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Sorry for the rather long delay in replying. I never dared to put the chicks back under the hen so ended up raising them in the house and gave them a new batch to hatch. She's now a happy mama to 3 little babies. I think I originally misunderstood the situation and she didn't try to kill the...

And thank you so much for the quick help...

She's currently sitting on 3 dummy eggs, I have 7 chicks that have been hatching since Tuesday evening really. (For some reason the ones under the hen were late and seem to be in different stages). Still have 3 eggs in the bator that haven't even pipped yet...

If I do that do you think I'll be able to put the rest in as well a night or two later?

No, she's apprently quite young. Someone's offered her to me for free and when I brought her home realised she had lice and possibly leg mites... So had been a bit suspicious since. I don't want to cull her if she could at least raise thr chicks but rather worried about putting the healty...

I've set some eggs under a broody and in an incubator simultaneously. The ones under the broody were not hatching in time and when I checked on her this morning while she left nest for a feed I found a dead chick that was half peeled out of his shell. I quickly took the rest of the egfs away...

Oh dear.... Sounds like a long wait. :-D Thanks for the reply. ;-)

Oh... So sorry... I didn't want to make anyone feel bad, it's just I always seem to think whether an egg going in a pan could have been hatched... I'm an ex vegetarian who hasn't quite come to terms with eating eggs and meat again.. The lady had polish chickens and I was hoping one would turn...

Hi everyone, A day ago I hatched two small chicks out from two mysterious whit eggs. :-) They're **** cute but I've got no idea what they are - they were originally to be scrambled but the eggs looked just too tiny to do the deed so they went into my incy... Does anybody have an idea what they...

Thank you sooo much for this tip, I am sure oil helped a great deal as I left the little one in the incubator evernight but rhe membrane disn't dry out too much. It made no progress so I had toake the hole a nit bigger on Monday morning and within a few hours it hached on his own! His belly was...

esther5, thanks for the advice, i'll try and help him a bit more once my kids have gone to bed. So have you got 2 ducklings now? Must have been quite stressful. :-(

Hi, Something strange with this hatch, I went to check on one of the eggs that are still in there as I was sure i saw movement earlier this morning... And just had a gut feeling. I never assisted any eggs (this is my second hatch) but wanted to candle when i discovered the little guy pipped at...

I did but it was already dead as I suspected. :-(( Now only two more to go but i'm not too optimistic... :-(

Hi all, One of my ducklings have pipped at the wrong end and I assume it died as there's a lot of blood, it must have hit a vein. I was away for 5 hrs... :-( Is there a point in taking it out or is it definitely gone? Pic:

Hi all, I'm incubating 5 muscovy eggs that ate due to hatch on Saturday. I have let the incubator run dry and have been misting them ince a day from about day 25. 2 have developed nice sized air cells that have already dipped and one of the ducklings has been pushing on the membrane for 24 hrs...

Uhm... Mu ducks love nettles and that grows without much effort from me in my garden. ;-)

Hi qwackers, Thanks for the quick response. This one's already gone :-( the discoloration is even bigger now, it's clearly dead. I'm feeling guilty for not doing anything, it was chirping loudly last night. Funnily enough the humidity seems to have gone up a bit as now i have condensation on...

Hi all, I was so much hoping I don't need to come to this forum for advice as I've been reading every material I could since putting my eggs in the incubator... I am a first timer though and full of worries. Hatch day is tomorrow noon (7 am here in UK now) and 3 of my ducks have made a tiny...