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    Shipped eggs and new incubator, horrible hatch rate.

    My first time having eggs shipped to me. I had three different shippers. The first batch of 14 eggs in incubator One: I had 12 show growth at week 1, but at week 2 only 3 were still growing. The rest stopped. Second and third batch (6 and 15) in incubator Two: I had 19 with growth at week 1...
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    Help Troubleshoot Home-Made Incubator

    A couple years ago a built a large incubator from a wood crate. It was about 4ft tall and really heavy but it did a great job. I loaned it to a friend. and with all the time on my hands I decided to build a smaller one. Using a similar idea as the original one (and I wish I could find the...
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    Adding to the flock with Mareks?

    It's been a rough chicken year. We've lost about 10 birds since last spring, all young, to what I am confident is mareks. We would lose a bird about every 4-6 weeks. The symptoms were too textbook so we didn't have a necropsy done. Out of our new chickens that were a year or less, I have two...
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    Regulating Temp in Home Made Cabinet Incubaor

    My boys and I built this incubator for our Homeschool engineering class and we are going to hatch a couple batches for science. We wanted to hatch our own this year to add to our flock so we are making it all part of school. We've gotten the humidity up, but can't seem to get the temp right...
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    Sour Crop Won't Go Away

    This is my first year with chickens so I am really new at this. I have what is supposed to be a BLRW, (she's larger than all my other birds by a lot and we wondered for a bit if she was a rooster). I got her at a couple days old on mothers day in May. I noticed her crop was swollen on...
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