eggtopsy

  1. Z

    Eggtopsy

    Hi, one of my hens went broody, so I bought some fertile eggs from a local farm. She sat perfectly but none hatched. Today is day 24 and one may have popped or may have been squished by mama hen. I was just wondering what may have gone wrong. Also, she left the nest this morning and hasn't...
  2. solidstate

    Dove eggtopsy

    I’ve been struggling with poor hatchability with my two pair of Diamond doves. Usually the eggs die in the last two days of incubation. I break out all dead eggs to check what stage they are. I tossed the latest two eggs right into the incubator after they were laid, to see if we’re looking at...
  3. solidstate

    Eggtopsy surprise (warning: sensitive images)

    Warning, graphic images below text. Context; I put 10 fertile button quail eggs from my birds in the incubator. Lost power early on for 24hrs and eggs got down to 70° F by the time power came back. That was day 4 or 5. By lockdown, I had weeded out several that had quit early. I didn’t open...
  4. DovesFlock

    Eggtopsy help

    This v I know was supposed to hatch today but didn’t. It popped and zipped then stoped and never broke out. No noise no movement no breathing. This is the pic I took after breaking it out of the egg and membrane. The humidity kept good as I kept a constant eye on it even stay up to make sure...
  5. NorthwoodsChick

    Late quitter eggtopsy-warning: graphic pics

    This is my documentation of an eggtopsy performed on a late quitting chicken egg. The back story: I had 7 eggs under a broody hen. Circumstances arose that required the eggs be moved to an incubator at days 15-16, 20 in a staggered hatch. Two hatched on time, but one was suspected to have quit...
  6. ChickenNuggie

    First Time Hatch & Egg-topsy: My Story

    We were given an incubator as a gift since we couldn’t afford to buy one ourselves. It’s not a high-quality incubator, and it appears that we have had problems with keeping temperature and humidity steady. The external temperature read out is Celsius and does not seem to match the thermometer...
  7. Asteen89

    Eggtopsy, help with why it died?

    I have another post explaining my situation. Long story short, broody abandoned eggs. I tried to save and incubator I finally got yesterday had hunting above 80%. Chick was alive and moving in the shell as of 3pm yesterday. As of today no movement at all. Looked just like the others I opened...
  8. Just Rosie

    **WARNING, GRAPHIC IMAGES** Twin Welsh Harlequin Ducks

    Hello everyone, I just wanted to share something I found both interesting and depressing. I had a silkie hen laying on 10 WH eggs for me. One was an early quitter. Of the 9 remaining, 8 had internally pipped, 1 had quit late. 6 of the 9 hatched. I’ve recently stopped doing eggtopsies as...
  9. L

    NOT SURE WHAT WENT WRONG!! HELP call duckling died day 24! What went wrong?? *GRAPHIC PICTURES*

    My only call duckling egg died recently, I suspected it died around day 24 as I candled it at day 23 and it was moving around with good veining. Day 24 the veining wasn’t so clear and there wasn’t anymore movement I know call ducks are supposed to hatch at around 26 days but I left it in the...
  10. laurapea

    Eggtopsy Help Please (graphic photos)

    Hi all, I have just had my first ever hatch of White Crested ducklings in a home incubator. Very much an amateur here! I started with 6 eggs, and when I candled after week 1 we had one that was infertile, and 2 that had blood ring and dead embryos. But 3 were looking good! I candled again on...
  11. WannaBeHillBilly

    [Graphic Pictures!] The mystery of the missing egg - solved!

    Hi friends, this is a spin-off thread of »Charleston we have a Broody here!«. - In a nutshell: Katharina, one of my Indian Runner ducks managed to hide a clutch of eggs from me and was suddenly sitting on nine eggs. Seven cheeky ducklings hatched, one egg was a stinker and one was missing. Two...
    • WannaBeHillBilly
    • Thread
    • crushed egg dead duckling eggtopsy malposition
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Ducks
  12. Livingskies

    Estimated Day of Death? Eggtopsy

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  13. Livingskies

    Day 9 Eggtopsy Help Please!

    I'm new here, although I've been reading for a couple weeks! We are in the middle of our first incubation (9 days completed) and just removed the eggs we believed were infertile or dead from candling. I'd like some input from the seasoned members here! We had 2 we believed were dead, and...
  14. S

    Eggtopsy:organs on the outside

    We recandled our last five eggs and saw no signs of life. We decided to perform eggtopsies and try to see what went wrong. One of the chicks was very underdeveloped and small. The other four all had their organs in sacs outside their bodies. I was wondering if anyone else has experienced...
  15. tjo804

    WARNING, PIC OF DEAD EMBRYO ?Can anyone help determine What day did I loose it.

    We are at day 16. This embryo was moving in the egg, but when I candled day 14 no movement. I traced the dark not moving spot in the egg on she'll with a pencil. It did not move or grow. The blood ring looked darker today As I am trying to learn, I opened the egg the embryo was dead but I am...
  16. Miriah132

    Failure to hatch?

    So I have been using a farm innovators styrofoam type incubator and have been using the dry incubation method. I have had 100% fertility with all my own eggs and About 98% with bought or shipped eggs. They develop beautifully with the dry incubation method BUT for some reason at hatch only about...
    • Miriah132
    • Thread
    • dry incubation eggtopsy failure to hatch incubating incubation incubation problems troubleshooting
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
  17. J

    New member-eggtopsy questions

    ok so I had a bunch of eggs in my incubator. I had chicken and goose eggs. I had 2 chicks hatch but one passed after a day due to malformation (couldn’t walk properly). The other is still doing well 2 weeks later. They hatched 1 day from each other. I then had 3 geese hatch all doing extremely...
  18. Miriah132

    HELP EMERGENCY!!

    I took out the eggs from my incubator that haven’t hatched and candled to see if any were just extra late Hatcher’s. All of them looked for sure dead! So I started doing eggtopsies and all of them were dead except this one! Took me by surprise! But now it has a completely opened air cell but it...
  19. J

    Eggtopsy Help - it’s my 1st time

    I did an eggtopsy on 6 eggs and there are 4 that I’d like some opinions on. Can anyone tell when and/or why these chicks died? *We used a Little Giant incubator with an auto egg turner. I believe it’s the 11300 Deluxe. We had some issue the morning of day 19. There was a concern for too...
    • Jocelyn10
    • Thread
    • cause of death dead chick eggtopsy high humidity high temperature incubating incubating chicken eggs
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
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