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    Sick Chick?

    The chick is still fighting. We are still giving it water and Vitamin E by syringe. My son said he read that we could give it some oatmeal.(???) I havent gotten the sav a chick stuff yet, will stop and get tomorrow.
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    Sick Chick?

    We are giving the chick Vitamin E and water by syringe. It doesn't look good. It can't hold its head up or walk. We have it in the cage with the other, but separated from them because they were walking all over it. My son looked it up and it said the chick might have wry neck. Would...
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    Sick Chick?

    The last chick that hatched yesterday afternoon hasn't been doing much walking around. All it wants to do is curl up and sleep. Anything we can do for it?
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    Incubating chicks

    The kids came home from school today to see 3 of the eggs with cracks in them. Its been a while and now we can see the beak of two of the chicks. We are so excited. We have 14 eggs in all. The eggs that were moving on Monday haven't pipped through yet. Sending pictures as soon as I figure...
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    Incubating chicks

    Temperature has been perfect all along. Humidity has ranged between 50%-55% first 18 days and now its been 64% - 70%. Like I said we starting seeing movement on Monday and still continue seeing slight movements. The movement of the eggs are not constant and none of the chicks have pecked a hole...
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    Incubating chicks

    We incubated on April 3rd. We did have a few eggs moving Monday night and also Tuesday night, but no one is pipping. What is the humidity and temperature supposed to be for the last 3 days? Its driving us crazy that none of them have broken through the shell.
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    Incubating chicks

    This is the second time we are trying to hatch our own eggs. The first time we were not able to keep the humidity and temperature right. So we lost that groups of chicks. We are now at day 20 and there are no signs of pipping. We just checked them at day 15 and they were moving fine. Its...
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