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Deserthound- This is a great idea you have. I'm surprised it hasn't received more responses. There are tons of us out here that want to learn from someone who has experience in processing before trying to go it on our own without hands-on training. After raising, hatching more, and caring...

About 4 or 5 days ago one of our 7-week old pullets couldn't lift her neck, and was stumbling around with a bad case of tremors. I just went to this forum, typed the words "bent neck and tremors" on the search engine and immediately found what we were looking for. We separated her from the...

Congratulations Baralak! Ours actually started hatching on Day 20, and everything went fine. Keep us posted. After they hatch, they might even think about sleeping every now and then, but don't count on it. And Geaux Saints!!!

Just an update. We ended up hatching 10/11. The one that didn't hatch looked like it wasn't very viable and didn't form much after about the first 10 days. All 10 of the new chicks are in the brooder, and drinking and eating like crazy. All healthy, no spraddle legs, bloody navels or...

Steve- We just used one of those digital $6.95 thermometer/hydrometers from WalMart. I put it outside a few hours and compared the relative humidity with what it should have read according to the Weather Channel, and it was right on so we more or less trusted it. The thermometer matched our...

Thanks!! I don't know if I did this right, but hopefully there's a picture attached of our 1:10 AM arrival. My son and daughter even came downstairs (after I told them we were hatching!!) and watched Numbers 2 and 3 pop out in the early morning. The temp and humidity stayed rock solid just...

Thanks to ChooksChick's post, we're one of the many that ordered the Octagon 20 ECO, with turner. We set 12 eggs, and only had to cull one clear. Starting at 1:10 this morning, I heard the first peeps. So far 5 have hatched, and three more are pipping and zipping. All so far are hearty and...

Thanks, gryeyes. I'm with you on not wanting to cull any eggs. We looked at only 4 of them today, and everything looked good. I'm probably going to wait until about Day 12 or so to take another quick peek. Just out of curiosity. (HA!) My 65 year old brother reminded me that he had a good...

I confess that the whole family has the potential to be hatchaholics. We set our first 12 in the new incubator a week ago. The temperature and humidity are right on the mark. I checked a couple after Day 4 (couldn't really tell a lot), and then again today. Definitely something good going on...

Thanks so much! This is just what we've been looking for. I ordered mine about a half hour ago. 25 chickens are never enough, so we can't wait to see what we can hatch from our mix of RIR, Buff Orps, Barred Rocks, and Silver Laced Wyandottes. It looks like I'll be sitting the family down to...

What's the kind of antibiotic we need for this? We are at the feed store regularly, but there's about a million choices. Any suggestions? I thank y'all for any help. By the way, he is moving around some more, and almost looks like he's talking in his sleep when he shifts positions. Not for...

Thanks so far for the replies! I'm going with some sugar water the next time we roust him up a little bit. I'm just curious as to how long that shock lasts. He changes his sleeping position every now and then, but it definitely looks like something rung his bell pretty hard. Any prognosis...

This morning a VERY large tomcat attacked one of our RIR roosters. The cat belongs to the neighbors living about 300 yards from the house. I was going down the driveway to get the newspaper, and saw it just as the fight started. The rooster got a lot of his neck area torn up, baring a pretty...

Thanks for the replies everybody! My Charles Manson RIR has been in solitary for a few hours, and not seeming to be as aggressive as before. Like I said, he is just one of a straight run of five, and two more look a lot like him. I put just a light streak of blue from a magic marker on one...

We received 25 one day-old chicks last week from Cackle Hatchery. 3rd time we have used them over the past 15 years, and as usual they arrived perfectly healthy, with none sickly or DOA. We have a 6 foot by 4 foot brooder, so there should be tons of room. This is the first time we have...