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    shredded paper or pine straw for bedding?

    what is DE?
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    coop smell

    I am getting ready to build a coop for my new chicks, 18 successful hatch out of 19!!! After giving away the roosters I am assuming I will have about 8 hens. My question is, how close to the house, deck ,etc is too close for smell? I plan to keep it pretty clean. Is it smelly? I didn't...
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    Temp and humidity question?!?

    i kept adding warm water with a turkey baster. also, read after the fact that you should not open the bator at all during the hatch, i opened it a lot to watch the first of the chicks hatch then panicked later.
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    zipped, but no hatch for several hours.

    thanks so much everybody. other are hatching but I think she died while zipping, the shell isn't making that respiration movement the other have been. going to hope, though. 7 chicks crashing around in the bator, 9 to go!
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    help, chick bleeding!

    chick hatched a few hours ago seems to be bleeding from its bum area...what do I do? there are 7 chicks in incubator, 9 eggs left to hatch. do I open it and inspect or leave the incubator closed? there are smudges of blood on the paper towel liner under the metal grid and i can tell it was...
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    zipped, but no hatch for several hours.

    One of my eggs zipped at 2pm, (now 4pm) but stopped moving and doesn't appear to be breathing inside. Do i do anything or just assume it won't make it?
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    First Time Hatching Anyone With Me??

    i am on day 7 of my first incubation. we have 24 mixed eggs, some arucanas, and when we candled last night i think i only had 5 or 6 developing. i have struggled with temp reg, as the them was on the rack under the turner for a few days and I discovered the temp on top of the eggs was too...
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