incubating

Hi Everyone, This is my first post, but I have been looking at this website for a while. Over here in Australia, I am having a bit of trouble finding a good incubator for 6 eggs that is fully automatic and under $80 . I am a student and my parents are making me pay for it myself. Any...

Um its been awhile since I've been on. But I bought my first batch of (pretty expensive!) shipped eggs. Waited several months for these. I followed all of the recommended steps, let them rest 24hrs before placing in the incubator, waited a few days before switching the turner on. On day 6 I...

I have a friend that is Hatching eggs with her kids as a homeschool project,They started incubating about three hours ago in the incubator. Will it affect the eggs if they delay them by a day and start it tomorrow now after they’ve already been incubating for three hours? they didn’t realize...

So I recently realized from day four today 11 my egg Turner was not engaged for incubation! Is there any tips on how to correct potential sticking!? I have it re-installed and working now to turn every two hours automatically. I’m just super worried that when the chicks hatch will they be stuck...

So my moms friend has a mated pair of sun conures. She recently asked me if I would incubate some eggs. I know nothing about incubating conure eggs, is there anyone that could give me the ins and outs of trying this? I have a NR360. I haven’t given her a yes or no answer yet as I don’t even know...

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Hello to all! My ducks have began to lay again but are not sitting. They dug a deep hole and laid 6 eggs. The problem is we now have Pekins as well and I honestly don’t know if the eggs are Muscovy or Pekin! I need to find out because lockdown is different and the eggs are of different ages. If...

First time hatching chicks from our backyard flock and started to give up after day 23 with not a single pip from our 6 eggs. I scoured online to see what went wrong and even opened a couple as suggested. One was formed but wasn't moving at all and one was breathing with its yolk sac still...

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!

Hi there! So I have around 21 eggs in the incubator and 8 or 9 have hatched. They began hatching on day 20 very early in the morning. We're now early morning of day 22. Im wondering when would be a good time to take out the chicks that have hatched. I still have 11 eggs left but I know if I open...

I have 28 eggs set. :jumpy Come join my first-ever hatch-a-long! 18 silkie eggs were shipped and arrived this morning. 10 more are my silkie eggs and are part of an experiment. 18 SHIPPED EGGS KEY: B = Buff, C = Cuckoo, P = Paint Below them: O = 5 were soaked in Odoban disinfectant for 60...

Another month another hatch! I currently have some F1 and BC olive eggers due to hatch around November 7th although sadly, the incubator was unplugged so I have lost a few. I also put 17 Marans eggs (Blue/Black/Splash copper) into a different incubator to test fertility, hard to see in but could...

I have two problems, a chick just hatched he has a string of membrane still attached to him, and he seems to be frantic, and he has some whitish stuff in a clump hanging off his behind. And 2 the humidity just spiked, I'm trying to bring it down without cooling the chick so much that he dies...

So I have a bunch of eggs (25) that I’m trying to hatch. I have a few questions and concerns. Starting off last Wednesday (Aug 31) I tried to keep the eggs warm via candles until I could get back power. The ones I could transport I took to my aunts who has a generator. So they weren’t without...

I had 5 viable eggs in my incubator going into lockdown—one hatched on day 21. It’s now day 26 and the other 4 have not hatched. 3 of them are still moving around a ton. Should I just keep waiting? Is this something anyone has dealt with before? Thank you!

2 out of my 5 pullets are starting to lay finally! It's been about 2 weeks of laying every day to every other day. I was going to wait until next spring to incubate some, but I am just way too excited!! Is it too early to try hatching them? I want healthy chicks, of course. The rooster has...

I'm incubating chicks for the first time, and I had two pip last night. One has hatched but the other one still has not zipped. There is a hole in the shell and her beak is moving around in there. She keeps chewing at the shell but she doesn't seem to do much more than that. She's been in there...

Today is lockdown day for my button quail! We have 16 going right now, all healthy and growing as of last night, and as I was adding a fresh moist towel near an air vent to keep wet with a dropper during hatching for humidity, and setting up for lockdown this morning I noticed some of the eggs...

I finally separated my Muscovy pair from the khaki Campbells last week. I am up to 8 Muscovy eggs today. I know oftentimes they'll lay huge clutches of eggs and hatch them all out, but other times they'll stop laying at around 13 eggs. I would really like to hatch out more then that, so I can...

This recently appeared in one of my duck eggs, is this an internal pip?