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    Toulouse x Buff Geese Hatching Eggs

    UPDATE: New for 2017, they are laying like crazy. People who bought them lasts year had a great hatch, and some got buffs out of them. Beautiful big eggs from my mixed Toulouse and Buff flock. The ganders are Toulouse, and the geese are Toulouse and Buffs, so you will get a mix of purebred...
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    Our "home mix" with no local grain mill

    We live in an area where there's no local mill, so no chance to custom-order a mix. I have had to mix and match from what's available at our local feed store. I had been feeding some whole grains all along, but then we lost a bunch of birds to the horrible heat early this summer, and those that...
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    FOR TRADE: TWO (yes, two) Brinsea Octagon Eco incubators for your hatching eggs

    We are switching from Brinsea to Genesis as we concentrate on bantams - these have hatched hundreds of babies for me but they are no longer in use. Both are - Well used (I would guess 10-15 hatches each), - About 18-24 months old, - Completely disassembled, cleaned, sterilized, and...
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    Poulin chick starter (thumbs up!)

    I have now used just about all the brands available to me (Blue Seal, DuMor, Purina, and Poulin) and keep coming back to the Poulin. It's by far the most appetizing to the chicks and it's a much better and more uniform crumble than any of the others. Blue Seal is a true mash - everything comes...
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    Hatching upright in the Brinsea octagon

    I just finished a small but precious hatch in my Eco, and wanted to try the "egg carton" method in the incubator. I didn't want to use egg cartons, though, because I worried about changing the humidity or offgassing. So based on an offhand mention in one of the threads here, I just kept them in...
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    New Brinsea 10% off code: FBME10 good through Jan. 31

    They posted this on Facebook for public consumption so no worries that we'll get in trouble like the Marans Club code. Happy ordering!
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    Why no washing/disinfecting eggs?

    I've spent about a week reading everything I can on bacterial infections and egg hatching. I got interested because it seems like everybody just says "Oh well, blood ring," or "Oh well, didn't pip," and that's that. It seemed to me that it shouldn't be OK for lots of chicks to be dying due to...
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    Help me analyze my hatch!

    My incubator is a new Brinsea Eco, hand-turned multiple times a day. Temperature and humidity were where I wanted them to be - right around 99.8 and 40%-50% (which is our ambient RH this time of year - the water in the single well evaporated very slowly and I only had to refill it every three to...
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    Wanted: Eggs, feather-footed or heavy type, prefer local (NH MA ME)

    We're nearing the end of our first hatch, with 12 of 18 shipped EEs heading into lockdown, so we feel confident enough of our incubator skills to put in some purebreds. We're looking for feather-footed OR other heavy (English-style) LF or bantam, breeding/SOP quality - we won't be showing but I...
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    Hi from NH

    I've been lurking for a while and already posted in a couple of the dog threads, so I figured I should come over and say hello. We're in Plaistow, NH, on a few acres and are just beginning to add chickens to the picture. I grew up with them (I actually lived across the road from Tony DiPaolo in...
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