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    Help! Eggs late to hatch. I started to open egg and theyre alive! Now what?!

    I have an incubator with just 2 chicken eggs and about 40 quail eggs that were set to hatch yesterday. All day yesterday, nothing happened. Overnight and so far today, nothing happened. No pips, nothing. So I did some research and a few people said to very carefully open the air sac end of a...
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    First quail hatch: Some babies fell UNDER incubator tray!! :(

    Ugh, what a sad start to the day!! I'm doing my first quail hatch. I went to bed at 11:00 last night and 3 eggs had pips. My husband and I got up at 3am to 6 hatched babies, FOUR were UNDER the incubator tray that's screwed in :( :( One was in the water trench and had already drown. 2 were doing...
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    Coop light on at night??

    Hey everyone! I have a decent sized coop with 24 chickens, 3 ducks and 2 geese. We built it about 2 1/2 months ago. I assumed it was best to keep a light on at night, so they could see to eat/drink and feel safe. So, Ive always had a 40w bulb in there. Everything has been fine. Well another...
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    Mash or Crumble for brand new baby turkeys?

    I had a great hatch yesterday! All 9 of my turkey eggs hatched successfully after a failed attempt to hatch others :) I put a mash in their brooder for them, but remember my local feed store had me start my BBW meat turkeys right off the bat with a crumble. Which is best?? Powdery mash or turkey...
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    Turkey egg pipped 30 hours ago.. No progress

    I have 9 eggs in my incubator, today is day 27. All eggs are pipped, the first one pipped yesterday at 4pm and the rest pipped today. One baby hatched at 1pm today, other than that, no others yet. I'm concerned for the one that hatched so long ago. Should I do anything? Temp in incubator is...
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    Anyone familiar with HHD incubator?? Im in need of help with the heat setting.

    Hey all, I'm just days away from my second turkey hatch. My first one failed due to equipment failure and I lost all my babies :( I've been checking my hydrometer regularly and just found that my incubator was slowly dropping in temp. These come factory set at 37.5 degrees celcius. For some...
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    Cover dirt floor with hay?

    My husband built me a 12x8 coop for all my poultry, a couple months ago. Since day 1, I've completely covered the floor with hay each 1-2 days while cleaning it. I've found in this hot weather, it gets disgusting under the hay. It's sometimes muddy, slimy, has bugs under it and I've even noticed...
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    Do you spray your incubating turkey eggs?

    I'm incubating turkey eggs for the second time (the first time, all my babies died in the eggs before hatching :( ). The woman I got my new set of eggs from, said she sprays her incubating turkey eggs every day. I'd only ever heard of spraying duck eggs. Should I start spraying my turkey eggs...
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    How long do i need to keep my turkeys inside?

    I have 10 Broad Breasted White meat turkeys that are just over 3 weeks. They have quite a bit of feathers and are starting to fill out their indoor brooder. It's been about 80-90 here during the day and 60-68 here at night. During the day, they either free range or stay in an outdoor hut that my...
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    Help! All 5 of my incubator tools are reading differently.

    Hey all! I recently lost an incubator of turkey eggs, due to my hydrometer not working properly. I started over with a different incubator and new meters, with brand new batteries. I've been relying on my actual built in incubator readings, because they all say something different. I'm so...
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    Are my incubating turkey eggs okay??

    Im on day 27 with my 9 Narragansett turkey eggs. At day 10, all 9 had love my inside while candling. At day 17, only 7 had visible movement. Day 24, when I got them ready for lockdown, only one had visible movement. I've also had a really unusually hard time raising my humidity with this hatch...
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