assist hatch

Hey all. I have a batch of French black copper marans in the incubator. Out of 12, I pulled 4 at 2 weeks. Today and yesterday 7 have hatched and the last one is working very hard on it. The last is having trouble I fear though. I can hear it chirping through the egg and feel it jerking around. I...

Hi all, I currently have a single mandarin duck egg incubating, we're now on day 31 of a supposed 28 day hatch cycle. I've candled the egg this morning and there is still movement inside, a mass has been protruding into the air sac cavity for the past 2 days, but not a single attempt at pipping...

Hello everyone! I was just wondering what people think about assist hatching vs natural hatching? I have always done assist hatching after piping externally, because I have had chicks who had died inside the shell because of shrink wrapping. Also I have had to assist hatch because of the...

Hi... I was wondering if I could get some advice, total newbie to hatching. I have 4 Indian rubber ducks currently in the lock down phase. They have been in the incubator for 30 days now. The first one externally pipped on Sunday morning, the rest were within the next 24 hours or so. The first...

I am incubating Mallard eggs at this moment I started off with about 10 of them and four of them died around day 6 and I did and egg autopsy and they were not developed embryos I did another egg Topsy on for more of my duck eggs that died around 18 to 20 days incubation and they looked fully...

hi I have one call duck in the incubator, along with two swedish eggs, one which is pipping internally and the other is about to as well. The hatch date was supposed to be on the 18th, but I think my temperature has been a little low. I candled the call duck egg last night and saw movement...

Hello, I just wanted to share a idtem that I found EXTREMELY useful for assisted hatching. A few years ago some duck eggs I incubated were having difficulty hatching due to the humidity being too low(was my first time incubating and misread the humidity levels for ducklings) and the...

we have a chicken at the moment sitting on eggs but there were too many for her to keep warm so we put some in the incubator. so far we have had two chicks hatch (1 that was already under mama chicken and 1 from the incubator) and they are both healthy and happy. this morning we checked the eggs...

Hello fellow duck lovers. I am a long time duck mom but 1st time hatcher. I am two days into hatching and I only had two good eggs. One seems to be doing OK making progress while the other was at a standstill for 36 hours. From everything I’ve read I needed to intervene. So I have created a hole...

I read the assisted hatch page in its entirety four times. After my rescued Muscovy internally pipped, we waited 24 hours before assisting by making an external pip. I then waited, per the instructions turns, 12 hours (no activity) before creating the zip line and opening the air pocket. After...

Hi there! My distracted Mom brain forgot to write down the date I set the eggs (it was a very last minute decision as they were the last eggs from my favorite hen who left us tragically on Christmas Day). I know I didn’t set them right away, but I don’t remember waiting all that long either...

I have hatched twice in my Brinsea Mini Advance (to the factory settings) and both times I have had to assist with the hatching. The first time I hatched all 4 and the second time all 3 eggs (yesterday). Each time I had one chick that pipped, zipped and hatched perfectly on it's own. The other...

Hello, I'm currently on day 21 of lockdown, and currently there is one chick that pipped around 14 hours ago, and it hasn't made any progress in around 6 hours. It was struggling with no success a while ago, and now it seems to have given up. It is currently panting and it's beak is covered in a...