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    Is 48 degrees to cold?... first night out

    This is almost exactly as I’ve done. I put my 12 day old chicks outside in the coop with the flock. They were in a small area with chicken wire separating them. At 5 weeks I took the wire out. They sleep together with the flock. During the day they’re with the flock, but in a small wire cage...
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    Does this egg look fertilized? Thought I had all hens!

    It looks like my fertilized eggs, but I’ve only had chickens for a little over a year, so I’m no expert!
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    Help! Premature chick leg stuck in yoke sac

    I thought I’d give you an update. The yellow one is the one that hatched, the others are the ones I bought. They are two weeks old today and doing wonderful. I put them out in the chicken coop brooder two nights ago. If you look closely, you can see two hens in the nesting boxes on the other...
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    Help! Premature chick leg stuck in yoke sac

    My old softy husband took me to the farm store and we brought home four sisters for her. They too are two days old. I got Silver Laced Wyandotte’s. The two chickens that I wanted last April have now turned into 20. My husband is currently out there measuring to enlarge the run another 10 x 20‘...
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    Help! Premature chick leg stuck in yoke sac

    I have 3 chicks that are 4 weeks old, hatched by their aunt. One was injured and was in the house all week. I’m going to try that first.
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    Help! Premature chick leg stuck in yoke sac

    She just died. The older one has 4 baby chick stuffed animals with her. She very strong. She’s the last egg her mom laid before the Fox killed her. I had 4 eggs in the incubator of Fifi, but only she has survived.
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    Help! Premature chick leg stuck in yoke sac

    Still alive this morning, but she’s very weak. I tried to give her some homemade apple juice, some wet feed and water. Thank you for understanding and giving me such great advice. That’s exactly what I’ve been doing with holding her. I held her with her sister this morning for a few minutes. I...
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    Help! Premature chick leg stuck in yoke sac

    I just tried to put her with her sister, no go. She pecked her terrible. I’ll have to set up another brooder tomorrow. Temp at 97. Better than 100 I guess. Hopefully I can get it lower. No sleeping until I do. She’s the happiest when I hold her, but I’m afraid I’ll fall asleep and drop her.
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    Help! Premature chick leg stuck in yoke sac

    Ok brace is back on. It’s the best I can do with what I have. This is edited because it fell off again, so I had to put duct tape on it to hold it together. I have a chiropractor appointment first thing in the morning and I’ll get some better supplies and just pray she makes it through the...
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    Help! Premature chick leg stuck in yoke sac

    She actually has gotten it off so I just left it off. I guess I’ll deal with it tomorrow. She’s a feisty little thing. Of course it might be a roo 😊 I thought I had to do it within 24 hours of her being born that’s why I did it today. Thank you so much for all of your help. I really really...
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    Help! Premature chick leg stuck in yoke sac

    Did I do it right? She’s too weak to stand up. She’s about 10 hours old now.
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    Help! Premature chick leg stuck in yoke sac

    There was a slight movement early this morning, but there hasn’t been anything since.
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    Help! Premature chick leg stuck in yoke sac

    Thank you. It did die. I buried it with my precious Fifi. I’m afraid the second one is going to have a bad leg problem, but it’s still alive so I have hope. I guess I can always try to fix its leg later when it’s healthier. But since I got it unstuck, it’s moving all over dragging itself in the...
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    Help! Premature chick leg stuck in yoke sac

    I got it unstuck and put coconut oil on its feet and the sac as it was stuck to the grid. I candled the third egg. It died. 😢
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    Help! Premature chick leg stuck in yoke sac

    I’m afraid to say I don’t know how to tell if it’s internally pipped I’ve never done this before. I wouldn’t be doing it now except for my hen being killed. 😥
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    Help! Premature chick leg stuck in yoke sac

    It won’t be day 21 until 3 hours from now. The egg moves a bit now and then, started a couple of hours ago. This is so stressful!
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    Help! Premature chick leg stuck in yoke sac

    Thank you. It does still have the yoke in it. It’s absorbed quite a bit of it, but not all yet. It bled a little when I got it out of the shell. So I was afraid to do anything else to it. I didn’t realize that the foot was underneath the yolk sac when I put it in there. It’s still very weak and...
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    Help! Premature chick leg stuck in yoke sac

    I’m new here. One of my favorite chickens was killed by a fox three weeks ago so I’m hatching three of her eggs. The first one hatched fine (a day and half early) but, the second one didn’t. They weren’t due until tonight. The second one started pipping yesterday afternoon about 3:15 PM. The...
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