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  1. N

    To mist or not to mist

    I have a brinsea automatic incubator which holds seven duck eggs. It says to let the eggs cool for thirty minutes but then it can take another thirty mins to get up to temperature again so do I just cool for 10mins say? my other incubator is an et 12 super and that says cool for 15 mins so I’m...
    • Nf1236
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    • ducks incubating mist
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    • Forum: Ducks
  2. Ra_

    Do you help your birds keep cool?

    My bigger birds learned about the delights of wading in water to cool off but my younger birds are staying under the low, bushy palms when temps hit 95 degrees. I just ordered this mister and I'm going to set it up over that palm. Have you tried a mister or do you have any other techniques for...
    • Ra_
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    • chickens heat mist pond pool summer temp temperature water
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    • Forum: Managing Your Flock
  3. WeTheWeys

    Please Help!!!!! sudden dark spot and no movement in egg

    Today I rotated my eggs and candled, seeing a lot of movement from each. A few hours later, went back in to manually rotate the eggs again, and noticed a dark spot on one of them. Candled it and theres no movement at all. AT ALL. I separated him out from the others and put him in a different...
  4. Shezadandy

    Beating the heat: Trying something new

    So like the rest of chicken keepers the battle is on to keep the chickens from enduring too much heat stress. We're in the middle of a big heat wave and I can't wait for it to end- but it's going to hang on forever. SO - Having done the normal - installed a poultry exhaust fan in the coop...
  5. N

    How to make chickens like mist?

    There is a heat wave coming tomorrow (108-110) and I have a mister set up yet they are avoiding it. Will they eventually figure it out? I don't want them to die of heat stroke because they didn't like the mist. The floor is getting pretty wet so I'm thinking they might just use the wet mud to...
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