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    Talk me off the ledge! Incubation day 22

    Wow, you are brave. I wonder if I could have saved the one that expired today. Not sure I have it in me to do this shell surgery.
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    Talk me off the ledge! Incubation day 22

    Shetland #1
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    Talk me off the ledge! Incubation day 22

    Busy day and emotional rollercoaster. Hedemora pictured above did not make it, sadly. A couple hours later a Shetland Hen egg speed-hatched with great vigor. Currently there are three Hedemora and one Shetland egg left, now at day 22. Faint chirping from one of the Hedemora eggs, but no...
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    Talk me off the ledge! Incubation day 22

    Chick #2, day 22!
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    Talk me off the ledge! Incubation day 22

    My story is of shipped eggs in the year 2025... Currently in the morning of day 22 and one of six is definitely rocking and peeping, has been since late in the day 20. No external pips. Finding my self reading the threads on assisted hatching, despite swearing I would never do so... First...
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    Brooding outside with heat plate

    Getting the brooder plate in there - that is a toughie. I hear you about having to train them to go upstairs. Fortunately the run is walk-in height. My goal is to spend a lot of time in there socializing them anyway.
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    Hello from Maine! My second rodeo.

    Good morning! I am starting a new flock after having kept chickens 20 years ago. Happy to be back in a place where this is possible and looking forward to applying lessons learned from last time! This time around - I am hatching eggs in an incubator for the first time. Currently I am down...
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    Brooding outside with heat plate

    The digging was done by me, when I was burying hardware cloth around the perimeter of the coop. It's a Champion Coop from Wooden Wonders of Maine. The tent is in the covered run part. There is an insulated coop above. My first thought was to brood the chicks right in the insulated coop, but...
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    Brooding outside with heat plate

    Thanks for the reassurance. Here is the tent already in the coop! 😊 All new setup, this will be my first flock at this place hence the green grass to start
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    Brooding outside with heat plate

    Hello! I've been reading up on wool hens and brooding outside. I have a brooder plate and am planning to use it outside, here is my plan: Child-size nylon tent (zips up, simple type for sleepovers, not mountaineering) outdoors in a secure coop with a roof. It gets down to the 40s F at night...
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