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    Heat source

    Sadly dangling things is not an option. I have to keep the lid on to keep them safe from the cat. Once they are bigger she wont bother them but at this size I think she might eat them.
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    Heat source

    It is a lamp holder and bulb screwed to side of box, but bulb is boiling. and they can touch it.
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    Heat source

    Hi all My first lot of chicks arrived last week. My brooder had not arrived so I borrowed a heat lamp from a commercial hatchery while I waited for it. It arrived this morning but I am a bit worried about the heat source. It is a fireglow bulb and its very hot! I am concerned that the...
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    Urgent help

    Ok have gently broken the shell away. it wasnt truly stuck just it had dried on to it where it had been brokwn oopen and the air had got to it. Its tweeting like mad though
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    Urgent help

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    Urgent help

    2 of my chicks have hatched. one has still pipped and the third has half broken out. I cracked the shell a bit for it as it seemed to be struggling. It appears to be stuck by it back to the shell and also has a red mass at its rear end. What do I do??? Leave it. help it out, put it out of its...
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    I have done it all wrong, help needed

    not only walking, but now shouting too !! still only one but three others have pipped. this one is a day early so hopefully the others will follow suit. Have moved it to the brooder as it was pecking great big holes in another egg and then started pecking the occupant who does not think it...
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    I have done it all wrong, help needed

    no just looks drunk. but over last hout looks must steadier. I think just baby legs
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    I have done it all wrong, help needed

    1 Gold partidge bantam hatched although it doesnt seem able to stand up, I assume thats normal and like any animal it has to find its feet
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    I have done it all wrong, help needed

    Oh good, I am feeling much more relaxed. thankyou. hopefully be able to post some pics soon of my tiny bantams
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    I have done it all wrong, help needed

    Oh thats good. the chicken egg hasnt pipped but I am not convinced its fertile. shell has always been to dark to candle. Will the fact that the eggs have all rolled around and the bator has been opened have a bad effect?
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    I have done it all wrong, help needed

    HI all This is my first batch of eggs. I borrowed an incubator from a friend who had hatched his own. he said temp was set right and to just put them in and wait. So I did I only realised at day 8 that I should be turning them and have done so ever since. Also no one told me about raising...
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