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In reply to the discussion: know who has chickens? [View all]

mopinko

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7. little over half.
Mon May 4, 2015, 10:35 PM
May 2015

3 of the little idiots managed to squeeze under the crock pot that i am heating the brooder with, and.....

wasnt too happy with the humidity in the incubator, but didnt get my rear in gear to fix that. i think that was a big bit of it. and waaaay too much peeking. i was so good until the eggs started chirping.
needed to keep them straight, breed and daddy-wise, so i was scooping them up and marking them as quickly as i could. also left them in the egg turner. makes it hard for them to rock out. next time i will put them in some little boxes of some kind so i can just let them be.

live and learn.

dont know what i would have done with them all if i had had a better hatch. having a tough enough time as it is deciding how many to keep. in enough trouble w the neighbors and the city.
but what the heck, in for a penny, in for a pound.

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