Just make sure it's somewhere where the other chicks can't peck at it or step on it. Using a container with paper towels will also prevent anything from being torn in the incubator or securing it in a mug if it's low enough for the chick to step on it itself, I use toilet paper stuffed around the chick with it's bottom in its shell when this happens.
You arrange them in such a lovely way!I also filled another incubator with some backyard mix chicks for a friend because I just can't say no, LOL! They're due next week so it looks like I'll be hanging around this hatch-a-long for a bit as well.
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I am curious as to how easy the pond is to clean. I want one with a drain, but if this is easy to clean I will make it instead.Still have 7 runner duck eggs going strong on day 10.
We are going to have to build a bigger duck house before they hatch as well. We did build a drain/water feature duck pond in the shared chicken/duck run over the last couple days. We built a wall around it, with a gentle slope in, so hopefully no chicks will fall in or accidentally drown in there. It looks nice though. Should fill up naturally with rain water and keep it clean with water flowing through naturally.
(I say we...I just mixed the cement and my husband does the walling and coop building!!)
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We are hoping that it will be sort of self cleaning. The wall at the front has a small dip that overflows into a drain. We get a lot of rain here in the UK, so hoping that it will keep the water flowing through quite reqularly
if it’s intestines are out, I was advised that you should gently push them in with a q-tip. 
I was thinking the same thing! All by color and lightes to darkest.
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I wish I could do art... I’m awful at drawingThank you! My mini hatchery shares space with the art studio so I think all of those color charts must have influenced the way I set them, lol.
