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    I think one of my chicks is stuck, should I help?

    One of the eggs I am hatching has had a minor hole, or rather crack, since yesterday when a chick that decided to hatch one day earlier than her siblings smashed it into the incubator-wall. Today, the chick in the egg made a dent in the shell. I was worried about her, because it has been hours...
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    Stopped turning the eggs too early, help!?

    24 hours later and still only one chick out of 8 eggs. I hope the last few hatch tomorrow..
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    What chicken should I get next?

    Well, I have always loved our rhodes island red and you can hardly ask for a better "egg-machine". When I was a young girl (That is, when I was 5 and not 20 like I am noq) I could walk around with our 4 year old rhodes island red, called "Dotty", in a tiny wagon. I even put the poor thing in a...
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    Stopped turning the eggs too early, help!?

    Wonderful news! One of the chicks just made a hole in the shell! I have not heard a single chirp out of them yet, so I had no idea the little fellow was working on the problem. Hopefully this means the other chicks will start working their way out of the egg as well
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    Stopped turning the eggs too early, help!?

    I will, thank you. I just hope the chicks are okay
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    Stopped turning the eggs too early, help!?

    So yeah. I have no idea how I managed to switch the days around but when my father came over the other day and commented that I had stopped turning the eggs and cranked up the humidity awfully early this time.. ... "DAAAAAH!" So yup, I somehow managed to fail at counting days, so even though I...
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