EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

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Tail angle is coming up nicely on this cockerel, not near so rock-like now... thinking to try a smallish batch next spring with him as a father to see if he can help put some pencilling on the hens. He's got lovely wide feathers. Thoughts? Would I be nuts to even consider it?
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He said he wasn't going to pose nicely for pictures.
 
MotorcycleChick said:
Ken, can I keep hunting rifles in a damp basement?
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Sorry...I went to let the birds out & make myself some breakfast.
Dampness isn't good for steel. I keep mine in the basement, but we have a dehumidifier down here running all Spring & Summer. and the wood stove all winter. Plus, I try to keep them oiled well, inside & out; that helps.
 
Two chicks have hatched and a third currently unzipping, the others that have pipped are still busy sleeping and then breaking more of the pip open - except one of the ones that is pipping the wrong way. The membrane is still intact and I haven't seen any movement now for awhile. He was the first one to pip this morning, it's now almost 9pm here. Is there anything I should do or just leave him be?

Also my incubator is quite full - it's a 24 egg incubator and I've got 23 eggs, the two hatched chicks are stumbling all over the eggs and it's quite squishy in there - will they all be OK? Not worried about the hatching eggs, more about the hatched chicks and their legs etc.
 
duluthralphie said:
Liar!!!!

BTW all this dux talk is making me nauseous........


Morning all...:frow:frow
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Morning mister dux hater...

arwenreborn said:
Two chicks have hatched and a third currently unzipping, the others that have pipped are still busy sleeping and then breaking more of the pip open - except one of the ones that is pipping the wrong way. The membrane is still intact and I haven't seen any movement now for awhile. He was the first one to pip this morning, it's now almost 9pm here. Is there anything I should do or just leave him be?

Also my incubator is quite full - it's a 24 egg incubator and I've got 23 eggs, the two hatched chicks are stumbling all over the eggs and it's quite squishy in there - will they all be OK? Not worried about the hatching eggs, more about the hatched chicks and their legs etc.
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Leave it alone. Malpoes take longer to hatch. Unless you're positive the membrane hasn't broken?

Generally with wrong-enders you just make sure they can breathe and then leave them alone.
 

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