hatch advice

I have a few goose eggs incubating and they started pipping yesterday morning. One of them opened up their shell by about a half inch by one inch "window" then stopped, another one pipped a little bit and another hatched already. There's a fourth egg with movement inside it but no external...

Hello hatchers, I am currently on day 16 with a batch of chicken eggs. I candled last night and saw good development and movement in most, but almost every single one had a very small, nonexistent, or abnormally placed air sac. They were shipped, but I let them sit for about 36 hours before...

Morning lovely people 😊 hoping someone can give me some advice pretty please I am hatching my first eggs, these were posted and I wasn't aware of the air sac issue that can occur until after I had ordered them. So I candled the eggs yesterday on Day 8 of Incubation. One egg appears to have a...

Hi All Its an urgent situation. Since several weeks one of my.hen was getting puffy like puffer fish if any rooster comes near or behaving touch me not types. I realise that this is a precursor behaviour of being broody. Now she is broody since yesterday,and i am already incubating the eggs...

Ive already made a similar post to this and tried the feedback I got from there with unfortunately no success. We've been trying to hatch a duckling for nearly 3 months now and haven't managed to hatch one. The Ducklings/Embryos develop well and always look healthy inside of the egg. Yet, when...

Just finished Spring hatch, with some ups and downs. Ups 1) Repurposed gardening/greenhouse heat mats under the incubators because the laundry room/hatching room cools overnight. They're waterproof, rugged, and I had no fire hazard worries. 2) Read on this site, about the rotating the eggs from...

I'm on day 21 (starting from the first 24 hours) incubating some barnyard mix babies and I'm getting worried because on day 18 the air cells looked fine to me (this is my second time hatching ever, my first attempt was unsuccessful) but I didn't see any movement in any of them. To be fair...

Hey y’all! I’m incubating and hatching my first set of eggs! I set eight in my incubator, today is day 20. 4 have already successfully hatched, two more have pipped and I expect them to fully hatch in the next few hours. So far I have not had any problems! I have a couple questions though: 1)...

Hi, A hen cracked open this egg but the baby chick is still pippin and moving a bit. It's been 19 days since her incubation started but doesn't seem ready to break through yet. What can be done to save her? I'd appreciate any help/experience 🙏🙏

Hello! I just noticed one of the eggs in my hatch is a chicken egg! Don't know how I missed that. Candled it, it's pretty much ready to pip internally. It's day 22, I was going to take the eggs off the turner on Friday, which would be day 25. But this chicken egg is already a day late, so I'm...

Thought I did enough research before but I guess not considering this last hatch rate. Throw me all your incubation tips for coturnix quail. For both still air and circulated, and hand turning tips. What humidity do you prefer? Do you dry hatch? What day do you go into lockdown? 14 or 15? What...

Disclaimer: this is my first time raising and hatching quails. Last night around 7-8 pm (day 17 of lockdown), one of our eggs in the incubator was zipping and I could see its beak. I then went to bed believing it would get itself out eventually. Fast forward to 1pm the next day, I noticed it...

I found a chick in my coop this morning that had hatched and died, and I suspect my broody hen had something to do with the death, so I took a pipping egg from her to try to hatch and save the chick on my own, but I have no incubator and have never hatched eggs before. I’ve been sitting with a...

I have a duckling that started to hatch yesterday and I unfortunately interviened, which I am regretting now. It's completely seperated from its shell except for one tiny stand that is still attached to the shell. It's been out of the shell since early this morning and is not yet dried off or...

I ordered eggs and should receive within 2 weeks. This will be my first Button Quail incubation.

Hello, I am a newbie and two of my hens have gone broody. Because I wasn't actively watching for this behavior I am unsure when they began sitting on their clutches. I estimated that today is day 21, but two days ago one chick hatched. It is healthy and sitting under mama, but there are still 6...

The weekend after Easter I put 22 eggs int the incubator, had 17 go into lockdown, and 15 hatch on day 21. I still have 2 eggs (one brown & one white) in the incubator as of today, Day 27. I candles them yesterday and couldn’t see into the brown one at all and the white one had a great air cell...

Hi guys! This is my first time hatching duck eggs and I'm currently on day 27. All five of my eggs are still alive, with two having broken the internal air sack yesterday, and two beginning to pip. The one with the shell missing a bit began pipping yesterday afternoon, but I'm a little nervous...

I have two chicks that hatched almost 48 hours ago. They are bright and alert. Problem is I have two that have pipped. One has a very large hole but doesn’t seem to be making progress, and one is making some progress but pipped late. I’m concerned about the two that have been in the incubator so...

It’s winter here and the temps have been solidly in the 30s and 40s. I have a clutch of 5 eggs and a broody bantam hen who has sat very faithfully, but twice now she’s hopped off to sit on a couple eggs that my other hens lay in the morning (after I leave for work and can’t collect them). I...