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    Top beak broken off at tip. Disease? Just got them last night.

    Just got these 3 hens. He called them black rambler pullets. Also got two bantam hens. All three black ones have this issue to a degree with the worst being about a 1/4 of bottom beak sticking past upper beak. If you zoom in on pic, you can see the white of lower beak and black top part of upper...
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    Can you rinse chicken eggs or lightly rub them under water prior to incubating?

    The reason I ask this is because the eggs i want to hatch are coming from a flock that may have scaly leg mites and I don't want the hatching chicks to get them. If possible, I would rather be over cautious than not if I can rinse them and lightly rub them to rinse away any possible mites.
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    Hatching eggs from a flock with possible scaly leg mites. Got a few questions

    My brothers flock may have scaly leg mites. Their legs on some of the hens have crusty growths with some bleeding on a couple of them. He didn't know what it was til I researched it last week and I am pretty sure that is what it is. I want to hatch eggs from the flock. I want to know if the...
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    Is 72 hrs after hatch ok for duckling to be in incubator?

    My roughly 20 duck eggs were supposed to hatch tomorrow Wednesday the 17th and when I went to do lockdown Sunday night, one had hatched already. So i quickly added water to appropriate water channels and closed incubator. Checked monday morning and a couple more hatched and after work checked...
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    Chicks and ducklings won't dry in incubator

    I have two incubators running. Had 24 duck eggs only in #1 and then had 48 chicken eggs with 22 duck eggs (a lot for a n1602 hovabator lol) in #2. The #1 incubator i had going one week ahead of #2 so the duck eggs from #1 were due to hatch at same time as chicken eggs from #2. So at lockdown I...
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    Had a duck egg explode this morning.

    We are hatching duck eggs in a hovabator 1602 still air incubator and are on day 16 and had one explode this morning. I couldn't do anything with it since I had to go to work, so my son got the egg out and cleaned most of it up where the egg was. I need to finish cleaning the incubator up and...
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