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    Share Your Candling Pics and Videos!

    What kinds of flashlights do you all use? I want to be able to see into large, thick-shelled eggs like goose eggs fairly well and the candler I have doesn't do the job very well. Some of these pictures are really breathtaking.
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    Call Duck Egg wont hatch! Day 29 - moving and tapping but still no pip

    If there are no active blood vessels left, the duckling should be breathing. That would be your sign that it's alive. If the baby didn't have its head near the air cell and never made an external pip it's possible it drowned in fluid before you could help by making an external pip, if it's not...
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    could you incubate goose eggs in a brinsea mini?

    How are your eggs doing now? Thinking about pulling out my mini advance for some goose eggs. I have too many on hand right now, sebbies and tufted buffs, and would prefer not to use my old Hovabator if possible. I have an R-Com 20 Pro, Brinsea 20 Advance and the mini... I know, lots of...
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    Green yolks? (Graphic pictures)

    Well, it's been a while. I took the birds to my vet and she sent away a test for viruses and Chlamydia. She seemed to favour the diagnosis of Chlamydia because it can be asymptomatic, and usually with more typical bacterial infections, they will have diarrhea. My birds are asymptomatic and in...
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    Green yolks? (Graphic pictures)

    They are nanday conures, a small green parrot with a black head. I'm hoping that if we can diagnose this quickly I might be able to treat any babies that manage to hatch... But at this point I doubt any will. I don't breed them very often but I had a clutch in 2011. I kept one of the babies and...
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    Green yolks? (Graphic pictures)

    I will let you know when I find out! I sure hope there's an easy answer. I have antibiotics on hand (amtyl) that I have primarily in case of infection in hand-fed babies, but I don't feel safe using it in this scenario because I have no idea whether whatever the culprit is will respond to this...
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    Green yolks? (Graphic pictures)

    I have had a lot of problems with my parrots this year. Most of their babies have died before or shortly after hatch. The ones that did live, quite startlingly, developed what seemed to be neurological symptoms -- twisting their necks backwards, flipping over on their backs -- and declined...
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    Best high-end incubator?

    I'm going to be buying a new incubator soon and luckily, money is not an issue. However, I don't incubate a huge number of eggs, and not very many large eggs. I mostly incubate parrot eggs, in modest quantities. This means that temperature and humidity control (and accuracy and consistency)...
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    Diary & Notes ~ Air Cell Detatched SHIPPED Chicken Eggs for incubation and hatching

    Just wanted to chip in about the candled eggs a bit -- I can't see number 6 and 8 too well but they might be viable. They have a more reddish tone and sometimes viable eggs will look that way when candled with a weaker flashlight. Hard to see with the pictures, though. The others are definitely...
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    Call Duck Egg wont hatch! Day 29 - moving and tapping but still no pip

    Oh no, I'm sorry. I've just heard that calls often won't externally pip properly due to their small bills but deformity would also explain it. I am very sorry and hope you have better luck next time. Does it look like any of the others will hatch?
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    Call Duck Egg wont hatch! Day 29 - moving and tapping but still no pip

    You're doing a good job so far. I would definitely keep up what you are doing and keep a watch on the membrane. It could take many hours for the veins to be drawn in. If the baby is vocal at this point, don't worry if it's not making any efforts to get out on its own; with blood vessels, it's...
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    Call Duck Egg wont hatch! Day 29 - moving and tapping but still no pip

    Finally managed to get my internet working enough to respond. annanimal gives good advice if the chick is shrink wrapped, which is a possibility. Also, wetting the membrane is the way you'll be able to gauge where the duckling is as far as absorbing its yolk. If it's been in there for three...
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    Call Duck Egg wont hatch! Day 29 - moving and tapping but still no pip

    Hello. I am by no means an expert with call ducks, but happened to be on at this time when not many are around, so I thought I would share what I know. I have always heard that call ducks can be hard to hatch, and this is because they often have difficulty externally pipping due to their...
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    Diary & Notes ~ Air Cell Detatched SHIPPED Chicken Eggs for incubation and hatching

    That is strange! Usually, with any fluid in the egg, the cause will be high humidity. But if you were going completely dry, that feels unlikely, unless you live in a very, very humid region. And for day 10 candling, the air cell looks all right. I've actually had an issue with eggs incubated at...
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    Diary & Notes ~ Air Cell Detatched SHIPPED Chicken Eggs for incubation and hatching

    I've been watching this thread because of how interesting it is (though I am only incubating parrot eggs myself, and haven't had many hatching difficulties in some time, knock on wood) and just thought I'd pop in to say that I would guess humidity issues to be the cause of this. Excessive...
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