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    Chick can't stand

    I have a friend who for personal reasons couldn't finish an incubation, because they were already at day 15 she didn't want to just turn off the incubator so she asked if I wanted them. i had just hatch out Pekins and Frizzles, so I cleaned my incubator and put hers in. They all began...
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    Chick pipped day 19

    Well one chick has pipped quite an amount and it is mid day 19, I was worried at first but not now because the veins are receding just the humidity had dropped over night so the membranes have dried but I just wrapped the area in moist paper towel like last time and the chick is slowly getting...
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    Lockdown

    I am having the worst day, it is lockdown and I have just gone to add water to raise the humidity and my twin egg which is still alive I just cracked and not a little a lot of tiny cracks below the air cell. The was no blood and the chicks are still moving a tiny bit, they haven't been moving...
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    Dead horrible smelling egg

    So when I got up this morning I could smell this god awful smell permeating through my house but could not find it, kinda assumed my cat must have gotten a rat or mouse and hid it somewhere, she is fun like that NOT. Anyway I went to do the water check and as soon as I lifted the lid on my...
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    Twins in Frizzle egg

    The reason I got my incubator was because we were buying fertile Silkie and Frizzle eggs to hatch, but of course everything happened with my Pekin so Instead of incubating my bought eggs I had to use it first time on the abandoned pekin egg. I couldn't put the eggs in with the Pekin because it...
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    What breed are these

    We recently moved but before that we had a neighbour up the street who had chooks, I told her about a million times she should be feeding layer mash and grit to her big girl because she was always complaining about her not laying and recently complain that the new one she got won't lay either...
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    Silkie Chick got squished, still alive but not doing well

    Yesterday we had friends come over who have unruly children, it was a surprise drop around so I couldn't do what I normally do which is lock the cage and place it in my bedroom (out of sight out of mind) I was in the middle of cleaning my outside pen, so I placed the lock on left them there...
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    Help! dried membranes

    So my chick after some struggle knock the top off her egg enough that I was able to see she was in dried membranes, I had read extensively the post on assisting a chick over the last fe days so I knew to moisten the membrane without getting water near her beak, which I have done. How do you...
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    What does a chick pushing out look like

    So it has now been over 24hours since the first pip, I'm not concerned as I have seen progress the egg is nearly zip all the way around. However for the last hour I have been watching and it looks like the chick is jumping or sort of a bit like a hiccup. Is this hiccup thing the chick pushing...
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    my one and only egg has partially piped

    I had 4 eggs under a Hen who decided to quit, I took her eggs as soon as I realised and was extremely concerned they would die but candling showed that only one had a chick and the 3 others had nothing. I now feel even more anxious knowing I only have one, I never candled before I just left them...
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    Possibly messed up with a chick

    I am new to the forum after searching for an answer everywhere I found this forum so I hope you guys can help. My Husband and I got our chicken coop and chickens along with 2 chicks, one of the chicks looked way too young but he assured me the person he got it off said it was old enough to be...
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