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Trouble-shooting when your eggs don't hatch.I actually have a new incubator with a humidity monitor. Yay! I am trying dry hatching chicks for the first time. Why? Because when I put them in...
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Trouble-shooting when your eggs don't hatch.Thank you for the article! I really appreciated it, as I am hopefully going into incubator hatching soon, and want to do everything I can to get...- FocusonJesus
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Enrichment for chicksi'm first time chicken owner, and i'm trying to absorb all the info! my babies have a ramp, a roosting bar, and a little stool thing in their...
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Step by Step Guide to ASSISTED HatchingI can’t say thank you enough … this was a lifesaving article & helped me hatch a Guinea Fowl. Your guidance to be patient & monitor timeframes...
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Broody Management - From the First Turkey Strut to Weaning the ChicksDo i have to have a maternity ward if mama is going to have chicks or are they okay in the open coop. I have 4 hens. It is an elevated coop...
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Candling Pics Progression Through Incubation Of Chicken EggsI just hatched our 4th clutch but the first time with an incubator. The pictures helped so much on the days I candled. Thank you for the clear...- C Siena
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TO BROOD OR NOT TO BROOD: Baby Ducks and Chicks TogetherGreat article! Can you elaborate on the need for separate housing if I have only female ducks with my hens?
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Chicken Math 101 – with Quiz!This is The Best of the Best. I have read this so many times over the years, it never ceases to cheer me up, and I've shared with countless...- Gezellige_Poes
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Development of a Chicken Embryo Day by DaySuch a great post!! Super detailed and great to use to explain things to the kids as we follow our hatches 🥰- LmCattes
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Trouble-shooting when your eggs don't hatch.Great explanations of what causes "dud" eggs to not develop or hatch. I'd put some paragraphs in the first part to make this easier to read and...- Debbie292d
Hatching Eggs & Raising Chickens
Hatching baby chicks from eggs is an exciting and rewarding process. Learn how to incubate eggs, take care of hatchlings, and properly care for brand new fluffy chicks.
The Beginner's Guide to Incubation
This guide is intended to help people new to incubation learn how to properly incubate and hatch eggs. It will walk you through how to incubate and hatch most common types of poultry, such as chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese, etc.
Choosing an Incubator...
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Reasons for Tossing Out Your Indoor Brooder and Start Raising Your Chicks Outdoors
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My early brooders Six years ago when I got my second batch of day-old baby chicks, I thought I had arrived at the ultimate solution for a... -
Chicken Math 101 – with Quiz!
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Dear esteemed colleagues, there is a well-known and documented phenomenon known as “Chicken Math” effecting our coops, though there is little... -
Guide to Assisted Hatching for All Poultry
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Preface If you need immediate instructions on how to assist a hatch, you may skip this section and go to the next one, where the instructions... -
Candling Pics Progression Through Incubation Of Chicken Eggs
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CANDLING PICS: Progression Through Incubation Thanks to ZooMummzy, I am doing a test run of my little plywood bator and her little rooster... -
Development of a Chicken Embryo Day by Day
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This is an explanation of what is happening each day as a chicken embryo develops, complete with candling pictures. The egg I am using is a silver... -
Guide to Letting Broody Hens Hatch and Raise Chicks
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Using a Broody Hen to Hatch and Raise Chicks A broody hen is a great way to hatch chicks for you and your flock. She will do all the work... -
Integrating new birds at 4 weeks old
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Integrating as young chicks is much much easier than older birds, setting the space up to facilitate might not be so easy but well worth the... -
How To Tame Chickens from the Start
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How To Tame Chickens from the Start Many chicken keepers these days have friendly, tame flocks of birds they consider to be their pets. People... -
Incubation Humidity
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Relative Humidity (RH) “humidity” – simplified, is the amount of moisture present, relative to the amount that would be present if the air were... -
Adventures in Hatching - When Things Don't Go Quite as Planned
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Hi there. I'm long-time chicken keeper with a lot of experience, but even I can get so caught up in making sure humidity is perfect and the... -
Yes, You Certainly Can Brood Chicks Outdoors
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Brooding Chicks: The First 6 Weeks
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Whether you've just hatched your own chicks in your incubator, an ordered batch of chicks from the hatchery has just arrived, or you brought home... -
Aggressive Baby Chicks and How to Stop the Behavior
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Each spring I see countless cries for help from people with a day-old baby chick who is terrorizing the other chicks in the brooder, pecking at... -
How To Raise Baby Chicks: The First 60 Days Of Raising Baby Chickens
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Raising Baby Chickens—The First 60 Days Getting and raising chicks is exciting and may even be a little nerve-wracking time for backyard... -
Step by Step Guide to ASSISTED Hatching
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Tips for Successfully Sexing Your Chicks
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Tips for Successfully Sexing Your Chicks Well, it’s that time of year. The chicks are in, we’ve fallen in love with their adorable appearances... -
Egg failure to hatch - Diagnosing incubation problems
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Diagnosing and troubleshooting incubation problems and hatch failures Eggs failing to hatch can be a disappointing and sometimes costly... -
Broody Management - From the First Turkey Strut to Weaning the Chicks
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Broody management