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    Unsure where my chick is injured.

    I'll see if I can get a pic tonight after we get home from my daughters dance classes.
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    Unsure where my chick is injured.

    Came home from work, all four were fine, went to pick up the kiddo from the bus and found our 2 week old chick laying on it right side, left wing and leg sticking out from it body. It can stand, will perch on my finger but won't grip with it's left foot. I can't feel or see anything wrong with...
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    Lockdown egg loss

    I built my own, it's a forced air one though. I had 4 diff thermometers and 2 read the same temp which were the ones I went with. Was 100 degrees.y humidity was 45-50, then bumped to 70%. We are super dry in the winter up here. I'm gonna tweek my bator a little and try again.
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    Lockdown egg loss

    I just had 6 out of 7 die after lockdown, all active chicks until hatch time. The one that did hatch, hatched at 23 days. I cracked all the others open and they all never turned around to the large end of the egg. All yolks had been consumed. Not sure what happened. Temps did not spike or dip...
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    MARCH Hatch-A-Long 2015: Please Read the First Post to JOIN the H-A-L

    So we are now on day 22,23 of you ask other people, and no pips. They all still have movement except one. Looks like it quit after lockdown. :( I had been having trouble with keeping the humidity level higher until the last 2 days. Never dropped below 50% but now it's staying over 65%. I'll be...
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    MARCH Hatch-A-Long 2015: Please Read the First Post to JOIN the H-A-L

    We've got 7 due around the 1st. Our daughter is very exited, checks them about 50 times a day.
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    Hello

    Thanks! I've been lurking in the shadows for a couple months, been doing a lot of reading, watching YouTube videos, chatting with people locally that have chickens. Lots of very useful info on here!
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    Hello

    I decided to build my own incubator after much thought and many YouTube videos. Had my 5 year old daughter help me build it out of an old cooler we had, living in AK you have lots of those. Now that it's on, regulating the temp is proving to drive me a little crazy. I've got it so it fluctuates...
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