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    Rump Feather Picking?

    I have a group of chicks that are approximately 2-3 weeks old (two hatches brooding together) that started rump feather picking yesterday. I put Blue Kote on all of them immediately, thinking someone was being a bully. Then I noticed that they were picking themselves... not sure if it was...
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    Can I put new chicks in with week old chicks?

    I have a few birds that are 6 weeks old in one "weaning off the light at night" brooder, a group of chicks in another brooder indoors that are a week old. I have day old chicks from two different sources arriving this week. I thought I read somewhere that you shouldn't mix chicks of different...
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    <sigh> does this sound like a humidity issue?

    Just finished my second hatch. 12 shipped eggs and 30 from my hens. Both of my hatches went similarly, but I'm just noting the one I just finished. Out of the 30 eggs from my hens, I had 3 quitters at day 18, the rest were active and very alive. I was quite happy with the stats. The...
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    Hatching, smell?

    I have 10 chicks hatched in the bator (yay!). They have been hatching since last night, this puts me a little less than half done. I know I have one pipped one that is dead in the shell since this morning, his beak has been sticking out and not moving. He looks gooey or something from the...
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    Genesis Hovabator 1588 - keeping humidity at lockdown

    Hi all, I'm doing my first hatch and I cannot keep the humidity high enough in my incubator. It keeps falling into the 50's. I do have the plug out (as I'm assuming they need the oxygen). I have water in the bottom, and paper towels over the grate. I have wet the paper towels several times...
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    Weight loss during incubation

    Hi! (First hatch!) I have an incubator on day 16 if you count the day I put them in as day 1 (it was 4/21/15, not sure if that's correct numbering or not). I weighed my eggs at the start and they averaged 50.75g. I weighed them this morning and they averaged 45.5 for an average loss of...
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