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    First attempt at incubating eggs!

    oh no lol, sounds like he is in good hands though!
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    First attempt at incubating eggs!

    congrats henney!!
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    First attempt at incubating eggs!

    aww henney, good luck to you, fingers crossed they all pip very soon!
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    First attempt at incubating eggs!

    naw they are so cute!!! here's all of my babies that hatched out of this lot
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    First attempt at incubating eggs!

    awesome! fingers crossed for that one, i will check later to see how its going
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    First attempt at incubating eggs!

    if its still making noise i would leave it go, just keep an eye on it
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    First attempt at incubating eggs!

    it varied a bit hun, around 4 hours though from memory. our hatch is now completed! we have 12 healthy chicks, and #13 hatched with a bit of help but is slowly on the decline, hubby is coming to help me 'put it to sleep' as it has curled legs.
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    First attempt at incubating eggs!

    i had 24 eggs, i have now got 11 chicks in the brooder and 1 still pipping, i think thats all i will have, but for first attempt 50/50 i thought was good. for the humidity i didnt do anything extra apart from filling the water wells all the way up for lockdown, it is a great little machine...
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    First attempt at incubating eggs!

    we have babies!!! this guy was the first to hatch yesterday at 11am (day 21) the little black one hatched at 9pm yesterday (day 21) i am now on day 22, i have JUST had 2 more hatch at 12pm, a black and a yellow, PLUS i have 6 cracking as we speak. Fingers crossed for the rest, i was...
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    First attempt at incubating eggs!

    well for now out of the 24 i have 7 definite moving, about 10 are now too dark for me to see, so unsure whether they are dead eggs or the chicks are too big, THE OTHERS WELL I THINK THEY MAY HAVE DIED EARLY AS THEY HAVENT HAD ANY GROWTH FOR A WHILE? i am getting rather anxious now, but tomorrow...
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    Egg Inside an Egg!

    that is the strangest thing i have ever seen, thanks for the pics, it would have been unbelievable without them!
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    First attempt at incubating eggs!

    everything was going great up until this morning, im starting to panic a bit because when i got up this morning we had no power, i have no idea what time it went off and the temp in the bator was down to 27c. i didnt turn the eggs this morning because of that i didnt want to open it! so i just...
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    Silkie confusion or maybe im right?

    ooops bad wording on my part, i meant to say the seller said her hen is a frizzled Cochin, roo is a silkie
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    Silkie confusion or maybe im right?

    ok i had a talk to the breeder of the chicks, she said it is possible these guys are frizzle/silkie. silkie roo father, frizzle hen mother. i guess that makes them sizzles?
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