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    egg bound Buff Orpington - taking a turn for the worse

    Thanks for the links, I've tried all of it but nothing I've done has worked. I'm 4 hours drive time from the nearest avian/exotic vet where I live. I've given her 4 syringes of virgin olive oil while trying to massage the egg out. I finally put her back in her coop after 6 hours and no luck I'll...
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    egg bound Buff Orpington - taking a turn for the worse

    PLEASE OFFER UP SOME ADDITIONAL GUIDANCE! I can't feel the egg internally and have not been able to manipulate it externally. She is getting lethargic. It's been almost 4 hours since I've posted asking for help. I have tried to feel the egg by inserting a gloved finger into the vent and...
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    Hatch-Along - Setting eggs this weekend (Jan5/6) WHOS WITH ME!

    My official hatch count ended up being 14 with 12 survivors. I had a late hatch Sunday night/early Monday morning and the poor little thing was just laying on its side struggling to breath and clicking. Time for me to decide which 4 chicks we are going to keep and sell off the others. Thanks...
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    Hatch-Along - Setting eggs this weekend (Jan5/6) WHOS WITH ME!

    Woke up this morning to 4 chicks running around the incubator- all dried off pretty well and moved them into the brooder with the ones that hatched last week. I'm not sure if it was too soon for me to move them, but they seem to be holding their own with the older chicks. That being said, I...
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    Hatch-Along - Setting eggs this weekend (Jan5/6) WHOS WITH ME!

    Thanks for the feather info - I know I've seen it in one of the other forums, but couldn't remember where. How do you know if you have an LF breed? All of my hens are easter eggers, one EE Rooster, one Leghorn Rooster, and I think the other rooster was either a Rhode Island Red or a Red Star-...
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    Help! Just hatched chick -neck stuck?

    I guess I may have over reacted - now its a couple of hours later, and it's neck seems to be straightening out just fine on its own. It's still staggering around and resting but I'm hoping it will be okay. Thanks for the help!
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    Help! Just hatched chick -neck stuck?

    Last weekend was the first time I've ever hatched eggs, so I'm new at this and don't know what that is. I'm trying to get a picture attached....
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    Help! Just hatched chick -neck stuck?

    I don't know if there is anything that can be done, but I just had a chick hatch- upside down? He just kind of backed out of the large end of the egg- didn't really zip just worked himself a decent sized hole and backed out of it wing first. Unlike the other chicks that hatched last weekend...
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    Hatch-Along - Setting eggs this weekend (Jan5/6) WHOS WITH ME!

    Thanks for the 'hugs'. At least I took her outside once before she died to see the sunshine..... My first chick is hatched and making lots of noise for just one baby. Two eggs are still sitting with the pip, and one has a decent size hole pecked in the large end of the egg. Still would like...
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    Hatch-Along - Setting eggs this weekend (Jan5/6) WHOS WITH ME!

    I have mixed news today- First the bad. My little pullet egg hatchling, Miracle, died in my hand a little over an hour ago. She was the last one I had hatch last weekend that I had done the assist on. I had started her out in a shoe box next to the brooder because she was about half the size...
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    Hatch-Along - Setting eggs this weekend (Jan5/6) WHOS WITH ME!

    All 9 babies are now in the brooder 'room'. #9 is in a shoebox separated from the others because they were pecking at her to the point she was crying out. She is by far the smallest chick I have ever seen, she actually came from one of the pullet eggs that I didn't really expect much of...
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    Hatch-Along - Setting eggs this weekend (Jan5/6) WHOS WITH ME!

    #9 is out and about!!! I've moved the first seven over to the brooder and just have the last two that hatched left in the incubator. On the down side, my son is running a fever this morning so I had to call off sick from work....feel bad that my little guy isn't feeling well but glad that I...
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    Hatch-Along - Setting eggs this weekend (Jan5/6) WHOS WITH ME!

    Pictures!!!! The thermometer showing humidity- the chicks finally got off of it so I could see where things were at inside the bator,, the last one is my assist chick- keeping my fingers crossed it pulls through, the membrane was drying out and starting to brown....not what I wanted to do on my...
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    Hatch-Along - Setting eggs this weekend (Jan5/6) WHOS WITH ME!

    I have 4 in the bator and 4 in the brooder, did a quick candling on the eggs I could keep straight while I was pulling out the chicks and purged 3 more eggs that weren't fertile. I have one egg that I've started to do an assist on - the outer membrane keeps drying out- humidity has started...
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    Comment by 'tammir' in article 'Step by Step Guide to ASSISTED Hatching'

    Sally- Thank you so much for this post, the chick I was worried about yesterday died in its shell, even after having made a good size hole to breathe out of, after the first two to hatch bowled him around a little to roughly - I think the golden color liquid that dripped from his shell was from...
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