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    Chick can't stand

    Thank you I ended up euthanising, it was the hardest thing to do but it began twitching like it was seizing and it had been crying too much so I thought it must have been in pain. So about an hour ago I took care of it very kindly and I'm sure it appreciated it instead of me letting it linger...
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    Chick can't stand

    I have a friend who for personal reasons couldn't finish an incubation, because they were already at day 15 she didn't want to just turn off the incubator so she asked if I wanted them. i had just hatch out Pekins and Frizzles, so I cleaned my incubator and put hers in. They all began...
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    Chick pipped day 19

    Well they have all pretty much hatched there is still one in the final stage of kicking its shell off and unfortunately one of the twins died before it hatched but the bigger one had access to the air cell, pipped and hatched fairly easily. I did have to help it at one stage because it was too...
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    Chick pipped day 19

    Chick 1 Hatched and despite its early hatch its a strong little bugger, i Noticed the pip at around 8 and 6 1/2 hours later it is out and practically doing backflips in the incubator. She is a beautiful Pekin (black with a few blonde spots) Can you tell by these spots if it will be male or...
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    Chick pipped day 19

    Yes it is a twin embryo, it still isn't moving but I'm thinking if the is no room in their they wouldn't move much anyway, Im just keeping an eye on it it is only day 19 so I won't be touching it. I was surprised to find so many have pipped their air cells however everyone that has piped the...
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    Chick pipped day 19

    Well one chick has pipped quite an amount and it is mid day 19, I was worried at first but not now because the veins are receding just the humidity had dropped over night so the membranes have dried but I just wrapped the area in moist paper towel like last time and the chick is slowly getting...
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    Lockdown

    I am having the worst day, it is lockdown and I have just gone to add water to raise the humidity and my twin egg which is still alive I just cracked and not a little a lot of tiny cracks below the air cell. The was no blood and the chicks are still moving a tiny bit, they haven't been moving...
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    Dead horrible smelling egg

    So when I got up this morning I could smell this god awful smell permeating through my house but could not find it, kinda assumed my cat must have gotten a rat or mouse and hid it somewhere, she is fun like that NOT. Anyway I went to do the water check and as soon as I lifted the lid on my...
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    Silkie Chick got squished, still alive but not doing well

    Lol no Pekin Chicken, I want a Duck though but Hubby says too much water and mess, cause you know chickens are soo clean lol. Probably does look that way to him because I do a quick check over the pen every afternoon and pick up anything big and then on Saturday I do a full hose out and rake out...
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    Twins in Frizzle egg

    I saw the video on Youtube but I have read everywhere that it is very rare, I don't want to cause any unnecessary suffering, it's times like this that I wish I could see into the future. So if one pips and the other doesn't because it is at the wrong end how do you work out where the beak is...
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    Twins in Frizzle egg

    The reason I got my incubator was because we were buying fertile Silkie and Frizzle eggs to hatch, but of course everything happened with my Pekin so Instead of incubating my bought eggs I had to use it first time on the abandoned pekin egg. I couldn't put the eggs in with the Pekin because it...
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    Silkie Chick got squished, still alive but not doing well

    She is great still walking a little funny but even if that slight limp is permanent I don't think it will hurt her and I just won't let her breed incase having a roo on her back is too much weight for a bung leg. Here is some pics of my Silke with her new best friend, I had to include the new...
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    What breed are these

    No black skin and not Silkie I have Silkies and Silkie x they are not anywhere similar, I thought maybe polish but when I kept googling pics I could never find anything that matched them usually the head feathers are much more fluffed and prominent. Milly's kind of sit back in a bad 80's hairdo...
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    Silkie Chick got squished, still alive but not doing well

    Well my baby is up and moving around a lot better this morning she is obviously still sore and it hurts her if you pick her with one hand, so I have been putting my hands down for her to jump on so I can pick her up that way. Im just so glad she is ok. There was a benefit to her not moving...
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    What breed are these

    We recently moved but before that we had a neighbour up the street who had chooks, I told her about a million times she should be feeding layer mash and grit to her big girl because she was always complaining about her not laying and recently complain that the new one she got won't lay either...
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