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Any update? Unfortunately, any that I’ve had that looked like that last picture didn’t make it but another day or two. :/

It is not bad practice to hatch chicks from mothers born at any certain time of year. They stop laying during molt, either completely or they slow way down. They also lay less following that bc daylight hours are shorter. If the hens were hatched in summer, they may not have started laying at...

I have two hens who lay SUPER bloomy eggs like this one. Is this going to pose an issue with incubation or hatching? Perhaps not enough water loss?

These beggars always think I’m going to crack a dirty egg for them. Picture of clean-ish eggs. Lol It’s a pet peeve to see people selling NASTY eggs for hatching! 🤢

Sent feathers from two roos to Miami to be tested for the blue egg gene. They are both heterozygous so I can work with that. They are the best of last year’s hatch for temperament and phenotype. Now to build a breeding pen again. We saw crows running off a gray fox across the street a couple...

Sorry for the messed up edit, I had started replying yesterday and wanted to think more before posting, but forgot this forum keeps it even when you navigate away. I removed that and it messed the whole thing up. Whoops. I cannot for the life of me remove the quoted part, which was my own reply.

Has anybody seen this? The chicken calculator has cream + mahogany = buff, which I would be interested to see. I had this guy in my hatch from earlier this year who appears to have two cream genes and only a single barring gene - his mother is not barred and dad is single barred. There are...

My current batch of chicks is about 7 weeks old and most are fully feathered out at this point. Then I have this boy and I’m not sure what to make of it. The shoulder part seems to be getting better, so I thought just slow feathering (and his back was like this but seems fine now), but his tail...

Good news, the little chickie I helped hatch on day 24/25 went out to the brooder just now! She is not as strong as the others but looking pretty darn good. I am going to eggtopsy the remaining eggs to see if I can tell when they may have died. Some I couldn’t see into well enough so I left them...

Update on my late bloomer - no progress overnight so I decided to investigate before turning off the incubator. I heard chirping immediately when I opened it and figured I should at least see if it's just trapped in there. It definitely was, she looks formed properly and all but as I was peeling...

I’ve not seen a vertical line, either. Is it possible it’s like a blood spot in the yolk? I’ve noticed it from time to time when cracking eggs for eating. This seems like it would be sorta big in comparison, though.

Do you have any inkling as to how long it may have taken to pass? I am almost tempted to open it up just to cull. :( I have no problem dealing with the grown birds but the chicks are always hard, even if they’re ugly wet things still. Lol

No real progress on the one that had been trying to zip yesterday. I am not sure how to handle this. I try to have a "no helping" policy but when it's more or less my fault there's a problem, I feel obligated to help. Any time I have helped, despite waiting at least 24 hours from when they try...

Thank you, I was hoping day 14 would be too late to "scramble" them and too early to affect positioning but it's looking like I was wrong. I appreciate the reply.

Guys, I seriously have one trying to zip. At the start of day 24. The one that pipped further down on the egg, not totally the wrong end so maybe the air cell has just shrunk that much. I don't have high hopes that it will make it but I'm going to wait overnight before I do anything. This hatch...

It’s been exactly the same for us. We recently had a heat wave and then a rain and it was 70 something overnight followed by plunging into the 40s. Today is a high in the 50s. Just so crazy. We are in a mobile home so possibly more susceptible to humidity flux than a stick built home, but I know...

I have a total of 17 out in the brooder tractor out of 31 that made it to lockdown. I have two more that got shrinkwrapped including the one that pipped the wrong end so I had to help them this morning and they have yuck that has hardened all over them so I will have to try to remove that at...

I am not new to hatching eggs and I have never experienced a pip in the wrong end until this time. They also did not start hatching a day or two ahead like they usually do, and I believe my temps were too low. But I’m puzzled by these pips. Friday was day 21 which makes today day 23. I still...

I would leave it! They will figure it out. Think of how it would be in a nest box with a broody. :)

Well I've got one pipped toward the bottom, my 5yo actually noticed it first! It is taking its sweet time, which I understand is typically the case. I am afraid it's going to get cemented in there because the hole is quite large with a lot of membrane exposed, much larger than a normal external...