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    Hen acting wierd...

    Hello. So this morning I went outside too do my regular chicken stuff, and something wierd happend that I have never seen before. One of my hens was on top of another one of my hens, doing you know what roosters do. I am only raising hens right now, and each one of them I have seen lay an egg...
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    Incubating Trouble

    Last year I started hatching chicks, and I did three batches. The first batch I put in about 30 eggs and got 2 chicks. The second batch I put in 21 eggs and got 1 chick ( Which was deformed ) And the last batch I did I put in 25 eggs and got 3 chicks. What happend? Did I do something wrong? The...
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    Calling people from New York!

    Hey just wondering were you live and what you do.:old
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    Calling people from New York!

    Hey just wondering were you live and what you do.:old
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    Chickens in winter

    Hey Guys, Im not a chicken master defiantly when it comes too winter. I know that chickens do not lay as much as they would in winter, but I need to know what would keep my girls happy. We get up too four feet of snow were we live, and I don't want them stuffed in that coop which would make them...
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    Done????...

    Hello. I have been hatching chickens for 3 years now. I have had successful batches in the past. But this year was not as I expected, First batch i put in 14 eggs and only two hatched... Second batch i put in 20 eggs One hatched but it was crippled and deformed... My third batch i put in 25...
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    Feeding poultry - Chickens Chat thread!!

    Hey. I put together this chat thread too see if using pellets for chickens is good. Should I use scraps?? Put together oats, or corn, or cornmeal, I want the chickens too be healthy. Right now I use pellets. But in the future I want too use stuff from home. Any ideas, questions, or comments I...
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    Chickens?? Or ducks. Which one?? Chat threads! And Votes!!

    Hey guys... You ready to have a poultry party?? What is your favorite poultry animal whether it be chickens, ducks, turkeys, Ect... Tell us what ones are the easiest too incubate, Or.. Just have Fun!!! Also debates are welcome! My favorite poultry animal is probably chickens, they just make...
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    Humidity in incubator Vs Humidity outside...

    Hey, we live were there is a lot of humidity, and I'm incubating. Last night I woke up around 1 o'clock in the morning, and the humidity was all the way up too 70% with it only being day 6 that is very high, is there anything I can do?? The humidity is always at 55-62% and I keep opening the...
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    Hatch rate....

    Hey, I am down too 4 chickens, I put 22 eggs in the incubator. I am a little worried because all the other batches were fails... Is there anything I can do to increase there hatch rate?? I turn them three times a day and I keep the humidity at 45-55% and the temperature at 102.5F because it is...
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    Humidity...

    Hey, it is day 1 of incubation and I'm concerned about my humidity. It keeps going up to 62-65% is this fine?? The temperature is perfectly fine.
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    Day 1...

    Hey, it is day 1 in incubation. The temperature is perfectly fine. It is very hot and humid were we live so the humidity shoots up to 62-65% is it bad for the humidity to be that way? Thanks.
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    Day 22!! Help

    Hey, today is day 22 i have had one out of six hatch, should I be seeing the eggs wattle? if the eggs don't wattle does that mean there dead??
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    Help! Chicks

    Today is day 22 our power went out last week so they are a little late, we have the total of six eggs, I have a question, should the eggs wattle before they pip? because I'm a little worried. because they are not moving, should I be worried? also I have the total of one chick, the important part...
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    Power out for 24 hours

    Hey, so the day before last we had a tornado watch. the wind gusts for up to 75 mph and of course the power went out the electric company was not available until 24 hours later, the power finally went on the next night, during the power outage i had blankets over the incubator the whole time...
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    Opening the bator??

    Hey, I have seven of my white giant mixed breeds in my incubator. in my previous batches when the chicks hatch they are learning how to walk, the turn all of the other eggs that have piped, my question is, is so i risk the chance of opening the incubator to turn them back to where they were? or...
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    Humidity

    Hey today is day 1 of incubation, I have 16 eggs in the incubator , but my problem is that the humidity goes up to 70-75% sometimes even 80% the temperature will not go up, plus I don't want the eggs to not form,
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    Rooster dead??

    Hey, so let me start off with this morning, this morning my road island red rooster was active doing is normal routine, when I walked out about 5-6 hours later i found him dead, so what could have caused his death, I checked everywhere for signs no blood no bad bites nothing, it was raining but...
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    Laying hens

    Hey, is there a way to make chickens lay? I need to incubate but I'm not getting any eggs except one a day, I have tried putting fake eggs the nesting boxes, that's no good, Thank you!
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    Chicks die in power outage!

    Hey, I have had my power out for two days, I finally got it back, the bad news was i was raising baby chicks, we had received news that a wind storm was about to hit, and I was aware of that until the power went out, the first chick died the first hour ( it was having difficulties with birth...
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