incubating eggs

I have an egg that’s half and half. When I move it a small amount moves. Like fluid the size of my pinky but the black blob is almost stuck. Is this a dud?

I just wanted to show off some of my birds and the current eggs that I'm incubating. This breed is called Tolbunt Polish and I absolutely love them so far!

We've just candled this egg for the first time, and saw these two dark lines. not sure what they are. but the embryo is still moving inside. the egg is day 19 if that helps.

Hello, I am hatching eggs and this isn't my first time, however, I have 3 live eggs (I candled them) in my incubator. They were refrigerated for 13 days, but when I candled them I had 3 duds and 3 living eggs. I threw away the duds and continued incubating the living eggs, candled them and they...

I like to play a selection of classical pieces (Mozart, Dvořák, Bach, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, etc.) for the eggs during incubation. I've read that, in experiments, classical music resulted in the best hatch rates, while metal had an adverse effect. 🤔 Do you play music for your...

Hi there I have hatched chicken and duck eggs previously but first time goose Hatcher. We have had 4 eggs in the incubator for 12 days. I have been candelling them. They don’t look infertile and I can see a dark mass in the egg and some movement but can’t see and vein threads like I did with...

Looking into an incubator for duck eggs. I obviously want something that will work and not break but I also want to spend around $100 or preferably less as we are just starting out and will only be using it for our own purposes and not constantly having eggs in it. Does anyone have...

Hi - My name is Kendra and I am in the Sacramento area of California, and I’m new to BYC and new to all things chicken and quail. I have been google searching all sorts of questions and each time I have found the most useful info here, so I figured I should just join and ask here instead! (1)...

Hi all! We just moved from Alaska to Minnesota, and we are FINALLY able to have chickens again! YAYYYY!! Because of the shortage of the breeds in the major online websites, I am going to buy fertilized eggs and try to hatch them. I also may have 2 Sebastopol goose eggs that are coming from a...

Hello everyone! I live in Northern Maine (I see New Brunswick Canada on my way to work in the morning), and last fall I started raising chickens strictly for eggs. I bought 3 barred rocks and 3 silver lace chicks and they spent their winter in my enclosed coop using the deep litter method...

Hello and good morning! Today, I have a bunch of questions about breeding ducks. As some of you might know, I have 3 female ducks and a drake, and am expecting ducklings sometime in the future. Problem is, I don't know a thing about hatching or raising duckings! I need some help ASAP. Here are...

Hello, I'm incubating eggs, & on day 11, 7 days until lock down. I'm trying to keep my humidity at 35% - 45%, & it doesn't want to stay that way any longer then maybe 20-30 minutes. Each time it drops I add extra water, & it rises to about 47-55% humidity, then drops rapidly. Since the house is...

So my Muscovy is sitting on a nest of about thirteen eggs right now and one of my chickens started laying a couple eggs. Is it ok to add those eggs to the duck eggs, let her incubate them and remove them when they start pipping? I don’t know the breed of chicken cuz I got them from a neighbor...

Hi, I've been incubating chicken eggs as a hobby on my janoel 8 48 for almost 5 years now. This season I decided to put 13 chicken eggs and candled them on day 7, 10 and 13 all where alive. But on day 15 there was a power out of 7 hours I didn't opened the incubator lid and just waited. Today is...

I’m starting my first incubation tomorrow! (Nurture Right 360 Bator has been on & tracked for days. Temp & humidity holding great!) Does the time of day that I set my eggs in the incubator matter all that much? If I set them in the morning do they tend to pip the morning of day 21 or is it a...

Collected the eggs, 18 really nice ones, perfect shape and size. Placed them in the incubator yesterday. Today the incubator quit. It just stopped working. I am wondering if my eggs will be lost now or do I still have time to run and buy another one tomorrow and save my clutch? Kind of heart...

I started out with a Little Giant incubator, now I am looking to upgrade. I've heard that Brinsea incubators are some of the best, however, I keep reading reviews where some people think these two incubators are great, and others that say they don't work right. If I am spending $400-$600 I...

Hello :) So, I have this one egg due to hatch tomorrow. I've had pretty poor luck with my last few hatching attempts. My last two hatches, they pipped and hatched about two days early, with weird deformities (curl toe, small amount of unabsorbed yolk), bad hatch rates. I found out today that the...

Looking for some black sumartra fertile eggs to hatch. If anyone has any? Or knows where I can get ahold of some please?

Hi all! I'm about to begin a second year of hatching ducks with my 1st grade class! I had a 50% hatch rate last year and am trying to increase it this year! I'm looking for a few pieces of advice! I changed to a circulated air Hova-Bator incubator (SB15219M) from an old still air incubator...