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    Upside down chick no pip?!?!? Help!!

    I've been hatching for years and never had this happen. So I had all my eggs hatch, thought one was a dud so I candled it again and he was still alive and looked to be internally pipped. Since he had taken so long I made an emergency airhole, which I do often. (I'm a hands on gal)....when I...
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    2 sister....different color eggs?

    So I adopted two beautiful Americaunas. They have the beard and ear muffs and big beautiful eyes. When I adopted them the owners said they had never laid before. They were old enough, but they were under the impression the neighbors dog had stressed them out so much they never laid. So within a...
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    3 and a half week old chicks violently fighting!!!! Please help.

    So I finally had a really successful hatch...actually more then I wanted, but that's ok. I had so many unsuccessful hatches that this was a welcomed "to many". So after going and purchasing a very large coop for 15 birds, we safe guarded it and at almost 4 weeks old we put them outside. (We are...
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    Help!! My kids hand raised baby pullet got attacked

    I'm honestly not sure what did it, but I'm assuming a dog. The babies squeezed through the fence and when I couldn't find them we ran yo look and there she lay with her wing all weird. I picked her up and she had blood all over her legs. I checked behind her neck 1st assuming it was probably one...
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    What is wrong with my pekin?!?! Can someone help please?

    So I have 2, female 3 week old Pekin ducks I had shipped from a very well known hatchery. They both had been developing perfectly normal and even, however the past week I've noticed one only wants to lay down constantly.She'll take two steps and then lay right back down. Her sister always seems...
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    I helped a late baby, now what?!?! Please help

    I have a little chicken egg (one of 6 left). I swore he had internally pipped a day and a half ago so I went step by step through all necessary processes (I found of coarse on here). However when I opened up the air cell to make sure the inner membrane wasnt covering his beaks I noticed he...
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    Air cell problems...HELP PLEASE!

    So I'm pretty new to hatching, the past year or so I'd say. I have a "cheaper" incubator where I,only for fun and the kids sake, hatch a couple eggs a few times a year that end up being our spoiled pets. Sooo even though I keep my humidity at exactly what it should be at till lock down, my air...
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    To hatch on side or upright...that is the question

    Hey guys & gals. So I started with a tiny, very cheap incubator for my pekin duck eggs. It says to obviously put the pointy end down in which I did till about day 24. Now with that being said I heard some people actually hatch their chicks and never put them on their side? Is this ok to do? I...
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    Duck egg Day 28 and no pipping yet

    So herea the deal. A few months back I rescuedsome very abused animals (chickens and perkins from a neighor). We built a gorgeous coop and now all the big girls are happy. The pekin I took to a sanctuary As one had a broken leg and the other 1 had a tumor so you can imagine that they were not...
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    Red, raw inflamed feet

    while there "helpers"! So about a month ago a neighbor asked me if I'd be willing to take 9 chickens, 2 roosters & 3 Pekin ducks. He had fallen on hard times and they were his wife's birds and she up and left him. He proceeded to tell me he hadnt fed them in a week but they were also locked away...
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