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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...