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    Best thermometer/hydrometer for incubator

    i recomend an original brinsea's spot check for thermometer (calibrated) and a decent priced hair hygrometer.
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    Checking-In On Peeps - Post Here To Say Hello!

    hello there! a recent pic of my fat bottomed girls!
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    emu chicks keep dying in the egg

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    emu chicks keep dying in the egg

    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?
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    emu chicks keep dying in the egg

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    emu chicks keep dying in the egg

    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...
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    emu compatible egg turner?

    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...
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    emu chicks vitamin vaccinations

    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...
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    partridge chicks deaths

    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...
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    partridge chicks deaths

    thanks
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    partridge chicks deaths

    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.
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    partridge chicks deaths

    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.
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    partridge chicks deaths

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

    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...
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    partridge chicks deaths

    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.
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