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    Best incubator for high altitude?

    I'm currently using the Nurture Right 360 and hatched my first chicken eggs with a 25% hatch rate, my second hatch is Jumbo quail and my hatch rate is 6% (2 hatched out of 29 eggs shipped from Myshire) . I live at 10,000 ft above sea level and understand from all my research that hatching at...
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    High altitude hatching advice

    I live at 10,000ft in Colorado and am hatching my first batch of chicken eggs sourced locally. Things inside the eggs were looking good at day 7 but at day 12 it looks like most embryos stopped growing. I’m using a nurture right 360 incubator running at about 100 degrees and 50-52% humidity...
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    Soft egg continuously breaking

    Hello! I'm stumped and could use some help/advice. I have a 1yr 4mo old sex link chicken laying soft eggs that break almost daily when another chicken goes into the nesting box to lay. The nest box hay gets wet and the other chickens end up eating the egg. She is fed Purina Layena crumbles with...
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    Sick chicken pooped out something weird, what is it?

    One of my buff ops, 9mo old, has been looking sick, not moving too much, puffed up, tail feathers down. I thought maybe egg bound so I brought her inside and have been doing magnesium baths. She’s been pooping runnyish poops and eating and drinking small amounts. This morning I found this in her...
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    Help! Egg yolk looking poop.

    the past few days I’ve noticed some poop that looks like egg yolk in the roost tray. My chickens are 5 months old and all but a few were laying just fine. I know at least one of my buff orps is the culprit b/c I can see the poop on her vent feathers but it looks like there may be another...
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    First egg at 15 weeks!!’

    One of our Barred rock mamas is just a few days over 15 weeks and she layed her first egg this morning in the roost tray! She’s been showing all the tell tale egg laying signs for the past 3 weeks and today was the day! We made some nesting boxes out of tidy cat litter containers and she’s been...
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    Cocci or normal poop?

    I have 10 17 week old chicks on non medicated feed for the past 3 weeks or so. Ive been seeing red in some poops periodically and i thought it was just intestinal lining. This looks different. Could it be cocci??? Thanks!
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    BSL Roo or Hen?

    This chick is a 9 weeks old BSL pullet purchased from TSC. She was very slow to grow and feather from the start. She had the traditional female BSL markings at a few days old. But now her feather colors are not as pronounced as the other 2 BSL chicks and she has more red around her face than any...
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    high altitude chicken newbie

    Hello! (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I'm brand new to raising chickens, I've been wanting to for years and finally took the plunge this month. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? Currently I have 10 baby chicks (3) What breeds do you have? 4 Buff...
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