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    Incubator Troubles, Any Local Vendors in Bay Area?

    My hovabator genesis isn't working: the fan comes on but not the heater. The problem is, I've got eggs from eBay that arrived today. Anybody know where I can pick up a relatively cheap incubator in the Bay Area (peninsula to be more specific)? Thanks!
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    Broody Hen + eBay Eggs= Leave Her Be?

    My buff has gone broody and I have taken sympathy on her and decided to buy some fertile eggs for her to sit on. The eggs should be here in the next few days. My question is this. I have a henspa and the nesting boxes are upstairs. She is currently camped out in the middle box. I am...
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    DOA

    Out of my 32 remaining eggs I got 16 healthy babies. However out of the remaining eggs there were about 6 eggs that didn't hatch, but had candled well. I waited three days after day 21 before opening up the incubator and cracked up the eggs. I found fully formed chicks that seems to have died...
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    Hopping the Brooder Guard

    My three week olds are getting frisky. They are flying on top of the brooder guard and then onto the garage floor. My wife called earlier to report that the garage is like "chicks gone wild!" I was thinking of taking an old screen door and putting the mesh on top to prevent fly aways. Does...
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    Incubating Eggs/Candling/Tough Decisions

    Just thought I'd write a little bit about my incubation process. I started by ordering eggs via Meyer Hatchery and EBay. Interestingly enough, the Meyer eggs packed in foam suffered damage with two eggs cracked beyond repair. The EBay eggs were all safe and sound. The eggs are a random...
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    3 Week Old Chicks and New Borns

    I had the good fortune of receiving 3 chicks that were a week old yesterday. The chicks, 1 barred rock, 1 light light brahma and 1 golden laced wyandotte, will be 3 weeks old when the other kids hatch. I am presuming that I should setup another brooder for the new ones so that their older...
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    Filling a Full Hova-Bator with Egg Turner

    Well, I'm off to start a family...A chicken family that is and I have loaded up my Hova-Bator with 42 eggs. My question for you is, how do you fill the channel once the eggs are placed in the egg turner? I think that picking up the turner with all those eggs would end is disaster! Any ideas...
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    Low Spouse Impact Chickens

    Hi Everybody, I'm interested in raising a few chickens in our backyard. I raised chicks as a child and enjoyed the hobby, so why not relive the magic? The hitch is my wife is not a poultry lover. But she IS absolutely nuts about eggs. After making some tentative promises and concessions I...
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