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    4 week old chick sneezing and runny nose

    I hope they are all doing better now? I really feel for you. I also have chicks in the brooder and bizarrely a couple of days ago found one of my flock birds in exactly the same way now they all have it about 10 of them and I’m absolutely terrified of transferring to the chicks. Thankfully...
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    Day 25 Chicken hatching issues

    It definitely sounds so much more successful if you can pick them up. Ironically I was given a beautiful dark chocolate maran egg by my neighbour so I’m hoping it will hatch. As restrictions start to ease here it may be easier to go further to find eggs. 5 healthy chicks sounds good to me!
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    Day 25 Chicken hatching issues

    Yes me too - you are right a lot of people keep chickens here and run them with a cockerel too. It’s very rural where I live and the nearest regular bird market is nearly 2 hours away. I asked some farmers that I know of locally who happen to be neighbours and one very kindly gave me some...
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    Day 25 Chicken hatching issues

    Thanks so much- could have got into all sorts of trouble 😂😂
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    Day 25 Chicken hatching issues

    That’s a really interesting point re the calibrating thank you- I will give it a try on the next hatch 🐣
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    Day 25 Chicken hatching issues

    Oh no! I think that could have been something which would have given me a better hatch rate. I rested them - probably for about 12 hours before I put them in the incubator so it sounds like I could have given them longer to set correctly. Thanks for this information it really does give me some...
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    Day 25 Chicken hatching issues

    Looks like it’s going well so far! Fingers crossed for the rest too 🤞🏻
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    Day 25 Chicken hatching issues

    Yes I think so too! thank you 😊
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    Day 25 Chicken hatching issues

    It was brand new for my first hatch. I did use a thermometer to compare and it seemed pretty stable. I feel like a hydrometer would be a good investment to for next time. Thank you for the suggestion
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    Day 25 Chicken hatching issues

    Thanks that’s really helpful, I followed all the instructions pretty rigidly however I guess to start with I only had half a dozen eggs. Looking back I also think that I should have turned them more often and only allowed then to rest overnight before setting. I do have a thermometer so I...
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    Day 25 Chicken hatching issues

    Thank you I will take a look at that perhaps when I purchase some more eggs for an incubation 👍
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    Bonjour from France!

    Bonjour et merci!
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    Bonjour from France!

    Thank you I will take a look
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    Day 25 Chicken hatching issues

    UPDATE: After some sleepless hours keeping an eye on the little fella in the incubator I noticed that his movement slowed and eventually stopped. I took it out and it had quite clearly given up. I decided to continue to open the egg and membrane to find out what went wrong. This is my first time...
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    Bonjour from France!

    Thanks!
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