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    Countdown to Baby Chicks 2023 edition

    I think that is a very wise decision
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    need help on run design

    What degree angle for the slope? I would make the shorter part tall enough so you could go under it easily and depending on the slope and the distance from the short side to the tall side. If the short side is say 6 foot and the tall 9 feet with 8 feet from the two sides, It would be like a 30...
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    Bantams Coming in April!!!

    :celebrate I LOVE BANTAMS and the Snack size eggs!!!!:wee:jumpy Where did you order from? My Pet Chicken What did you order? 5 Bantam Green Queen Easter Egger Bantams Green Egg Layer When will they hatch/how many weeks or months left? Hatch is April 6 so they go into the incubator on...
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    Eight fuzzy butts hatching on 3-27-2023

    :celebrate I am super egg-cited!!!! Where did you order from? My Pet Chicken What did you order? Three Cream Legbars; Three Exchequer Leghorns (black and white checked) Two Anaconas all black When will they hatch/how many weeks or months left? They haven't even entered the incubator yet...
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    Hello again....It's been a long time and I am back.

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I got my first chickens back in 2008/2009 I had Silver and golden laced Wyandottes, Chicken math....I ended up with 55 chickens which were WAY WAY WAY too Many. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? I currently have three...
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    Hatch a long during the month of July

    I just placed my order with Green Fire Farms for Bielfelders and Cream Leg Bars. Green Fire Farms is here in Florida and they have really great stock. No one else sells Bielefelders except as eggs anyway. I have had cream legbars before and they are really pretty. Small like Leghorns. They...
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    Hatch a long during the month of July

    I am not done with chickens - I think - my incubator is ruined - not sure without taking it apart but as far as july goes - I can't get it fixed. My daughter is going to Sewanee in Tennessee mid August anyway for her Freshman orientation so I will wait and get chicks when I return and start...
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    Hatch a long during the month of July

    Went to turn the eggs this am and discovered the incubator on the floor and three broken eggs. During the night, My dog must have gotten his tail caught in the cord and knocked the thing off the table. I am pretty sure he ate most of the broken eggs. He is not a naughty dog. As dogs go - He...
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    Hatch a long during the month of July

    You need a really bright flashlight. Like the short stubby ones with the LED lights. I couldn't see much and I was not sure my eggs were viable at all. We do live close - I am in Northern Jax near Pumpkin Hill - Yellow Bluff and Starratt. Not far from Yulee. Caroline
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    Hatch a long during the month of July

    Lock Down is the final three days? So if my hatch date is 7/30 then I don't open and turn eggs on the 27,28th and 29th? Caroline
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    Hatch a long during the month of July

    Tomorrow is my Day 7 so I plan to candle them and see if I have anything. I have 9 eggs so I have no idea what to expect. Some of the eggs are brown eggs I am hoping I can see. I have a good flash light Wish me luck. Caroline
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    Hatch a long during the month of July

    My eggs were left on my door step even though I called the post office to let them know to hold the mail and MY Pet chicken had on the label to hold and call recipient. 100 degree heat that day. I waited and put them in the incubator. That might have been a mistake but that's what I did. So...
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    Hatch a long during the month of July

    I hope they call - They have had issues before - Once my local PO had my chicks and left them at the airport I went to the post office three times that day to tell them tracking showed they had them only to get a call the next AM telling me my package was not peeping. Another time the Postal...
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    Brinsea ECO Mini ...Manual Incubator fits ten eggs contraption

    I had a good test. I added water and plugged the thing in and it was 99 degrees every time I checked so I think it is good. Caroline My eggs come next week. I cannot wait to get started.
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    My funny little incubator

    My Friend incubated eggs from Trader Joes and all dozen hatched. she had no idea they would hatch and did it on a dare. Caroline
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