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Welcome! We homeschool ours as well. (Two grown and gone, but I'm still schooling nine of them - ages 16-3.) As a mama with neurological Lyme, I think I'd rather deal with poisonous snakes than ticks. I'd buy the guineas in hordes and not look back! I've heard that ducks will eat ticks...

This has been used once by me - I bought it to hatch chicks at my daughter's preschool. It has the box, the directions, the paperwork, etc. I have pictures if there is interest. If you want to see feedback, I have an Ebay account with 600+ positive transactions. :) $112 to include shipping

We live in NE Iowa - it gets COLD. We do not have a barn for our chickens - we have a shed (a large single car garage) that we partitioned and use as a coop for the girls. This year we bought ducks and I *hated* them as babies - always such a mess. However, it's summer, they're bigger, and...

What are you hoping for? I have a mini advanced I'd sell but I'm hanging on to my Oct20.

Thanks - this is helpful. This is a local gal and very dependable so I don't think they were stored long. They were at similar stages (five of them) so I wonder what went wrong there. Hm. Loading up the incubator and doing it again - mostly lighter colored eggs this time and see how it goes.

All dead. Two of the marans were not as far along as I thought - challenging shell to see through. Two had blood rings that could be seen as soon as I opened the air cell. Five of the seven had abnormally large aircells. Humidity too low late in the hatch?

So if I open the large end of the egg is there a particular way I'd want to do it? I won't until tomorrow AM (Day 24) but if one is still alive, any chance it would make it? All eggs left are Blue Copper Marans and (2) Lavender Ameracaunas. Both of those breeds were in my successful hatchers...

I still do nothing, right? 24 eggs went into lockdown. I was pretty sure one wasn't a keeper but not certain enough to toss it. 23 eggs that I felt confident in. Brinsea Octagon - new incubator for me. Perfectly stable temps throughout the incubation and only struggled with humidity at the...

If it makes you feel any better at all, I dropped an egg while candling this past week. It was the final candle before lockdown and I was so upset. The only thing I could find on the internet was super glue so I did... It hatched yesterday into a healthy fluffy blue maran. ;)

It's hatching day! I've been struggling to get my humidity up and I'm sitting at about 60%. The first chick is out and I can see five pips so I'm assuming it will rise. I've never made it to hatch day with 100% eggs still in the incubator. It's a Brinsea Octagon 20 and they are absolutely...

Setting 24 eggs in my new-to-me Brinsea Octagon for the first time! Fifteen Blue splash marans, two olive Easter eggers, a black frizzle, and lavender Americaunas. Pretty excited.

Anyone interested in selling theirs?

Very good point. We're in northern Iowa so I think we should be all right - I hope! It's worth a shot anyway. A little nervous because of post digging, lol.

Thank you for the response. I know that during regular play and just being goats, they can destruct, kwim? I'm wondering if this 3/4 acre fenced area is going to be able to still look nice with four animals on it, kwim? Because I don't want to fence this area, build a goat shack, then figure...

So we have about two acres. The house was set far back from the road to be pretty rather than functional. Which means my decorative front yard is about an acre of nothingness and mowing. We are thinking of putting up a cute little goat shack. Years ago (different acreage) we had dairy does...

Thank you so much! I had only looked at the Brinsea actual site!

I found one one on Craigslist and I'm pretty excited to set eggs. I have no problem turning them myself the first time around, but my next hatch will be in a classroom and I'd like to have it turn. I assume if I order the non-turning end and the motorized end, the clutch, the motor, etc. (all...

This is an updated post and I could use some help on this one. 12 eggs. 5 healthy hatchers. One malpositioned chick - dead Four other eggs - dead / no movement It's Day 23. Last remaining chick pipped this shell approximately 36 hours ago. No progress. Attempted an uneducated "help" last...

Still in the same spot - chicks still chirping. :( Not good. Any help out there?

12 candled and healthy eggs in the 'bator. Today is Day 22. 4 hatched yesterday. 1 hatched in the wee hours of the AM. 2 more eggs are pipped but nothing is going on. One has been pipped since last night. Chick is alive and calling but not making any progress at all. Took them out of...