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    Hatching Natural eggs

    Update success so if you haven’t read the whole thread 2 got crushed and moved 6 eggs to own coop and she hatched out 4 yesterday on day 21 out of 6 eggs. One got crushed by her and there was no chick to find even though when candling at day 18 it had a chick in it. How long till you know the...
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    Hatching Natural eggs

    Well it’s almost always 90% around where we live now and natural hatching I can’t really help that but csn I help them as they pip so they don’t drown?
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    Hatching Natural eggs

    I have done this today but worried about humidity but I guess we will see in 7 days if high humidity isn’t a problem for pipping
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    Hatching Natural eggs

    Do they shrink wrap if the humidity is too high?
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    Hatching Natural eggs

    If humidity is too high like 99% as we have lots of rain coming for when they are meant to hatch in 7 days time is there anything I can do to help them hatch and not die before or after pipping
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    Hatching Natural eggs

    Ok so candling at 14 days and a fight over the nesting boxes I have 6 eggs left moved her to her own coop with own food and water. My only concern left is that maybe when they pip it’s too humid with all this rain around and that’s why they die. Is there anyway that I can make it better even...
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    Hatching Natural eggs

    It’s just so hard when the RIR are the ones not hatching the other day I only peeled off the bit where it’s beak was out so it could breathe better and it died after fully hatching and today the last but late one died when I didn’t help it at all but had fully hatched out. Maybe it got stood on...
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    Hatching Natural eggs

    Thanks for all the replies yes the one we are waiting two days for is because there were three that slipped through for a few days before I realised as I let my kids collect some eggs taking turns and just got missed and I left it after that as it is from my one white hen and I wanted some...
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    Hatching Natural eggs

    So update I had a chick hatch two days after that post and then next day another pipped so I peeled off shell helping it and my son said he found it two hours later fully hatched dead. I was so sad four in one week total. There are two left to hatch in the next few days so any tips please would...
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    Incubator

    Is this a good one?
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    Hatching Natural eggs

    I have two problems one is about the eggs and one is about the hens So I do natural hatching two broody hens side by side with 8 eggs each on day 1 and plenty of other egg boxes to use but today I had 3 stomped on eggs and dead chicks because for batch 4 it’s day 18 I’m so sad. How do I fix...
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    Rhode Island Red 30 weeks laying?

    No I meant bird mix it’s layer feed but more seed style wheat oats corn ect suitable for her from 18 weeks and older
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    Rhode Island Red 30 weeks laying?

    She eats I mix layer pellets and bird mix layer alternating and lots of scraps from our kitchen
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    Rhode Island Red 30 weeks laying?

    Yea we are in summertime more than 13 hours of
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    Rhode Island Red 30 weeks laying?

    She is 30 weeks old how does she still have another 2-3 months? What is the normal laying timeframe for RIR?
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