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I have an octagon 20 and just got a new brinsea advance humidity pump. When I get it all hooked up and turn the incubator back on it just keeps blinking the version number of the incubator and beeping. If I unplug it and plug it back in enough times I can get it to start up but when I go into...

I am hatching ducks right now and my ducks are typically pretty late hatchers. They may pip on day 28 but typically take until day 30 to really hatch. However it seems I have a super eager duck on my hands who is going to be out either at the very end of day 27 (today) or very early part of...

We have week old ducklings that are doing really well but we have one Rouen mix that keeps getting increasingly bald on his back. He had just small spots before so I assumed he was just growing too fast for his feathers and it would cover up, but it seems to be getting worse and not better. It...

So we are hatching chicks in our third grade classroom. Due to tornadoes and severe weather in our area this past weekend we lost power for about 2 1/2 hours. The chicks went in lock down the next morning. They were DUE to hatch yesterday, but due to the temperature drop they are a little...

Hello breeders, I am looking for someone that would be kind enough to donate 24 chicken eggs to my class to hatch. I am willing to pay for shipping, but I am not sure I can afford to buy eggs this year as I have in the past. We are looking for chicken eggs and we are located in Iowa so...

An associate at my school just brought me a baby kildeer that was abandoned by the playground. (Or so she thinks.) I have been in contact with the local university vet school and they said I could bring it there, but it would be best if I could get it back outside. If I do it now, the...

I forgot to bring my cupcake liners to school today so I was attempting to make paper towel boats. Two questions, has anyone had success with these? Doesn't the tape get humid and become unsticky in the incubator (thus the boats falling apart)?

I tried posting this in ducks, but there isn't nearly as much traffic in that forum as here. I candled my indian runner duck eggs at around 21 days and found that they were developing nicely. However, a few of them have these small dark spots inside the egg. They are not visible on the...

I candled my duck eggs at around 21 days. They seem to be developing nicely and are moving around in their eggs, but a few of them have these dark spots. They are still alive, I can see them moving, but I am worried about their health if these are bacteria spots. Does anyone know if these...

The woman who was sending us free duck eggs for our school hatching project is unable to as she got divorced and had to sell her ducks. I know this is probably a long shot, but is there anyone willing to ship us like 6-8 free duck eggs to Iowa? The kids are really excited and I will buy some...

I have three or four baby ducklings that now have neck injuries it seems. It looks like a scrape but also seems swollen on that side. It seems to be all the right side for all of them. Did they scrape their necks on their feeder? Or do they have some sort of disease?

I posted this in diseases but then realized I may get a better response here. This weekend I noticed two of our ducklings (just over a week old) seems to have pink eye? Every once in a while her/his eye will be shut and I wipe it with warm water and it opens fine but is red around the rims...

This weekend I noticed one of our ducklings (just over a week old) seems to have pink eye? Every once in a while her/his eye will be shut and I wipe it with warm water and it opens fine but is red around the rims. Any ideas? The other 8 ducklings seem to be fine.

What vegetables are safe to feed to ducklings? I have heard peas, but what else?

I am putting Merrick's blue ribbon poultry electrolyte pack in my duckling's water (what the guy at the feed store recommended). It says it has niacin supplement in it but doesn't say how much. I am feeding them Nutrena Nature Wise Chick Starter Grower (18% Crumbles) as they didn't have...

What does everyone use in their brooder for bedding? The wood shavings have to be replaced daily on the water side because they get them so wet. I am looking for other options. I have the waterer in a large tupperware lid with paper towels to collect some of the mess but I have already...

I am setting a second batch of chicken eggs tomorrow 4/26 in our classroom. (Our first batch of chickens went horrible 2 out of 42 hatched.) Anyone want to hatch-along?

We were able to catch the last half of the duck hatching on video, enjoy! https://docs.google.com/a/northpolk.org/leaf?id=0B_agmhSiGHdxNmZmZDEwMjgtMzAyOC00N2NjLTk5YTYtNzc4MjA5OWZiY2Iw&sort=name&layout=list&num=50

I have two ducks and three pipped eggs still in the incubator. One duck is fluffed up and could probably go to the brooder, but the other is still pretty wet. Four siblings are in the brooder already. These are in my classroom and so I won't be back until Monday morning. Should I just go...

I have 9 duck eggs in a Brinsea Octagon. (See them here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/huntseggs) 3 are nice and fluffy, 1 is out but not quite fluffy, 1 has a pretty good sized hole and the others have external pips. However a couple of the external pips don't look like they actually went...