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    Mysterious dark spot in egg with photo.

    That's good! I'm thinking that's what happened with mine too.
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    Mysterious dark spot in egg with photo.

    You're welcome, good luck!!! :)
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    Mysterious dark spot in egg with photo.

    I wish I could remember which of my eggs this happened with. I'm thinking it hatched fine, but I couldn't swear to it. We incubated 9 and 5 hatched, but I can't remember which specific egg this was! It was my first (and only, so far) time incubating, so things got a little crazy. I should have...
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    Baby chick having trouble walking

    Two of these should be pure brown leghorn, the others will be mixed with Golden Coment, RIR and Silver Laced Wyandotte. It would be nice if one of the Leghorns were a rooster, but we'll see! Looks like you have a nice setup! Those chicks are so cute! We only have one small "log cabin" type of...
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    Baby chick having trouble walking

    Thanks ya'll! I updated my profile pic with one of this baby. It's so sweet and I love it's coloring. We actually gave them all some of the "Save-a-Chick" yesterday. I'm not sure if this one has figured out how to drink from the waterer yet, but I've given it some with a dropper and a bottle...
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    Baby chick having trouble walking

    We are first timers at this and are definitely learning as we go, so please bare with me! We just had our first chicks to hatch this weekend in our homemade incubator and got 5 babies. They are all doing fine except the very last one to hatch. It peeps and appears healthy, except it's head looks...
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    Mysterious dark spot in egg with photo.

    I know this is an old post, but I am curious to see what happened in this situation. I just candled an egg on day 9 and saw the same thing. The chick was moving on one side of the egg, but there was a very dark spot that looked like it was in the blood vessel on the other side. It literally just...
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