help hatching

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...

Hi everyone! I’m currently incubating 2 white Chinese geese, and have some concern about their air sac development. I’m incubating them at 100.5 (still air) and at 55% humidity (ranges between 50-60% at times). I marked them on day 10 and 15, but compared to research I’ve done they seem to be...

Please help! I’m a suuuper nervous silkie mama. PLEASE SEE UPDATE AT BOTTOM- STILL NEED HELP! I have 4 viable eggs (3 silkie, one bantam) in the incubator (a RCom 10 pro). (only 2 looking like there's movement) One egg has been extremely active throughout and has pipped (it’s day 20 in the...

Hi there, I’m quite new to hatching geese. I was gifted about ten eggs. Six were rotten on the inside and four were fertile. Sadly, as two of the four hatched, they passed away. The first one made a large hole in the side of the egg instead of zipping. We tried helping by picking at loose...

Hello! First time Hatcher here. I have three very healthy and very active Pekín duck eggs that are on day 24 of incubation. I had my first internal pip about 24 hours ago. The air cell was large - about 1/3 of the egg. After waiting 24 hours and no external pip, I performed a quick candling to...

Help. This duck pipped about 18hours ago on the small end. It seems to have the shell off but not through them membrane? Should I help?

Hi BYCM! I'm looking to gain as much knowledge as i can about hatching chicks, I'm not sure if theres a word for it but im interested in letting a broody hen do it. I dont know how to set her up or what exatcly is my role but id love to hear your stories in hopes of doing it properly and knowing...

Hello, I just wanted to share a idtem that I found EXTREMELY useful for assisted hatching. A few years ago some duck eggs I incubated were having difficulty hatching due to the humidity being too low(was my first time incubating and misread the humidity levels for ducklings) and the...

We are pretty new to chickens, weve had our silver duckwing bantums for about 6 months and our hen has been sitting on her first hatch and today we saw the first pip! So exciting! Later in the day we looked again and the egg that had pipped has started unzipping, its face is exposed and theres...

Hi! My 11-year-old daughter and I are new and posting together here as we try for the first time to hatch Rouen ducklings! We are using a Genesis Hova-Bator styrofoam incubator with a fan. We have spent hours over the past weeks reading in the learning center, printing articles, reading forums...

First off, I have read the Sally Sunshine assisted hatch post several times over. I just can’t decide if I really should do something or wait it out some more. Yesterday was day 19, I had an internal pip at roughly 5:45am, heard peeping and saw a little moving all throughout the day, but today...

my chick stopped zipping or the shell was too hard for her to zip it all the way. The membrane is now yellow and kind of dry, she started zipping 24 hours ago, and kept trying to kick out. Now it feels like the shell is stuck to her! What do I do?! I finished the zip for her and put her back in...

Hey guys so I was incubating 4 eggs and I checked everything was ok the night before with tempture at 101f and humdity at 53% I got up this morning and the incubator was at 106f, do i still have a chance of hatching ? I candles them and I could see veins in two of them? Thanks for you help ☺

A few weeks ago I decided I should try to incubate my hens eggs so I added a few eggs that my Hen had laid into my incubator and just yesterday it pipped out a small hole out of the egg and it’s been like that for two full days and I’m not sure If I should help it out or leave it in? :) I’m...

Does someone have experience with a similar situation? I saw it there standing inside the incubator in the middle of the eggs! I called the Vet, she sent her resident veterinarian 45 minutes later, but I´m still insecure. He was here and taught me how to give water to the chick in the...

About a week ago I had an egg sit out in about 50-59F all night and I was sure it was dead but two days later it's still alive! If it lives to hatch will it be too weak to survive?