egg hatching

I’m currently in lockdown with 2 white Chinese geese on day 32. Before I put them in lockdown I noticed their air pockets were a little smaller than I would have liked to see. Now I’m worried they won’t have enough oxygen from their internal pip to their external. So far no visible movement or...

I'm not sure If there is a special place for this as I have been away from the forum for a really long time. I am just now coming back to hatching eggs and keeping chickens. I have been using canva to make things at work and decided to use it to make a sheet to help me remember dates and basic...

We're thrilled to share our first-ever hatch with you! Tonight, we've set 7 beautiful Silver Bielefelder eggs from GreenFire Farms in our incubator, and the excitement is palpable. As beginners, we're eager to learn and share in this journey with the amazing community here at...

Hi everyone, I’m back with questions, my little hen named little, laid this egg back in November between squeakers (my duck) laying her eggs. Squeakers eggs hatched between Dec 6-13th little’s I estimated to hatch around the 21st of December, however the egg has yet to hatch and I cannot tell...

I just a got an incubator and with the new additions to the flock and a new layer I ended up collecting 31 eggs. (The incubator can hold up to 41 for future reference) That being said it’s time to pick an egg! Here’s how it’ll work: - I will give the numbers that’s on each egg. - I will...

My chick seems to be hatching from the tip instead of the bottom. It hasn’t broken the membrane yet but has the shell. I can see it breathing and see its beak. Should I help it out?

I bought some 15 month old ISA browns off a lady just over a week ago ( she had many other chickens and Cockerells) they have been laying lovely eggs most days, but today I found the weirdest looking egg in their nesting box. It's almost like rubber, it's not a hard shell, very soft and...

Please help! I’m a suuuper nervous silkie mama. PLEASE SEE UPDATE AT BOTTOM- STILL NEED HELP! I have 4 viable eggs (3 silkie, one bantam) in the incubator (a RCom 10 pro). (only 2 looking like there's movement) One egg has been extremely active throughout and has pipped (it’s day 20 in the...

Good day folks, I am Biko from the Philippines. I just want to ask for advices and tips on how to encourage again my hen to become broody. To give you guys a background, her name is Ulikbars, an Ayam Cemani x Chinese silkie hen. I bought her for about 8 dollars, she is 1 year old at that time...

I posted the footage here because I was just so excited to get her movement on camera, but am I going nuts or are there two chicks in here? Or is that just her absorbing the yolk? She should be a little over two weeks along.

I have a broody hen who was sitting in some eggs. there are other broody hens where she is sitting. I went to do some stuff for a few hours. As of 3 minutes ago, I checked on her and she was sitting in another hens clutch. Her eggs are lower than room temperature. I put her back and I am...

Hi again😄 Just wondering if these two eggs are fertile….I don’t think they are, but just wanted to be sure. Thanks for your time🐓

Hi Guys, these are my first Hens so l am not really an expert in this matter. I have two hens and my inquiry is that how do l make them broody or when will they start hatching eggs? Here are the details of my Hens: White Hen (Murgi) Breed = Brahma or Cochin breed, l am not really sure or...

Question re: guinea keets and raising them with a broody hen: I have a flock of only 4 guineas due to woefully inadequate planning last year. I also have 3 males with only one female. The female has laid 2 eggs and left them on the floor of their coop but she has shown no signs of wanting to...

Hi, I'm on day 6 of a incubation of 6 Black copper marans (BCM), 6 Cream legbars (CL) and 12 buff orphintons (BO). Everything seems alright with all eggs (either growth or potential growth), but 3 of my beautiful BCM eggs have these small yellow/clear crystals on the outside of the shell. I'm...

I thought all the online research I’ve done would help me determine the best incubator for my needs. Well, turns out I am more lost than before I started. Im looking for an egg incubator for 12-20 eggs. Looking for one that basically takes all the guess work out. One that turns and keeps the...

Am I supposed to mark the air sack? Chick has broke sell but not membrane on the side. I didn't know if it was supposed to start at the air thing or not. It is day 22 for this egg and I'm worried. No movement from what I can see.

Hello there, I've been searching for help online to figure out how to help some wood duck eggs and I noticed that there are people here who seem to have experience hatching duck eggs. Here's the situation: we had a mother wood duck lay and incubate eggs in our screech owl box. A raccoon...

Long story short, today I came into possession of two muscovy duck eggs. However, I know next to nothing about eggs or chickens/ducks. Right now I currently have them in a cardboard shoebox nestled on a fleece blanket (they are sitting on the blanket rather than being surrounded by it so they...