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    Seeking Hatching Eggs Near Nashville

    Hello everyone. I'm looking for hatching eggs available to pick up in middle Tennessee. I'm really wanting Easter eggers or legbars, something with colored eggs. I will definitely consider Cross breeds just tell me what you've got. I'd really love to get some right away to run in my new...
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    Setting some eggs 5-13-15. Looking for some folks to hatch a long with me.

    Hi everyone. I'm setting some Bourbon Red turkey eggs in my bator tonight, and plan to set some eggs from my hens in with them in a week. The chickens are Blue/Black orpingtons and big beautiful girls with a handsome roo watching over them. I bought the turkey eggs from an ebay auction and the...
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    My turkey has a growth on it's head

    Hello everybody- I posted this earlier in the Turkey pages, but I'm not getting a response from anyone. Have any of you encountered this? If so, what do I need to do? Thanks https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/864702/growth-on-my-toms-head
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    Growth on my Tom's head

    Hello everybody- I have a turkey that is 2 years old. He's been rehomed with some of my neighbors for about a year and a half. They recently asked if I wanted him back, so I took him back in. I noticed he had about a quarter sized growth on the back of his head, and it looked infected. I boiled...
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    "tilt the rooster message box"

    I have roots in a very rural area of middle Tennessee. My Granny Whitfield had hanging by her door ( on the outside ) a little wooden box that had a door on the front. In the center of the door was a wooden disk with a rooster carved in it and painted in. It had a poem that I can't remember for...
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    first turkey pip, but problem.

    I set some turkey eggs with some chicks all the same day. When it came time to lock down the chicks i put the turks upright in paper egg cartons so they wouldn't be knocked around by the hatched out chickens. After i took the chicks out i opened both vents to reduce the humidity till it was time...
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    Setting eggs 1-18-12. I need some buddies to keep me company.

    So I built an incubator last year and hatched several chicks, but this year I moved all the workings into a bigger cooler and followed the advice of a BYCer by the nickname quintinp about where to put the thermostat. I gotta say it's working phenomenally. It's been dead on 100 no matter where I...
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    Pics of a 3 day old and a blood ring.

    for those of you who wonder what your first hatch should be looking like. This is a healthy 3 day banty egg. this is a blood ring... may you never see one, but if you incubate enough, you will.
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    Should I help?

    I have an egg that pipped approx. 20 hours ago. When I got up this morning, it had cracked a little more around the pip, probably dime sized area. about an hour ago, I looked and it had knocked off some of the shell, about the size of a pencil eraser. The membrane is still there and not poked...
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    Help everyone I'm not sure what to do...

    I made an incubator and yesterday was hatch day for my test run of 5 eggs. 3 hatched out and 1 more was pipped when we went to bed. When I got up this morning, one of my chicks evidently got on top of my therm/hygro and got over the divider wall I put between the light and the egg rack. So now...
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    I just set 5-21-11 in my home made incubator

    Will anyone hatch along with me? I hope my bator works. I have 12 store bought organic eggs just to fill space and 5 donated from freecycle EE eggs. I hope the 5 EE'ers hatch, cause those were some pretty hens.
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    In your opinion, will this work?

    Hello to all... I have just some quick concerns about my inaugural run of my newly made styrofoam hen. I've noticed that people who post that they opened their bator during lockdown were just seriously chastised for doing it... Really? I simulated lockdown with mine and opened it twice a day to...
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    Well I made myself a bator now I have some questions.

    Hi all. yesterday I completed my prototype cooler incubator. I've had it running for about 24 hours now and temp is holding steady within about 4-5 degrees. Temp stays according to 2 liquid thermometers, 96-102. My digital says 98-102. Last night I started adding water and playing around with...
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    Do I construct my bator or use a cooler like everyone else?

    I work in a sheet metal shop where I have access to tons and tons of metal I can bend to any shape, and we stock iso insulation boards from 1" to 4" thick. Do ya'll think I should make my box for my bator or just go the easy rout and use styrofoam? Any input is appreciated and will be carefully...
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    I think I'll try making a bator.

    Please tell me your preferences on brand and type of thermometer/hygrometers. I need something budget friendly. Thanks in advance for your input.
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    hey there folks, White Bluff, TN here.

    Hello and nice to meet you all. I'm 35 with my wife whose 30, two sons, Deven and Jared who are 7 and 8. We have 18 left of our 20 chicks we bought at TSC this spring thanks to an outbreak of cocci. I'm posting now so I can fulfill my new member requirements so that I can post some pics of my...
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    My chicks are getting bloody rear ends and dying.

    Hello all, I am new to joining the forum but have read the posts for quite sometime now. I bought a mixture of chicks from my local tractor supply co. back in the end of march. I brooded them indoors till last weekend when I moved them outside to a larger brooder with a wire floor and a pen...
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