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    Chick didnt hatch but was still alive

    I am so upset with myself. I had Rhode Island Reds and French Cooper Marans in to hatch. Absolute disaster... They were due to hatch yest, nothing happening today so I boobed them in water and I candled ... no signs of life so I gently cracked them open. In one, a chick was only about 2/3s...
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    Newbie

    Hi. I am new to chickens. Actually I was terrified of them following a vicious cockerel of my nans as a young girl. But I wanted to share my Dad's hobby. I would collect the eggs but only I was able to vault the fence and shut the chickens out first. Now... 2 years on... I will hold one...
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    3 day old maran chick not eating

    Hi akl. My first incubation and only 3 chicks hatched. 2 wheatans and a maran. A wheaten died within a day. It gasped rather than breathed. I assisted the hatch of the maran 48 hrs after he started chirping in the egg. After about 8 hrs, he hatched. It took about 24 hrs before he could hold...
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    Maran chick inturned foot

    Hi We had a bad batch of eggs. Only one out of 24 hatched. Rest were infertile. So poor Uno is a lone chick! I've grown fond of it, but cannot seem to cure his inturned foot! I have done a cardboard shoe that straightened his toes out but he still walks on the outside of his foot and leg...
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