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    Upside down chick no pip?!?!? Help!!

    Appreciate it. When I was told the 50 week thing it made me wonder as I've used eggs from my favorite old girls before.
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    Upside down chick no pip?!?!? Help!!

    I've been hatching for years and never had this happen. So I had all my eggs hatch, thought one was a dud so I candled it again and he was still alive and looked to be internally pipped. Since he had taken so long I made an emergency airhole, which I do often. (I'm a hands on gal)....when I...
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    2 sister....different color eggs?

    So I adopted two beautiful Americaunas. They have the beard and ear muffs and big beautiful eyes. When I adopted them the owners said they had never laid before. They were old enough, but they were under the impression the neighbors dog had stressed them out so much they never laid. So within a...
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    3 and a half week old chicks violently fighting!!!! Please help.

    I sure can send a picture for sure! During the day, when I am outside gardening I put them in a pe S Hi Nat, Thank you so much for your response. So we are still at about 85-90 degrees most days here in NC so there are no lights up. Also I am outside most of the day unless its raining and...
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    3 and a half week old chicks violently fighting!!!! Please help.

    So I finally had a really successful hatch...actually more then I wanted, but that's ok. I had so many unsuccessful hatches that this was a welcomed "to many". So after going and purchasing a very large coop for 15 birds, we safe guarded it and at almost 4 weeks old we put them outside. (We are...
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    Help!! My kids hand raised baby pullet got attacked

    I'm honestly not sure what did it, but I'm assuming a dog. The babies squeezed through the fence and when I couldn't find them we ran yo look and there she lay with her wing all weird. I picked her up and she had blood all over her legs. I checked behind her neck 1st assuming it was probably one...
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    What is wrong with my pekin?!?! Can someone help please?

    So I have 2, female 3 week old Pekin ducks I had shipped from a very well known hatchery. They both had been developing perfectly normal and even, however the past week I've noticed one only wants to lay down constantly.She'll take two steps and then lay right back down. Her sister always seems...
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    I helped a late baby, now what?!?! Please help

    Thank you so much for your help. I could see the inner membrane going up-and-down like she had pipped a little bit and then I found a little tiny hole that she really hadn't put her beak through so I broke it open there was no bleeding and I pulled it over her beak and nostrils and I put her...
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    I helped a late baby, now what?!?! Please help

    I have a little chicken egg (one of 6 left). I swore he had internally pipped a day and a half ago so I went step by step through all necessary processes (I found of coarse on here). However when I opened up the air cell to make sure the inner membrane wasnt covering his beaks I noticed he...
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    Disaster struck a week ago

    This is very true. I grew up in FL and they sadly got to ours and many friends chickens. I thought they ripped off their heads though and she said hers were intact, no blood or anything. Knowing me I probably misread that...my bad🙄 So sad either way.
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    Disaster struck a week ago

    Wow this really breaks my heart. I am so sorry you lost them. Possibly a poisonous snake or a cat. I'm not sure if it applies to chickens with them being so big and all but if a cat attacks a bird there is an enzyme in their saliva that is like poison to birds. Even the smallest puncture amd or...
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    Air cell problems...HELP PLEASE!

    YOU-ARE-AMAZING!!! Thank you from the bottom of my heart, as you answered every question and then some. I think I may be in the goose forum as those and ducks eggs are all I have experience with. Sorry about that. So my first ever pekin duck egg pipped at the wrong end. I panicked tried to help...
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    Air cell problems...HELP PLEASE!

    So I'm pretty new to hatching, the past year or so I'd say. I have a "cheaper" incubator where I,only for fun and the kids sake, hatch a couple eggs a few times a year that end up being our spoiled pets. Sooo even though I keep my humidity at exactly what it should be at till lock down, my air...
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    Duck egg Day 28 and no pipping yet

    Oh I'm so glad someone reached out! He externally pipped at the wrong end, I proceeded to help him slightly until I saw that his blood vessels were still bright read and I did not want him to bleed. So here is sit scared to death and once again not k owing what to do. I put him I bator and...
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    To hatch on side or upright...that is the question

    Hey guys & gals. So I started with a tiny, very cheap incubator for my pekin duck eggs. It says to obviously put the pointy end down in which I did till about day 24. Now with that being said I heard some people actually hatch their chicks and never put them on their side? Is this ok to do? I...
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