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    I just can't decide

    I have been looking for an incubator. I have seen about every brand of incubator available and read every review, on here and elsewhere, and I am interested in the Incuview and the tried and true Hovabator Genesis 1588. Due to a hectic family and work life, I need something that handles all...
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    Motherless chick

    She is still hanging in there. She chirps from time to time but other than that she just lays there with her eyes closed.
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    Motherless chick

    She also has a glaze over her eyes....is this normal?
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    Motherless chick

    We had three different birds go broody about 3-4 weeks ago. Since then we have found 2 chicks dead in the coop that looked like they had just hatched. Today I found one that was still alive but barely. We rushed her inside got her under a heat lamp and I dabbed a little warm sugar water on...
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    Chicken assassinations...

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    Chicken assassinations...

    So last fall I had two birds killed off in what I think was a power fight for the top bird in the coop. I am fairly certain that my speckled sussex (who at one time was the bottom bird in the flock) took out one of my buff orpingtons (who was the number 2 bird) and my silver laced wyandotte...
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    Unhatched eggs poisonous?

    Recently someone told me that unhatched eggs are poisonous to dogs.....has anyone ever heard this?
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    Finally had one hatch

    My Black Austrolorp, Audrey, went broody finally and everything went smooth except one of our Pekins decided she wanted to go broody at the same time and kept pushing Audrey off her eggs. This would have been fine if the Pekin would have stuck with it but she was only into it as long as she...
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    A clean slate...

    When I originally built the run they are in right now I did lock them up at night, but they just seem happier when they can run and roam as they please and don't have to wait on me to let them out in the morning. The initial cost will be worth it in the long run.
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    A clean slate...

    Since April the wife and I have been looking for a house and finally we found the right one. Three bedroom, one bath, sitting on just over 5 acres, pole barn, multiple outbuildings and close to school for me and work for the wife. The run I originally built two years ago has gotten too small...
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    INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

    I am a member of a Facebook poultry group too and tonight a guy in Terre Haute posted that he has to get rid of his birds after being told that it is completely legal. Now, I don't have a dog in this fight, but I hate to hear someone is being forced to give up something they enjoy because a...
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    Recently had a white rock hen go broody.....and she is hard core broody. I can pick her up move her aside and she will lay there muttering what I assume are bad chicken words at me while I count the eggs or do whatever and when I am done she mutters a few more words, arranges the eggs and sits...
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    Crippled Call Duck...

    As an early birthday present for my wife I picked her up a pair of grey call ducks this past Saturday and the woman asked if I wanted one that was born crippled.....I couldn't help myself he just looked so pitiful. He can scoot around on his belly using his beak, legs and tail, but he can't...
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    Thermostat placement....

    how does that cardboard hold in the heat?
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    Thermostat placement....

    I am thinking that with the three bulb set-up I could possibly eliminate cold spots and keep the heat fairly uniform across the entire incubator. If it is too hot I can always step down the wattage on the bulbs I use. The cooler I am using is fairly large 13 inches wide by 22 inches long...
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    Thermostat placement....

    Ok good I am thinking along the right lines. What I am thinking of doing is putting the bulbs in the bottom as low as I can and then putting hardware cloth mid way up all the way across. Then the thermostat will come through the lid and will hang low enough that it is on the same level as the...
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    Thermostat placement....

    Ok, so I am in the process of building my own incubator and today I was thinking about the placement of the thermostat. Based on the fact that heat rises, wouldn't it make more sense to put your heat source at the bottom of the incubator so that it will naturally rise toward the eggs above...
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    Young RIR roo...

    Monday I processed a RIR roo (he was about 20 weeks old). He sat in the fridge in salt water for two days and then in buttermilk and a spice mix until last night. After frying him up the skin was so tough you couldn't even stick a fork in him. The meat tasted very good, but that skin ruined...
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    Kentucky people

    Aren't there any weekly poultry auctions or swaps in western KY? Southern Illinois has them in at least two different places I know of and I have read there is one in southeastern MO, but other than the trade days at Mayfield fair grounds (which is by no means a poultry auction or swap) I can't...
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    a lot of flyes

    My coop is covered in flies all the time. I bought a 10 pack of fly tape and put one strip in the run and one outside. The one inside was covered in an hour and the one outside only caught small bugs and a moth. Unfortunately, the strip in the run somehow disappeared. I don't know if they...
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