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I am having this exact problem! I have a red hen and a white-brown (bovan brown mix), my favorite hens, in a pen with a Rhode Island Red rooster. Their eggs tend to be porous and "runny", where you can see the air cell (or something) moving around when you tilt it while candling. I have never...

Good Luck! I had some very bad hatches, especially with ducks. Once I had my own eggs I started hatching some every week. The end result of this was a good hatch rate, but small having different groups of chicks/ducks all over the place is a pain in the butt! I recently received 12 Cream Legbar...

Keep us updated on how it goes. I personally don't put new chicks/ducklings/goslings with their mother. There are too many hazards and they do not need a mother. I put them in a brooder. To me it's not worth the risk, but if you don't have very many birds and they're inside or in a secure...

Another thing I didn't mention is, if the egg is runny inside, if you see movement when you tilt it back and forth while candling, it is rotten. Somebody told me they had a failed hatch egg go off like a gunshot while disposing it in their compost pile, but I haven't had that happen. I always...

It looks like the first guy is about to pip internally at that point. You can make a safety hole and wait 24+hrs before assisting hatch if you're anxious about it. The 2nd looks dead and the 3rd looks like no chick developed. The 4th has something in it but I can't tell if it's alive or not. I...

Hello everyone. Firstly I would like to wish you all a Happy New Year! In 2023, I started hatching eggs for the first time. I had a lot of bad hatches, but eventually I found out what worked the best. I was able to get 100% hatch rate on chicken eggs on the last few hatches. So long as the eggs...

Hello everyone. I have four Embden geese who are about 5-6 months old and I'm having trouble sexing them. Would anyone like to help? Attaching the video didn't work so I've uploaded it here: https://files.catbox.moe/aq3vsh.mp4 Thanks! EDIT: additional video, 30mb...

I bought this incubator and it is trash, see the thread about it. It heats too quickly and the temperature is fluctuates constantly . Quite a bit, a few degrees. I have seen a lot of them for sale used this year. I saved the egg turner and tossed the incubator.

I recently bought more incubator thermometers. I am incubating rouen duck eggs as they come in my Hovabator 2370. The Hovabator is set to factory default of 100.0F. The two new Govee's and Fisherbrand thermometer read 100-100.1F. The Inkbird ITH-10's read 98.2F, 1.8F lower than the other 3...

Thank you for the recommendation. I will be buying some Govees on my next Amazon order.I got my Kebonnix and I'm testing my two thermometers in it. The incubator is set to 100F, and the Inkbird reads 98.9F and the fisherbrand is reading 99.9F. The inkbird is one degree lower! That is no good at...

FYI about the Fisherbrand humidity/temperature/clock, the Inkbird ITH-10 is comparable and it only $13 on Amazon. I have both and I put them beside each other. The Inkbird is comparable. (Fisherbrand one is $60+). I bought mine at the feed store, where it is sold as a GQF but in the box it's...

I bought a Farm Innovators incubator recently, thinking it was a good deal as it came with an egg turner. I hatched 4 of 12 copper maran/orpington eggs and 0 of 10 silkie eggs. A few eggs were infertile, maybe 4 eggs. There were a lot of early deaths. I had Muscovy eggs in it too and about half...