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I have 14 chicks in the brooder. It’s 90+ in the daytime and 70’s at night. The birds are 4wks old. I also have an outdoor “grow-out” coop for the small chicks that I’ve used in the past. Right now, the babies are in a lean-to built off the side of my work shop. I turn off the heat lamp in the...

I have about two dozen birds. I have confirmed sightings of foxes, possums, raccoons, hawks, and roaming dogs on my property. They have taken 20 birds over 2 years. It’ll be calm for weeks and weeks and then there will be a massacre. I have 4.75 acres. I have a dog that stays out. She’s a...

4 week old guineas and chickens in my brooder. Hanging feeder about 4” off floor. I was sitting it on the ground but they kept using it for a toilet. They are wasting a TON of feed and won’t eat it off the ground. The chick starter has crumbles and what I’m calling “dust”. They’ll eat the...

I have a 4 week old guinea that is a nice, healthy-bodied bird. For whatever reason, it is limping around and standing on one leg. I took it out of the main brooder and moved it to Misfit Island with my two runty chicks and 4 pheasant chicks because it’s like a match of rugby inside the main...

:confused:I set some eggs on 4/8 in my classroom at school. They did pretty good through that Friday. I came in on Saturday around 2:00 and the incubator was over 110 degrees. I knew the school shut the A/C off on the weekends, but I didn’t think it’d get that warm on the bottom floor of the...

I had a very successful hatch today. 10 out of 11 have hatched. The eggs ranged from 3/8-3/11. I set them on 3/11. I have one egg dated 3/8 that hasn’t pipped. I thought it might be dead, so I candled it a few hours ago and saw movement. I’m going to wait 24 more hours and then what should I do...

Lyon tx6 Temp is fine I can’t get the humidity above 40ish. I have a wet bulb with a wick that I didn’t trust so I bought a hygrometer with an external probe. I ran this probe under the rim of the incubator dome and have it “floating” in the middle of the incubator out of line of the circulating...

First time incubating. Set them 3/11/19. Rotating 3-4x a day. Points tilting down. 100* 40-50% humidity. Candled all eggs tonight and all of them are loaded and have observable movement. What’s with the half lit/half dark in the eggs? Is that normal? My fear is them “sticking” to the side...

Please share your thoughts about these nest boxes. The hens don’t use them. I’m new to this. The chicken tractor was given to me. I didn’t design it. Before I start a ‘remodel’ I’d like to hear what you think. Sorry for the mess. It’s been very cold! The hens lay in the two farthest boxes...

Lyon TX-6 Not all of the little chambers in the bottom have water in them. The wick for the wet bulb therm is in the 1st and 2nd chambers like the directions say, but is the humidity really accurate if 70% of the chambers are empty? Thanks

Hello, everyone! First post. I’ve had chickens for two years. Seven hens and one rooster as of today. I teach middle school science. The other day someone was cleaning out a closet and found an incubator. They asked if I wanted it and I said sure. It’s a Lyon TX-6 from who knows when. There were...