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    Best Meat breed that isn't plane white

    Buff Orph......Love them.........also good brown eggs as well. Billyroo
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    20 hens = NO EGGS

    Ya count me in...ate the older hens I have some 20+ youngsters who have not started yet...age 5months to 3 months. Not sure of real count cause some are still unidentifed roosters. IE Crow and go. Bilyroo
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    Central Ohio Meet-Up Pot Luck (revised from BBQ)

    Hi Folks newbie ? 1. How often do you you do this type of get togather...(I'm kinda new and just found this post). I ask cause I would like to come but will be driving back from Pennsacola Fla on the 12th. Billyroo
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    What is currently in your 'bator(s)? EDITED AGAIN!

    In bat 1 day 21 two ee chicks and 3 pips trying to zip 5 more waiting day 21 and two on day 19 In bat 2 12 ee on day 11 Same 2 of 3 bators I used at school in April with only 2 out of 48 eggs hatching only I hand turned these. Also when I tried in April we were still having snow...I...
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    Who is pipping and waiting right now??

    trying again.... day 19 in the first run of recovered eggs from the barn day 9 on the second run... all EE what a mixed up lot I will have. I have one left from the group I tried at school. ("solo") and one of the 11 chicks I bought at the supply store.("lucky") (dang coons; come trapping...
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    late eggs???

    Ya the still air thermo read 101 but when I checked it with the digital it was only 90. I had each set at the right temps just had bad thermos. The two live ones are doing great even the one with the bad leg. Once school is out. I'll try again at home. We are on day 23 and nothing yet on the...
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    late eggs???

    ok 1. The bad foot chicken is a bad leg chicken the "Knee" does not bend. It is locked in place. 2. The bators have simple themo. in them which I trusted. I put a digital themo. in and found the temp in one right on. These eggs should hatch today/tomorrow (I hope) My still air was set at...
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    late eggs???

    1 doing well 1 dead 1 crippled bad foot not so hot next set to hatch on wed. Hope things go better Bill
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    late eggs???

    Ok one that hatched on friday night came from the smallest egg in the bator. He is doing (is it bad luck to real positive) fine. Two others have hatched saturday/sunday day 25. Not sure about the rest. The other bator are "set" to hatch on Wed (day 21). Now with what has happened.... Do...
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    Is there a way to keep snakes out of the coop?

    Just remember black snakes eat mostly mice and RATS. They also contol baby opusoms (sp), cats, and skunks. I release them in my barn and have never had a problem in the coop or the rabbit hutches. Of course the releases are done while my wife is at work. If she were home...then I would have...
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    Wasps

    a little gas in a old style pump oil can does the trick. My grandpa used to put it in a can an hit the nest with it right about dark. kills them dead. Right now. Might try early in the am and open up the coop to air out. Note...no smoking;) billyroo
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    Rooster spurs

    Our 14 month roo had nasty 1/2" spurs...started to bloodey up the hens.... he now has rounded nubbies again..... Billyroo:D
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    late eggs???

    Well.....The praxis 2 earth science test went well. But then I have a near PhD in geology so it had better have. Got to love the dept of ED. Anyhow...I have one fuzzy chick. It's kind of dopey on its feet but ALIVE. It'll peck wet starter off my finger. It seems to know where the 37.5 c...
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    Never again! Never! :( Hatching eggs- forget it! A little story

    Hi I just started last year myself but here is what I found about eggs. 1. Check with the local Farm Service Office. They know your local farmers. I got 3 dozen eggs for my incubator at school. (sucess not yet determined) 2. Check with your local FFA or 4H. Again you can find local...
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    late eggs???

    Well....as I was getting ready to leave Friday with my boys (12 and 13) the oldest one says "Hay dad did you notice that this egg is starting to crack open?" It had just popped open the shell and was moving a bit. Had to leave but will check back about 1pm today. (sat) (thank goodness we...
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    late eggs???

    I got my information from the local farm exten. office. (Incubators, handouts, diagrams, development charts.) All I had to do was find the eggs and that was easy. I teach in a south east Ohio district (rural) but it is unbelievable how many kids have NO real idea about what happens between...
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    late eggs???

    thanks lyon model tx6 dome type with fan dry bulb 100F wet 86 F as per instructions till day 18 added hum on day 19 instructions state that more hum can produce a "late" hatch?? Bill
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    late eggs???

    Ok so I teach science and raise a few chickens... I placed eggs (chicken) in a dome bator on 4/2. Everything I have read says 21 days later I'd have chicks. It's the 25...ie day 23...no pips and no chicks. We have checked the temp and hum everyday....no problems. We opened an egg on day...
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    Hawk advice please

    well about 4 weeks ago we lost our PR hen to a hawk... looked like a JV red shouldered hawk...We ran the hawk off. cleaned the hen and ate her. \\Just part of free range\\ The hawk has never come back (knock wood). I would not kill a hawk or owl. They are protected under federal law...
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    Egg-laying chart

    I used excell and created a spead sheet....... However I am not sure how to handel the "lost" eggs...like when we uncovered our RIR on a nest in the weeds with 13 eggs in it. Last weekend we found our Pr on 3 in the barn. Now I take what we can find and go with it billyroo
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