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    No Movement on Day 17

    Yes I luckily have no sense of smell- I bet it was awful. It made it difficult to discern what was and wasn't development, but i couldn't see any traces of it. During incubation I candled, but didn't toss, so I could practice identifying viable vs nonviable eggs without risking tossing out a...
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    No Movement on Day 17

    Thank you all for the help!! I got 4 healthy chicks out of the batch of 14 (not including the one I had to cull). I went through the rest of the eggs today to see what stage of development they were at so I can see what affected my hatch rate, and I didn't notice a discernable amount of...
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    No Movement on Day 17

    thank you! I did assist this chick in crossing the rainbow bridge early this morning. It took some nerves, since I have never done this before and it was such a tiny animal, but it was over quickly without any suffering. The skull was deformed and the eye had doubled in size overnight- it was...
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    No Movement on Day 17

    So my second egg finally zipped... this one doesn't look as good. My first indication that something was wrong is it took him a lot longer than the first to zip. When he finally did finish zipping and hatched, his right eye looks really swollen. The healthy chick I have is also pecking at him...
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    No Movement on Day 17

    I needed to wait 30 minutes lol. He was the first one to hatch
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    No Movement on Day 17

    Don't worry I watched the incubator on my phone while in bed 😌 So far we have 5/14 eggs pipped. All of them look good except maybe this one. Does it look like it's pipped a little too high? The egg is shaking quite a bit so the chick seems vigorous at least (it's the one behind the egg closest...
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    No Movement on Day 17

    Okay I was overreacting we have our first pip! I decided to stop breathing on them every 10 minutes and relax a little. I came back to check before bed thinking it was gonna be crickets again and saw my first sign of life 😍
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    No Movement on Day 17

    Thank you! I tried flashing a light to see any pips, and still didn't see much that resembled a crack. If these turn out to not be viable, I'll consider it a trial run and try again but it would be my preference that I get a good hatch out of them. Ive even resorted to threats of violence to...
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    No Movement on Day 17

    Hi all! I fear this has probably been asked a lot. We have some coturnix quail that are presently on day 17 in the incubator (counting the day we put them in as day zero). I haven't seen any sign of life from them since lockdown- no peeps, no pips, no movement. I have a camera on them that...
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