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  1. M

    Day 25 Is it dead or should I keep waiting?

    I know someone whose been trying to hatch chicks with no luck. I visited him on day 23 and asked if I could have the one egg he hadn't tossed yet. I set up a temporary incubator in the bathroom as it's the only place I can get enough heat and humidity at the moment. There is no movement from the...
    • Magpie2
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    • advice appreciated candeling candling chicken dead dead in shell egg hatch hatching late hatching
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
  2. E

    Why did my chicks die in the shell?

    Hi. I'm new to BYC and incubation. I've got a 36-egg incubator that turns the eggs every 2 hrs. For my test batch, I put in 3 budgie eggs and 2 bantam eggs. (The budgie eggs were neglected. I usually just give them to other hens to foster, but thought I'd try incubating them.) I had the temp. at...
  3. C

    Entire batch dead in shell

    Day 24, had 1 pip but no movement for 24 hrs. All other eggs silent, still and starting to smell. Decided it was time to investigate. The pipped egg I slowly slowly started to help out but soon realised the chick was dead. The pipped hole had shrink wrapped to it, it was malpositioned (pipped on...
  4. rascal66

    Incubating and Hatching chicks with this incubator, low hatch rates, need advice

    Hello! I am doing lots of incubation this year, and the incubator I am using is the Chinese 48 egg incubator. (Unfortunately I did not do enough research on this bator, but it hasnt been terrible.) So far, I had one round of eggs incubated and hatch. It was about 23 Eggs and I had 14 hatch...
  5. WeTheWeys

    Please Help!!!!! sudden dark spot and no movement in egg

    Today I rotated my eggs and candled, seeing a lot of movement from each. A few hours later, went back in to manually rotate the eggs again, and noticed a dark spot on one of them. Candled it and theres no movement at all. AT ALL. I separated him out from the others and put him in a different...
  6. brshilling

    Eggs progressing normally at lockdown then not hatching

    I'm on my 5th hatch. I have digital incubator with a fan. Most of my hatches have had approx 30 eggs put in initially. I lose about 5 to infertility or a blood ring around day 10 and then the others have grown steadily to day 18 and reached the lockdown phase. Then when the babies start coming...
  7. lena_

    Inbred Muscovies?

    I have a huge colony of ducks. There are Muscovies in it. Five to be exact, four males and one female. However, they are all related. Gen 1 was two ducks from different sources. My mum's friend had found two ducks wandering outside her house, one a muscovy girl and the other a silver appleyard...
    • lena_
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    • dead in shell duckling death ducklings inbreeding muscovy
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Ducks
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