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    DAY 18!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Good hatch rate. Congrats! I just hatched 2 Ameraucana eggs yesterday, 1 barnyard mix on Tuesday and 10 barnyard mix today, I still have 7 eggs to hatch, can see moment and hear chirping from another Ameraucana egg, this is day 23. But no pips yet. Any ideas on how long I should wait or is...
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    A good chance they hatch tonight-light?

    Good luck with yours! We have what I believe is our first broody hen. I think I will have to move her as she is with 72 hens and 4 roosters. These are all very close to being a year old. We have twenty 7 week olds, only one rooster out of the 20 but I'm at a loss on how, when and where to...
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    A good chance they hatch tonight-light?

    I have never hatched with a broody. I have read that the hen, especially silke hens are great mothers so they should be taken care of. Although if it were me just in case I would leave the heat lamp on. I am currently in the middle of a hatch, day 23, 23 eggs, 13 hatched so far and from what...
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    Fan for still air incubator

    We have a little giant still air incubator, we want to put a fan in it. We have a Dayton Axial fan 120v, 2900 rpm, 30 cfm, 10.5 w. Would this fan be okay for this incubator?
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    Need help, day 25 no movement

    Thanks I will give it a try. I have candled but I have vision loss due to stroke so I have issue not being able to see details. The eggs were layed here and not shipped. Thanks again
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    Need help, day 25 no movement

    Thanks for ur response. How do u open air cells and where are they located?
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    Hello from TLH Farms

    We are TLH Farms located in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. We are a beef cattle farm with currently only 13 head, no chicken houses on the farm. We live on the farm and have a large fenced backyard so we decided to get some peeps in June of 2019, first as a therapy as I recently had gone...
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    Need help, day 25 no movement

    12 eggs in still air incubator, at day 23 4 eggs hatched, chicks doing well. Day 24 one egg moving and chirping but no piping. Day 25 no movement or chirping, tapped on egg a couple times throughout day and no chirping or pecking heard. What should I do? Is chick dead, should I pip the egg...
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