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    Early Bird or Something Wrong?

    Thanks for the bump. He hasn't made any more progress, except a little more peeling from me. None of the others are showing any signs of pipping yet, which they shouldn't. I wonder if there is such a thing as a premature duck?
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    Early Bird or Something Wrong?

    I set two batches of Khaki Campbell eggs from different sellers on 4/9/10. I had planned to move them to the hatcher tomorrow, 5/4/10, and expected them to hatch around 5/6/10. I was busy building a new brooder for my chicks yesterday and missed my mid-day turning. When I opened the bator...
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    Help with dying hatches

    1 cup every 12 hours sounds about right, because I was putting in 2 cups every day. I have two different temp/humidity guages and they both read the same, so I'm assuming they're correct. I'm so confused between chicks being too dry and dying or being too wet and drowning.
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    Help with dying hatches

    I am so distressed. I feel like a baby killer! I'm sure I'd doing a bunch of things wrong and ending up with bad hatches. I have three more batches of hatching eggs coming in the mail this week and I want to get this figured out before I kill them too. I have a new fan bator that keeps the...
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    Help ASAP: Egg Emergency

    I just received my latest order of hatching eggs and 14 out of 20 were smashed due to REALLY bad packaging. The 8 that appear to be intact are covered in the goo from all of the smashed eggs. This is now drying and has to be blocking all of the pores like a thin layer of glue. I've always...
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