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    Slow Growing Chicks

    Hi, I am in need of some help. I originally hatched three pekin chicks from my hen. They are now nearly two months old and two of them have barely grown. They have been given chick crumbs etc as usual and I’ve never had problems like this. One of the chicks however was a lot bigger than the...
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    I need help with goose egg!

    Hi, so about three days ago I had an accident and dropped my incubator lid on my goose egg, this was about day 25 for the gosling. It is now day 28 and it has been tweeting and moving a lot for about two days after internally pipping. Ive been dampening the membrane every half hour also. It...
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    Cracked Goose Egg, Any Advice?

    Hi, so I have had a bit of an accident... When going to turn my goose egg the lid slipped out my hand and smashed the shell, however it didn’t get through the membrane. I am current on day 26 so I have stopped turning now. I can see the guy is still alive and rocking about in the egg also. I...
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    Sneezy Hens ?

    Hi, The last couple of weeks I have noticed that my flock (not all of them) seem to be shaking their heads and sneezing quite a bit. They seem happy and healthy apart from that. I have been trying to find some information on this and help to what I can do, however I can't seem to find anything...
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    Silkie blowing bubbles out nose

    Hi I have a 6 month old Silkie and he keeps blowing bubbles out his nose He doesn’t show any other signs of anything so I don’t really know what it is. Could anyone help ?
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    Are my Silkies pure?

    So I have some 5 week old silkies and I only want to keep ones which are pure silkie for breeding purposes with my other flock. They all have 5 toes and black skin, which is lighter on my red silkies, however I cant seem to see the blue on their face yet. So i'm wondering if anyone else can tell...
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    Help Detached Air Cells

    Hi, I’m on day 8 of incubation. I had my eggs shipped and I tested them for 24 hours before putting them in the incubator. However most of my eggs have detached air cells. I read that you should stop turning them and put them in egg cartons . If I do this will it effect my eggs which are fine ...
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    Incubator temp problems

    I have an brinsea octagon 40 digital incubator an I always have problems with the temp regulation. I have moved it to all different rooms in my house and the temp never seems to be right but I always have a fairly decent hatch. I had it running for 24 hours and the temp was perfect and now it’s...
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    Humidity ?

    Hi, So I should be exspecting my chicks this weekend so I went on lockdown yesterday. I have a incubator with reservoirs so I fill them myself, however In order to fill them I have to take the lid off the incubator. I checked them today and they look significantly lower than yesterday and...
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    Lockdown date ?

    Hi, So I put my eggs in on the 10th of March 2018 and nearing the hatch date been looking on some forums and confused myself now on my lockdown date (imbarrising haha) can anyone please help on what date it will be I know it will be either tomorrow or Wednesday ? :)
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    My incubator went to 40.6 Celsius help!

    Hi, I probably left this morning around 10 the incubator was at the correct temp and humidity I then came home at around 3 to find it at 40.6 Celsius , so it has been at 40.6 for around a few hours due to the warmer weather we have had! I have managed to cool it down to regular temp now...
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    I’m new introduction !

    :DI have been around chickens for many years thanks to my grandad and have currently just started hopefully becoming a mum to my own chickens. I’m currently incubating silkies but at the minuite I help look after multiple white Sussex, road island reds and black rocks. I came to this website...
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    Help I don't know which day to go on Lockdown and what to use?

    Hi, So I am on day 14 of incubation currently so not long left now it's my first time incubating silkies so I am full of questions haha. I have Silkie's and and White Sussex in the incubator and I am confused as to when lockdown will be. I originally thought lockdown was day 18, however I...
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