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Oh yay! I love seeing the grown up hatched babies! 🥰 Here are some of mine: The 2 ducks on the right were the ones out of my own eggs, from a silver appleyard duck and a blue runner drake. :) My sweet little magpie drake. I had lots of others but many of them went to new homes. Or I don’t...

Oi. Anyone else ever come home to missing quail? 🤦‍♀️ The wind had picked up like crazy while I was at work and when I got home the lid on the quail pen was blown off and only one quail left in the pen. :( but thankfully, they went and hid in my corn and I found them!! Needless to say, their...

It does look to be a handy option to be able to track over time without having eyes on it all the time. :D haha, I know, it’s crazy the things that we accumulate over time when hatching.xD oh no!!! Can’t win for losing some days. 🤦‍♀️ Those rails are interchangeable though, right? Hopefully...

That’s a silly setup from the manufacturer! 🙄 but definitely concerning... 🤔 what kind of accuracy is the Govee supposed to actually have? The thermometer I got was a promo from the vaccine company and is a “scientific/lab” level one apparently, so it’s meant to be accurate within 0.1 degree...

@kelseyk I’ve also had hatches where some eggs are slower to develop, from the same batch, set at the same time, kept in the same conditions. I don’t know if it’s genetic or something else, but I rotate all eggs around the incubator as well as turning them so it shouldn’t be due to hot/cold...

Sebright/bantam EE hatch is complete. 6/7 sebrights, with the 7th rupturing it’s yolk/vessels in ovo, and 6/8 EE, with the 2 that didn’t hatch malpositioned and couldn’t internally pip. Everyone else looks great!

Crazy hatching happening with my sebright and bantam EE eggs yesterday/today! They were due tonight, but had 10 hatch since yesterday afternoon. So far everyone is good. Those sebrights sure pop when they decide to start hatching. Lol. Much better hatch so far than the last sebrights for sure...

@Lunah452 As Vantic says, I would monitor and only increase the humidity once you’ve got an external pip, if you’re able to be nearby and checking. If you’re not around it may be more of a crap shoot and then I would do as FortCluck said and not increase it quite as much. I’ve got a couple...

Oh, no hatched by me, but these guys arrived yesterday too... mama duck thinks I’m the devil incarnate but the babies aren’t too freaky... lol.

I’ve got my first external pip on the bantam EE (8 of them) that I’ve got in the incubator... those things are really hard to see into! Some are blue but there are some olive ones in the mix and I couldn’t see a thing up until now. Lol. And it looks like all but 1 of the 7 sebright eggs are...

My bad! Haha! Totally misunderstood. :) I haven’t kept any of my problem hatched birds, except for the magpie duckling that was stuck in his narrow pullet sized egg. Lol. I doubt he’ll be siring any offspring anyways and will be joining the boys club - he was just too cute to not keep. :P And I...

Very rarely for sure. My magpie was a troublemaker at hatch but he’s fine now, but he’s the only one from all my hatches this year that’s survived and thrived after helping. :( I’m giving her the benefit of the doubt and will see what happens with the eggs she’s sitting on... not sure if it’s...

Second of my homegrown duckies hatched. :) mama duck is sitting on 3 more, due sometime mid September (not 100% sure when she truly started setting so... lol) the egg I had to go searching for the head didn’t make it - not sure what was wrong but it wasn’t breathing well even after I got it’s...

The little duckling I helped last night wound up passing. :( it had a lot of fluid coming from its mouth so my guess is that I caught it too late and it aspirated before I opened up the shell for it. 😢 I still have one more egg to go, it’s due Sunday. Both of these ducklings (provided this...

Ok guys, I just gotta say... my ducks make cute babies xD this is the one that hatched while I was at work, right on time. The next in line egg didn’t look right, should’ve been internally pipped and wasn’t and had a lot less movement, so I opened it up and explored and it had tried to...

Here’s the tiny quail that is doing ok. It peeps like crazy until I go check on it and then it makes happy chirps and climbs into my hand... none of the others were that friendly... lol. also my first duck egg hatched, not sure what’s going to happen with the other 2 just yet but 🤞

Well I just culled the little head pressing quail. It was getting a lot worse and was spinning around like a top. :( the one with severely twisted legs also apparently died while I was at work today - looks like he got squished by his friends. 🤦‍♀️ So I’m down to 2 sickly quail chicks. Ugh. NOT...

External pip on my homegrown duck egg! :wee the other 2 are a bit staggered because my girl had skipped a day between each and I originally wasn’t going to set more than the 1. Lol. But still alive and kicking so we’ll see. The surviving jaerhon egg is also looking good, should hatch on time...

Pffft this quail hatch was awfulllll. 6 eggs made it to lockdown. Only 4 hatched. 3/4 have at least one kind of issue. The only “normal” one is the teeniest little white one. 🤦‍♀️ The other 3 have various issues. The one has a weird wry neck like thing going on, but seems to be able to hold...

The janoel 12 I use has a single vent hole on the top. Lol. I actually get better hatches when I’m candling like a madwoman because I suspect there’s a lot more air exchange when I’m opening it all the time. Plus I hand turn so there’s enough fresh air getting in there. I don’t always think the...