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    Egg explosion prevention

    Anyone?
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    Egg explosion prevention

    I have 30 eggs in an incubator for 1 week now, and a strange smell appeared in the room where the incubator was. It turned out not to be from the incubator, but still this made me aware of the possibility of eggs exploding (since this is the first time I had to place some dirty eggs in the...
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    Which breeds did you wish you got?

    Iowa blue.
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    Are these leaves poisonous to chickens?

    About roses, mother in laws tounge, strawberry, morning glory and soap aloe I simply don't know.
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    Are these leaves poisonous to chickens?

    I think they're poisenous (at least for the tomato leaves, about the others I don't know), but I've had chickens free-ranging around tomato and watermelon plants, and I've never seen any eaten leaves. I also have geese in a place with orange trees and they don't eat the leaves. I think they...
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    Eggs on airplane

    Thank you very much!
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    Eggs on airplane

    Does anyone know (by experience or through some other source) whether eggs transported in an airplane can still be incubated? My main concern is the x-ray machines, I don't know if they will kill the embryo or cause congenital problems (there's a reason pregnant women aren't usually x-rayed...)...
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    Help- I MUST have done something wrong.....

    In the first 18 days the humidity should be in the 45% to 55% range. I hatched twice with a good success rate (80-90%) with my humidity between 50-55% most of the time. Of course there are differences between incubators, mine is forced air so I can't help you with that part. As for the dead...
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    Incubating temperature

    Thank you very much for your help.
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    Incubating temperature

    From all the information I've read so far, it says the temperature should be in the 99-100ºF (37.22-37.78ºC) range (forced air). In my incubator's user's manual, it says the temperature should be 37.7ºC (99.86ºF) until the 18th day, and should be lowered to 37.2ºC (98.96ºC) in the last 3 days...
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    Do female muscovies need a male to lay eggs?

    Maybe you misunderstood my first question. I'm saying this because you use the word "but" to say they need a drake to get them fertilised, which implies that you would have said that they do lay unfertilised eggs without a drake, which you didn't.
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    Duck help please

    A few months ago, went I went outside to feed the mallards in the morning, and I noticed the male mallard's legs didn't move and had to use the wings to move. I put it in a sheltered place along with food and water that it could reach. It progressively got better and, after two weeks, it was...
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    Do female muscovies need a male to lay eggs?

    Do female muscovies lay eggs without a male present? If they do, would they lay more if the male was present?
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    Dead-in-shell embryos

    About 6 weeks ago, I had a broody hen. She incubated the eggs (initially 9, she destroed 2), and on the 20th day, a chick was born. On the 21st day, no chicks, so I kept waiting, but eventually I realized no chicks would hatch and broke the remaining eggs to see the inside. They contained dead...
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    Help, eggs didn't hatch

    OK thanks.
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    Help, eggs didn't hatch

    Thank you for the advice. What do you mean with "it's not ideal to set dirty eggs either"? I always heard that we should wash the eggs.
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    Portuguese Yellow or Buff Orpington?

    Thank you.
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    Help, eggs didn't hatch

    I didn't wash them. But maybe the fact that I removed those hard coatings of dirt (I didn't use any water, just my hands) had the same effect as washing them. I don't see any other explanation besides that and also some bad luck.
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    Help, eggs didn't hatch

    I had a broody chicken in the past 3 weeks. When she sat on the eggs (Sunday), there were 3 or 4 eggs. On Tuesday, there were 14 eggs, and I took the 6 most recent ones. Later, there was another egg -- 9 in total. The hen broke 2 of the eggs -- 7 left. Past Saturday, 20 days past the first...
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    Hello

    Thank you to you all.
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