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    Need advice

    Hi all, I'm a new to having chickens and ours hatched a couple of days ago, we have on that has a lump on or around its vent and was told its the remaining yolk sack, but I'm worried as this was supposed to be absorbed I left him in the incubator of over 24 hours after removing the others, and...
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    Please help me! I'm stressing out!

    Hi thanks for the reply, our Incubator is the Janoel 12 and I have experimented with combinations. I currently have a soft drink bottle cap with water and its currently at 45%. The incubator is a forced air incubator (has a fan) and I have tried the thermometer in two spots both show a few...
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    Please help me! I'm stressing out!

    Hi again, I'm still very confused and stressed out, I can not seem to stabilize the humidity in the incubator, and currently have it at 28% with no water is this OK or do I need to find another way of getting up humidity. Also I,m still stuck on the correct temp, the incubator is set at 37.6°C...
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    Incubating help please (very new)

    Its only day 2, Im just concerened that there is a 2.7oC difference from the incubator and thermometer and yes 37.6 is the recommended temp. Also the humidity is very high. I dont know what to do. 😢
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    Incubating help please (very new)

    Hello, We are currently on our second round of incubation, our first was a disaster and after our thermostat on our DIY incubator failed we had to finish the eggs in a borrowed incubator. All our eggs didn't hatch and one nearly did but died on trying to escape the egg. So we are trying again...
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    New member and chicken newbie

    Hello All, and greetings from the UK We are very new to raising chickens and got into it with my son starting a science project into making an incubator. We are on our second batch of 12 eggs and currently have no chicks or chickens as of yet and we don't know the breeds of the eggs as we have...
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