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    Help please - my little bantams are really late and slow to hatch....

    Thanks. The 3 I aided this afternoon are exhausted so could you help me decide whether to leave them in the incubator overnight to dry and strengthen or get them out into the brooder as soon as possible, once dried, to help them eat and drink (or hand feed them in incubator). I am concerned...
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    Help please - my little bantams are really late and slow to hatch....

    Oh just to add: What I am really happy about is that my kids dropped and cracked one of the eggs during candling - horrible moment (they are only 4) and the crack was 1/3 width of shell and it bled. I thought it was fatal. But Uma (as in strong fighter from kill bill) is one I have just helped...
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    Help please - my little bantams are really late and slow to hatch....

    Thanks. Out of the 6, 2 are ina box eating and enjoying life, 1 didn't pip - was positioned the wrong end so I assume it drowned/suffocated because it couldn't pip. So I've discarded that. The other 3 just didn't seem able to get out and the membranes seemed really hard - like leather - when I...
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    Help please - my little bantams are really late and slow to hatch....

    Hi Novice needing help please - I've used this site for info for ages but not finding any as slo and as late as my hatch so far.... I first tried hatching some hybrids over Christmas and had 3 out of 5 survive (12 hour power outage and large cleavage solved that one!) So I am now trying to...
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