cold eggs

I just wanted to share a success story on here because I scoured the threads looking for information on hatching eggs of different ages in a single incubator. The most common answer I found was “buy a second incubator”. This was my first time hatching and I had invested in a quality incubator, a...

Hello all... I have some Coturnix quail eggs incubating that are on Day 11 now... I woke up this morning to find that my incubator had turned off (looks like a tripped circut) and the eggs cold. After starting back up the incubator, I candled and saw veining... though one egg (the youngest at...

Hi All, I have a bit of a situation I am grappling with and am Interested in the thoughts of those with more experience. I have placed five Barnevelder eggs under a broody hen. It is now day 7. I have only seen the hen get off the nest once a day, and it seems one of the other hens jumps into...

hi, please help anybody, today was my 20th day.... tommorow is the hatch date. i have around 15 Australorp and 15 Rir eggs in a semi-automatic incubator. at night, around 1:50 am i last checked the eggs (I know ot late i should have been sleeping 😆😆). Anyways they were all good at that time...

So, recently, I was finding less and less eggs. I thought my chickens were taking a break from laying... but I was wrong. Yesterday I checked for eggs and.... I found a stash of 24+ (Likely fertile) eggs! (That’s 2-3 days worth of eggs!) That for some reason was out of sight and layed outside...

This morning, the incubator was left open by my brother. 8 hours later, I come home and realize what happened. The eggs were about ~5 days along, could they have survived? They’re in our kitchen so the temperature was about 65-70 degrees.

My momma hen left her broody box which has a dozen eggs - she’s been sitting on them for a little over a week. They are stone cold. She sat in a nesting box instead on new eggs. Is it too late for the other eggs? Help!?? I put her back on the “old” eggs with the new (warm) eggs which I...

Hello, New member to the site but it's always been a great resource for researching advice. Hoping someone has some tips for me now. I have raised ducks for many years but I am new to geese, and one of my pair of young Brown African geese, Lucy-Goosey, seems to have become broody and is...

i have 12 Black Swedish Hen Eggs at 10 days, 7 Serama at 14 days and over 18 Serama at day 2 in a new Brisnea model. When I got up this morning it was unplugged. We are not sure how, no cats. All of the eggs were cold and my incubator was unplugged for at least 10 hours. My incubator is really...

Hello! I have a hen that has been sitting and was due a week from today. I came home from work to discover her off her nest and her eggs cold. How long can eggs go cold this far into developing? I'm hoping they can be salvaged. :hit