early hatching

Hello, I saw the post about the call ducks hatching earlier than what the person thought, but I wanted to see what anyone thinks I should do with my Rouen eggs. This is my first time hatching, a whirlwind decision I made after a fox got 3 of my 5 ducks a few weeks ago. So I took all of the eggs...

Today is Day 20 of my incubation and I woke up this morning to a perky chick staring at me as I was refilling the incubator with water- it scared me because I was obviously not expecting that at 4 AM! That chick is doing well and I noticed at the same time that another egg had pipped! When I...

Hello! I am a first time poultry owner along with my first time Hatching eggs. I put 28 quail eggs in the incubator and throughout the process of candling 23 eggs went into lock down. On day 17, 10 babies hatched, and today day 18 an additional chick hatched. I still have 12 eggs in the...