failure to hatch

  1. rookbeak

    Quail eggs didn't make it, but one almost did!

    This was my first attempt at incubation. I only had 5 eggs and a little giant incubator, so I wasn't expecting any miracles. Yesterday was the last day they had to hatch, and it came and went without any chicks. I float tested them today and they all floated, but before I threw them away I...
    • rookbeak
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    • failed hatch failure to hatch fetus quail
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Quail
  2. 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
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    • dry incubation eggtopsy failure to hatch incubating incubation incubation problems troubleshooting
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
  3. Lifeiseasy

    Hatching Failure. What to do Next?

    I currently have 15 RIR eggs under a broody on about day 8. I just candled them with our new Brinsea high powered candler only to find that not a single one had veins or any other definite sign of growth :hit. My guess is that they were unfertilized due to my rooster not feeling his best. The...
  4. Vivid Hatchery

    Horrible hatch rate, deaths throughout the stages. Please help diagnose.

    Okay, so I am having a terrible time hatching chicks. I know that most of us here keep our chicks backyard or on a small farm, and I am no different. I provide a balanced layer feed ration. Most of my flocks are around 1:5 gender ratio. My birds have a lot of places they can run and escape...
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