Well it was a long day yesterday, but I have two new chicks (one hatch went bad). The 30% hatch rate was right on point and against all odds. I decided last minute not to go with local Wild Type eggs and instead ordered eggs. I received 7 and they ended up being delayed two extra days (thanks...
Okay, so we came back from our vacation and we had 2 broody hens both sitting on 12 eggs. I checked, they were fertilised and around 12 - 18 days between them. I never intended to hatch chicks this year, but we decided to hatch them anyway because they were so far along.
I was told I needed to...
Guys this little guy hatched from my breeding pair but none of my chickens are Amercuana breed, I found out that my hen’s mother was a amercuana breed. But for some reason, I’m mostly getting those kind of breeds. I thought I would get mostly same genetics from the parents but for some reason...
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New here today. Looking for some advice.
I have three hens, and one has gone broody. She has been broody for a couple of weeks, so I have given her eight fertile eggs to hatch. if they work..... Now I plan to raise the chicks within my existing set-up. Has anyone done this...
Here we go, round 2! The others have under 2 weeks left, and I'm excited! We had ordered 12 ultra rare potluck eggs from Cackle. A few were broken in transit (poor Silkie, 55 Flowery, Black Copper Marans, and... either a B or an R labeled on the last egg, I couldn't tell). But thankfully with...
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I currently am in my second year raising chickens, my sister in law actually started first and has helped me learn a few things plus my own research. She has a lot of typical brown egg layers in her cup(ISA Browns, Barred Plymouth Rocks) she...
Hey I currently have a broody muscovy duck laying on almost 20 eggs. I have to leave town for a few days on July 12th so I decided to candle a few of her eggs. Any idea when these will hatch? I want to make sure I am here when they hatch so I can move her and any babies into a secure coop with...
Hello everyone! I was originally going to wait until Day 5 in case absolutely none of these end up viable, but I'm hoping by committing now means there will hopefully be lots of life waiting in these sweet eggs. This is my first ever Hatch-Along. I was wanting to plan, and prep, and wait for a...
Hello all! I decided to splurge and got us the Maticoopx30. It's my first ever incubator! I've been eyes deep in research the past few days, and intend to continue through it deeply the next few months. We don't PLAN to incubate any eggs over the next while, as I want to be sure I've properly...
I know this is a long shot but I'm looking for Ancona hatching eggs in East TX near Tyler/Longview area!! I'd like to stay away from shipping if I can!!
This is going to be a long question but I’d be very grateful if you stuck around to the end and offered your advice.
Where do I even start?
I purchased 3 dozen BCM Marans hatching eggs for $200 from a fantastic breeder a couple weeks ago. They are currently on day 17 and doing pretty good...
Today is hatch day(the incubator still thinks it is the day before hatch day but in a few hours it will be hatch day). Yesterday a bunch of eggs piped and started to zip, today only on hatched and a bunch the rest of the eggs have seemingly stoped. On egg the the duckling made a strangely big...
Hello! I recently ordered a dozen shipped hatching eggs. I have a small automatic incubator that can only hold 12 eggs, but the seller gave me 2 extra in case any broke in transit. None of them broke, and I have 14 eggs to incubate. I managed to put all 14 in the incubator, but 6 of them are not...
Hey, i hope my post isnt too long and at least somewhat understandable.
A few months ago we planned to hatch chickens for us and also for a friend of us. She asked for a certain breed, which was totally okay fur us, since we wanted to hatch more than one breed anyway. In the end we could only...
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We let our 2 Khaki Campbells incubate their eggs. 15 hatched last weekend 5/31, but 2 of the eggs must have been rolled in from our other ducks late, since they didn’t hatch. I put them in a homemade incubator since the mothers abandoned the nest. They just hatched yesterday and...
I found this chick pipped under the broody hen 26 hours ago. His beak was not at the pip location so I picked the egg up to investigate and the membrane was dry, there was no movement, and I didn’t hear any pips. I placed him in the incubator for a few hours while I did some research. I read...
So long story short the person I was going to get chicks from her eggs died so now I’m going to try a last ditch effort of hatching my own.
I spoke with a seller on eBay who gave me a list of incubators one was the gqf 3270 and well I bought one.
I wanted to use my NR 360 but they told me no it...
First time incubating, first time posting here;
My "Little Train" 8egg incubator doesn't seem to have any vents. It has big windows, and a bottom tray for water, but today (the first day with eggs) the humidity is steady in the 70s. I dont know how to fix this without vents.
Any tips or...