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Thank you so much!! Great to know.

incubating 6 shipped eggs. 3 chicks hatched from day 19 - 20. 2 chicks clearly in trouble and did assisted hatch morning of 21. chicks were stuck in the shell. I was able to successfully remove the shell from the inner membrane. Found the inner membrane not shrink wrapped. There was no...

okay - thank you so much. I have a Joel12 incubator. One chick hatched early on Wednesday. Two more hatched today. The early hatch is really knocking the hatching eggs around. Do I leave it in there or move the hatched chicks to the brooder? Our humidity here in the house almost matches...

Should I be worried

Do you think this would work for a ten week old chick I acquired?

Thank you so much!! Was really torn on what to do.

Previous candling at day 10 and 14 were normal. It was at the same developmental stage as the other 5 eggs. Now it is not. It seems like it is still at day 14 or something???

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Just took the photo of the egg. The egg is setting up in an egg carton section to keep it from being rolled by the incubator. I have been hand rolling it 3x daily - very gently. It has been candled day 10, 14 and now 18 at lock down. The other 5 eggs are doing great and are where they...

I will go take a photo. Just starting lock down and don't want to contaminate the other eggs. It has been developing the same as the other 5 eggs - just has had a detached air cell. Hard to tell if the air cell is developing or a blood ring. Thanks for any advice.

I have been incubating shipped eggs for the first time. I am at day 18 and lock down. I have hatched many eggs in the past, just not shipped eggs. There is one egg with a detached air cell that I have been not turning to try to reattach the aircell. I candled the eggs at days 10, 14 and...

Hi Mark, I recently acquired two chicks from a breeder - they are frizzled, silkie chicks - from a crele project. It seems like the crele coloring is getting more popular. This is a very reputable breeder and the chicks are lovely. I thought they were both going to be boys - but it appears...

Sadly the one didn't hatch. It was dead in the shell. The 5th one hatched this afternoon. I candled the 6th and it was a no. Lesson learned - not sure if the water had anything to do with it, but going forward I'll make sure no eggs are under the hole where you add water.