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Hello,
I need some help. We just put eggs in our incubator for the first time. The humidity is stay steady but the temp goes between 98.8 and 100.5. It does have a fan. Is that ok?
 
MButerbaugh said:
Help, I have limping chicken. I can't see that anything is wrong with her leg/foot except the limp. Don't know if the rooster was too hard on her, dog chased her or something else... Any thoughts? Or suggestions what I should do? Thanks!!
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So many things could go wrong... it could be from Mr Green Jeans, but also could be bumble foot, a jump from the roost with a landing wrong or any other sudden jarring thing.
If you can, I would move her into a cage where she can be observed for a day or so and kept quiet. It will allow her to rest and not have to compete for food and roost space. Will also give you a chance to really watch how she is moving when not stressed. I have a rabbit hutch if you want to borrow it... or you can use your GP cage too. Hope it is short term and she heals quick!
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Well I am a re-transplant currently in Central PA, (back where I started from). I will be looking to start a flock in HOPEFULLY a few months once I get things in order. I need to find out what the local chicken people (nuts) have to select from to see if I can match em up with my chicken wish list. I hope to be hatching all my next flock from eggs if I can find them locally. First I have to find a place that allows livestock and work from there. It is going to be a long uphill road me thinks.
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Welcome!! A great group of enablers... errr... folks here!
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JoanO said:
Sally - I was following the saga of the egg that you dropped with the baby inside. And I seem to have lost where to look for progress. How did that turn out? Sorry, if it had a sad ending, not my intention to rehash bad memories.
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Was wondering also, hoped it turned out well...
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dianaB123 said:
Hello,
I need some help. We just put eggs in our incubator for the first time. The humidity is stay steady but the temp goes between 98.8 and 100.5. It does have a fan. Is that ok?
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what kind of incubator and did you calibrate hygro/thermos?
links to incubating are in my signature and it shows HOW to do so. Hatching 101 link

I would try to keep it as steady at 99.5 as possible, low temps can give a really nasty hatch full of problems at the end.
I am in the diary incubation thread and a lot of great people frequent the thread, usually someone is online as there are people around the country on it.
Your welcome to join us and ask as many questions as you want. anyone is welcome. Its not just about shipped eggs, we learn a lot through each other.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ll-detatched-shipped-eggs/14760#post_11117130
 
JoanO said:
Sally - I was following the saga of the egg that you dropped with the baby inside. And I seem to have lost where to look for progress. How did that turn out? Sorry, if it had a sad ending, not my intention to rehash bad memories.
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Hey JoanO it was a shame, he pipped the wrong end and drown! but I cant complain I had wonderful turkey, buttons and duck hatches for sure!
 
I have three white silkie chicks available yet, a few days old! last three from my whites! I cant hold they have to go, I need room for DUCKS! (OMG did I just say that!)

I HAVE DUCKS FOR SALE JUST HATCHED CUTE ADORABLE DUCKS!
here is the link for suggestion in keep the brooder CLEANER!
Duckling Care

message me if interested
 
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LFchixranch said:
Well I am a re-transplant currently in Central PA, (back where I started from). I will be looking to start a flock in HOPEFULLY a few months once I get things in order. I need to find out what the local chicken people (nuts) have to select from to see if I can match em up with my chicken wish list. I hope to be hatching all my next flock from eggs if I can find them locally. First I have to find a place that allows livestock and work from there. It is going to be a long uphill road me thinks.
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Hello..& welcome!!
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Up here in the mountains too!.....just started chicken keeping & loving it! 1 BL Wyandotte & 1 Partridge W., more to come in a couple months... Both girls came from Nittany Wyandottes (Peaky Beaky), they are awesome! The BL has started laying very well. How Central PA are you?
 
Well, today we cleaned out the brooders and moved the chicks around (I bleached the crap out of everything). Everything was going well as the chicks were outside running around and being chicks - not even a single sneeze in the group! Until I kept hearing one of the chicks screaming. They were pecking it's vent! OMG, I thought we were over this. So, I pulled it out and sprayed it's behind and opted to do everyone elses too. As I was going through, a couple chicks looked like they got pecked once and ripped the outside enough to have a little notch in their cloaca. The last one I caught getting pecked, it's cloaca is much bigger and it's almost like it has no control over it's urates now. I pulled 4 chicks total with more than minimal and unnoticeable cloaca damage. The symptoms do not fit Infectious Brusal, btw. I have checked numerous times.

Do I truly have a cannibal? I moved everyone to the 6x4 brooder, so they have 24sqft, opposed to the previous 2x8 16sqft. Maybe that will help deter the vent pecking.

I am hoping tomorrow to clean the rest of my coops and pens out, move all the adults around again and put the older babies in the 10x10 coop and use that as my grow out pen. That will open the pool table up for more babies later on. Like the ducklings I hatch from the 30 some duck eggs I have in the incubator.

I forgot to mention that Ginbart may be back on here! She bought my Delawares at the auction yesterday!
 
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