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Welcome to the coop! I use the Forums and Articles tabs at the top of the page to do research. You can get lost for hours. It's nice to know you are minutes away from getting help with questions and emergencies! I always check in the "What's New" section as well at the top of this page. This way I can read how I may have a similar question or help give some advice.
 
Thank you for the welcome. Update. 6 little chicks hatched successfully! Watching closely to make sure they're safe. They are outside in the gated run with the mamas. We have an eggloo. So, it is a chicken tractor with steel run and a coop about 2 1/2 feet off the ground with a metal ladder. We put a wooden board behind the metal ladder so that chicks can climb up and down it. So far the chicks are doing good at hopping down with wings outstretched. Just teaching them how to hop up. We have 3 live eggs that were abandoned by the mamas for the days. We have a heating lamp and a styrofoam bottom of a cooler and try to surround that with carboard to make an incubator since we don't have one. The hens accept the eggs under them at night, but each day, they abandon them. So, during the day, we put them under the heating lamp, then when it gets dark we slip them under a mama hen. Is this a good way to go about this? Should I be doing something else? Today is day 23. I feel life/a small vibration in these three eggs.
 

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