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I have thank you. As I mentioned earlier I now have 2 chicks in a brooder. One I found yesterday being pecked by the other chicks. It was missing the tip of the toe and the upper thigh was being pecked no open wounds just bruising. This chick however was also missing a toe and was severely...

Thanks, I read that thread already and my chicks injury is very different it can't even move the toes or feel when I touch them. I just don't know of it's best to cull it or give it time to heal.

This is the second chick I had to remove from its momma due to issues with the other chicks. This one however definitely has a broken leg it just dangles. It's in the upper part of its thigh, can it be fixed? Chick is able to stand on one foot only and eat and hop around. Someone please tell me...

I let nature take its course this season and allowed my 2 hens to hatch thier own. One of my girls (Henley) hatched 11 out of 11 beautiful and healthy chickies on Friday. My other hen (April) was laying on 13 eggs one chick hatched on Monday so I left her alone thinking the others would hatch by...

@Rose Quartz you were a lot of help to me last week as I was preparing for this second incubation. I purchased the spot check and it arrived Thursday all was going well until this morning. It came with 4 new batteries and I just changed it and it still giving me crazy readings how do I reset...

I had it inside the water wiggler and it was working great up until this morning. I changed the batteries and placed it inside and again its giving me crazy readings from 92 to 106:barnie every second. I'm not sure what else I should do. I removed it and turned it off... UGHHH...any advice would...

Hello All, Okay so I think I'm pretty prepared to start setting my chicken eggs tonight. I'm calibrating my hygrometer again, because my niece got curious and opened the container I had the hygrometer and salt in before it was time. It does have to be in the sealed container for 24 hrs correct...

Okay Thanks Rose, so with that said do I remove one plug as of day 4 or just keep them off altogether?

Thank you everybody for the replies, I appreciate all the help!

Thanks, as of this morning I've been running it with water. I will empty it and run it dry.

Meant to put, Thank you, I'm not ready to give up!

Thank you, Im not Thank you!

I had mine at 35% from days 1 to 18 while the humidity in my home was at 60+ how do you think I should adjust

So do you think I should rise or lower my humidity? I had it at 35% while it was 60+ in my home? These next days are going to be sunny in the 70's i plan to start my 2nd batch on Monday. I don't want to give up just yet, would just hate to waste what could be perfectly good eggs.

Yesss!!! This I found very annoying, I would sit and wait and at times postpone my errands to be sure the temp and humidity leveled out. But I secretly liked turning them, loved feeling the warmth of them amd knowing I had a hand in the process literally! This incubation process is a LOVE/ HATE...