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wife says, "I got a surprise for you". takes me to the incubator and there's chicks riding the turners. Saturday I took the wrong batch of eggs off the turner and placed them in lock down. Tell me I'm not the only one to loose track of which rack is due when. Brian

I have terrible hatches and they are not getting any better. Now I've come for help. I started with a LG foam incubator with auto turners and never had more than 18 out of 40 to hatch. I have built a cabinet incubator out of on old lab freezer. I added modern electronics and use the LG for a...

Woke up this morning to a blown breaker to my incubator room. We had storms last night and all was well when I went to bed. Got around this AM about 7 and noticed the tripped breaker. When I powered it back up the temp was 30.5c/87f. I have 130 eggs in the incubator and 40 in the hatcher due to...

I have my first eggs in my homemade mini fridge incubator. Being just a little cautious, I placed 4 thermometers in there, 2 digital and 2 mercury. All 4 are reading different temperatures. I have 2 on the top shelf and 2 on the bottom, and even those side by side are reading different. Now what...

I need a little advice. I have 25 Dom Pullets and 3 Dom Roos that are 11 weeks old. I have one girl that I will have to cull as she has a slightly bad foot. Other than this, I want to get my flock supporting their existence. I have an incubator, brooders and such. I was thinking something like...

My broody quit after two solid weeks. I came in from work and she was not on the nest. I spotted her in the pig pen and she looked wore out. Her comb was very pale and she didn't have a lot of spunk. It takes me about an hour to feed and water everything and when I was done, I went to check and...

I have 6 mutt chickens that are great. They free range all day and always come in at night. I have 30 Dominique Chicks that are 8 weeks old. I have them in a separate brooder/pen and keep them penned up. I want to move them over to the main chicken house and let them free range, but don't know...

About 2 or 3 times a month I notice a soft shelled broken egg under the roost when I let them out in the AM. The first time it was a real small egg but the one today would have been a Large egg. I have oyster shells and good feed. The girls free range during the day. Should I be worried or just...

I know this has been covered in the past but I need reassurance. I have 4- 1&1/2 week old chicks in the brooder and I will be getting 25 more in the AM that are 2 days old. Should there be any concern in putting the all together? Brian