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    Chicks with thick mucus in egg?

    Thanks for your insight! Yeah when they pipped at day 19 I was a little worried. I turned them less than 12 hours prior for the last time.....
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    Chicks with thick mucus in egg?

    Well good news after all! I have 16 chicks hatched and 2 more pipped. That just leaves 3 unhatched at the moment. So I guess the hatch just had a rough start 🤷‍♀️
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    Chicks with thick mucus in egg?

    Also thank you for the tip about emptying the water, however two are externally pipped.
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    Chicks with thick mucus in egg?

    Here's a picture. Yes, high humidity was my best guess. I don't have a hygrometer just because I always do the same thing and never have had problems like this. Thanks for your insight!
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    Chicks with thick mucus in egg?

    Ok. Day 19 two eggs pipped (yesterday morning). Woke up to one chick (not from one of the pipped eggs). One of the pipped eggs (this morning) had died. This thick amber substance has sealed the entrance to his pip and he probably suffocated. It like crystallized and sealed him in. Pipped egg #2...
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    Just need to share some good news 😄

    We've had workers in our house for about a week doing some renovation projects. Four days ago, one of them accidentally tripped the breaker while closing the breaker box to the part of our house where my two incubators are plugged in. I was running errands and walked up to my incubators about 2...
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    What feather Pattern is this. farmyard mix hen

    Yes, the white is unique! Good luck! Hope you get a lookalike
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    Mixed chicken pullet or roo

    Pullet
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    What breed is this gentleman?

    Yeah. That's a muff. Which means he very likely has some Ameraucana in him.
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    What breed is this gentleman?

    The only reason I don't think he could be a sapphire gem is because he has muffs.
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    Newly broody Turkey and almost to lockdown eggs.

    Personally I would think that's not long enough after becoming broody.
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    What breed is this gentleman?

    Where did you get him? Probably an Easter egger if it's from a feed store.
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    What are all the varieties of the Cornish breed? WHere can you find them?

    I would check the APA standard of perfection
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    Breed questions

    I really enjoy having Orpingtons and mixed breed hens in my flock!
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    Chick Randomly died while zipping--what happened?!

    I had a chick die during zipping recently as well. My best guesses are it hit a vein that for some reason hadn't receded yet and bled out, it overexerted itself, or it was in a bad position and twisted its neck too much or something. It could have been that the air cell was saddled or somehow...
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    What feather Pattern is this. farmyard mix hen

    Sorry about your hen. The dead one is what many would call ginger. The top one could maybe be considered double laced silver but it's definitely not a standardized variety. A lot of Easter Eggers are ginger like the hen you lost, so I would use some EE stock to get look alikes
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    IDK Viable Goose eggs?

    They all look dead to me. The last one is iffy because it's not a very clear picture.
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    Serama chicks

    I grind my serama chick's food in a coffee grinder. Then I add water to it for the first week. They're so small that crumbles are hard for them. I also have towels in the brooder instead of shavings for the first week or so because they are more prone to leg problems. Hope this helps!
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    Splash or leakage?

    Looks like splash to me!
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    Are these eggs alive or dead 😢? Day 26 ish

    That all sounds good, I wonder if the other chicks were knocking the eggs around if they hatched earlier. Sometimes that happens.
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