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    Baby Chick full of air?

    I just found one of my chicks swelled up so big it looked like a ballon to the point that you could see the skin and light shining through it from the sun. At first I thought it was fluid and I wish I had gotten pictures. When my wife aspirated the chick it literally deflated. As soon as she did...
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    What kind/brand water nipples do you use?

    i recently started switching my cages to hanging buckets with water nipples. The goal is to eventually have them all set up to auto fill. My problem is the water nipples I purchased stop working. The first one I noticed were the ELO's normally they don't pay much attention to me unless they need...
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    Where to find Aracaunas

    Anyone know where to find pure aracaunas from a trusted breeder?
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    Electrical question for diy incubator

    I've built several cabinet style incubators now and they work great so I never change the design much from 1 build to the next. What I've always wanted to do however was build one that can run on a battery backup. The problem is, right now I use 250 watt heater coils that operate on 120vac. I...
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    Vinegar in humidity water

    i just finished building an incubator for a friend and I threw all the bells and whistles into this thing. One of the whistles is auto humidity. On my incubator I have a pan that a mister sits in with a cover and a humidity controller turns it on and off as needed. On the new incubator I added a...
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    Incubator cooler ideas

    Hello everyone. I built a quick cabinet style incubator a few years ago and to my surprise it worked exceptionally well. Since then I've built version 2 and version 3. The latest version controls humidity by using a water tank and a pond mister. The thing all all have in common though is in the...
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    Stolen Images

    Sorry guys more of a rant than anything. I was thumbing through eBay hatching eggs (because that's what I do for fun lol) and noticed a listing for 'Rare English Lavender Orpington' the problem was the 1 picture that was provided was an American type. I don't know why but I did a google image...
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    Day 0!

    It's day 0! Just put 23(broke 1) American LO's and 9 English LO's in the incubator and got 'em going good. My last two hatches both turned out good but I had too many chicks hatching a day early so I took a cheap toolbox a digital thermo controller and a digital hygro controller and built a...
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    set incubator to 99 or 100?

    My last hatch was mostly a day early and only 20 of 25 hatched. 4 quit early and 1 fully developed and yolk absorbed. The fully developed egg was bantam (I'm sure this time for those of you who ready my story about the chicken that wasn't. Lol.) that we've never successfully hatched an egg from...
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    English or American?

    Are these Orpingtons English or American variety?
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    Who Knew?

    I was reading a post earlier and it made me wonder with everything the people are capable of these days if anyone has ever transplanted an egg into a clear container and incubated it...
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    A better way to search craigslist!!

    I've been on a mission to find the right wine cooler to build my first project incubator out of. I've been keeping an eye on craigslist but everything I've ran across was either too small or the price was not right. This evening I posted on another thread that I was struggling to find the right...
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    Considering Starting a consolidated hatchery.

    Today I registered the domain name ConsolidatedHatcheries.com and began the application process for registering a business by the same name (Consolidated Hatcheries). Below is my business plan. I'm looking for thoughts on what might make it better (more appealing for both sellers and buyers) or...
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    A story about the chicken that wasn't

    My wife an I recently purchased a farm innovators incubator. I haven't used an incubator since I was a kid (25+ years ago) and I don't think my wife has ever used one. We were excited to get it set up and regulated and start our first eggs and so we did. We placed 16 mixed eggs from our...
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    2 channel timer for egg turner?

    Does anyone know where to find a 2 channel timer for use on an egg turner. My plan is to run each channel to control polarity to a dc motor and limit switches to stop rotation (not my design). The designs I've seen like this use 2 timers offset in 2 hour increments. I used to have a reptile...
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    late hatchers

    Just curious... Me and my wife placed 20 eggs in an incubator 4 weeks ago. On day 20 the eggs started hatching. All of the Australorp Wyandotte crosses hatched on day 20,21,and a couple on day 22 but the 4 bantam eggs did not. I candled them and 2 were not viable so I removed them both yolk no...
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    new incubator ideas

    This will be my first incubator and I'm currently in the design stage. I'm currently working on light placement and I'm hoping for some feedback/ideas/criticism on my current design. Below are my plans for the entire build so you know where I'm going with this. The plan for the cabinet is to...
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    Silver Laced Wyandotte Rooster Australorp Hen (sex-link?)

    I want to cross a SLW rooster with a Black Australorp hen and I'm curious if this would create a sex-link chick. If it would what are your thoughts on coloring. The way I see it (assuming the rooster is S,S and the hen is bl,bl) then the male chicks would be possibly mottled or gray-ish like a...
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