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    Dead chick in incubator

    The eggs in my incubator are hatching today, 9 so far, one fully hatched alive but now I'm sure it's dead, I think it was smothered by the other ones. Do I need to remove it? I have 4 more eggs to go, one of which that's pipped, so I really don't want to open the incubator, but also don't know...
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    11 of 12 chicks died with an hour

    The shavings don't appear to have cedar, says premium pine shavings. And I've used two different heat lamp bulbs, both were new, but different companies, one of which one used before with no issues. Now I have one chick still alive all alone and it will just chirp at the top of it's lungs if I...
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    11 of 12 chicks died with an hour

    I've been raising chicks for over four years, but this year I'm having a horrible death rate and I can't figure out why. March 14 I got 6 laying hen chicks from our local blue seal feeds. I think they were about a week or two old when I got them cause they weren't super tiny and started looking...
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