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    Temperature drop to 78degrees F on day 17

    Update all chicks hatched even the one whom I thought passed. She hatched tonight a full 12 hours after the last chick and 42 hours after the first one pipped. I am very relieved the temperature drop did not harm these babies.
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    Temperature drop to 78degrees F on day 17

    So far we have 3 hatched and 2 more pipped. One egg isn't doing anything so I candled it. The air sac is bigger than expected. I am not sure if it died the other day but I think so it's lighter than the other two. I'll give it a day or so. The third and 4th picture are from the other day and are...
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    Vaccination or no Vaccination that is the question

    We have always purchased chicks at our local farm store. I have assumed since they came from Cackle Hatchery they were vaccinated. We currently have 7 chicks hatching from these hens and I am wondering if I should try to get some vaccine today to vaccinate them? Do they have immunity from their...
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    Temperature drop to 78degrees F on day 17

    Three eggs have pipped and possibly a 4th. I am thrilled that this didn't kill her chicks.
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    Temperature drop to 78degrees F on day 17

    Just checked and an egg that hasn't been moving pipped! I have the incubator set up with a streaming camera so my daughter can see her chicks hatch as she's in another country for the summer. If anyone wants to see the hatching I am streaming on twitch and I am psychkk25 on there.
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    Temperature drop to 78degrees F on day 17

    I was not able to see much upon candling. They are brown eggs and it's been hard to see much in most of them for awhile. Good news is it's day 20 and I have two eggs rocking. The others have not moved but my fingers are crossed that these chicks have survived. When I found the incubator off...
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    Temperature drop to 78degrees F on day 17

    I was out of town overnight and my husband was taking care of the incubator. I just got home and the incubator was off, and when I plugged it back in the temperature, said seventy eight degrees. Is there any chance of survival? I have no way of knowing how long the incubator has been off.
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    10 week old chick eye injury.

    One of our 10 week old chick's has an injury to her eye. I was out of town and my husband left them in the coop all day with our older hens so we suspect she was pecked. The eye is open, cloudy, and swollen, looks filled with fluid. Husband rinsed it with saline as did I when we got home. This...
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    Chick with closed eyes quick cure

    We purchased some day old chicks this week and two had been pecked by other chicks and had their eyes closed. The first chicks eyes opened within a day as we were told would happen but after 4 days the second chick still had her eyes closed we had tried a warm damp cloth but that did not help...
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    need help chick looks like it's gasping for air

    I did some reading and I am guessing this little girl had pneumonia :( It an effort to exhaust all possibilities, I crushed a clove of garlic and mixed it with some colloidal silver and dipped her beak in this solution and she swallowed a tiny bit. About an hour ago I warmed some of the...
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    need help chick looks like it's gasping for air

    Hi I posted yesterday about our new bantam that were dying off. We bought 2 on Thursday, one died by Friday morning. Thinking it was a freak thing or maybe a bigger chicken stepped on it we bought another Friday. By Friday afternoon the chick from Thursday died. Yesterday, we gave our survivor...
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    chick's dying

    Hi we have been raising chick's for years with never a problem. We bought several chick's a few weeks ago and they are great. Thursday we bought two bantam chick's and one died by Friday morning. We went and picked up another chicken yesterday to keep the remaining chicken company. Well, the...
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    Dosage for Duramycin/Tetracycline??

    I want to make just a pint for a single hen. I come up with needing .047 tsp per pint. Anyone have a good way to measure that small an amount. I have a scale that will measure kg but I am not sure I can convert tsp to kg.
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    Hen is yelling, can anyone diagnose? (Video)

    We had a hen that did this for a while. She was around 2 when she started. she was still laying at the time. No idea why so I am no help but just thought I'd say you are not alone.
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    Chick with bulbous pulpy looking eye blood pooling under skin, bloody

    Thanks for the suggestions. I am not sure she even has an eye left, it's really hard to tell. She seems to be doing well as long as she is with the other girls. When she is not with them she is one down chicken. I let her out with them this am on the lawn and she immediately started preening...
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