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I guess I mean something more invasive than just picking some shell away or trying to remoisten the membrane. I think I took off too much shell when I did it before and she wasn’t ready. For this one, I removed some already-cracked shell and moistened around the hole. No progress still and the...

On that note, how do you handle one that appears to be shrink wrapped if you choose not to assist beyond the basics? What is the humane thing to do? How long will it take to die naturally? Not sure how much of the yolk is still getting absorbed and thus keeping it alive.

So sorry. Did they start to hatch and get stuck or what? Are you comfortable with doing an eggtopsy in a couple days? I always wait until I’m positive they are dead so I don’t start opening the shell and kill them by accident. I’ve had a couple more hatch in that time frame. I run it dry (it...

Well I had a loss. This is never fun. I brood outside in a tractor with heat plates and bedding, etc. and one of the babies I put out last night was outside the heater area when I went out this morning. She was still alive so I breathed a sigh of relief, thought she just needed to get her temp...

I don’t open if someone is zipping or close to it but just one pip in the shell should be fine if you open it for a second to get others out. You can use a spray bottle and just do one shot of water (mist setting) before you close it to help keep humidity up. I move them out in batches based...

White can hide basically anything!

I prefer to time it for overnight hatching or I will schedule a homeschool trip out of town for that day. Haha! Today we are home and I keep going to check. Must.practice.self.control.

I came home to one more pip in the olive egger eggs so that’s two for my F2 gen. I have a hard time seeing into them but I removed one a few days before lockdown that looked to be infertile/no development. The rest had good veining near the air cell, a solid mass further down, and no obvious...

Woke up to two more and a handful more pips. I only have one pip in what will be my F2 generation out of 11 that made it to lockdown. I really need these to hatch as they’re my only chance at F2s since my rooster up and died last week and I had already culled the rest of the F1 boys.

First baby is out, it’s a girl! (I think.) No additional action to report yet, just the two other pips from this morning.

Two pips this morning. I took them out of the turner last night and heard a squeak while I was putting eggs in cartons and dividing them between the two incubators in groups. Thought it was maybe just a styrofoam type of squeak but then I heard it again. It was definitely a chick peeping. I had...

I had three early losses (one early quitter, two no development/possibly infertile). The others I’ve candled look fine from what I can tell (so 35 left). I don’t have an issue with blue eggs but brown eggs are harder, and my OE eggs are virtually impossible. I think I see veining toward the...

Did you get taken care of already? Whereabouts are you? I’m in the Archer/Bronson area and could meet you tomorrow if you want. I have project eggs so I’d prefer to just call them barnyard mix.

BC = backcross F2 = second filial F1 = first filial, the first generation progeny of a cross (in my case, Welsummer x Cream Legbar) You get the backcross from crossing one of the F1s with one of the parents (or a different individual of that breed). These are from crossing my remaining F1...

I ended up setting 38 (BC1, F2, Legbar). 🤪 Since these are from my own birds, I expect a reasonably high hatch rate which means I better get more housing in place ASAP! There’s always something to build, it seems. I have 5 of my original birds (just now a year old), 6 from a September hatch, and...

Looks like I’m in! I was debating if I should set them Friday or Saturday and then I saw this, so Saturday at noon it is! I’m hatching from my olive egger project birds. Some F2s, some BC1s, and a handful of Legbar eggs to try to get a nicer rooster. 😅 Edit: Are we supposed to put how many we...