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  1. M

    Is this a blood ring? (Quail eggs)

    Hi. This is my first time incubating eggs. I am using a cheap chinese incubator, and thus the temps are not very uniform and I expect the mortality rate to be quite high. I am wondering, is this a blood ring? Should I discard this egg?
  2. M

    Day 25 Is it dead or should I keep waiting?

    I know someone whose been trying to hatch chicks with no luck. I visited him on day 23 and asked if I could have the one egg he hadn't tossed yet. I set up a temporary incubator in the bathroom as it's the only place I can get enough heat and humidity at the moment. There is no movement from the...
  3. kaleighmarie1213

    First Hatch-a-long! November 2021!

    Hello! If anyone was following from my shipped eggs post I figured it would be easier to put everything in a Hatch-A-Long to keep updating as kinda a journal! I'll go copy/paste my couple updates from the shipped eggs post below and can't wait to continue watching these eggs develop! Eggs...
  4. A

    Duck Egg incubation

    I have been incubating a duck egg I found on Easter Sunday. It appears to be doing well and I have been seeing quite a lot of movement when I have candled it. However, the pointy end has quite a lot of free space and I’m not sure if this is a problem? There is an air sac at the rounded end. So...
  5. RaisingDucks2020

    Hatching ducklings 🐥

    below is attached picture of a duck egg. My ladies have been laying on their eggs from day 1.. when can you see the veins in a egg?? Ive read online you should start to see them by at least day 4?? And movement by day 7?? But its been a while and I haven't seen anything to let me know its...
  6. Zen Wildlife Rescuer

    Candling On Day 5!

    Hey everyone! So today is day 5 for my duck eggs. Tonight I am going to candle them and see if there is life😬 I have that excited, terrified feeling everytime I think about it! My question is, if I don’t see any veins inside the eggs today does that mean they’re all dead/infertile? Or should I...
  7. Zen Wildlife Rescuer

    No development on day 4??

    Hey everyone. So I candled my duck eggs yesterday (day 3 and 1/2) and theres nothing. Todays day four and early this morning when it was still dark out, I got up to make sure the temperature and humidity was okay and because it was dark I could sort of see inside one of the eggs because of the...
  8. Q

    Just curious if we are on track? Is this typical?

    I have a broody muskovy duck hen. She dumps eggs out of the nest every now and then and by the time I find them they are cold. I always candle them to see if I can find what went wrong or is she just clumsy and knocking eggs out. She should be on about day 13. I think we are on track as far as...
  9. TheSunflowerButterfly

    I’m so close to chicks!

    My eggs went on lockdown yesterday and it’s so dang hard to wait for them! Some of them candled really well, like this one. I have 35 eggs in. Hopefully I’ll get good odds and they’ll survive. 🤞🏻
  10. I

    Is the egg alive?

    Hi! I found this egg in my backyard and I cannot tell if it’s alive. My friend’s brother thinks it’s a goose egg. Anyways, I tried checking to see if it was alive by doing this thing called “candling” and I still can’t tell if it’s alive or not. If it is alive, any tips on taking care of it will...
  11. R

    Hi All, 1st time trying to hatch quail

    So can anyone tell me if these look like good or bad eggs? Each picture is a different egg. They are corturnix quail eggs and this is day 14 for them. All others were dark but I can definately see air cells. This is my first time hatching and candleing.
  12. Clappmeg

    Late Hatching Egg Viability and Genetics Question

    Hi all! I've had a Silkie sitting on a small clutch of 3 eggs for 3 weeks now. 2 of the eggs hatched (one last night, one the day before). I' don't think the last egg will hatch. The other day I could not find it in the nest to check and it had been buried underneath some hay and although was...
  13. V

    Candle?

    What does this look like to you dont be fooled
  14. T-Brown90

    Floating test day 18

    It is day 18! But before "lockdown" starts you might want to check those chicks one more time. A lot of people do a final "candling" but at this point you cant see nothing but the air sac most of the time so seeing movement is a challenge...what's next.."water/floating test"..now let me tell you...
  15. abbya12

    Incubating Coturnix Quail - Candeling Question

    Hi everyone!! I’m very new here, just bought an incubator and 10 eggs and am currently incubating them. I’m only on day 3, but I candled just one of them, I know it’s too early / I probably shouldn’t have, but I couldn’t help myself! I’m so excited! Anyway, I took a picture, and I know you...
  16. D

    Are those eggs good?

    My chicken is sitting on the eggs it's day 18 and two of them looks like that in the picture but a lot darker and veiny but have a huge clear part so are there any chances of hatching from them
  17. A

    Help!!! I don't know what to do with my last living duck egg

    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...
  18. C

    help!! can't see through egg candling

    hey everyone so , i bought an incubator this year to see if i could hatch some of my own eggs from my chickens. its day 11 and i tried candling them and they are porous eggs, when i do candle them i see only a black area within the yolk and no veins, sometimes i do happen to see a vein but not...
  19. T

    Bulk candling???

    We raise thousands of quail and currently candle each egg by hand. We are trying to make a candling box we can put a GQF tray of 120 eggs on and pick out the bad.... Does anyone have any suggestions?
  20. Floxi

    Eggs as chicken feed...... Do or Don’t?

    we have more eggs than we know what to do with. (More eggs than friends can take). I am waiting on my candling course which is a pain in the butt and only offered in Sep. and I hate waste. I have heard and read in here that you can feed them back to the flock for added nutrients. Two points I’d...
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