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WE HAVE THE FIRST PIP!

I have successfully hatched a dozen it so clutches of geese and chickens. My daughter is is Kindergarten teacher and has my two incubators in her classroom 15 eggs from my coop were placed on Wednesday 3/22 at 6 pm. They were candled on Day 7 and 14 and 18. Five were early quitters or not...

Thanks, that is a new one to me! He looks like a bit of this, a bit of that…

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Yep, they sure are.

We have a bobcat but he comes only at night and we free range with an auto door. My philosophy is to have a few more chickens than I need. Surprisingly, with the auto door this number stays pretty constant EXCEPT this time of year when the mammals go nuts feeding babies. Right now they are...

I’m not scoring well with identification pix at the moment so I come asking for help.

Thanks!

From MurrayMcMurray .. Rarest of the rare, my guess is cream legbar? I usually hatch my own fertiles but a fox went grocery shopping in our coop one night when the auto door got stuck. My one roo, Donnie, went down along with three hens. Actually, the fox was timid to enter (saw via cam) but...

Big fat viper under a Rubbermaid lid in the yard, slithered under the enclosed wooden coop. We’ve had oak snakes steal eggs but not lately (Saw on security cam) because we closed up holes. I have two traps I’ve used to get non-venomous snakes in. What bait for a rattler? Suggestions? Not...

Yes, I have the thermometer that is built in and a separate therm/humidity gage inside and I have a security cam on that gage so I don’t have to open up. But I have been aiming for at least 50% so you are right, that could be it. However, I did a PM of one I was sure was dead: no movement 3...

I brought in 25 eggs from 8 Wyandotte’s and two breeds of rooster, Wyandotte and Americauna. They were fresh, very clean and I put them in a FARM INNOVATORS 2150 with an egg turner. I candled 2 samples on day 10, they were ok. Humidity was about 65 on both gages I use. Temp 99-100. On Day...

four have pipped but way below air pocket line! This is my first goose egg attempt, had lots of luck with chicks. Do I need to pin an air hole in air pocket? They are active and chirping. I started with 17, have 12 now. Jen in Tallahassee

i bought seven Toulouse goslings from Murray MacMurray. They are about 3 months old, close to full grown. I have raised geese before but never encountered this problem. Any goose I have ever lost was predator-related. One gosling was having leg issues and I added niacin and he got stronger...

This isn't much clearer but I will keep trying. It is from an arlo cam. EArl is 8 weeks old.

- trying again, looks like it is sending 2 now?

i am Jen, a retired art teacher in Tallahassee, Fl. I have been into poultry for about 20 years. We have 8 acres. We have had dozens of predator issues over the years and various mishaps: hurricanes, coyotes, bobcats, dogs, snakes, raccoons, foxes and humans. But the last few years we have...

Sorry the picture is awful. He/she is very active. I had an incubator of eggs get over wet when the hydrometer went bad. All fully formed. Bad day all around. But this guy pipped and zipped first, was out in 20 minutes from start to finish. Early. (So either Earl or Earlene). We raised...

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