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thanks! but most of them do break the membrane, they just dont break the shell. I suppose my question is why do complete chicks die in the shell?

well, i have been incubating all kinds of eggs for the last 10 years, always using homemade incubators that i built myself, using quality electronic thermostats and thermometers to regulate the correct temperature and i have had a great success over the years hatching a lot of chicken, duck...

well i don't know for sure but i do mine 180°, also, somebody told me the other day that he had turned on these from a quail egg to an ostrich egg without any problems, i also think some of them are adjustable, i never have tried them myself though i wouldn't trust them with something bigger...

hello there, I am waiting for some emu eggs to hatch and i was wondering what kind of vitamin shot should i give them, i have had problems in the past with splayed legs, i ve read somewhere that i need to give a vitamin B complex and vitamin E & selinium shot, right after hatch, does anybody...

by the way it could be encephalomalacia its a vitamin E defiency. you can read this article: https://thepoultrysite.com/publications/diseases-of-poultry/218/vitamin-e-deficiency i also found this...

thanks

i brought them to a vet and he wasnt sure what it was. he told me not to put other birds with them cause if its a parasise they could infect them aswell. he gave me those multyvitamins. the other vitamin E & selinium i decited to give them myself after researching on the internet.

having lots of birds means ordering lots of bags. i live in Cyprus which is an island. buying bags of feed and get them shipped here is very expensive.

i found a video on youtube of a chick having the same spasms as mine do.

they are from 2 different pairs but they all do those spasms. by the way that was 3 days ago. the last two days i stoped feeding 30% protein and changed it to a 25% protein feed. i also stoped feeing bigattini fly maggots and i started adding multyvitamin and vitam E & selinium in their water...

thanks for the reply. a commercial game bird feed would be ideal. but we dont have that here in Cyprus thats why i mix my own feed.

newbie in gamebird keeping

Hello. how are you doing? i would like to ask a question about my partridge chicks deaths. i have hatched some partridge (philby and chukar) and im feeding 30% protain feed that i mixed myself adding soy to premixed commertial (21% protain) chick feed. i also feed live bigattini fly maggot for...