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    what can kill chicks of 5 weeks old and still kept indoors?

    Hi Thanks for the speedy reply, the food I'm giving them has anti coccidiosis in it. Especially made for new chicks is it ok to give on top of the feed amounts? Imhohoping the change back to this food will start helping soon
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    what can kill chicks of 5 weeks old and still kept indoors?

    What is cocorid?
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    what can kill chicks of 5 weeks old and still kept indoors?

    Hi peeps Well an update from my first successful hatching of 10 chicks, (crook included) most of the chicks were fully feathered by 3 weeks old so on a mild warm day I took them outside having already weaned them off of their heat light, and two days layer I lost 2 chicks, so I brought them...
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    silkie hatchling ?tri colour markings

    These images are of a single tri colour silkie freshly fluffed up same day hatched out Unusual colour variations .... Boy or girl?
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    first time i saw my egg pip!

    I have 10 at least these ones will add to me personal flock x
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    first time i saw my egg pip!

    Needless to say my incubator is now in it's cradle again all eggs (frizzle and silkie) pointy tips down, lets just hope the last 4 days of manually turning them while waiting for those others to hatch hasn't affected their development to much! Fingers crossed, got total of 10hatchlings from...
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    first time i saw my egg pip!

    Ok this was the findings, one never developed, and two were malpositioned the heads were in the small part of the egg, furthest away from the air sac.
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    first time i saw my egg pip!

    I put it back in yesterday and there was nothing happening at all. ( the incubator is in my front room so is in full vision continuously) there is 3 eggs left I've tapped them but no chirping or noise inside and no rocking hope they are alive though ! But we shall see tomo
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    first time i saw my egg pip!

    Chickaroo, this was one that is 25 days no movement but still has yoak and looks formed. Would the chick be moving around if it was alive inside yoak sack or is this little one a result of late stage death?
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    first time i saw my egg pip!

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    first time i saw my egg pip!

    Chickaroo, thank you, I helped a chick at 4 am this morning as it had cracked the shell the previous morning and was chirping inside with beak out of the hole but wasn't pushing itself fully out of the egg. I removed it's shell leaving as much membrane as was possible then put it back into...
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    first time i saw my egg pip!

    Ok, so how do I break their shell without giving them concussion if they are living in there? And if they are alive once they are visible do I remove all the shell or just a little then let it finish the rest itself? Sorry for all questions this is new to me. My dragons never needed assistance :/
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    first time i saw my egg pip!

    Well that would mean RIR tomo and others 2 days after. Are they likely to survive if they are alive in there? Or would opening them kill them?
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    first time i saw my egg pip!

    Hi everyone, I really need your advice please! As you know I'm waiting for 6 eggs to hatch and they are now day 23/25 (rir are 25days) I've just float tested them and the eggs all turned points down so air pocket was up, the two rir didn't move from that point. But the other eggs wasn't...
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    first time i saw my egg pip!

    Me and my friends little boy ( I'm teaching him about chicks at early age of 15 Months)
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