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    Help hatching

    Well, I am unsure exactly what went wrong. Out of 25 duck eggs, I now have 4 alive and healthy ducklings. After 2 had pipped and had air holes, but never made it out of their shells, after two days... when another had pipped and was still alive after a day, I did help it... I sort of made sure...
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    Help hatching

    Thank you Amiga! Well, this morning I have 2 ducks hatched out in the incubator. But the other egg that started to pip two mornings ago, still has just a small hole... through the day yesterday it had started to make the line around but it only got maybe half an inch. Lastnight it was still...
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    Help hatching

    Thank you... the one that I broke open did indeed die. I don't know if I should have left it alone. I guess, I will leave the others and see what happens. I wish I had some experience with duck eggs!
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    Help hatching

    I know it takes several hours for them to work their way out of their egg... but is 24 hours or more, normal..? It has been 24 hours easily... maybe more. I am just at a loss... I didn't think it would be all that different from chick hatching...
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    Help hatching

    Hi, its been a while since I have been on here. But I need some help didn't no where else to go... I had a fairly successful hatch last year of chicks. This year my brother in law asked if I would incubate/hatch some duck eggs for him. I enjoy it so much... There are two batches... first batch...
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    When to put young chicks with older chickens?

    Okay. Thanks for your help. Must be that the bigger ones will pick on the smaller ones. I will have to fix up some sort of different set-up for the small chicks out in my horse barn. The house is just to hot. And their running outta room anyway. Thank You!
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    When to put young chicks with older chickens?

    I have 17 chickens who are 3 months old, and they are out in the coop, and actually I have recently been allowing them to roam outside of their fenced in yard. All has been going well. I also have 18 chicks who are two weeks old, they are feathering nicely, even flying about some. They are in a...
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    Deformed chick

    Well, I felt unable to give this chick the attention it would need right now. So my neighbor was willing to take it on. She feeds it with a medicine dropper for now. I guess we'll see how it goes. If the chick only had one eye, or a missing leg, or a problem wing, I probably would have kept it...
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    Deformed chick

    Thank you all for your help. I think I saw him eating... at least it looked like he was eating tonight. He is getting around pretty well. and huddles with the others. I did see one chick picking on him a bit once. But there are always a few who pick at others. I am keeping an eye on him /her for...
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    Deformed chick

    Oh one more thing... are deformities fairly common in chickens? or is it a total freak thing that I happened to have, one of very few, in my batch...?
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    Deformed chick

    Interesting. I'm okay with whatever happens. This is nature's doing, not mine. But I'm so new to the world of chickens, I didn't know what to expect. I appreciate straight forward and honest answers. Thank you for that. He's a cute little fellow, but, if he can't eat by himself, this is how...
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    Deformed chick

    As some of you know, I recently had my first batch of eggs hatch from the incubator... first timer ever for me. Out of 30 eggs, 21 hatched.Salmon faverolles, and Light Bramahs, and one Ameraucana are in the 21 that have hatched. I believe this deformed chick is a Salmon Faverolle, hatched...
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    Chicks hatching, day early!

    Thank you for the tips, I will put shavings in today, I hadn't thought about the slippery. The news papers tho were temporary, until they were able to get around better. I will make sure to put rocks in the water dish. I didn't put water in over night. I know new chicks are shipped in mail...
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    Chicks hatching, day early!

    My hatch date was suppose to be Monday (tomorrow). Chicks started pipping out last night. So far, 9 have hatched without problem. There are at least 9 more eggs pipped, some are those are more then pipped. First hatch was 11:00AM, last at 6:00 PM, for the 9 that are already here... At 7 PM I...
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    4 days to hatch date

    This is my first time incubating ducklings and chicks. I put in 7 duck eggs and 7 days later I added 30 fertile chicken eggs. This is an experimental run. My incubator is a new, hova bator 1588. The temp has been right where it should be, the humidity tends to run a bit high. I'm wondering, when...
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