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  1. BrownEggFan

    Will this be OK to feed baby chicks?

    I have two chicks that hatched today and possibly several more on the way. I'll be moving some to the brooder tonight or tomorrow morning, but I have a question regarding what I should feed them. I had purchased some 32% protein, medicated turkey "pre-starter" for some quail I had purchased...
  2. BrownEggFan

    I have a pip!!! **UPDATE** 4 eggs = 4 chicks!!!

    Today is day #21 and I came home from work to find my first egg pipped...YAHOO!!!!
  3. BrownEggFan

    Second attemp is in lockdown!!

    My first hatch didn't go very well at all. I had 4 eggs that quit around day #8 and 4 eggs that completely developed, but never hatched. I posted another thread regarding the eggtopsies. ANYWAY, I wasn't going to try hatching any more, but all of you enablers here at BYC convinced me to try...
  4. BrownEggFan

    Day 14 - Temperature spike!! Need advice...

    My homemade forced-air incubator was holding the temp steady at 99.3 for the first 10 - 11 days. Then, without explanation, the temp rose to 100.4. I had not made any changes and the bator is in the basement without any doors or windows so the ambient temp stays almost dead constant. I wasn't...
  5. BrownEggFan

    Will this work for a chick pen??

    I have a hen that went broody two days after I put 6 eggs in the incubator. I added a few more under her that evening, so now she is sitting on 8 eggs that are due to hatch on the 3rd of August. I built a separate coop for her so there wasn't competition for the nesting box space (I have 2...
  6. BrownEggFan

    Will the eggs be OK? Input please...

    Ok, so I have a hen that went broody and got tired of fighting with her. Like the saying goes, "if you can't beat them, join them", I decided to add 6 more eggs to her clutch. She has been sitting on the eggs 3 days now; HOWEVER, when I went to collect the eggs this evening, she was setting on...
  7. BrownEggFan

    She has definately gone broody!! - PICS added

    I went to the coop to collect the eggs on Monday evening and was surprised to find one of my Red Sex Link hens sitting in the nesting box. She jumped up right away and headed into the run. I gathered up the eggs and didn't think much else of it. Yesterday, I went down around 6:15 and there...
  8. BrownEggFan

    Set eggs at this morning!

    Hey all, I just put 6 RSL eggs in the new incubator this morning. My last batch was a disaster (4 full-grown chicks never hatched and 4 egs never developed) and I considered calling it quits. However, you guys are a bunch of enablers and encouraged me to keep trying; so I built a new bator...
  9. BrownEggFan

    I've given up hope!! GRAPHIC PICS

    Well, my chicks were due to hatch last Sunday. I wanted to give them a few extra days, but so far nothing has happened. I opened the bator on the 5th day of lockdown since there were none pipping, and candled the eggs. Four were no good and four were completely filled with chick except for...
  10. BrownEggFan

    Setting my 1st eggs!!

    Ok, so I'm going to put my first batch of eggs in the bator on Sunday. These are eggs I collected from my current flock (ISA Brown hybrid hens with a red sex-link roo) and the bator is homemade. I've never incubated eggs before, so this should be a learning experience if nothing else. This is...
  11. BrownEggFan

    Completely shelless egg

    I was watering my birds this morning and thought I'd check the nesting box. Well, I opened the lid and there was a completely shelless egg!! These hens are all seasoned layers and I feed 21% layer mash with calcium AND free choice oyster shell. The six hens and my roo get about a cup to a cup...
  12. BrownEggFan

    Scratch vs. grains

    I have read that scratch should not be fed during warmer weather as it raises the body temperature of the birds. Also, feeding too much grain can cause the birds to be overweight and not lay well. I'm new to the world of chickens, so I guess my first question is what, exactly, is scratch? I...
  13. BrownEggFan

    Got my first eggs today!

    Ok, so I'm really new at this. I was given three ISA Brown Hybrid RIR hens from a friend. They had been free range and laying well, but when he moved them back to the coop, they quit. I picked them up Saturday evening and there were two eggs in the nesting box today. I added three more hens...
  14. BrownEggFan

    Homemade incubator - alternate method to regulate temp

    Hello, I am new to this site and the world of backyard chickens! I recently built a chicken tractor and received 3 Rhode Island Red hens from a friend who wanted to reduce the size of his flock. These chickens had been with a RIR rooster, so I'm hoping that I may be able to incubate some eggs...
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