My poor Hen Maxine is currently sitting for her 4th attempt. Shes only 2-3ish years old. About 2 years ago she succesfully on her first attempt, sitting on only 1 egg, hatched her daughter who we still have today and is a perfectly healthy hen. But since then, she has tried again and...
My Bantamis currently sitting on an egg that was due to hatch the 20th..I've always heard Bantams tend to hatch around day 19. Her previous eggs her first time laying last year hatched day 21 exactly. Now this little guy (or gal) is 3 days over due..I avoided touching but today I quickly...
Still new to hatching so just double checking ;) Candled our eggs todays for the first time this round while momma hen was down eating this morning. All eggs look like they have decent growth except this one. Should I just toss it next time shes away from her eggs? Its just that ring and nothing...
Our one single egg has made an external pip earlier this evening (about 5 hours ago) and has not made any more progress. I can hear him peeping away LOUDLY and see the egg moving like crazy. I can see a bit of him through the hole he made.
Reading on other pages about assisting says to watch...
What do I do? I candled two days ago and again today (I know your not supposed to touch but we are passed day 21) and there is still movement, he's noticeably pipped and moving around like crazy..hes been pipped for two days now. What do I do? Just leave him be? Why is it taking so long?
So I've previously posted on here about trying to hatch a few eggs myself in an incubator. Ended up having no luck and none of the chicks hatched. Ended up getting rid of the incubator and all of a sudden our bantam hen became interested in sitting on her eggs (she wasn't interested before!)...
New here but we currently have 2 bantam chickens we got for my daughter as pets. A hen & rooster. We decided after doing some research to try and hatch a few of their eggs, just for fun. So we set up the incubator and currently have 4 eggs in it. Two of them are not due to hatch till the very...