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    Using american games for broodys?

    I'm going to try to use american games to do my hatching next year. I know silkies are great but I want to let them grow in the pasture free ranging and that will not work with silkies. Are any lines more broody than others? Can I expect to raise two clutches a year per hen? I'll be hatching my...
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    shipping eggs

    I candled some eggs today day 9 and confirmed what I feared. I ordered six recieved 8 intact and one broke. I had a pretty good idea before I opened the box that there would be problems. The seller had took the time to wrap every egg in bubble wrap and split cartons into and lined the edges of...
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    brinsea mini advance

    I purchased a mini advance this spring and have been hatching chicks with pretty good success. The plate that came with it is for seven chicken sized eggs. They offer a 12 egg plate for quail and pheasant eggs. I don't have any pheasant eggs for size comparison but does anyone know if it will...
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    Help with color genetics.

    I ordered a bantam special from Ideal a couple months ago. Due to an extra day shipping and a power outage I only have eight left. A white cochin pullet, a black frizzle cochin pullet and a red cochin cockerel. I plan to keep this trio together but what kind of offspring will they produce? I...
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    Help please identifying bantams.

    I got these from Ideal poultry. I think most were oeg bantams but want to make sure and know what color they are called.They are nine weeks old. pic one is a cochin I believe it's a cockerel but hoping otherwise. pic two is either blue or silver laced but not sure what. pic three is a...
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    21 days mini advance

    I like this mini advance. First time incubating. Started with seven FBCM and threw one out at day 14 because it was clear. The remaining six all hatched.
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    14 days with the mini advance

    Well I just got through with my second candling of seven FBCM eggs I put in the incubator two weeks ago. One was a pourus egg and clear the first time I candled. Same this week. I was unsure of what I would find or how it would smell so I went out back dug a hole and cracked it on the shovel...
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    Brinsea Mini Adv

    Just started setting 7 fbcm eggs in my new Brinsea Mini Adv yesteday. Does anyone know how to stop the alarm from sounding every time the eggs turn?
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    Anyone have any idea on breed/gender

    I need some help identifying these guys or gals. They were part of a bantam assortment. They will be four weeks old tuesday. Chick one is tiny even compared to the other bantams. Chick two seems to have some blue on the back with bronze or red on the breast Chick three I'm sure is a frizzle...
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    what causes broken yolks

    I have one hen that is laying great. She's missed two days in the couple months and made up for both of them the same weeks with a couple two for one days. She's free ranging alot and her yolks are bright orange. I was cooking the other night and noticed all of the yolks were broke in the bowl...
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    Thought I lost one tonight.

    I ordered a bantam special a few weeks ago. There is one tough little fellow that is dwarfed by the other bantams in the brooder and thigh high on the rir that are the same age in the brooder. Fed them tonight and couldn't find the chick. I searched through the pine shavings looking for it and...
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    heat source

    I've never built an incubator but would like to get it right the first time. I'm not crazy about lights for heat sources. I also would like to go straight 120v instead of wiring some stuff 120 and the fans through an adapter. I've thought about it alot and came up with a cheap heater like you...
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    Ordering Bantams from hatchery.

    I would like to start by saying hello to all the BYC members. I've been stalking here for a while and decided to join in on the fun. I ordered some chicks from Ideal a few weeks ago. I originally wanted some delewares but not many. I ordered 5 st run delewares and they had a hatchery choice...
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