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  1. gnatboy113

    Methods for breeding a closed line questions.

    Thank you very much
  2. gnatboy113

    Methods for breeding a closed line questions.

    Hello to all , I have some questions regarding the process of breeding a closed line of birds for a purpose. Specifically a meat first egg second line of birds. I understand there are heritage birds that are capable of this now. But I was wondering which method would produce a...
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    uh oh i think i might have screwed up

    Well we didn't wake up to baby chicks but my daughter watched the first three hatch all seems good. they r in brooder under heat lamp and the rest r starting to pip when I left for work .
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    uh oh i think i might have screwed up

    Ok so my daughter has been stareing at these eggs for 19 days , and we got home earlier and she went to check them and came running and screaming ! Full of excitement ! Three of the eggs are pipping ( or atleast i think thats what u call it ) they have a small hole chipped out of them and we...
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    uh oh i think i might have screwed up

    just for an update . Today is LOCKDOWN DAY !! So i figured I would candle them one more time while is was taking them out of the turner and prepping the bator for hatching. My eggs look just like picks of eggs on forum on day 18 . The only thing is all the way up till now the chicks have been...
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    uh oh i think i might have screwed up

    Thanks to all u guys for the info. Just to give an update . We candled the eggs again and it appears that nine of them are normal and OK two were infertile . Only a couple more days till lockdown and we will see how they do .
  7. gnatboy113

    new coop ?

    Thanks for the reply I only plan on keeping the one roo and he is a gentle fellow , or he seems to b . It has only been a couple of days since the move so I will wait patiently
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    new coop ?

    So me and my daughter have taken up chickens as a hobby , and so far we have 6 bitties that are rhode islands and eleven eggs in incubator. We built a brooder first , then remodel an old builing on my property for a coop . we were waiting on eggs to hatch and bitties to grow when a friend of...
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    uh oh i think i might have screwed up

    ok well thanks to u guys for the info. i have left the eggs to set and they have been in the bator since the 8th . so i couldnt take it any more and i candled a couple , and i really wish i knew what i was looking at . i tried to get pics for u guys but i cant get the clarity i need. I can...
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    uh oh i think i might have screwed up

    So my daughter and I have decided to start a chicken raising adventure . So we bought a incubator and went down the road and got some fresh laid eggs from a neighbor. Here is my concern . When me and my daughter were writing the date on the eggs . I let her wipe them off with a wet wipe (like...
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