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    hatching right now! question-please help!

    THANK YOU to everyone who cared enough to post. All three babies are doing well (see below). The final egg pictured in the first photo did not hatch, so I have three but am thankful. They are cute as buttons and much friendlier than my three week old turkens Jaime
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    hatching right now! question-please help!

    He DID make it. I left him in there until the egg unattached itself. That huge goo dissipated and the shell ended up looking fairly dry and empty like the others. Thanks for all the support...I didn't notice until tonight that so many extra people had posted after Kelly. Jaime
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    hatching right now! question-please help!

    Thanks Kelly. I appreciate it. I was hoping that leaving him alone would give me an optimistic answer
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    hatching right now! question-please help!

    Three babies hatched this morning...they are at 21 days today (Jersey Giants). Two are normal and have been taken to the brooder so as not to interfere with the third. I am attempting to attach a pic I took of third. Basically he is out of the shell but still attached to it. He is...
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    No power for 6 hours..Day 22 for quail, day 10 for chickens

    I had three turken eggs in a bator w/ automatic turner....came home and the bator was no longer plugged in but turner was (around day 14 if I remember correctly). Inside temp of bator was 70! and the eggs felt cold to touch. I was sick...but plugged them back in and left them alone. Two of...
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    to separate or not?

    I have 4 silkies and 2 turken that incubated and hatched together. they are 3 1/2 weeks old and the turken are now approximately twice as big as the silkies. While I have no idea on the sex of the silkies, I am fairly confident the Turkens consist of one pullet and one roo. There have been no...
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    When can they free range?

    Quote: Yeah, that's what I want to know too. Mine aren't big enough to go outside yet but I am thinking of a limited turn out schedule b/c they already like to chase the bugs so much!! I am sooo afraid that they will get gone though (very rural here, have cats, seen fox and coyote at night...
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    Taming chicks?

    Thank you to all for your encouragement and welcome. I am not shy to hold them, I just needed reassurance that I wasn't going to literally scare them to death. I did sit here with my blue silkie after I posted this AM and talked to my mom on the phone and s/he seemed much better when I put him...
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    Taming chicks?

    I am a first time chick owner/raiser. Any help or corrections to my posts are greatly appreciated!!! I have been on a farm my whole life, we've bought adult chickens that have been around, we've raised horses, cows, sheep, dogs, and barn cats....but this is my first experience with baby...
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