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    What other chicken would be okay?

    If you start with chicks they won't pick on the older birds, so you can get whatever you want :)
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    Free-range meat chickens in fenced city yard?

    If they eat meat from the grocery store go right ahead and show them some lovely pictures of factory farming. Then explain how you can't abide by that kind of animal abuse and would prefer to take the hard road where you look your meat in the eye and give it the best life it can have before it...
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    Hands on hatching and help

    :weee
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    help with transition issues

    Do you have other adult chickens you're trying to integrate with? If not, they can go into the coop anytime - just move your heat lamp into one corner of the coop and they will go sit under it for a warm up when they get cold. No need to keep them inside until they're feathered if you're able to...
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    Funky egg! With yoke next to it!! Why!??

    Yes don't worry about it they're fine :) Just keep the calcium available to them
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    Back at it again.

    I used aquarium thermometers from Walmart pet section - just a few dollars each and they can handle the humidity during lockdown without failing. I put a few in different areas of the incubator to make sure the incubator was heating evenly, if it's not you may need to rotate the eggs through the...
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    Funky egg! With yoke next to it!! Why!??

    New layers do that a lot. Their system is trying to figure out how to make eggs and sometimes throws out a weird one :) Just make sure they are on layer feed and have lots of oyster shell available free choice and give it time - within a few months they should have everything sorted out.
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    It's Time?

    Yes I agree with Blooie - it's easier in my opinion to overheat them than to chill them. One lamp, no drafts, good ventilation and lots of room to move away from the lamp.
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    Why can't I get a good hatch?

    Also the temperature and type of incubator would be helpful for troubleshooting :)
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    is there such a think as a dust bath drunken stupor???

    Because they're basically tiny dinosaurs
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    Easter chicks, spraddle spray leg, did the fixes on this site work for you?

    I should add, on the first check we noticed the bandaid had stretched allowing too much space between the legs, so on the second dressing we put the legs a little closer together to ensure they were in the right position under her when she was sitting. Then she simply sat on them until she...
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    Easter chicks, spraddle spray leg, did the fixes on this site work for you?

    I had one hatch out Thursday who I noticed was spraddled about 6 hours after she was in the brooder. She was getting trampled and unable to stand up - I did the bandaid method (cut a standard bandaid in half lengthwise, then wrap using the middle pad as a guide for width). We placed her back in...
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    is there such a think as a dust bath drunken stupor???

    Yes totally normal - I think of it as a "fugue" though for some reason lol. Kind of the same as when they're broody or concentrating on laying eggs. It's all serious business to them!
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    It's Time?

    Put em out! Sounds like you're ready and they are too
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    Hands on hatching and help

    I noticed in my recent hatch that the outer membrane (just under the shell) looked dry and "papery" and white on all the hatchers who were successful on their own. The ones with trouble looked more leathery or another colour other than pure white (like a little off white or brown or yellow). I...
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