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    The Incubator Thread

    Incubation Experiment Follow along and help me on my journey!!! Our Langshan eggs finally arrived today!!!! I unwrapped, inspected and nestled them pointy end down and left them to adjust to room temperature. After a fiasco of a trial run, this is the real deal. I an VERY nervous. I've...
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    The Incubator Thread

    I counted the days by the timer on the incubator- I turned on the incubator and let it raise to temp, placed in all the eggs, and set the number of days to 21. Yes, after the second one hatched and they were both dry, I opened it to place a small saucer of electrolyte water. All three that...
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    The Incubator Thread

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    The Incubator Thread

    Horrible hatch rate. Out of 30 eggs, we hatched 3 perfectly healthy chicks. I let them set a full week past 21 days and finally pulled the plug today. Almost all of them were fully formed and feathered, but apparently stillborn. What happened?
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    Chicken found with head missing

    The exact same thing just happened to us. We have a small (now 5) hen mixed flock- all young, healthy and laying. I found Our Wyandotte dead in the coop and she's missing her head. Otherwise fully intact, healthy looking and heavy. She wasn't dead long. No sign of even a beak. Just gone. We have...
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