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    3 Day Long Hatching Demo

    Hello everyone. I need some help. My friend and I are trying to organize a live hatching demonstration for a fair on Thursday, September 24th, Friday, September 25th, and Saturday, September 26th. I have been having nothing but trouble the last few months and so all my plans for getting a...
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    High Humidity During Incubation What To Do At Lockdown?

    The humidity in my incubator has stayed up around 50 all through the incubation. Today is day 18 and I am not sure what to do for raising humidity during Lockdown. Do I raise it now like normal or wait until I are a pie to give them an extra day to loose moisture?
  3. JekkaLynn

    Cold Night's and 10 Week Old Chicks?

    I have a pen full of 10 week old Marans chicks. I have been turning on a heat lamp for them at night but just finally looked at a calendar and realized that they were already 10 weeks old! I have been keeping three for a friend until they could go without a heat lamp and am thinking that by now...
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    Pet Quail Bleeding. HOW DO I TREAT IT?

    My new quail is bleeding! I am not sure where from yet. I have gotten cotton pads, paper towels, water and hydrogen peroxide ready. I also have toenail clippers because I suspect that her overly long toenails might be the issue. Can anyone thing off anything else I might need? I have no iodine...
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    Home Made Incubator Ventilation Question

    I ordered too many eggs for the Easter HAL to fit my Styrofoam Hova Bator. After freaking out someone on BYC suggested I build or borrow a second incubator if I couldn't buy one. A friend instantly agreed to let me borrow HER styrofoam incubator...PERFECT! I know how to use those. I showed up...
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    Can Quail and Chickens be Incubated Together?

    If you start the quail a few days later can they be incubated with chicken eggs?
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    How to Stack a Hova-Bator

    I am trying figure out how many eggs I can manage to squeeze into a hova-bator incubator. I has ordered almost enough to fill it and then I found other eggs and now I am trying to figure out how many more eggs I can manage to put in there and how the best way to arrange them is.
  8. JekkaLynn

    Type of Feathers

    I have a frizzled cochin/silkie hen who just hatched some mixed eggs. I am trying to figure out which chicks have which type of feathers I think this chick had frizzled silkie feathers....
  9. JekkaLynn

    HELP!!! Baby chick attacked by hen!

    One of my three day old baby chicks got attached by a hen and she is bleeding and cheeping and clicking her beak! She has a small spot breeding on her wing and a small spot bleeding on her back. What do I do? I have taken her away from the other chicks and the broody and I have her under my...
  10. JekkaLynn

    What Class/Section?

    I am entering a bunch of birds at a local poultry show at a fair and can't figure out if I can show my French Black Copper Marans Hen or not? There is no class specifically for them but there are non breed specific classes. I just can't figure out which one she would be entered in. I know it...
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    Broken or Sprained Duck's Leg! Help!

    To get ready for a show I put my young Muscovey drake in an extra large dog crate. He settled right down so I left him alone. I just went back to check in him and he won't put any weight on one leg!!! I need help finding out if it is broken or sprained. If it is sprained he will be kept in a...
  12. JekkaLynn

    What color is this bunny?

    I am trying to fill out a form for anyhow but I don't know what color this rabbit is. It is just a town fair poultry show. Someone said they think she is a Rex.
  13. JekkaLynn

    Newly Hatched Chick Can Not Walk.

    One of my chicks pipped on the wrong end and needed help hatching. He managed to get out of the shell very early this morning and he still can not walk. I have been giving him honey water and cooked egg yolk mixed with chicken feed softened with the honey water and heated up a bit. He pooped a...
  14. JekkaLynn

    Fixing Tiny Air Cells in Time For The Hatch

    I had some frizzle eggs I took from my hen when she tried to hatch 18 at once. I wasn't sure when she started incubation and I knew they were old eggs so I raised the humidity around when I thought lockdown should be and candled a different egg every day to check for internal pips. I was off by...
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    Malpositioned chick trying to hatch. What do I do?

    My poor chick missed the air cell big time! What can I do to make sure it has the best chance if hatching? The shell pieces got knocked off by the already hatched chick and a large piece of membrane is showing. Should I put a bit of vaseline on to keep ot from getting too dry? ((Uh oh I had a...
  16. JekkaLynn

    How to Position Eggs for hatching?

    I have a staggered hatch going in my incubator. What is the best way to set them up during the hatch? I have: 15 bantam eggs on day 17 7 fullsized eggs on day 12 12 fullsized eggs on day 3
  17. JekkaLynn

    What breed and color are these bunnies?

    I answered an add for two baby male dwarf rabbits with a picture of little month old babies. When I went to pick them up I was given these two bunnies and told they were born on March 7! Not really babies anymore :P Can anyone tell me what breed they are? And what their coloring is called. A...
  18. JekkaLynn

    Looking for plans for seethrough sided hatcher

    I would like to have my husband build me a glass/plexi-glass sided hatcher for lockdown. I would be lending it out to schools, preschoolers, home schoolers, and 4-h groups for kids to be able to gather around and watch eggs hatch. It would only be for during lockdown the eggs would be incubated...
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    Can Anyone Tell Me The Breed and Gender?

    I bought three two month old millefleur bantam chicks but I don't know what breed they are. I picked the three with the smallest combs and am hoping they are pullets. Chick # 1 The biggest and darkest chick. Chick # 2 The middle sized chick has the most red color Chick # 3 The...
  20. JekkaLynn

    HovaBATOR Incubator Model 1586- Tips for success?

    My husband saw how disappointed I was when the only hen I could get to go broody was a tiny little banty and that she was trying to hatch over a dozen eggs and setting herself up to fail. So he bought me an incubator and an automatic egg turner. We put it together and set it up on our counter...
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