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The advice that I have seen is that if an egg has pipped and hasn’t made any progress for over twelve hours and the membrane appears dried out the chick needs assistance. When I help an egg hatch I am just wetting the membrane, peeling back shell slowly and stopping if I see any blood vessels. I...

Update: I helped one hatch this afternoon. It had wry neck and seemed to be suffering and I made the unfortunate decision to cull it this evening. I have three more that are shrink wrapped that I’ve helped a bit and set in the incubator to see if they can do the rest themselves. I moved all...

This is my first time hatching quail eggs and third year hatching eggs (I’ve done chickens and ducks in the past). I put the eggs in the incubator on a Tuesday. Yesterday morning (Saturday - which is day 18 or 19 depending on if you count the first day as day 1 or 0) two eggs hatched on their...

I'm hatching a combination of mail-ordered ducks and chicken eggs this year in a NurtureRight 360. This is my second year of hatching. Last year I just did chickens and I had 14 going into lock down and 10 hatched. This year I had 7 duck eggs and 6 chickens going into lockdown. Today is day...