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  1. jamesnoldsr

    What color will this silkie be???

    This is the first time I've added a picture to a post so I hope it works!! Anyway, I just hatched a bunch of chicks from Catdance Silkies- I've gotten three batches of eggs from her so far and they are always fresh and extremely well packaged- which helps hatch rates, I'm sure. I am familiar...
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    Shipped eggs and ruptured air cells

    I just candled my eggs that went into the 'bator 15 days ago. I have been having some humidity issues and wanted to check the air cell size. Some are quite small so I am going to run the humidity at about 35 percent for the next few days to help remedy that. Now the question: I have read on...
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    Humidity has been too high

    Ok, so I'm new at this and I just accepted what the dial type humidity gauge was telling me regarding the humidity in the incubator. Well, today I realized that the thing has been off (as in not correct) all along and I'm sure the humidity has been too high for the first week and a half of my...
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    Having Turkeys processed

    Ok, so we have three turkeys- two toms and a hen. They are BBB and getting bigger all the time. I was going to have them processed at Thanksgiving but chickened out. I do not want to process them myself. We don't have the facilities and I really don't want to kill them myself. I thought...
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    Shipped eggs in cold weather

    I am supposed to have some silkie eggs shipped tomorrow and it's supposed to be down to like 34 degrees here (near Fort Worth Tx). Can/should the breeder do anything to include heat with the eggs? I did have some chicks shipped with those hand warmer things in the box but can you do that with...
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    Putting chicks out in the cold

    I read a few posts about people putting their chicks out into the garage or other chilly night time spot with a brooder light for heat. What I'd like to ad to that thought is how do you guarantee that the light will either not burn out or get broken or other power interruption issue and freeze...
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    I have an opinion question regarding getting new birds

    I was not sure where to post this so I thought I'd try here. My question is this: if you want to get nice birds from breeders to raise the quality of your flock- what is the best way to go about doing that? As far as I know, there are about three different methods of bringing in better quality...
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    Having Buff Laced Brahmas shipped this time of year.

    I bought some buff laced brahmas from a lady in WA. Chicks took two days to get here to Texas and they have not done well since. I've been losing one or two every couple of days and I can only surmise that it was the hard shipping that is causing my fatalities. The brooder is warm, the food...
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    State Fair of Texas chicken show?

    I've scoured the State Fair of Texas in Dallas web site and cannot find anything about any chickens other than broilers. Does anyone know anything about if/when there will be a chicken show at the State Fair of Texas this month? Thanks for any information.
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