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Hi, I might be coming back to do this all again. I have family members that might want to raise their own chickens and I told them that if they did want to buy chicks that I would incubate them. I will be hopefully getting some more eggs from friends unless of course I never get rid of my...

Quote: Aren't they pretty! Moved mine to the big brooder today....in the garage....the youngest are a week old today. Brooder is huge. Put a log in there and a big rock for 'playground equipment' and two containers of sand. Two feeders and a big waterer. They seem happy. Watching them try to...

10 days old Hope everyone is doing well and chickies are still hatching.

Quote: So sweet! I love the color. Do all the silkies have feathers coming down their legs? I still don't know too much about the different breeds.

Quote: My humidity did the same thing, but I didn't have any problems. Everytime I noticed it getting past 80%, I would pull a plug to get it back down to the 75% to 80% zone. I think the windows coming out from the top was a great idea when the LG was made, not sure if other 'window view'...

Quote: YAY!!! Congrats! How many eggs did you have all together??

Quote: He's silver! That is soo cute. And people are saying they have never seen anything like mine. Your little RIR mix looks sort of like our yellow/white ones mixes with our rust color ones.

Quote: What kind of chick is the brown one with caramel colors? I have one that looks the same I got from TSC and have no clue what it is. I have no clue, sorry! Ours are just barnyard mutts. My dad beleives that it is a Rhode Island Red, but who knows.

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Quote: I did too.. Does anyone else have trouble with the chicks not drying out? They hatched fine but some of their down wont "fluff up". Yes, I did as well..so I took them out and put them in the brooder, in an area sectioned off from the other "broodies", fluffed up within 30 minutes...

Quote: We have one that was like that, his/her feathers dried really stiff, I tried a warm cotton ball bath, but he/she still dried stiff again. Nearly a week later he/she is still looking really dry, can still see skin under feathers, what little he has. If you find another way to help, let...

Quote: Yeah, getting the temp just right is hard, but since you are starting early that is good. We had so many fluxes because of our house temps, I had to end up wrapping ours with a large beach towel sometimes during the whole incubation period. Good luck!

Quote: I think this IS the HARDEST part. Hope everything goes well. Will be watching.

Quote: Can you spritz a little water on him? Or bring your humitidy up a little, I had to do this with two of hours on the last day. I am a little behind, trying to get through all the post, so if you got this fixed, then ignore my post. Good luck

Quote: Good luck. We have already hatched, 10 babies. I didn't do dry, but I did keep my humidity between 20% and 30% for the first 17 days then increased it to 60% - 80% on day 18 through 21 (well, 23 in our case).

Quote: Now....STEP AWAY FROM THE INCUBATOR!!!! Just so you will know not to have really high expectations for an inminent hatch. My pipped one night at 6pm and did nothing by the next moring....then we zipped and hatched finally at 11am. On the other hand another one pipped, and zipped and...

WOW!! So much going on, I feel like I have been out of the loop. Trying to keep up with who is hatching, who is still setting eggs, JUST WOW!!!!! I am trying to read all the threads since my last post so I can catch up and help if needed. We are totally finished (I think ) hatching for the...

Quote: What kind of chick is #1 and #3?? We have 2 that look like #1 and 3 that look like #3

Quote: Mine stopped turning one day (I have the newer one) and noticed that one of the rows had fallen out of the bracket. Put it back in and it was fine.

Quote: It will go FAST!! No, don't cout today, tomorrow at the time you set will be day 1 at least that is what I was told. Good luck with everything. When we do this again NEXT YEAR I think I will try dry incubation and see how that goes.