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    Bad Hatch Rate?? Help Appreciated

    My parents got me a Farm Innovators Pro Series Digital Incubator. I have the spare thermometer and hydrometer so the levels have been in check. It was my first incubation so I'll just take this as a learning experience. I haven't seen any movement candling so my best bet is we got all the chicks...
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    Bad Hatch Rate?? Help Appreciated

    I live eastern NC and our outdoor humidity doesn't fluctuate much during each season. We've kept an eye of the hydrometer so I don't believe it has had big changes at any point. We collected the eggs from our current flock and they seem to be healthy birds. I just did the float test on a few of...
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    Bad Hatch Rate?? Help Appreciated

    A thermometer and hydrometer, both were calibrated. Thanks for the humidity tip, there was so much info out there I just used the average of all I was reading.
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    Bad Hatch Rate?? Help Appreciated

    I was just saying that I've kept temps and humidity at the correct levels. 100 degrees Fahrenheit throughout the 21 days and the humidity was around 45-50 and increased to 60-65% during lockdown. If I don't see any new progress in the morning, I'll candle them. Thanks!
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    Bad Hatch Rate?? Help Appreciated

    Just hit day 22 on my first try at incubating. I've had 3 hatch out of the 23 eggs that went into lockdown. We candled them all and we were definitely sure of life in most of the eggs. That begin said, I have no idea why we've only had 3 hatch. Temps and Humidity were according to the timeframe...
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    Chicken only using one leg

    She just kinda drags it, dosent out weight on it. She’s not vaccinated but I don’t believe it’s any disease because they were all out running around yesterday. There’s no physical signs or injury so I assume it might be in the joint or hip. They have nesting boxes a couple feet high which is...
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    Chicken only using one leg

    This morning we found one of our 1 year old Americanas limping around the coop. She’s only using one of her legs, using a wing to stabilize herself, and lays on her side when she’s not waking. When we hold her the leg she’s not using just kinda hangs there. What type of injury would this be? I...
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