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    What I have learned this time

    The eggs do not hatch out in order of pipping. The first chick hatched out was the first to pip. the second one was the 8th to pip. This time the lighter eggs pipped first. only had one dark one pip with them and that was number 8. They stay a long time sometime between pip and hatch. It is...
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    Genesis 1588 incubator people

    I have a genesis 1588 and have used it a few years ago. I thought it held the temp and humidity well at that time. I am doing a hatch now and it swings from 99.4 to 99.9 in just seconds. Back and forth. I set it at 99.1 to get it that stable. The humdity stays between 30 and 35 % I put an...
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    How do you candle with 46 eggs?

    I wonder how to get the eggs all candled without letting them get too cold. If I take them all out they will get cold so maybe take half out and then do the other half? And when it is lock down I will have to take them all out so I can remove the turner. That scares me too. LOL
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    Is this a blood ring?

    Can an egg have a blood ring that has not been in the incubator? I candled eggs I was going to set and found a couple like this.
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    Humidity

    I have two temp and humidity instruments. They say different humidity. Temps are very close and I have other things to see temps on so I am not as worried about that as I am humidity. I am calibrating them with salt slurry right now but my question is.........if the humidity in the house is...
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    Mottled egg shells

    I have not been here for a while but what to hatch some replacement chickens. I gathered eggs and candled them and they all seem to be mottled. I am surprised they are because I thought that meant they are thin but they are not really easy to break when I fix something to eat. I had a hard...
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    Can I use Bacitracin ointment with zinc?

    I know that bactiene is the choice but I don't have any. I have a baby chick with a small protrusion on the naval area. I thought that bacitracin with zinc might work. ing are just bacitracin and zinc 500 units. I will wait for an answer. Thanks
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    Who has a Genesis incubator?

    Do you have a problem with the thermometer on you 1588? I have the genesis and it seems the thermometer and maybe the moisture meter are off a little. I have 4 other thermometers in it and they all read different but they are all lower than the genesis one. Could that be because it reads...
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    Crazy Hen

    Hi, I joined this group a long time ago but there wasn't much going on here then. Glad to see some people talking here and some close to my home in Parma. Anyway, I thought I would share with you about this little hen I have that gives me a laugh almost every day. I hatched her out of some...
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    Calling all Genesis incubator users!

    I have a Genesis 1588 and am interested in what other users thing about the humidity and temp gages. I have several thermometers and have check with them all and the temperature's are all different. Some are close and they say the Genesis is reading higher than those thermometers by about 3...
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    Cross beak

    I have a chick starting to get a cross beak. I swear it wasn't there when it hatched. Does that happen after sometimes? It isn't too bad right now. I just wonder if anyone has had this happen and does it get worse as they get older?
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    Are Dewlap Toulouse geese hard to incubate?

    I am wondering if I need to know something special to incubate Dewlaps. My sil wants me to hatch some eggs for her. They will be shipped eggs. I have not done ducks or geese before. I need to read up on incubating them and trick or what ever to make it happen. Hope someone will answer me...
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    Toulouse geese eggs

    Does any have any Toulouse geese eggs for sell? I can't find the geese locally so was hoping to find eggs for incubating. Thanks, Micki No longer want them. Thanks
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    6 week old chick not walking a lot

    These are hatcher chicks. I hatched 4 eggs in an incubator my son made and decided to buy 4 others to keep them company. I have ees and I bought Turkens. The Turkens were probably a couple of days older but it seemed the grew a lot faster than my ees. They got big fast and are still bigger...
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    poopie butts

    I have some 5 week chicks that I just put out into the chicken house. It is not air tight and has a screened window. I put a light there but it is kind of high off the ground and doesn't give much light. I have 4 Turkens and 4 EE's. All the Turkens have poo collected on their bottom...
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    Portable brooder

    I thought you might want to see what I found to brood my chicks in. I ordered a bunch of chicks from a hatchery and was trying to think of a way to brood them. I used to us cardboard boxes all taped together before and they were a pain so I wanted something that I could use over and over. As...
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    Hatching at the little end

    Here is a picture of my shipped egg surprise. It is trying to hatch at the little end. I really don't want to lose this one. I think it is a blue lace wyandotte. It chirpped and is moving in there. I have a couple of others that are pipping but they are not my shipped eggs. Wheaten...
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    Lock down!

    I just put my 42 eggs in lock down....14 are shipped eggs. I don't know about the development because I can't see into most of them. Only the air cell and it seems good on all of them. I am so discuraged though about the humidimeters. I have one on the genises 1588 and two I have bought...
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    Can my genesis 1588 humidimeter be that far off?????

    I calibrated my Timex hydrometer and it said 73 meaning it was 2 % low. so I put it in the bator and it went to 53 meaning it was really 55% and my bator read 35%. Could it really be that far off??? I am so upset because I though I was doing a dry hatch and now I feel like it has always been...
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    The difference between red and black sex link eggs?

    I have 5 and 5 of the sex links. I also have a lot of different hens. I know since I have gotten the sex links I have been getting some really dark brown eggs. I just wondered what the color difference is with the red and the black sex links eggs are. I am thinking that the dark ones are...
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