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    February Hatch-A-Long

    Yesterday was day 18! 25 total eggs alive and wiggling made it to lock down. Now I'm waiting not so patiently... I have work tonight so that will keep me distracted. Also my old incubator constantly gave me early hatches (like day 19 early) and I'm not used to the eggs being ON TIME! Can't wait...
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    February Hatch-A-Long

    Totally! I always thought they looked like ducklings with their little flip flops, watching them learn to walk with them is too funny <3 It's adorable, but also very effective. I've removed them even 24 hours later and it's almost always an improvement.
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    Double yolker hatching

    Good luck. I've read of double yolk cases that were successful but they all needed assistance in the end.
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    February Hatch-A-Long

    I would CAREFULLY trim that long one until it is just a tiny bit longer than her toes. I have taped quite a few feet in the past and making the shoes as close to the chicks actually feet size will help with them walking. But good job! Looks good. :thumbsup
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    School egg project incubator problem

    Also a lot of the times with incubators you have to HOLD the reset button for it to actually reset. Mine is like that.
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    February Hatch-A-Long

    Today is day 16 for me. Being so close to lockdown makes me so nervous! All 27 eggs show development and active chicks. Hoping for the best. This is only the second time using this new incubator so I'm not as familiar with it's quirks.
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    February Hatch-A-Long

    Right, that's my normal routine too! But the actual act of an egg exploding in an incubator is it like BOOM :bow guts all over the other eggs or is it more anticlimactic than that? I check my eggs fairly frequently. Like last night I had a suspicion that one of my more porous eggs wasn't doing...
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    Incubating cracked egg..!

    I was going to say don't give up on it just yet. I fully dropped an egg and patched with candle wax around day 14. It hatched and was a healthy chick.
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    February Hatch-A-Long

    Tha I'm very curious...when people say it explodes is it like... BOOM junk everywhere? or? Did it get on other eggs? I'm very curious as I'm terrified of this exact thing happening to me 😅 Getting down to the wire though!!
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    February Hatch-A-Long

    Woo! A little late to this thread, glad I found it though. But I currently have 33 Silkie eggs and 2 D'uccle/silkie cross eggs (for funzies) in my incubator and today is day 14! So excited. It's been years since I've hatched eggs from my own hens. But I got a handsome cuckoo roo last year and I...
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    My chicken keeps tripping what do I do

    Just an fyi - most vets that say that "Don't do chickens" WILL euthanize a chicken if you do not want to cull her yourself. It also seems to me that there is a reproductive issue going on, especially since you said she just started laying. Good luck, but she looks in a very bad way right now...
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    ⚠️URGENT! I think my chick is dying!

    Does the chick have access to chick grit? With all that corn I would be worried about an impacted crop if there isn't any access to grit.
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    Confirming sex on EEs (6 week old chicks)

    The father of these chicks is a hatchery ameraucana (so basically an EE) and the mother of the black chick is a black sex link. I expected more barring on them if they were males but I believe you can actually see the barring in the beard of the first one. The second chick (red one) has the...
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    12-13 wo Americauna/Easter Egger

    Definitely a cockerel. 👍
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    Mystery Chick Breed Question!! Possible D'uccle?

    We went to TSC and found out that they had a bunch of assorted bantams in and they had a ton of porcelain and millie fleur d'uccle's!! We ended up with 4 porcelain, 2 millie fleur, and one mystery that I assumed was a neat looking cochin of some kind due to the chipmunk pattern on its baby...
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