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Rats sometime chew through plastic totes to get to stored feed and if they are eating birds they are feed to them too.... Hope it works for you. A rat trap or perhaps a bait station for rats could be put out to where the chicks could not get to them would also help reduce the problem?

I see a little motor beak just a talking about getting me out of here.

I'd definitely boot it. Correct it as it starts to grow.

It's a good thing the others hatched first. That little monster is a gentle giant I hope.

That's a 64 million dollar question. My head is spinning with no answers.

I've had a hatch in March, April, and May. I'm turning it over to broody hens until I have hatch worthy Bresse eggs. I'd like to hatch out 24 good Bresse pullets which means setting 60-70 eggs or more.

On a lighter note we shut the turners off then the first ones to hatch use their siblings for bowling balls. I guess that getting knocked around is motivation to get out and join the fray.

Take the driest and leave a couple of cheerleaders.

The Live Stream is cool.

Those feet look large enough to be a Roo.

My May hatch is a wrap. 33 chicks out of 41 eggs originally set. 3 were a test that I didn't think were fertile and they were not. 1 chick pipped and died in the shell. 4 quit earlier. I'll take those odds any day but I always want to improve every hatch if possible and it could have been better...

Looks like their ART class is starting quite young. :)

I'm down to 4 eggs here on Day 22. One that pipped gave up and died. If no pip this afternoon I'll candle again and if not viable discard and move the chicks to their awaiting brooder.

Bed check revealed 28 hatched, 3 pips, 3 no sign of life, and one died in the shell after pipping. 3 were removed after no development.

I could count them with one eye before I went for a nap. No use worrying about them. When I got up I can't count them with both eyes as rambunctious as they are. There aren't many eggs that haven't hatched and more than half of those I think have pipped.

So far 1 know fatality. It pipped and got no farther. No trace of shrink wrap. After several hours I started to intervene but was to late. It's beak was out but not breathing. No response of any kind and there was a lot of nasty fluid around the body. I was doing great with humidity until the...

I had a perfectly good Saturday nap going when the cheap cheap started. My mistake of not taking a hearing aid out. 1 black one from a cross that I do not understand and a red from the RIR ladies. It was the black one that woke me up. Do I get even with him by playing loud music in a coop all...

And 3+0+0=300!

Tomorrow is D Day for this bunch. Not a pip yet. I'm going back to bed as the thunderstorms are approaching for a few hours this morning.

I'm beginning to get a little on the antsy side as the first day of lock down comes to an end. From now on every time I wake up in the night I'll be looking through the window to see if any of the kids have pipped yet or even hatched. The first two hatches had some "Early Birds".