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    Chicks dying suspiciously!

    You could be right. I might do the same for next brooder hen... limit the number of eggs. That’s the best way to do it. Poor broody she hatched almost 27 till date and still I see she has quite a number beneath her. 😓
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    Chicks dying suspiciously!

    @cmom btw... how many days the chicks need to be in the brooder before I take them out in the backyard?
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    Chicks dying suspiciously!

    Wow... your setup amazed me!! You made those incubators yourself??? Can’t imagine. I couldnt be successful with even a single hatch in the automatic incubator and you are cruising through home made ones!! Hats off.
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    Chicks dying suspiciously!

    I really don’t know. They are fine until a couple of days and when there is another couple hatches... the senior one would die in this manner. I couldn’t figure it out yet that why I’m rescuing and putting them in the brooder.
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    Chicks dying suspiciously!

    I guess you are a pet lover like me... my wife is not really into pets and she is always nagging over the time that I spend with the chickens and other pets!!! 😆 Anyways thanks a lot for your generous responses. I might require your expert opinion in the future as well.
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    Suspicious deaths

    I’m really bad in candling. However I trust that three or four days more and all will either hatch or would be abandoned. The other hens are locked down since around 18 days or so and thus I estimated that no new eggs were laid since then.
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    Chicks dying suspiciously!

    Wow... that’s some amazing setup you’ve got!!
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    Suspicious deaths

    Noted... However, since I have recovered 12 chicks, 6 were killed and 4 died naturally, total hatched are already more than 20 and the broody hen is still setting on few more eggs. I guess around 6 or 7. Not sure.
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    Chicks dying suspiciously!

    I think I gotta find one soon... Out of the 22 hatched, I have recovered 12 and are in the brooder now, 6 were killed and 4 died naturally. Thank you for the empathy. I think it is needed badly. 🙏🏼
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    Chicks dying suspiciously!

    I think I’m gonna have to setup one soon
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    Chicks dying suspiciously!

    Thanks a lot for the response. However the heads aren’t totally gone. It’s the tops. Looks like someone likes the brains only.
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    Suspicious deaths

    Thanks for the info... I will ensure things are more practical for the broody next time...
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    Suspicious deaths

    You are right about staggered hatches. I initially faced problem in mingling the new ones with the old ones. So I made another brooder and put the new ones in for week then mix them with the elders.
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    I doubt on the mother as the last one was still breathing when I went in there and the mother hen was roaming with one chick and the moment she saw me she went broody again and took her favourite one along.
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    Suspicious deaths

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