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2nd grade classroom chicks are hatching

So my daughter is going to do a project this fall for 4H and the local feed store. FF vs dry feed to compare optimal growth rate to get a market bird ready for fair. Trying to determine which would make the better champions. The question came up if FF is so much better why aren't the factories...

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That drove me crazy in the beginning. my humidity read 60% but there was condensation everywhere. Turned out my hygrometer was off by 10. It was actually 70% humidity.

Candled eggs looking great. They are due to hatch Tuesday so that my daughter's class can watch them hatch. I grabbed a variety of colors and sizes to show them.

I think it might be the weather stripping on the door. When I first got it the door was difficult to close, now it closes easily. Thinking heat might be escaping through. Mine is electronic not wafer.

My cabinet incubator is suddenly fluctuating in temperature. Never had an issue before now it will go from 100.2 to 98.7 and back up again. Got it last season so still new. Held temp perfectly at 99.7 last hatch.

My hatch over the weekend

Breeding lights with buffs is very common. Some buff breeders use a light hen to increase the size of their buffs. Leakage is seen during the f1 cross in males, females will look like the roosters used. If you want only lights pick the ones with the best type (wide, wide, wide) and try to use...

I set 42 eggs for the hatch a long.

Mine just hatched, some reason the brahmas are always late. Most began day 21, brahmas began days 23. I think I will set them 1 day before the rest.

Mine are in the turner, going to set them Monday.

Just hatched 30 eggs, ameraucana rooster and marans rooster. I love looking at each one first figuring out their daddy, then wondering which hen and egg color they will lay. So much fun.

That should help to get you brahma type, then from those chicks look at tail carriage, smuttiness, and pattern. Type wide, wide, wide is the key thing first. I threw a couple smutty into my breeding pen because they had good heads.

It would take many generations and heavy culling to get a hatchery bird up to APA/ABA standard. I have my show quality birds,but those cute chicks at tractor supply are hard to resist. 6 silver leghorn jumped into my cart for my layer pen. I can't breed white eggs for my rainbow egg collection.

Best place to ask is the Facebook page American Brahma Club.

Just show the pullets and hens leave the rest at home.

The pullets will have buff leakage on face at hatch no spot, boys will have white face spot on head. I did buff x barred many times.

It depends where you live. In CA, we buy our own bands with numbers for each bird identification.

Mine was hand raised and sweet as a chick. Hatchery don't breed for temperament just quantity which is why it is luck of the draw.