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    Air Bubble Too Small. I dont want chicks to drown. Please Help!!

    Okay so I did some more research and found how to help a chick that could not internally pip and help them a long. I broke into the air end of the egg and found that out of the six eggs, 4 had no development, 1 was half developed, and 1 had a full chick that couldn't get into place. He looked...
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    Air Bubble Too Small. I dont want chicks to drown. Please Help!!

    Hey everyone. An update. Those six jersey eggs still haven't hatched. My last hatch I waited until day 25. Morning of day 26 I took the eggs out and put them in a basket. Day 28 I broke them outside to see why they didn't hatch. In one egg i had a fully developed baby jersey giant chick that...
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    Air Bubble Too Small. I dont want chicks to drown. Please Help!!

    Thanks. I didn't bump the humidity up to 65%-70% until the morning of day 21. I hoped this would let some of the humidity out of the egg. I let the humidity get down to 33% from 45% on day 18. Then I bumped the humidity up on the morning of the 21st day to 65%. The chicks hatched. Now that...
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    Air Bubble Too Small. I dont want chicks to drown. Please Help!!

    Just an update. I have 10 chicks hatched. Only 6 large fowl eggs left. All Jersey Giants. I believe these are the ones I had not seen an air bubble in. It is only wednesday and tuesday was day 21 so I'll leave them in until Saturday which is day 25 and see if any hatch. I'll keep you updated...
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    Air Bubble Too Small. I dont want chicks to drown. Please Help!!

    Thanks. The black eggs that I could see the air bubble on where quite small. Probably like day 7 air bubble. The ones I could not see the air bubble, I think it may be my candler. I could see the air bubble on the bantam eggs and the eggs that had nothing in them. The black eggs I'm hoping I...
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    Air Bubble Too Small. I dont want chicks to drown. Please Help!!

    I just did my day 18 candle of my eggs. Of the eggs I have full chicks in, I believe the air bubbles are to small. In some it seemed hard to see any. They are mostly brown eggs. A few lighter ones I could see a little bit of an air bubble. I hope my chicks don't drown. I thought maybe I would...
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    First Hatch finished. I did Horribly. Why?

    Yes. It was my first. I'll try the tip on the faverolle. Thanks.
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    First Hatch finished. I did Horribly. Why?

    So I just finished my first hatch. Out of 24 eggs, 4 hatched. Though one died. My fault. It was in the egg for 30 some hours. I tried helping and got the top off and top membrane. When it kicked the bottom of the shell off the vessels connected to the yoke broke and it died. I feel bad, but I...
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    My First Hatch- May be problems. Late Hatching

    So first off, I didn't think any of my eggs were fertile. I couldn't see anything on day seven candling. The eggs are cream colored to light brown. My little brother hatched some eggs a few years back and said he had the same thing, but left them in anyways to see if anything hatched. I...
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    7 Day Candling. No Fertile eggs?

    I would put them with the hens when I get home from work around 4 pm. They are out and about eating and scratching well until about 7:30 8pm. But I could try the morning. Just means I'll have to get up around 4 am so I can have the extra time to move them. They are up then anyways. But then the...
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    7 Day Candling. No Fertile eggs?

    Oh yes another thing I forgot. I do have multiple thermometers. I even have another thermometer I ice water tested. It is a regular bulb thermometer. It reads .5 f low. It reads around 98.8 to 99.2. So that would be 99.3 to 99.7f. My temps aren't off.
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    7 Day Candling. No Fertile eggs?

    So here is the situation. For a week I would take my Jersey Giant and Faverolles Roosters and stick them with their corresponding hens for a few hours each night. Reason I did this is I don't have enough hens to roosters per breed and I don't want my ladies getting hurt. So one week straight...
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    Is a 2.4 degree temperature variance okay to hatch eggs?

    Hi, I built my own coolerbator following much of the advice on the forums. I used a Hot Water Thermostat I picked up from the local co-op. I found a coleman cooler at walmart for cheap. I wired in two bulbs. Placed the Thermostat about 3/4 of an inch from the lightbulb. The closest I could...
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    New Member From Alberta

    sorry if this is a repost. My last post didn't show up. What I said was: I have three chicken tractors. One with the roosters, one with the bantams, and one with the standards. I would have the bantams and standards together, but the bantams were bullied to much. The roosters get along great...
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    Mating Roosters with Hens. Rotating.

    Yes I have multiple chicken tractors set up. One for all my roosters, one for my bantams, and one for standards. Eventually as my flock grows I'll have a pen for each breed. It works pretty good.
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