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    Should I trim my chicks crest?

    Greetings, I have an 8 week old chick that has a big crest, and I was wondering if I should trim it? I mean, it looks beautiful but the chick is less active than others, often sleeps outdoors alone (I think it can't see its way back home), often doesn't find water or feed unless others are...
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    Is my chick stuck in the egg?

    Thanks, I'll try it out next time I hatch something for sure. Many of them are already in a warm brooder (in the attached picture), but many more are newly hatched, soaking wet and not yet fluffy enough to move them from the incubator to the brooder. I've read a lot of guides on what to do...
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    Is my chick stuck in the egg?

    Never knew that, I've just used it in factory setting, never really tried to test it with anything since I don't have a spare hydrometer around, just assumed it worked. Alright, sadly after trying to remove some shell it started bleeding a little, I've stopped there. The skin thing surrounding...
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    Is my chick stuck in the egg?

    Not sure what you mean by "salt tested", but I do have a hydrometer in my bator. Link is the same as the pic, first time posting here so I didn't know if it would show it here, put that there just in case. Weird that it doesn't show. Well, it's kind of gooey, it has a texture of dry'ish milk...
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    Is my chick stuck in the egg?

    Hello, I am new to this whole egg hatching thing, and this is my 2nd time hatching chicks. So what happened is, there was a big temp spike in the incubator one day and there was an early hatch (pipped at day 18, hatched 19), it's day 21 now and almost all the eggs already hatched (12 out of 45...
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