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  1. fishnchix

    does anyone ever get used to killing and eating their birds

    Our first butcher day was comical in a very gruesome way. My husband grew up on a farm, but I had city-fied him for 30 years. So he and my son went to do the deed... before it was all through, butchering 12 birds took all day, cost us over $300 in medical expenses and half of them were roosters...
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    Deadly mistake

    I am not a stupid person, or a careless one, but we all screw up sometimes. I am still a little rocked by what happened last weekend. I am ashamed, but figure if I can spare any peeps or peoples, it is worth any grief I may take for telling this story. I lost an entire hatch save one chick to...
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    Announcement April Fools 2011 - NEW BYC Program & Partnership - Sell Your Extra Eggs!

    Very cool! I am more looking to market hatching eggs, but as a consumer, I LOVE this idea. We have nearly stopped going to restaurants as I want to know the food I eat was once happy and healthy. I hope the worms that eat me one day think as kindly on me... lol!
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    a tough topic, but, just in case, culling newly hatched babies

    ETHER. It is a sweet smell, they go to sleep, it is over very fast. The starter fluid in a margarine tub is ether. I realize everyone has to live with their own choices, but decapitation is not something I could do.
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    Peepulation explosion!

    The incubator where my last hatch were decimated is back in operation, and I woke up to 5 happy, healthy new peeple today! Thanks to the folks who were so kind while I went through that very sad batch!
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    Help!PLEASE! HAPPY UPDATE!

    Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. You did NOT kill her, she was "dead on arrival." We all are. You gave her love, food and shelter while she hung around figuring out that she was dead. I am a chicken rancher / philosopher, I guess...
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    Are my eggs Cooked?

    I have had my incubator run up on me for possible several hours (I have wood heat so temperature stabilization is a running battle!) and chicks made it. Cut WAY down on hatch rate, but I had chicks survive.
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    Buckeyes in Idaho

    Well, thanks everyone! I have a LOT to learn, apparently just about running smiley icons, let alone chickens!
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    Buckeye Breed Thread

    I love my Buckeyes! I love my laying hens, too, but the Buckeyes are just a hoot. They make all the usual chicken sounds, plus this entire range of primitive sounding cries that are fascinating. The roosters are tough enough to stare down my big dog, but smart enough to not get attitude with...
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    I have hatched a three legged chick

    Ahem... How close are you to Fukushima?
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    What do you use to write on eggs?

    Thank you, thunderwagon! I keep looking at my girls out there brooding in a pile of straw and poop and wishing I had their hatch rate...
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    Can you pull egg from under hen on day one, and ship to incubate?

    Thank you much!
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    Buckeyes in Idaho

    One barred rock (Alma,) one buff orpington (Princess, from my first hatch,) 2 big white birds that are not the leghorns I thought I was getting (The Twins) - a straight run pair of birds from a batch I got for a quarter the day after Easter last year, one of whom is a nice broody, hen (Momma)...
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    Tips for Keeping Humidity Levels Consistent

    I'll whine here while I hope someone replies to my hatching egg question... Can the Hovabator people REALLY not design a bottom tray that is easily accessible with a straw? I can appreciate the advice not to open the unit, I just can't follow it because I can't see where the little trough is...
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    Chickens and Crops

    I have been told that Guinea fowl are the bird for in the garden, but do not have any so won't testify to that. I had a bad grass hopper infestation last year, so I started herding my birds through morning and night, and they did go for bugs first. All the plants were well established by then...
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    Can you pull egg from under hen on day one, and ship to incubate?

    All my girls go lay next to my brooding hen, and she tries to scoop them all in and sit on them. I have marked a dozen for her to hatch, but have been pulling others out daily. Yesterday I got an order for hatching eggs, and wondered if these eggs would develop if I pulled them out and then...
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    1 to 3 day old chix flop on back and die... Please help!

    In case anyone is wondering... The carnage seems to have stopped. All the eggs that I started incubating on the 21st died the same odd way, and no chicks from other start dates. I think I must have done something the day I started or candled them? The last one to die was snuggled down into a bed...
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    Oy, helping chicks out of shell

    I am a relative newby, but here is where I draw the line: If they break that first hole, and are still alive 24 hours later but not making progress, I will chip the outer shell away in a 360 ring from where they poked through. If I get any resistance between shell and membrane I stop, and put...
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    1 to 3 day old chix flop on back and die... Please help!

    Thanks. Temperature is where I have focused my attention. It is not optimal, but it was working with all the previous chicks so I am not 100% convinced it is just temperature. I have stopped starting new eggs, and was going to disinfect my entire operation, but wondered if this problem might be...
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    1 to 3 day old chix flop on back and die... Please help!

    I am distraught at this point. I have a small flock of Buckeyes, I have been incubating their eggs for couple months and have no problems with the chicks that are 1 week and older. 3 days ago, my babies started falling on their backs and dying. I have found a few before they die, they are...
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