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    egg has externally pipped but isn't due until sunday... it's wednesday

    it's out! navel is the slightest bit open, but not enough to worry about. it was the most lackluster hatch i've seen so far! hard part is over, just gotta let it rest now and dry out and get some strength back. whew!
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    egg has externally pipped but isn't due until sunday... it's wednesday

    just a little around where the beak was so i could get a really good look at the inner membrane and see how blood vessels looked. it's clear around the beak, still very wet inside. the little bit of blood was on the bottom of the egg, so i was thinking i will give it another hour and then peel...
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    egg has externally pipped but isn't due until sunday... it's wednesday

    i've been up just about every hour or two through the night. it hasn't changed position or rotated since the initial pip over 36 hours ago. beak is in the exact same spot and the turkey isn't cheeping much or making any strong movements. i don't think it's going to have the energy to finish by...
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    egg has externally pipped but isn't due until sunday... it's wednesday

    well, some time this morning between 8 and 10 the turkey made its pip significantly larger. it went from a barely there crack to a 3/4 tall diamond shaped thing that i thought was the start of a zip. but as of now, more than 12 hours after that big crack, more than 48 hours after the internal...
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    egg has externally pipped but isn't due until sunday... it's wednesday

    it externally pipped some time in the last 3 hours!! i had upped the humidity to 60% to give the other egg a chance to expand its cell more, and now i've got the humidity up in the 70s and the second egg is propped with the cell near an air vent. fingers crossed for everyone-- that the pipper...
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    egg has externally pipped but isn't due until sunday... it's wednesday

    still no external pip. so glad!! that means it can easily be late tomorrow before this turkey hatches out! i set the eggs on a sunday around lunch time, so a friday night is a day 26/27 hatch and i feel much better about those odds. stay in lil' turkey! stay in!!!
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    egg has externally pipped but isn't due until sunday... it's wednesday

    oh goodness, this makes me feel better. thank you!! i will get to reading up on how to treat an early hatcher just in case. if this little one can hold off even until saturday morning i will feel so much confident.
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    egg has externally pipped but isn't due until sunday... it's wednesday

    one side of the air cell-- i don't think this turkey is big enough. the air cell looks great though the other side. another view. i am hoping so much that this turkey stays internally pipped for another 24 hours at least, externally pips, and stays that way for 24+hours. at least the...
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    hen attacking one chick

    long tory short: surprise broody, incubator hatch 2 weeks before she hatched. total of 16 chicks. one of the 2 week old chicks is all black and frizzled. some of her babies will be frizzled too but she doesn't know that yet. it's the only black and right now the only one she can tell is...
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    Broody Hen Thread!

    mine was the same. it took her over a month to finally go broody and she abandoned at 6 days the first time (all of the eggs were infertile, it turned out). she started laying again and almost right away started hiding eggs and i didn't know that was what she was doing. she ended up setting a...
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    Broody Hen Thread!

    thanks for the support everyone!!!! it really meant a lot, and i think the good advice on here probably saved my hen! i ended up separating 2 eggs and hatching them separate from mom because 1 was a malpo and the other had been pipped for over 24 hours and it's membrane was actually hard. the...
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    chick hatched out early, intestines?

    i'm so glad i am not the only one!!!!!!! my husband definitely thinks i'm insane. i wanted chickens for years and last year in the spring he very randomly said "i think we should go ahead and get chickens". he wanted 4. we are up to 21 with this hatch, and have turkeys hatching in another week...
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    Broody Hen Thread!

    you want to separate her @towen91 :) if she keeps getting new eggs every day, they are going to develop on the day they went under her. so she could be looking at a 4 day long hatching session, which is really not ideal-- the first chicks out will need help from mama, and she will refuse to get...
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    Broody Hen Thread!

    update, even though i am sure it's not as important to anyone else ;) mama looks so much better after pooping. i mean, hands down the best she has looked. she is going to need a bath once everyone is hatched, but she is fine otherwise. i've had to handle her twice to change out the explosion and...
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    chick hatched out early, intestines?

    it's ok! it isn't getting any worse at all, but it is still very weak and not moving around well but it's having a rough go of things! i put it under the hen and she was moving so much hatching out the other chicks, it ended up not under her. so i picked the chick up hours after this post, blow...
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