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Me and my buddy just got a used chest type incubator . The automatic turner tilts to the left and right but in order to get the shelf out they need to be sitting level. Is there a secret to getting the trays level so I can pull it out to load it with eggs? This sounds like a dumb question I...

On the show how its made they did a show on hatcheries. They showed the workers sexing chicks by their wings. If all the little feathers were all even then it was a male if some were shorter than others then they were female. I thought this was very interesting. I was wondering if I'm the only...

I am interested in hatching some of the red sex link chickens. Sil-go-links, red star, comets, cinnamin queens, they all seem to be about the same to me. I know it takes a cherry egger rooster and a barred rock hen to get rock reds but they are the black sex links and don't lay as good. I would...

Just wondering if anyone has had trouble with foxes killing chickens during the day? I have a very large lot, atleast 2 acres, and I am finding chickens with their hear and breast gone. Thats all it eats, and then gets another. I have lost about 20 in the last 2 months. I am assuming it is a...

I have been looking at some of the home made incubators posted on this site and I must say they are really neat. I want to build one and I got a few questions. I have noticed that the turners being used looks like it holds the egg in the verticle posiotion with the little end up? Do eggs hatch...

I was wondering what kind of hatch rate you all have with a still air incubator. I have one of the small styrofoam type with 35 eggs in it and Monday was day 21. I have only had about 12 to hatch and 2 of those died. Not a very good rate. The other two times that I have used it the results were...

This is some pics of my flock, just thought you might like to see. My little boy feeding them although he is a little afraid of them.

Hello, I am new to this forum and would like to say hello. I have about 75 chickens, comets, sil go links, white rocks to name a few. I have 35 eggs in an incubator that are due to hatch monday. I have had chickens all my life and just got my new lot done about a month ago. It is about 2 acres...