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    Sexing a 'Heinz 57"

    Our Houdan Rooster is the father to our Americana hens chick. Any guesses what this 8 week old may be???
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    When do they stand?

    Thanks for the info, will evaluate things tonight when I get home. Didn't really want to help it out, but these are my 12 year old daughters and she really wanted to help it as it was struggling.
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    When do they stand?

    How long after the hatch does it normally take for the chick to stand up? The one that I helped out 2 days ago is still not standing up yet.
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    When/If to help hatch

    This is the little one that I helped out last night. Not making any sounds even though its beak is moving and not standing up. I feel so bad for it.
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    When/If to help hatch

    Zipped some of the shell last night. Membrane was dry. Moistened it with an eye dropper and wrapped it in a warm wet paper towel. This morning it still hadn't broken out of the membrane. Things were not looking great, so decided to remove the remainder of the shell and the membrane...
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    When/If to help hatch

    Our eggs were due to hatch on Saturday. We had 2 hatch then, one overnight Saturday/Sunday then nothing all day yesterday. This morning noticed one more egg that has the hole in it. Went to work thinking we would come home to another little baby ...but no ....Hole in egg is only slightly...
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    HUGE mistake first time incubating !

    Out of the 5 Cochin eggs that were set, 3 hatched to cute live little chickies !!! Not too bad for the first 5 eggs these hens ever laid to have 4 out of 5 fertilized
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    1 incubator - 2 eggs sets

    I wish in Nova Scotia we had a place to get things like that ..would solve a LOT of problems ! Craigslist not big here, but nothing on Kijiji. Was able to borrow another incubator, but have been told this one is hard to get the humidity up. Which set of eggs would be better in that one...
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    1 incubator - 2 eggs sets

    Cheapest incubator around here is about $150 which is why we borrowed one to see what was going to happen before we invested in one. My daughter is only 12 and this is her 4H project. Really don't want to put out $150 tomorrow, but don't want to kill any more chicks this week
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    HUGE mistake first time incubating !

    Died on its own. I didn't know how to piece the shell back together to save it
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    1 incubator - 2 eggs sets

    we borrowed the incubator from the local agriculture college and they need it back at the end of the month and my daughter wanted to set a few more Cochin eggs, so having never done this before, didnt think it was a big deal until I started reading and about lockdown. I am thinking I may...
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    1 incubator - 2 eggs sets

    How can I do this ???? I have 2 sets of eggs 7 days apart. The first set goes on lockdown Wednesday, but still have to turn the other eggs. Didn't think this one through very good !!
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    HUGE mistake first time incubating !

    We know the very black is good now !! We thought the heat was too high and we hard boiled the eggs somehow and that air sack around the top was where the egg stopped being cooked. If the egg hadn't slipped and dropped, I was going to put it back in anyway for the last 4-5 days Rookie...
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    HUGE mistake first time incubating !

    My daughter got some Cochins last summer as chicks, so this year wanted to try to hatch some of her own. So we borrowed an incubator and set the very first eggs these hens have ever laid. I know we were being hopeful that these first eggs would be fertile. We also set a few others from our...
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    Very bloated listless hen - she didn't make it

    Found her dead in the run just before supper. Still courious what it could have been so we can prevent it with the rest of the flock RIP Caramel
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