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  1. hairdye

    Help please what to do urgently

    Demidog Any luck with your baby chicks? Hope everything is going ok Keep me informed please Cheers
  2. hairdye

    Help please what to do urgently

    Only one of mine wobbled, sorry 2 of them did but the one that died yesterday wobbled a lot but then died in the shell even thought it was nearly out. Hope all goes well for your hatch Cheers Wayne
  3. hairdye

    Help please what to do urgently

    Did the float test and the remaining eggs are dead. I have now got 7 healthy chicks and 1 that isnt too good. But the float test did work and when i opened the eggs they had all died at sort of the same age.im no expert so its a best guess but i would reckon they would have only been about 5...
  4. hairdye

    Help please what to do urgently

    Thanks for the replies, im both happy and sad at the same time. I have 6 healthy bouncing chicks that hatched at day 23 and 24. Since i wrote my earlier post i now have two more chicks and 1 which had zipped all the way round the shell . Half hour later it was still in the shell but dead , i...
  5. hairdye

    Help please what to do urgently

    Hi, if you have seen my other posts you will see i have had a few issues along the way hatching my pheasant eggs. Well i now have 6 chicks but some were hatched. Day 23 and some yesterday day 24 . Today is day 25 and there is no sign of any others breaking out, however i have just checked them...
  6. hairdye

    Chirpy chirpy cheep cheep

    I have 6 chicks but i dont think anymore will hatch its day 25 and there is no signs of anything else happening. I will put some pics on here here as soon as i can Cheers
  7. hairdye

    Chirpy chirpy cheep cheep

    Well im pleased to say i now have 5 healthy chicks , a couple i had to help out as they were totally stuck to the egg. There is still 23 or 24 eggs to go but im so happy to have at least these 5 babies. Its been an upand down weekend and i havent really settled as some who have read my other...
  8. hairdye

    Egg piipping advice

    Another update Left home to take my son to work this morning and one of eggs was still at the same stage as yesterday and i thought it was stuck . 20 mins later when i got home it had hatched all on its own and looks lovely. There are a couple more with little chips in the egg so hopefully...
  9. hairdye

    Egg piipping advice

    Well just a quick update, the little chick doesnt look too good at the moment its rolling all over the floor and its head still looks bent downwards. The other issue is now its rolled all the other eggs into the corners , willl this effect there hatching chances? Dont think i can go through...
  10. hairdye

    Egg piipping advice

    Thanks for the replies. I did think that about the turner moving too fast. Can you give me any more info about fitting the other turner in. i have got two other humidity readers in the bator as the one with it is really bad its 29% out . I have the humidity at 70% now but it might be reading...
  11. hairdye

    Egg piipping advice

    I have only opened the incubator to put the eggs in lockdown this time where before inused to open it to putvwater in. Madeca watering system this time around. I only oprened it this time to take the struggling egg/chick out and that was lighning fast. The incubator is one oft he yellow ones...
  12. hairdye

    Egg piipping advice

    Sorry just seen the replies, but i had to takek the egg out as it had got 3/4 of the way round and then nothing was happening at all. Read all about dont open the lid but i had to, anyway the chick was stuck in the egg. Its wing was stuck to the shell and its head stuck to the wing and sheel...
  13. hairdye

    Egg piipping advice

    Hi Its day 23 and i have one pheasant egg thats pipping but need a bit of advice, its made a small crack in the egg about 1/4 inch where you would expect it to but it has stopped in that area and now it is pipping near the middle oft he egg further down is this normal ? There are still 28 eggs...
  14. hairdye

    Second attenpt here goes

    Hi Not sure if anyone saw my other thread about hatching my pheasant eggs, if not it all ended in disaster dead in shell , died with beak sticking out of shell. Anyway i am now on round two and in lockdown, i have altered everything from the last time, made a self watering system so i didnt...
  15. hairdye

    help with last days of incubation

    total disaster, 3 died as they were pipping and the others were formed but dead in the shell. i started another thread under pheasants and quail at the time as i wasnt getting many replies. i was totally gutted and dont want to make the same mistake again. I have just started another thread...
  16. hairdye

    going for another attempt

    any ideas or help lease before i set the eggs? cheers
  17. hairdye

    going for another attempt

    Not sure if any of you read my thread about incubating pheasants, well it was a disaster they all died. I need some advice if possible, i am due to put in another 30 pheasant eggs but i think there may have been a big problem before with the humidity. My machine was reading between 45% and 55%...
  18. hairdye

    help on incubation please

    ok here goes. Just put two different temperature and humidity readers in the incubator to see if i can find out what went wrong. The incubator isnt set up to hatch just for testing. Anyway the incubator reads 37.5 deg c and 58%humidity which is similar to what it was when the eggs were in...
  19. hairdye

    help on incubation please

    ok sad news, all died. Not sure what happened at all with the hatch, 3 had pipped two from yesterday that died for whatever reason and then 1 had pipped overnight but its beak was sort of stuck on the outside through the small hole it made and that had died but i think its because t could move...
  20. hairdye

    help on incubation please

    ok back again, broke the dead chick out of the shell and i cannot understand why its died. It was perfectly formed but still had the yolk sack attached but was stone cold dead. i have read loads but it still doesnt help me, if they need to absorb the yolk sack before the hatch why would it die...
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