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    Over adventurous chick

    So one of my broodies refused to be moved, and hatched ( is still hatching at this moment) eggs in a nest in the coop. The nest only has a low back. Last night I was outside in a driving rain because wind had blown the tarp off a small coop I use as a broody house, where there was a hen and 7...
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    Moving Broody Hens

    I do not have very good success moving broody hens to a better place. I do it at night. Is there a time frame in turns of number of days of sitting in which they will accept being moved?
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    Moving broody hens

    I have a 25% success rate this year at moving broodies and having them brood in the new location. And I am not entirely sure that my two successes have not been the same chicken who hatched chicks Jan 22/23 already starting again. Others I tried to move refused to sit on eggs in the new place...
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    What incubator should I buy?

    My old Farm Innovator went crazy and fried my beautiful carefully selected eggs. It read the right temp but it was lying. What should I buy if I can’t afford a Brinsea? Another one just like the one I have looks like the best deal in features for money, but how could I ever trust one again...
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    Introduction

    Somehow I think I have done this before, but maybe you purge inactive members? Or maybe I read but never joined. I have been keeping chickens since 1986. I knew nothing when I started, I knew no one to ask, and there was no internet. I bought adult hens, whom I now realize were almost...
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    Incubator temperature issue?

    I have had some wonderful successes and some terrible failures this year. Successes this year mostly due to the broodies. I did hatch 8 in the incubator early from when a hen quit sitting during a spring cold snap. Anyway, this is about my horrible failure. At the same time as I set my...
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