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    I cant get rid of red mites!

    Help! I live in Spain and my chicken hutch has had red mites now for several months. I have used two types of spray for mites and have diatomaceous earth in there and where they dust bath. But they just keep coming back. Several chickens have died over the last few months. None recently as I am...
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    4 week old chicks outside in warm weather?

    I live in Spain and it is 85+ F during the day and 68+ F at night going up to over 100+ next week in the day and 85+ at night. I have 3 chicks who have lots of feathers but are not completely covered. I am wondering if I can put them outside (they have a hut of course) at night with out an...
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    Pipped but not hatching

    Hello! I have had 4 fertile eggs in my hatch (my second time, first was a disaster and changed incubator since then). 2 have hatched, one 24 hours ago. There are two left and one has pipped about 12 hours ago but is not hatching. I have a brinsea eco and I am finding it hard to keep the humidity...
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    Are Brinsea really good incubators?

    I bought an incubator which is a disaster, not holding the temperature at all. So I have decided that I need to repurchase and thinking of a Brinsea. I only have a small budget so thinking Brinsea Eco 2 - 10 eggs, manual turning. Have people had good experiences of them? It seems you can't...
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    Sneezing chickens

    I have a small flock of chickens, some of them have been sneezing for quite some time. They are 6 months old or 1.5 years old. This morning I have one chicken (6 months) who is still in the hutch sleeping, she is not one that has been sneezing. We lost a couple earlier in the year and I would...
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    Help to understand failed hatch

    So I had a failed hatch. Its my first time incubating chicken eggs. There was definitely problems with the temperature, which I am now sorting. However I am wondering what else may have happened. I had 28 eggs, 1 hatched but only with our help after it had been trying for 36 hours and died...
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    Incubator temperator

    I have a 48 egg incubator that I bought online. The first batch failed bar one chick who I am hoping will survive. The problem was the temperature. It is much lower than it should be. I have a couple of termometers in there at the moment, a room one and an oral one (neither digital) and they are...
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    Hatchting failed?

    Hi all For the first time I am attempting to hatch chickens in an incubator. We have our own flock and cockerel so the eggs are from there. It is day 25 and almost nothing has happened. I was about to open the incubator this morning (still day 24) and candle the eggs to see what was happening...
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