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    Will my duck leave her nest with the hatched chicks or will she wait for the last few to hatch

    Recently my duck has taken an interest in hatching eggs. We have no drake but I borrowed 3 fertile duck eggs from a neighbour. A week later I decided to put 4 chicken eggs under her too. (a week later so that they'd hatch at the same time) They were not due to hatch untill Saturday, but it is...
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    New to incubating I need help!!

    Omg thanks so much so I can leave them pointy side down twisting them regularly and on day 18 take out the tray and leave them on their side
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    New to incubating I need help!!

    Oh OK thanks that's a good idea
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    New to incubating I need help!!

    Yes, sorry I'm confusing you
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    New to incubating I need help!!

    It has a tray it is only a small one that holds seven eggs, if my hatch is successful I will get a bigger one. The instructions say to place them pointy side down in the tray. But I wanted to place them side ways but there isn't enough room.
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    New to incubating I need help!!

    I have a x on one side and an o on the other in pencil as my incubator is not an automatic turning one. But where will I put them 3 days before they hatch where is warm enough
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    New to incubating I need help!!

    During the week I received my incubator in the post. I collected up my eggs and set them today. But my incubator wants them upside down and not on their side. Why is that? I have no room for them to be placed on their side. When it comes close to hatching should I put them on their side or leave...
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    Day 23 still no sign of chicks

    Thanks for the advice
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    Day 23 still no sign of chicks

    It happens some times. I'm going to keep trying to hatch eggs naturally while I wait for my incubator to come 🙄
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    Day 23 still no sign of chicks

    Unfortunately this morning there was only one egg left in the nest. It is day twenty four and when I went to remove the egg there was a chick which had fully hatched but was dead, so out of 15 eggs only 1 hatched but non survived.
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    Day 23 still no sign of chicks

    Hello, after the eggs my hen buried didn't hatch, I decied to try again. I gave my broody three eggs to hatch. All was going well. I tried candling the eggs but could not see anything as they had a thick dark shell. So I just left them. Day 21 I was waiting patiently. Day 22 no sign not even a...
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    My broody hen is burying her eggs

    Ok I will I will do that when it's dark, thanks!
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    My broody hen is burying her eggs

    She has been sitting fine for the last three says, we had to move her as she wasn't getting along well with the other hen's. She is still acting as if they are still alive, she is hissing and still very defensive around her eggs and has sat on them all day(I removed some straw) But I'm just not...
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    My broody hen is burying her eggs

    I have a broody hen. This is my first time letting her hatch her eggs. She has been sitting in her own brooding box with food, water and straw at her side. She is seven days in and this morning while I was feeding her, I noticed her eggs weren't under her. I was really confused as no animal...
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    Hens suddenly attacking my duck

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