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    Half of shipped eggs not fertile

    My daughter ordered a dozen fertile polish eggs and only 5 were fertile with 2 developing. The rest are just yolks..don't appear like they were fertile at all. They were shipped from IN to AZ. Is this normal when ordering online? Shouldn't all or most of the eggs have been at least fertile? I...
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    Chickens killed the babies!

    I wish I had removed the baby chick after it hatched......but what's done is done. We ended up putting the last egg back under the hen because we couldn't keep it warm. If it makes it to hatching we will just remove the egg to a bin with a heat lamp. We live in the desert and it is heating...
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    Chickens killed the babies!

    I'm pretty upset. We started with four fertile eggs that were placed under a broody hen. Everything seemed fine until the broody hen kept getting up several times a day and letting other hens lay eggs in her nest. Eventually we lost two eggs....one was pecked and eaten and the second looked like...
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