assist a hatch

  1. Diveks

    Can eggs crack when positioning themselves for hatching?

    I’ve already posted about the same clutch (different issue) last thread. I’ve never experienced anything like this with all different types of eggs I've hatched. I have been hatching some lovebird eggs and this clutch seem to have an issue. Im not sure if the parents are calcium deficient since...
  2. EmmaGRS

    Duckling needing help hatching?

    Hello, sorry about all the threads I’ve been posting, hatching chicks and ducklings has me worried about every little abnormalities 😂 I have a duckling hatching right now, it pipped probably about 24 hours ago, maybe more, and it’s made a little progress but it’s not zipping. It’s beak is...
  3. N

    Claws sticking out and dark membrane

    I have some Pheasants hatching right now and this one has his two claws sticking out and the membrane looks dark even though the humidity is fine. It looks like the chick is making progress slowly but I feel bad seeing his foot sticking out. Should I help at all or do something? I've never...
  4. FuzzyOwlFeet

    Chicks pushed eggs away from heater

    I'm in the middle of hatching eggs, today is hatch day buy 4 hatched early yesterday. They are running around as chicks do, but they have pressed the remaining eggs against the sides of the incubator, my thermometer says on the edges it's 98⁰F. Those eggs are now showing no signs of life, I have...
  5. A

    Using the saddle shaped air cells to my advantage?

    Hello all! In the past 19 days I’ve been incubating my first batch of duck eggs 6 khaki Campbell eggs that were shipped to me. They can in as decent condition as you can expect. Unfortunately they did have large saddle air cells so I kept the humidity higher to keep them from getting bigger. Now...
    • Apartmentduck
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    • assist a hatch hatch position hatching advice help ! high humidity pipping positioning incubating eggs saddle air cell small air cell
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    • Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
  6. L

    Help! Pipped but hasn’t zipped!

    This little one externally pipped about Tuesday night around 8pm. No real progress until yesterday (Wednesday) around 2 or 3. It is now noon on Thursday, she wasn’t making progress at all and from all of the threads I have read on here it said to help after 12 hours. She seems exhausted. I...
  7. auzzvacha

    duckling assisted hatch advice UPDATE: she is happily hatched and seems healthy!

    Hi I have a mallard duck egg that internally pipped on match 2nd (3 days ago) I started the incubation on February 2nd (so it was on day 24). I was worried because the air sac was smaller then normal, I think from too high of humidity during the whole incubation, between 55-65, other then the...
  8. Nicgable

    HELP! Air Cell Depleted after Internal Pip??

    Hello! First time Hatcher here. I have three very healthy and very active Pekín duck eggs that are on day 24 of incubation. I had my first internal pip about 24 hours ago. The air cell was large - about 1/3 of the egg. After waiting 24 hours and no external pip, I performed a quick candling to...
    • Nicgable
    • Thread
    • assist a hatch drown help help hatching internal internal pip intervene intervention pip pipping
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
  9. Justagoose_18

    Shrink wrapped chick!!

    So I am hatching a large batch of eggs at the moment, and have had all sorts of problems. From one chick hatching with an unabsorbed yolk, to another hatching through the wrong end. Right now, I have opened the bator to transfer around 1/3 of the chicks to a different one, just so that they...
  10. Ari_andcheepers

    Help cold chick

    We currently have a hen hatching out chicks last night we noticed one of the eggs was had a pip hole this morning though the hen was not on the nest there was no progress in the hatching and the egg was cold we assisted it (it did not bleed) now the chick is on a heating pad still not chirping...
  11. BokBokBadger

    Help!? Should I assist??

    Hi everyone, we've had five out of seven Japanese quail hatch over the past 48 hours. There was a 2° drop in temperature overnight which has been rectified now. Earlier today we had two left to hatch, one had externally pipped and seemed to be resting but I've just checked and it has passed away...
    • BokBokBadger
    • Thread
    • assist a hatch help quail quail advice
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Quail
  12. DatCrazyChickenLady

    Egg cracked or hatching? Help!

    Hello! We have been letting our hen hatch a few eggs and this morning one was super cracked and crushed- but the chick is alive. We haven’t been tracking it super closely- but the eggs should be hatching this week I think. Is the egg hatching or cracked, and what should I do? It’s been like this...
  13. R

    Help? Do I intervene in a stalled zip or not?

    Hi! This is my first post but I need help! This chick has been pipped since 4/29 around 7p. He started unzipping at 12p on 4/30. He has looked like this since 4pm on 4/30. What should I do? Leave her be or what? I have 4 other eggs pipped right now. Humidity is 75% ( I know it’s high I just...
  14. blackandtan

    Assisted hatching help! day 22

    Hello all, Hoping someone can advise me on my next steps here: I’ve got six eggs left in the incubator, two each marans, ameraucana and chantecler, and I can’t really see through the shells very well. I can see that the air cells are drawn down, I stopped turning day 18, temp 37-37.5, rh 65-70...
  15. K

    Should I CULL??

    I have a day old chick and she was an assisted hatch. I helped too early. She cant cheep or eat or stand, but she has been kicking her curled up feet a lot, and was pretty active. Breathing very hard too. I gave her sugar water throughout the day. She does seem like she may be suffering, but I...
  16. Eliselove

    First hatch, issues - humidity, air sac, temperature, the whole Kaboodle

    Hey there, everyone and thank you for reading this. It may be a bit late on the year to hatch but I had a free rooster for a few weeks and here we are LOL I have two main areas of concern for this hatch right now. I think maybe low temps have the development behind schedule, and/or high...
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