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    What breed do you think it is?

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    Urgent: hatched chicks knocking into other eggs, is this OK?

    Some say you should open the bator and move the hatched chicks to the brooder, some other believe it's better not to open the bator in order to maintain the humidity. Most websites suggest it's nothing to worry about, they've been turning other eggs. I wanna ask, is there anyone who doesn't...
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    Air cell too small for day 18?

    Hello I am incubating 22 eggs in my homemade incubator, I took these pictures yesterday, which was day 18, then I moved them into a basket and started lockdown, I raised the humidity to %68-%70 I don't know whether I'm being oversensitive but I feel like these air cells are smaller than what...
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    Baby chick won't eat and he keeps dozing off

    He had the splayed legs, I used the rubber band and straw method, he had opened it in the morning, he is standing up now, still a little weak on his feet but at least his legs are not splayed anymore The new problem is he is sleepy all the time, I've heard sleepy chicks will die. I think he...
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    Anyone please? Will the sock method work for less than day old baby chick with spraddle legs?

    I noticed spraddle legs on one of my chicks last night, but then I thought it was normal since they had hatched just then and were too weak. I thought it'd be gone by the morning but it's still there, I used the sock method, using a very small sock, not too tight to block the veins and not to...
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    Is he now breathing the outside air?

    It has piped externally but is there a gap for the outside air to go inside? I don't know if you can see it in the pic. These eggs are of high value to me, the breed is not risen in my area, I had a l ong drive to get these eggs, can't afford to lose one. Last night before I set them out of...
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    Do Japanese bantams hatch early?

    I have a few silkies and one Japanese bantam in my incubator, it's an small egg, right now is the beginning of day 19 and the Japanese bantam has already piped internally, should I worry about this? Because my silkies haven't piped internally even though some of their eggs are rather small.
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    Urgent: Should I raise the humidity now?

    I'm hatching some silkies and today was day 18...I thought it was 17. Please help me calculate this. I started 4 hours prior to june 28th. so june 28th is my day 1. now its past midnight in my location and my calendar says its july 16th...so is day 19?
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    Is it ok to make safety holes anyway?

    Hello I'm sure that many of you have read this wonderful article on assisted hatching. https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/guide-to-assisted-hatching-for-all-poultry.72886/ Last time I incubated eggs, I lost two expensive chicks just because they weren't able to pip externally they had...
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    Day 3, the embryo looks like it's stuck to the air cell

    I candled the egg to see the embryo, It's very close to the air cell as if it is stuck to it Is it going to be a problem? I can't provide you with a picture since I opened the incubator an hour ago and forgot to take a pic It has an automatic Turner, turning every hour
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    Chick piped on day 19...what should I do?

    I candled the eggs yesterday and all of them were fine and moving except for the smallest one, I saw that it's air cell was malformed, but it was moving...today i realized it had pipped, sometimes it opens it's beak just a little bit, I think its very weak...i dont like the way it looks, any...
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    Am I seeing right? Are there twin chicks growing inside this egg?

    Having read some topics on this matter, I realized that the chances for a double yolker to hatch are extremely low, but there's a glimmer of home right? Are there twins in this egg? I really hope not I'm attaching the gif file
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    How can you add eggs every 7 days?

    If I'm not mistaken, my friends incubator manual said you can add eggs once every 7 days How's that possible? Say you add a set of eggs called A You add then to 7 day old eggs in the incubator At day 18 when you raise the humidity, eggs A that are only 11 days will be in that humidity too...
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    I got some eggs that haven't been turned since they were laid, which was a week, are they corrupt?

    The guy who gave it to me kept it under a air cooler with good humidity, but he didn't know he had to turn them, they haven't been turned for like a week, are they dead?
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    will this DIY humidity controller work?

    hi I dont like using ultrasonic humidifiers for humidity control of my incubator....i believe the piezo will die affter a whiile and needs to be changed...so i ended up designing my own...it is placed inside the incubator, do u think it will work? picture attached
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    What is this breed called? And can he mate with other breeds?

    I'm attaching a photo of the online store in which I ordered one rooster of this breed, it was about 3000 dollars since they're very rare around here, and it's Turkish, I wanna know what they're called and if he can mate with other breeds of chickens and perhaps reproduce more of this breed so...
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    Candling chicken eggs on day 14, no veins, is it dead?

    All of the eggs show movement and there are veins in them There's no vein in one of the eggs but I see dark stuff, is it dead? Another egg has blood veins but it shows no movement and no progress since day 7 Are these two dead? Should I remove them?
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    I candled my eggs 3 days and 12 hours after the starting of the incubation, are they ok? (pictures included)

    I'm thinking only one of the eggs is not ok, should I increase the temp? are they growing slower than they should?
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    How many times a day should an automatic turner turn the eggs?

    I've built an automatic egg turner for my homemade incubator that has a timer which orders the motor to turn the eggs every 1 hour Should I do more/less turning?
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    Need help sexing 3-week-old baby chicks

    Last year I ask you guys to sex my baby chick based on some pics from their feathers and almost everyone said it's a male but it turned out to be a female, I was actually pretty confused, it was a female but it made the sound of a rooster, it sang like a rooster, it was killed by a dog, it's...
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