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    Emergency help for new chick hatchin' teacher!

    Latest update on BeauxPeep: Beaux will be 4 weeks old tomorrow. He/she is relatively small and has lost almost all down and is mostly feathers. I still don't know the sex. He/she has not tried to crow so maybe he/'she is a she. BeauxPeep lives in our master bathroom in a large plastic...
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    Emergency help for new chick hatchin' teacher!

    The chick pipped at the small end. I left the chick and the other eggs at school in the incubator. Went home (to Texas) then drove back to school (in Louisiana) about 8 p.m. last night. The pipping chick was out of its shell but was a mess - goo, poo, shell, and who knows what! Brought...
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    Emergency help for new chick hatchin' teacher!

    School is over in 15 minutes so I broke off a small part of the pipping chick's shell. The membrane appears bloody but dry. Is that normal? The chick is breathing well - almost panting, so I don't think I have to worry about suffocation. I am going to leave everything at school, but come back...
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    Emergency help for new chick hatchin' teacher!

    Thank you for your post. The chick is still peeping, but not really pipping...if that makes sense. I have Styrofoam egg cartons to transport the unhatched eggs in...with moist paper towels. I will follow your advice and wrap the pipped egg in moist paper toweling and transport it singly in a...
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    Emergency help for new chick hatchin' teacher!

    OK - Let me correct a few things. Today, is the 22nd, and we should have had pipping on the 20th or 21st - not the 28th as previously stated. I was very surprised when I arrived at school to find a chick that had started pipping. So far, it is the only one. I am hoping someone will offer...
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    Emergency help for new chick hatchin' teacher!

    Here's my story in a nutshell and I need answers within the next two hours, please! Decided to hatch eggs with my students at school. The parish (yes, I am in southwest Louisiana) extension agent allowed me to borrow a Little Giant incubator with the automatic egg turner (but no fan). He...
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