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I got eggs yesterday! 5 amercauna blue/blue wheaten, and 6 blue/blue copper Maran. A friend is incubating them for me, and I'm a nervous wreck. Can't imagine doing it myself!
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Anything yet, Sally?
I only got 7 eggs yesterday. It may be the weather. It may be the broody taking up a nest box is discouraging laying. I took her out this morning, and put her outside. Looks like I need to put all the chicks together, and put her in her own coop with some eggs. That means figuring out where to move the coop to. For several reasons I want new residents to have fresh grass.
Question. The chicks are used to sleeping in the coop, but seem to stay "downstairs" in the run during the day. If I left the chicks in their separate coops, do you see a problem with Jersey Girl (like how I name my Jersey Giants?
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) attacking (like ATTACK, not warning them off) the chicks?
 
took like twenty four hours for this little one to bust out...and I swear it still had just that tiny pip in it when I fell asleep after two am. My husband and kids are excited to see it, and now we think we hear a second egg chirping. So as you can see this is the mini eco advanced and it only holds seven eggs...when should I dare take the chick out? I mean I know most of the reading says wait but she/he is busting into the other eggs. I know to wait and let it dry off but would it be safe for me to take it out this evening you think? Also I noticed on one side of the shell it came out of it looks to be a little red ...I don't see blood on the chick itself but I was wondering if that was normal. I know I read someplace that a proper hatch should have pretty clean shells etc.
 
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Congratulations Sally!
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Supposedly the chicks don't need to eat or drink for 48 hours, so it would be fine to leave the chick in. Maybe it's cheeping will encourage the others to get a move on! If the chick is vigorous and moving around, I wouldn't worry about a little residual blood in the shell. Could be you're just seeing the remains of the blood vessels.

What breed are they?
 
Sally, a little blood is not "normal" but you didn't do it, so I wouldn't worry. If the chick took so long to come out, it sounds like she just kicked a bit hard, and the shell tore some skin. Maybe up the humidity a few degrees (at least next time). The chick is fine for 72 hours. While in with the others it will bowl the others around. It does encourage the others to hatch.
Opening the incubator causes a temperature flux as well as humidity change. I (and SallySunshine) do not recommend it.
 
I never considered how much a baby chick would move the other eggs around. It has basically wrecked havoc on my careful positioning lol. I think two more have pipped since the first. One is starting to really work. The hatched baby chick is an Easter egger , the one working hard is too. The third is an ameracauna wheaten blue ..the one I expected to hatch first because I saw movement was an olive egger ...that egg has been pushed into the egg that hatched and I worry that I won't even see if it pips. I'm super excited and my husband is trying to kick me out of the house for an impromptu girls night out...but I don't wanna leave them or my son who has had a fever off and on today.
 

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