 golden lace polish chicks. Then I have 30 eggs in the bator. Ollie
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