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    Help

    When we first hatched out chicks over 10 years ago, I remember (not realising you shouldn't intervene!) slightly aiding a chick hatch after it spent days trying to do so itself - the chick survived to tell the tale! I think it also depends if you have accidentally ripped its delicate skin or not...
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    Blood ring whilst candling - an early quitter?

    Hello all, I posted a week or so ago with a few questions regarding hatching chicks and broken eggs. Three eggs have now broken (possibly because two hens are on the same nest!). We now have 5 eggs left - it's now day 12! 4 eggs are 100% alive - fantastic vein growth and visible movement. The...
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    Chick embryo day 3

    Amazing! How long have your eggs been incubating for? Very exciting!
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    Chick embryo day 3

    Hello, Apologies for posting twice in a day (hope that's allowed!), but I wanted to share a fascinating photo. Many members have probably seen this sort of thing before, but I was too excited not to share. Sadly this egg cracked beyond repair today so I have had to take it off the nest to...
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    Hatching egg cracked under broody hen and contaminated all other eggs!

    Ok great, thank you. I will try and use a flashlight this evening. What should I be looking out for considering they've been incubating for 3 days? I believe they will have been laid up to (and including) the 6th June (so possibly anywhere between the 1st - 6th June I think?) - the breeder had...
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    Hatching egg cracked under broody hen and contaminated all other eggs!

    Hello, Thank you for much for the reassurance here. I have read somewhere that getting eggs damp at all will ruin/contaminate them, but I hope that's not the case - I didn't submerge the eggs, just wiped them so they did feel slightly wet as I was cleaning them but dried soon after. The pic...
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    Hatching egg cracked under broody hen and contaminated all other eggs!

    Hello, I have wiped off 90% of the gunk on the remaining eggs with a damp dishcloth - I tried to dry the eggs off as soon as I wiped them, I hope this will be ok? My main worry is maybe having wiped off most of the bloom/or damp getting into the egg now? I tried to be as delicate as possible but...
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    Hatching egg cracked under broody hen and contaminated all other eggs!

    Hello Mamas_Looney_Farm - thank you so much for your reply :). Would you recommend I take a damp dish cloth and gently wipe as much off as possible? Do you reckon now this has happened, it may have ruined the whole clutch, or are eggs more resilient to gunk etc. than I think? x
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    Hatching egg cracked under broody hen and contaminated all other eggs!

    Hello! Thank you so much in advance to those who reply to my plea! I placed 8 hatching eggs under a pair of hens (on the 6th June) who have been joint-sitting on a nest, and have a couple of questions. 1. Unfortunately the hens don't appear to be naturally good mothers.. this is their first...
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