Thanks that is helpful! What could cause the current hatch to have nothing visible when candling? I have a few more days before I'm giving up on them too...
So on our hatch of 60, many eggs had nothing, just kinda curdled yolk. Some had little tiny embryos, with little eyespots and little pink bodies. I think I found three fully formed chicks that had died. Definitely possible the temperature was a factor in that first one going wrong—we had it in a...
We were using a separate, digital thermometer with humidity readout as well. Ambient humidity has been super high here so it is hard to get it lower than that
Hey there, thanks for your reply. I was able to catch him and get better pictures—it is a really bad injury including exposed broken bone and gangrene. No idea how he’s still acting so normal. Poor little guy. I put him in a separate space for the night but knew we would likely have to euthanize...
Thanks, we actually had 4 thermometers in the last one...they never did agree exactly but were within 1 degree. This time I calibrated a simple mercury one and put it in there, i ignore the one that's built into the incubator. Still isn't working out :(
We started with 60 coturnix eggs from a local breeder in early June. Seemed like it was going okay but they never hatched...I opened the eggs and saw maybe 3 developed chicks dead but the rest were either very early development or nothing at all. It was heartbreaking. I suspected temperature...
We’ve had our little guys outside for about a week now. Came home from an overnight trip and found this one with his wing half ripped off! It looks so bad—possibly even gangrenous, I don’t know how he’s alive right now but he’s acting perfectly normally.
They’re in a fully enclosed pen with...
Hi all,
I have two birds currently but would like to add to this flock. We are looking for birds already of laying age since it's getting to be pretty cold out there. Looking for:
Golden Laced Wyandotte
Buff Orpington
Black Australorp
Speckled Sussex
Chantecler
Please message if you are in...
Thank you for your reply, she died in the night and so there's nothing I can do for her now. I do want to see what it was in case it could affect my other birds!