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    Shaking head

    I tried to post pictures but it wasn't working. They are becoming more active now, stay as a pack and the eldest is jumping around a lot, but just made a strange brown foamy poop despite being so active and healthy looking. I think she makes poop that is a tiny bit foamy every time but this one...
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    Shaking head

    I think it was oatmeal? I will check
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    Shaking head

    OK I will stop giving oats. My chicks are scaring me though. They seem quite tired, one in particular, and I'm scared that they are ill and going to die like my other chick. Two that I noticed have poop that is normal colour and all but seems a tiny bit foamy. After researching this it scared me...
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    Shaking head

    She is pooping fine (just did a minute ago) and I don’t have any chick grit. The chick feed is hard and like little bits of grit (not a substitute of course just describing the food). The brooder is a metal heating plate one. Her head shaking is really frequent and like quick side to side like...
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    Shaking head

    My little chick is shaking her head every second from side to side and seems to have food in her crop - she is a week old and has eaten oats and chick feed. I massaged the crop and it seems hard-ish but the food can be moved around in there. I am scared for her as her sister died today...
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    Incubators Anonymous

    Sadly the speckled egg didn't make it. It was zipping then hadn't moved for 24 hours, so I picked away some shell (hit no veins at all) and saw a still, open beak. I left it for a couple minutes then I opened up the egg again fully, to find a stiff, dead chick :'(. I tried CPR but it had been...
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    Tiny egg

    That's interesting; was your chick's fairy egg a small yolk?
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    Tiny egg

    The little blue egg chick has been cheeping to me! Much more lively than the other egg. I thought fairy eggs had no yolks though?
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    Incubators Anonymous

    AAAh guess what! Yesterday I saw the speckled brown one moving and assumed the other little blue one was not doing too well. Today I came home to a hairline pip in the brown speckled one! The pip has been growing since I have been back. What's more, is that a little chick has been peeping to me...
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    Incubators Anonymous

    Thank you so much for your reassurance!! This forum seems to be half and half with people that are sure any little touch will kill a chick, and others who seem more confident in chicks' ability to survive if they are strong enough. I really appreciate your response! I think I'm panicking myself...
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    Incubators Anonymous

    If I started to incubate an egg at 12:00 pm on a Tuesday and today is three weeks later on the Monday at 8:00 pm is today day 21 or day 20? AAah I'm so scared for my little chicks
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    Trouble hatching Silkie Eggs

    oh no
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    Incubators Anonymous

    I had two thermometers as well - one on the incubator and another freezer thermometer inside.
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    Incubators Anonymous

    They have been at 37.5 Celsius (99.5 Fahrenheit) for the whole time. I put them next to the side of my incubator so I can candle them from outside but I haven't seen a broken air membrane in the blue one and I can't see through the other one because it is a darker speckled brown. I hope they...
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    Incubators Anonymous

    When do you think it becomes too late: my eggs are on day 21 and haven't started peeping yet but are moving a little. Will they be ok? I'm scared my humidity was too high.
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