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    Yay! The Ducks Are Home!!

    After My 2 mallard ducks left I got 3 2 week old free Roueon ducks. i put them in a chicken stall with my baby chicks!. Will the chicks drown in my duck pool??
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    Pics Of Homemade Incubators

    Ok so I am abou to build a homemade incubator and was wondering how did you guys make you Incubators? I already saw the index of them. So show me your awesome incubators!11 :bun:yiipchick:welcome
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    EGG Turner Trouble!!

    So I need a new egg turner so I looked in Mcmurray hatchery catalog and they have a egg rack. So I saw a motor for the turner and was wondering If I bought the egg rack and the motor would they hook up and make a egg turner??... PS:: FEEL FREE TO CHIP IN ANY COMMENTS
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    I need HELP with Incubator!!

    I started gathering supplies for my homemade incubator to start, but I needed a egg turner and didn't want 2 spend alot of $$$. I was wondering can chicks still hatch if you never turn them?? PS::: Feel FREE TO CHIP IN COMMENTS!1 Home to: 3 dogs, 2 cats, 2horses, and LOT'S OF CHICKENS!!
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    Building a INCUBATOR!!!

    So I wanted to save money and build a homemade incubator. How do you build one?? Please HELP MEEE!!! PS:: FEEL FREE TO CHIP IN COMMENTS
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    HELP!!! I need good advice

    OK so I have 3 banty hens who have been setting on eggs for a long time and 2 of them hatched out 6 chicks together and only 1 died. When they set on eggs again I want 2 put them in a incubator. I have seen other people's homemade styrofoam incubators and I wonder How Do You make them??..
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    Raising CUTE BABY CHICKs

    OMG when I went out to my barn this morning and looked at my broody hen she started clucking. so when she moved about 6 inches I saw this cute yellow chick which was a mix of White Leghorn and bantam silkie. Will anymore chicks hatch out or will she leave the nest?? PS: Any body feel free 2 chip...
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    INCUBATING and HATCHING EGGS

    Ok so have a big barn like a 20x50 and my chickens roost and lay eggs. so up at the top of the barn In the rafters I have 3 bantam chickens that are setting on eggs. I am planning on buying a incubator that only holds about 3 eggs that is only about $17.40. If one of my two roosters fertilizes...
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    Aracauna Madness!!

    OK so I have 5 aracauana chicks and I knew they were related to the Americauna. will they lay Easter Eggs????
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    Weird Behavior!!!!!!

    I just went out to my barn and amy Buff Oprington Hen was sitting on the nestbox. So I moved the hen out of the nest and there was NO EGG!!. She's been doing this for the past 2 months. I wonder if I put fertile eggs under her will she hatch them??? Also my banty hen who was sitting on about 16...
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    Raising Baby Chicks

    IM a Newbie to BYC and my 7 week old aracauna chicks are just starting to roost on the rabbit hutch. YAY!!. Do you guys know when they will start laying eggs.
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    What"s The Difference

    I was wondering something about chicken coops. Is it better to have chickens cramped up in a coop or to have them Free Range?? I know It depends on how many chickens you have to let them free or caged. I have my chickens free ranged because they like 2 enjoy themselves insince I have about 2 1/2...
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    Whats the point of SAVE a CHICK??

    A couple of weeks ago I went to tractor supply and they had their chick, duck, turkey, and goose events. When I was done looking for some good pullets I saw three little packages that said Save-a-chick. I was wandering what does that mean if you have food,water, and a good heatlamp...
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    Feeding and Watering your Flock

    I just got done feeding my 6 week old aracauna chicks. They loved it!!!! It is so funny watching them go in zigzags after it. And when they did get one all of the other ones chased after it :bun:ya:cd
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    Raising Baby Chicks

    I have 10 baby chicks in my barn that I am raising. I have 4 baby bantams and 6 Baby Aracauna's. I am just about to feed them crickets and mealworms. Will they eat them?
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    Predators and Pests

    Ok I had just moved my 5 cute aracauna chicks from the heatlamp to the rabbit hutch to the chicken stall. They are in a inclosesd part where the big chickens come in to roost. I had just seen 6 rats in the same stall and they are about 4-8 inches long. I put rat poison in there but all of them...
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    Incubating and hatching eggs

    My white banty hen has been setting on about 16 eggs in the rafters for about 2 1/2 weeks. I know one of my 2 roo's fertilized the eggs but when will they hatch?
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