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    chicks dying for over a week

    Eight days ago, I received 18 Isbar chicks from an auction I won. When I got them, I realized they weren't all "day old" chicks--some were likely hatched within the previous day or two, but some were 10-14 days old, some maybe a week old. I was surprised, but didn't give it a lot of thought. As...
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    AUCTION 12+ BLRW Blue Laced Red Wyandotte hatching eggs

    *****please note! Auction is closed due to family urgent situation! If anyone was planning to buy, please PM me and I will arrange to ship you eggs at the listed price as soon as able (within 1 week)**** Here for your consideration are 12+ hatching eggs from my flock of Blue Laced Red...
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    Sportsman drying pipped chicks??

    Okay, so this has been my third hatch in my lovely new Sportsman 1502 incubator--up until today, they have all been my own BLRW eggs, but today I had one little lone chick hatching (shipped eggs--the rest didn't make it to lockdown). In all of the hatches, I have noticed that, once the chick...
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    Anyone want to take a guess at these Greenfire extras?

    I got a few Cream Legbars in from Greenfire this morning, but apparently they needed some friends--Greenfire shipped them with four cute little blue-ish colored feather-legged chicks. Didn't order them, not sure what the heck I'm going to do with them, and not sure what they are. My best guess...
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    AUCTION 12+ Blue Laced Red Wyandottes BLRW's Ends 6 PM MST 3/25

    Please do not use the PM to bid--bids can be placed in replies to this thread. To avoid being outbid, subscribe to this thread. Up for your consideration are 12+ BLRW eggs from my flocks of 8 hens and 2 roosters. None of my birds are hatchery stock, having been originally obtained from...
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    Auction ended

    Please do not use the PM to bid--bids can be placed in replies to this thread. To avoid being outbid, subscribe to this thread. :) Up for your consideration are 12+ BLRW eggs from my flocks of 8 hens and 2 roosters. None of my birds are hatchery stock, having been originally obtained from...
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    Send Good Thoughts!

    We live in Bountiful, UT and they are having a city council meeting tonight from 7-9 pm to discuss possibly allowing chickens hereabouts. Bountiful Citizens for Chickens has been working on this for quite a while and it seems they are pretty close to changing the ordinance. My 12 year old son...
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    What are these chicks?

    We got our shipment of baby Rocks today from Ideal, and there were 14 packing peanuts in there that all look like the same breed. Two have splayed leg, and they are all a little smaller than the buff and white rocks, but they seem otherwise healthy (and LOUD!). Anyone have any idea what they...
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    Coop roof questions...

    Okay, having never built a roof before (our other coop was a converted playhouse), I have a couple of what may actually be completely idiotic questions for the more experienced of you! We are building a 12' x 16' coop, walls made out of pallets. For the roof, what I was thinking waas a single...
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    What the heck happened??

    One of our healthy looking sweet little Blue Andalusian chicks dropped dead this afternoon for no apparent reason. We checked on the chicks (there are 15 total, various breeds), left the room, went back in a short while later, and there she was, dead on the floor of the brooder with the other...
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    Yikes! Low Flying Hawk!!

    Evidently, the local hawk population has scoped out my chickens and decided they might make a nice meal. While we were out in the yard doing some weeding this afternoon, a Cooper's hawk jetted in about 2 feet off my son's head, nearly scalped a friend who was standing near the coop, and swooped...
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    Eggtopsy questions

    I had 10 Blue Andalusians in lockdown---5 hatched early (day 19-20) and the rest didn't hatch. So tonight, after candling (can see pretty dang well into those white eggs) and seeing no movement (now into day 25), I eggtopsied them. All five were fully formed chicks with everything apparently in...
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    Quick hatching questions (breed type)

    So we've been in lockdown a few days now and the chicks have been slowly hatching out, but I've noticed an odd difference that I wondered about. The Blue Andalusians that have been hatching are taking about 27-29 hours from pip to zip pretty consistently, and they've all hatched with either...
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    They've been hatching! *pics*

    There are a lot more to go, but so far, five have hatched and 1 more has pipped. We just hit day 21 at 6pm this evening, so we had some early birds! We are already calling this one "Owl". It's an OE and just popped out of it's shell like a jack in the box when we weren't looking: The other...
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    Cat TV

    I have eggs in lockdown, day 20, in a Reptipro with the wonderful plexi see-through door and internal light so you can watch the little ones hatch. One of them hatched tonight and suddenly, after 20 days, the cats have figured out that I obviously have set up fine dining arrangements for them...
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    Need reassurance...

    Ugh, my eggs started pipping last night--25 hours ago one of them pipped, then a couple of hours later, another. Last night was just barely moving into day 19, so we have just moved into day 20 now. Four have pipped by now. None have zipped. I *know* it can take a while, really I do! And I...
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    I have egg issues...

    You know you have issues when your leopard geckos are laying eggs and your chickens are not. I can't EAT leopard gecko eggs, dagnabbit. Seriously, how big do these chickens have to get before they lay a dang egg? They are Welsummers, a little over four months old, and they look HUGE to me...
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    Solar Space heat and rainwater catchment systems...

    We're trying to design a coop space --12x16 divided in half with a covered aisle down the middle for humans to walk between the two divisions-- and the general overall plans are going well. However, I've got a few questions. I want to use a rainwater catchment system to provide the majority of...
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    electric fencing fire hazard??

    I was looking into electric fencing for predator protection, but one of the directions for one of the fences I was researching made mention of the fact that the fencing was a potential fire hazard in dry areas. Well, I live in a high desert and the area where my chickens are is all scrub oak and...
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    I could just cry...

    On our last hatch, we used the styrofoam 'bator, which we had had good luck with previously. Unfortunately, due to incubator wierdness--mainly random temp spikes up to 106--we lost ALL the eggs (there were 32). Not one to give up, I got myself a couple of Reptipro 5000s, set them all up, and...
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