hatch advice

  1. ChickenCrazy93

    Day 20-21, what to expect?

    Hi Everyone, I am hatching from an incubator for a the first time, a little giant, and I am now at day 21. Currently the eggs are still and no pips, so I decided to water candle(early, I know, my nerves just couldn’t handle it). Of the 40 eggs everyone seems very alive except 4 still eggs and 1...
  2. Raptorchick

    Lump on Newly Hatched Chick-help please

    I'm attaching pictures that may be graphic to some, a heads up.... This chick pipped on day 19, started zipping 23hours later, and finally hatched out of the shell four hours after that. I noticed a lump on her butt, looks like she didnt finish absorbing, theres no plug. I took her into a...
  3. A

    where did i go wrong

    so idecided to put some eggs under my broody hen and this is my second time hatching eggs and my first time not using an incubator. on day 16 i candled them and the eggs were about full and looking promising. i had one hatch on day 21 in 35c(95f) weather. on day 23 I candled the other egg and...
  4. MallardMomx2

    Are my duck eggs alive? Help!

    Hello! I have a pair of 10 month old mallards. My female has been laying on a clutch of eggs for a few weeks now (not sure exactly how long but thinking about 3 weeks) and I am unsure if they are still alive. She had been doing a great job staying on them and keeping them warm, but we have had...
    • MallardMomx2
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    • candling duck duck eggs duckling eggs hatch advice laying mallard
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Ducks
  5. A

    Need help/advice on quail eggs I’m trying to hatch

    This is the first time at trying to hatch quail eggs and I have only 6 that are in a homemade incubator that I made out of a styrofoam cooler but have done a lot of research and have done everything possible for the environment to be right! Today is day 15 so I’m going into lockdown. I have...
  6. Raptorchick

    First time with broodys!

    I've got ten eggs in an incubator, and I was realllllly hoping that one of my buff orpington hens would decide to go broody for me... I didn't pick up eggs for about a week, and my sweetest hen Goldie has now been sitting on them for the past three days. The incubator eggs are due to hatch in...
  7. Raptorchick

    Serama mama, mixed chicks?

    I have soo many questions, the first girl I've ever hatched from an egg has gone broody :celebrate:love My serama hen Kitty started laying two weeks ago, and I thought, I wonder how long it will take for her to go broody if I left the eggs there. Literally 7 days ago, I stopped picking up her...
    • Raptorchick
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    • broody broody age chick behavior crested cream legbars hatch advice mama and babies questions serama serama chicks serama hatching
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Chicken Behaviors and Egglaying
  8. Jules24

    I'm new to quail hatching and I'm terrified by my temp fluxuation

    I have 30 adorable coturnix quail eggs arriving in the mail tomorrow shipped from Myshire Farm. My incubators been running since yesterday morning, and it's fluctuating between 99.5-100.7 F according to the incubator thermostat. I have read that LG thermostats are notoriously inaccurate, so i...
    • Jules24
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    • hatch advice incubator help quail eggs incubator hatch temperature fluctuations
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Quail
  9. EIEIO_farm

    First Hatch w/ broody Silkies! Egg Pips — NEED ADVICE!

    My two broody silkies have 6 eggs altogether and two of them I noticed had a pip this morning. I hear chirps coming from inside the two eggs and feel some movement when I picked them up. I moved them to a bathroom in my house and put a kids humidifier in there on low just to add some moisture...
  10. A

    My hen is brooding in the Garage - about 10’off the ground. Will the chicks float to the ground?

    My hen is brooding in a nest box that is up in a lumber rack. Should I worry the chicks will fall to the ground and die, or do I have some time to move the box after they hatch? It's very nice none of the other chickens are bothering her where she is now. She was the one being pecked.
  11. Nutmeg15

    Fair Eggs--Will they hatch?

    Hi all! Last night I went to a local fair...and I ended up coming home with 6 free eggs. At the poultry exhibition, there were many exhibitors selling fair-hatched chicks, young hens, etc. There was also a table covered in fertilized eggs that had been exhibited over the week. One of my Buff...
  12. Trinitydraco

    Help! possible stuck chick!

    So, I have a chick that has gotten about a quarter of the way unzipped but hasn't made progress in 3 hours and the chirps are getting less and less. Do I help? Is this normal or is my chick in distress!
  13. S

    Staggered hatch and crushed eggs Help!!!

    So we have a staggered hatch and unsurprisingly it has not gone well. Over the last 3 days we have found 3 hatched dead chicks and one crushed egg with a fully formed chick in it. The most recent chick was shoved to the edge of the nest and I am worried that perhaps the nest might be the...
  14. ChickenMamaSarah

    Yolk not fully absorbed? Weird leg?

    My broody hatched out nine chicks over the last two and a half days. These last two eggs pipped Saturday afternoon but never quite made it all the way. I just went out to find my hen kicking up the nest with her other chicks and they completely buried these last two eggs. The eggs were pretty...
  15. BrightonBabies

    Using Incubator to Finish Hatch - Help Greatly Appreciated!

    Our khaki campbell female was faithfully laying on her eggs however towards the last couple of days she was no longer interested in laying. Unfortunately, we only have one viable egg left. I bought an incubator yesterday (on day 28) and put the egg inside. I have the temperature at 98.5 with...
  16. ChickenMamaSarah

    Hen is pecking the chicks as they pip through the eggs!!! What do I do?

    Please help! Today is day 19 and 4 of my eggs have started to hatch. The first pip was at about 8 this morning and so far they have only widened the holes a little. We have a Nest cam in my broody box and I’m noticing her standing up a bunch and checking out/moving the eggs. But now she’s...
  17. Fr3shfarmer

    Help I think I may have killed it

    So I had a chicken egg that I was putting on lockdown today. I saw no movement and was just dark so I did what someone on the site suggested and water tested it. Well it suck and so I took that to mean it was a bad egg. I wanted to see if there was anything that I did wrong and was told to crack...
  18. IvanK

    Need advice with Turkey egg

    Hi! So I’m just starting to hatch out my first group of turkey eggs. This is my first time hatching turkeys and I understand they can be more challenging. So far I have one hatched and many more pipped. The egg I have provided a photo of pipped about 19 hours ago but the chick has made little...
  19. M

    Advice needed. Did I accidentally kill my last egg?

    This is my second time being successful at hatching eggs. I am using a mini Brinsea incubator. I had 6 fertile eggs and five have hatched. Two hatched yesterday (one the night before) and then three more last night. I opened the incubator and took the chickens out after doing my best to make...
  20. M

    Unstable incubation humidity on hatch day?

    ive got about 17-25 eggs in my little giant still air incubator. 6 babies have hatched so far with a few others pip. However, since hatching the humidity levels have started to rise too high in the 70s-80s. I slightly set the lid off. I tried removing the wet rag that added humidity, then it...
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