assisted hatch

  1. lazy gardener

    Before you plug in that incubator

    Hatching season is upon us. Lots of folks are gearing up for their first hatch with a new incubator. Others are getting ready for yet an other season of hatching. No matter whether it's your first hatch, with a brand new or even borrowed incubator, a home made incubator, or a repeat...
  2. Carlswani

    My first assisted hatch

    So I had two bodged hatches (incubator issues it turns out the new one worked!) but 10 days into my second hatch I got my first egg from a new frizzle rooster. I thought I could just put it in to find out if it was fertile or not. Turns out it was and even though he’d been through humidity hell...
  3. Sara L

    Button Quail Incubation - assisted out of shell - did I do the right thing??

    I am incubating 24 button quail eggs I received through the mail. I am using a homemade incubator made from a styrofoam cooler with a computer fan and two lights controlled with a water heater thermostat. I started incubation on 7/28/17 and hand turned the eggs in cartons (lifting one end up on...
  4. ChuSayBok

    Flip the Palsy Baby Goes to Rehab

    I could spend the rest of my life on this part of the forum (reading or writing,) which is the reason I've avoided it. But I have one I showed some of my coworkers that I'm hoping helps some of you hardcore rescuers to have hope. I was about to post in the emergency section, but I figured in...
  5. G

    Assist w duck egg that pipped (external) over 19 hours ago

    Sorry, nervous first-time "parent"! So, I need to know how much to assist w a duck egg that pipped (externally) 19.5 hours ago. I just removed the shell, not that inner membrane, to the edge of where the air sac was (I had the foresight to draw that before the duck pipped). The ducking pipped...
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  6. chippy99th

    Emergency!! Crushed egg about to hatch!

    So my last chick in a completely unexpected clutch is finally about to hatch, and this happens: This is the third egg this hen has crushed by accident, the other two chicks were killed and I frankly do not trust her with this one. About half the shell is gone, along with part of the outer...
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