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First Pheasant Chicks Hatching

Today marks day 23 on my incubator calendar. I went out this morning to check on the eggs and noticed a few with small crack forming on the tops of the shells. Out of about 80 eggs I only noticed about 25 that were starting to crack. I went about my chores and did some weeding around the garden.

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I came back two hours later and couldn't see any change. I was getting ready to go to work when I heard a bird cheaping. I opened my GQF 1202 incubator and way in the very back row there was this guys busting out early. He is the guy in the video, my early bird pheasant chick.

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I came home a few hours later during lunch and there was a second bird out of his shell. I moved them both into the hatcher where they could dry off and get some fresh food and mostly rest. When I went to bed there was some progress but no more hatches.

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Comments

i dont know if i missed something but ive read like all ure articles i guess not all but it seems like 07-08 season i didnt read anyhting about jakes progress as a hunter is he still with you>?> i own setters love to hunt!!!

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