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    Candling with door open or closed or what?

    You have plenty of time to candle with it unplugged and wide open.
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    Do just-hatched baby chicks move around in the incubator a lot?

    They run around like grade schoolers on recess.
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    Suprise chicks

    There is a chance it will hatch. I choose hope.
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    Homemade incubators

    You could have a successful hatch with a dimmer switch and no fan.
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    Suprise chicks

    They are fine outside with mother hen to temps much lower than that. They were made to be outside.
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    Someone Please Help!! Incubating Silkie Chickens

    Attack? He will let them know he is the boss, and only time and observation will truly tell.
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    Someone Please Help!! Incubating Silkie Chickens

    Yes, at least two is much better. It is possible that you could still get more at day 23. My hope after day 22 becomes thin, but sometimes we get surprised. I say fill up the incubator and start another round.
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    Day 21, only 6 successful hatched so far, 2 dead suffocated when they pipped, thick veiny membrane, what’s going on?

    Day 21: how did you know they were dead?
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    Someone Please Help!! Incubating Silkie Chickens

    You can move the chick if you want to. The chick is fine where it is for another day, but if you want to move it to 95 degree heat it will be fine. We often aid them in the drying process by holding them closer to the heat lamp for a few seconds: it does not take long. Either way the chick...
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    Hatching Ducks

    Three hatched? If so, then the yolk you see is indeed yolk. Yolk that was not absorbed and that chick has slim chances of making it. It does happen. Look for a chick that may be leaking fluids and that is the one.
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    First clutch - early deaths?

    Wait for day ten if you are unsure.
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    Hygrometer.

    Research measuring humidity using a wet bulb.
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    Selling chicks, best way to run it, and get the word out?

    Possible place to start: people are into rainbow egg collections - ee, olive, blue, green; they are into dark chocolate - French Copper Maran; autosexing at birth - Bielefelder; how about a strain of heritage breed that has been forgotten for a production strain. This is doable, and is being...
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    Selling chicks, best way to run it, and get the word out?

    It is as simple as get some eggs, hatch them, sell them.
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    Selling chicks, best way to run it, and get the word out?

    Do not let the complications and problems discourage you from going for it. Go full blast and solve one problem when you come to it. There are many successful breeders out there, and they were not detoured by deflating comments. We wonder about things for a reason. If you keep having the...
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    Hatchling quail with curled up foot

    This is normal and there is a simple and effective cure. Go to youtube and search quail splayed leg. The link below is a good example. I have used masking tape with good results. Also, there are plenty of tutorials on this site.
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    Will the eggs move towards hatching?

    When it is me hatching both happens. Quail are funny they can just all of a sudden pop out with little warning.
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    Tea tree ointment for assisted hatch chick's inner membrane?

    We keep membrane moist with warm water. Also, we do not hesitate to assist. Jump in and learn.
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    Mummas keep crushing their babies

    Disappeared: probably hiding under mom’s wing.
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    Geese eggs incubation

    It is best to incubate them within ten days. Some breeders say that you should not incubate fresh eggs with stored eggs because of different development rates, but I have with good results. Save them for up to ten days then put all of them in the incubator. Goslings are the best.
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