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    help please! I must regulate egg temp by touch until tomorrow- how warm to touch?

    Hi guys. We have one chick hatched and one unfortunately pipped then died overnight. None of the other eggs pipped yet. The successful chick needed some help because its head was trapped between its foot and its body, I could see its foot coming out of the peck hole. I waited two days and it was...
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    help please! I must regulate egg temp by touch until tomorrow- how warm to touch?

    OK good to know. Thank you! I hope it won't because the plastic is not sealed, just draped over, but I will be aware of this possibility now.
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    help please! I must regulate egg temp by touch until tomorrow- how warm to touch?

    This is a really interesting method that I have never seen before, thanks!
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    help please! I must regulate egg temp by touch until tomorrow- how warm to touch?

    Thank you everyone! I got the temp right. Now one is hatching, it has pipped through and I can see it's beak. It is peeping! I am misting the inside of the incubator with water every two hours or so. I have plastic tented over the whole thing so I can stick the spray bottle inside without...
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    help please! I must regulate egg temp by touch until tomorrow- how warm to touch?

    Thank you! I am hoping for the best. I just keep feeling the eggs, hopefully they will not be too hot. I had my other hen successfully hatch her brood about two weeks ago, so I'm not completely out of luck. My kids are hoping for "inside chicks" too though :)
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    help please! I must regulate egg temp by touch until tomorrow- how warm to touch?

    Hello, I have never incubated eggs before and I don't have an incubator. I was letting a first time broody sit her nest, and I went to check them today since the eggs should hatch soon. Unfortunately about half the eggs were gone and there were pieces of shells and a dead chick there. The hen...
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