hatch rates

  1. M

    Delayed shipments

    Hey guys! I bought some eggs off of eBay. This is my first time doing this. I just wanted some hens in my flock that I could only seem to find there. They said they were going to get here Friday. But I’m fairly sure they lost the package. It spent 4 days in the shipping area and now another...
    • Maka
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    • advice and help please advice appreciated hatch rates hatchability lost eggs shipping eggs
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
  2. D

    Hatching chicken and duck eggs - declining rate

    Hi all, I hatch duck and chicken eggs for a local farmer when he needs to increase his flock maybe 2 times in spring/summer, have done for the past 5/6 years. In the past, I’ve usually put 6 eggs in a small incubator and got at least 5 if not all of them out successfully. However, this year...
    • Duckyy
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    • bad hatch rate chicken chicks ducklings ducks hatch rates hatching hatching rates incubabtion incubator advice
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
  3. Isabella Mcadams

    Not a really a question but an observation

    Hello all! I’m currently incubating 5 Welsh Harlequin/Pekin duck eggs and I’m curious about success rates for everyone else. I hatched a batch of 6 a few years ago with a 100% success rate, and so far, with the five eggs I‘m incubating now everything is going along very smoothly; they are in...
  4. FoodFreedomNow

    Playing music for incubating eggs

    I like to play a selection of classical pieces (Mozart, Dvořák, Bach, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, etc.) for the eggs during incubation. I've read that, in experiments, classical music resulted in the best hatch rates, while metal had an adverse effect. 🤔 Do you play music for your...
  5. Everose

    Hydrogen peroxide on hatching eggs

    HYDROGEN PEROXIDE!!! If you have tried it please comment below (especially elaborate on how you used it)! I am especially interested in knowing how control groups and test groups have done. If you have any reasons why you would or wouldn't do it I would also like to know why. I know there have...
  6. Crazy Duck Lover

    HELP!! SADDLE AIR SAC?

    My eggs are on day 4 of incubation. I ordered them from eBay. I candled them just to see if I could see anything yet. While I was candling, I noticed the air sacs lookd really big and oddly shaped. I’ve kept the temp at 99.5 and the humidity between 50-57 percent. They’re in an NR360, so they...
    • Crazy Duck Lover
    • Thread
    • air sac dip hatch rates humidity neice saddle air cell shipped eggs
    • Replies: 25
    • Forum: Ducks
  7. F

    Hatch rate with natural incubatuon?

    What is the hatch rate for natural incubation compared to artificial incubation? I'm not interested in artificial incubation but I am currently raising a couple broody breeds and wonder about letting them hatch their own when the time comes.
  8. honeythechicken

    Detached air cells

    Hi all, I recently bought 6 eggs and due to infertility I had to throw 2 out. Right now it's day 15 and egg number 2 doesn't have signs of movement, 3 and 6 do have movement although they look quite detached. 4 looks like a late quitter and I don't think it will hatch. I have a Brinsea mini II...
  9. RainForestBird

    Surplus of Eggs in Summer

    My ducks and chickens don't know that its Summer and nobody is buying hatching eggs. So I have a surplus of eggs and for the last 2 weeks very little orders. I normally run a brisk business (for me, I'm retired) in fertile eggs for hatching. I wonder if people know that you can still incubate...
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