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    Last Minute Math Check

    Hope everyone had an enjoyable Turkey Day. Thanks for advice on my hatch plan. With no local pick-up options available, it was a little too late to fix the timing. Chickens and ducks were already in transit and quail were bought and scheduled to ship. It was way too late to abort the hatch even...
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    Last Minute Math Check

    Thanks for the input. I must have misread some duck info. Not really surprising I've be having trouble with my eyes for the last few weeks. Chicken and duck eggs are already in the capable hands of the USPS. I have two incubators I guess I'll aim for Christmas chickens and quail and New Years ducks.
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    Last Minute Math Check

    Thanks for the input. I must have misread some duck info. Not really surprising I've be having trouble with my eyes for the last few weeks. Chicken and duck eggs are already in the capable hands of the USPS. I have two incubators I guess I'll aim for Christmas chickens and quail and New Years ducks.
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    Last Minute Math Check

    The plan is a mixed bird holiday hatch. Pekin ducks, barnyard mystery mix chickens, and jumbo brown quail timed to hatch Christmas Eve into Christmas Day. I have never tried duck eggs before. Based on research, limited experience with chickens and quail, and advice from someone with considerably...
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    Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

    Busy, busy, busy. I like winter but, Long Island winters are about enough for me. Couple of weeks of winter, then a few days of spring, maybe a day or two of summer just to confuse everyone... Repeat as needed to get from Thanksgiving to Mothers Day. If I really want "WINTER!!!!" it's only a...
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    Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

    Have to thin out the heard a bit so no new chickens for a while. Fuzzballs are impossibly cute and DW is an enabler so 120 quail eggs went in the incubator after work today
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    Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

    I have way too many chickens. Town says I can have six girls and no boys, more is only a problem if someone complains.I have 24 pullets and 7 cockerels Can't wait until the younger ones start laying and I can leave eggs for the neighbors. So far everyone but me is OK with roosters at 5:30 in the...
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    Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

    W4W. Over the winter I was playing with building a home made incubator. The plan was to do quail until my son came home from school with a dozen chicken eggs from one of his friends. 5 hatched and 3 were pullets. Chicken math happened and I put two dozen more eggs in the incubator. 10 pullets...
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    Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

    Impossibly small world. ronott1 a long long time ago one of my uncles was a professor and dean at one of the UC campuses. cheeka the Colorado thing had me confused for a while. You were talking about a whole bunch of places that I knew well. Had to read a few months of posts to figure out you...
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    Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

    Hey BC (MC). I had 5 17 week old chickens when I read OK's first post. I read all 23233 posts I just couldn't stop. My 17 week olds are almost 27 weeks and the 3 girls started laying about 3 weeks ago. My 26 little ones are now 17 weeks old. I have a serious problem with chicken math and my wife...
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    Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

    I can't believe I read the whole thing.
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    Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

    Hasn't been a hit and run in a while.
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    Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

    Buy eggs. They probably won't start laying for at least another 5 or 6 weeks.
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    NY chicken lover!!!!

    Not This Week: Winter Storm Warning URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service New York NY 344 AM EDT Tue Mar 20 2018 CTZ008-011-012-NYZ078-080-202000- /O.UPG.KOKX.WS.A.0008.180321T0800Z-180322T1000Z/ /O.NEW.KOKX.WS.W.0008.180321T0400Z-180322T1200Z/ Northern New London-Southern...
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    Understanding Chicken Math

    So let me see f I got this straight. I can have 6 hens and no rosters. 5 chicks hatched from my first attempt at incubating 12 eggs. I really would like 6. 7 eggs didn't hatch the first time so I should start with 7 just in case it happens again. Plus 2 because there is a 50 % chance of a...
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    March 2018 Hatch-a-long

    Day 22. Nap time. We just look like road kill. 5/8 hatched on day 20. 3 still in the incubator. 2 looked questionable when I candled on days 13 and 18. 3rd was alive on day 18 but a bit smaller than the ones that hatched. I may pull the plug on them tonight.
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    Hatching Emergency !!!!

    I'm on day 22 of my first attempt at incubating, chicks not ducklings. So, consider the source. This guy was dragging the whole egg behind him. The connection was dark and crusty so I chose to cut it. It turned out to be a bit of membrane dried onto his feathers. This one spent most of a day...
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    March 2018 Hatch-a-long

    Day 21. 5 hatched yesterday and moved into the brooder this morning. No progress on the 3 eggs still in the incubator.
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    Can I put egg cartons in incubator?

    I'm on day 21 of my first attempt at incubating. Homemade incubator and eggs in a styrofoam egg carton. 5 out of 8 hatched on day 20. Chicks had no trouble getting out of the carton.
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    March 2018 Hatch-a-long

    I'm far from an expert but I would say yes.
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