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    "Glassed fertile eggs" could they hatch?

    I've been watching about preserving eggs and a thought came to mind...wonder if the eggs just might hatch if they were fertile...since they are not refrigerated....what if????
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    Pink eggs

    I want to breed some pink egg layers. Wouldn't it be cool to have pink-pink eggs? And maybe pink with brown speckles? I'm toying with a crossing recipe to see what happens but all my chickens I want to use are too young so I'm at least 2 years away I'm thinking...lol If only we could sprinkle...
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    Ameraucana chicks???

    Hey guys! Last week I got my first ever order from a hatchery...I ordered 5 ameraucana day old pullets, now 1 week later they dont really look like ameraucanas to me. Their little combs are starting to grow in, they all look alike and they don't have the puffy cheeks like some others I have or...
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    Incubator knocked off by cat

    I had 38 eggs in the incubator that were supposed to go lockdown tomorrow night. The bedroom door was left open and my daughtors cat jumped up on the incubator and knocked it off the dresser. OMG what a oozy bloody mess. I picked through them and salvaged about 9 that were not broken and about...
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    Is this whats called Creole????

    My dad just brought him to me...he wanted to eat him but I wanted to breed him first!!!! We eats em later lol
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    I cant remember when I set this batch of eggs

    Im so mad at myself because I just cant remember. I always put it on my calendar but this time I got so busy and sidetracked I forgot. As best I could tell when I candled they looked around day 15-18 so I locked them down saturday night late. What happens if its too early...am I going to loose...
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    Upright Hatching Lockdown

    23 eggs just locked down for my 2nd upright hatch! Got some "Buzzard-naked neck-turkins" in this batch!!!!
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    I was wondering if these are Maran roosters?

    Not sure about the black and white one...or this black hen
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    40 EGGS IN INCUBATOR NOW!!!

    I have 7 Turken/Naked Necks and 33 Buckeye X NHRs due on the 25th. I am running dry incubtion like last time and am going to hatch upright again. Last time I had 100% hatch!!! All the chicks are alive and well. When they hatched out last time I would take them out and cover their little heads...
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    Feathers, spurs & combs

    I have a chicken I was told was a hen, it was bought with several more hens and is an EE they said. It was supposed to be 5-6 months old and I have had it since the first of August. It has not laid an egg yet, it has no signs of spurs,it does not crow, its legs are a slate greenish color- thin...
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    Hatching upright in egg cartons

    Well, I had read many post on the subject of upright hatching and decided on my 3rd hatch to try it. My first 2 batches were incubated at 99.5/101* the entire time, this 3rd batch was in an old incubator at 101/103* with an automatic turner and placed upright in the paper cartons on lockdown...
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    Cracked egg & Nail Polish

    I painted the dent and crack with rose color nail polish and placed it in the incubator...day 23 and just look!!!
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    No more pips...day 22

    Hey guys, yesterday 4 chicks hatched, I have 10 more eggs but none have pipped and Im feeling worried about it
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    This is day 20...first time with hatching

    Oh gosh...who would ever have thought the wait would be almost unbearable lol!!!
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    Thick snotty like liquid from beak, bad smell, wilted comb, lethargic

    My NHR rooster is not crowing, he has liquid driping from beak yesterday that today is thick and snotty like, he has that nasty dog ear smell and is just standing around dozing off, his comb looks kinda wilted over and I havent noticed him eating but he did squirt a blob of butter colored poop...
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    Whole corn

    Is it ok to feed my birds whole corn? I am feeding them a mix of flock starter/laying pellets/gamebird feed/laying mash/fermented oat groats/ manna pro egg fortifier/ oyster shell(seperate) and occasionally the grit and I wondered about adding the whole corn (not chops). Thinking the corn...
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    First time incubating

    Hey guys! This is my first time trying to hatch eggs, I bought a little giant 9300 still air and have followed the instructions and watched some videos on how to do it and my question is...I changed the temp setting to 99.8 and it seems to flux between 98.9 and 99.5 with 45% humidity. Is this...
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    Holding eggs

    Hey guys! My dad told me to remove my eggs and mark them with the date and mark each side, keep them turned and when i had as many as i wanted to hatch then place them back in the nest for the hen to set. He said all would hatch about the same time that way and by marking them i would be able to...
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    Buckeyes & partridge cochins???

    I just bought 4 hens, 2 buckeyes and 2 partridge cochins...if they breed with my new hampshire red rooster or my maran rooster what will the chicks be? Maybe sexlinks???
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    copper maran x with a silver lace wyandotte hen

    Copper maran rooster x silver wyandotte hen =??? New hampshire rooster x silver wyandotte hen = ??? I bought what a guy said was a copper maran and he keeps pecking my silver lace wyandotte hen...if they breed what will the chicks be???? Maybe I should put her in with the NH rooster??? I...
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