These are my failed to hatch eggtopsies. I left them in the Bator for 2 full days after the last chick hatched, until the smell from the incubator started to get overpowering. I proceeded to candle, sniff, and float test them. There was no motion on candling, no sounds,and no motion on the...
Hello! Chick sexing help please! I tried to take the pics as per the guidelines to help. But you know, chicks. Lol. There were 7 in our hatch.
1. Sunny - average sized, average friendliness (not too snuggly, not too resistant). I read through the sexing tips threads and the feather...
3 week old chicks, there are 7 of them. At least one of them has had runny-ish poo since hatch. This is a pic of today's poo, the size is about a quarter. There are wood chips and pine pellets as the litter. I wouldn't call it bloody (I looked closely, and there is no odor either), but it is...
this little dude is 3 weeks old today. The crossbeak was noticeable within a couple days from hatch, but has been getting progressively worse. He / she is still eating and drinking normally and growth is fine. I have recently read about trimming the beak with guillotine per nail clippers, is...
I am 24 hours into the hatch, with 7 hatches and 4 eggs left which don't have pips, aren't moving or peeping. The first hatchlings are pecking at everything, but I don't want to take them out until tomorrow. (the latest one was born 1.5 hours ago). It's day 22 today.
The incubator holds 72...
I had problems with temps being high for the first half of incubation. I had some losses and was experiencing problems as a result.
Is this what dry, rough down looks like? I've never hatched before so I don't know if this is normal. This is about 3 hours after hatch.
And is this an...
I was expecting a cleaner shell.... But we've had 3 hatch so far and they are yucky inside. Bloody... And the umbilical cord things were still connected. They fell off after 5-10min.
There was still some yolk left in this one:
The rest looked more like this:
Has anyone used a children's temporal (forehead) scanning thermometer on incubating eggs? I've had some mega thermometer issues (I now have 4 in there and they all read different, there is a spread of 4 degrees F). Only 12/30 fertiles are still alive and its Day 12. When I brought out the...
I'm new here, although I've been reading for a couple weeks! We are in the middle of our first incubation (9 days completed) and just removed the eggs we believed were infertile or dead from candling. I'd like some input from the seasoned members here! We had 2 we believed were dead, and...