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I have 4 call duck eggs today is day 25 I came home and I heard a little squeak and saw a bit of movement one has internally pipped. How much noise should I be hearing? I don't know when/how long ago he internally pipped and if I should be adding a safety hole? What do you guys suggest?

So i hatched quails yesterday, one hatched out perfect while the other needed help, when it was fully out i realized why it couldn’t go out by itself, it had issues with one of it’s legs and wings and was also pipping upside down (not aircell) unfortunately the little guy only lived for around a...

The title is a little much but I’m in need of serious help. My ducks had eggs turns out they were fertilized there about 10 of them? there mama has been sitting on them daily but 2 days ago, I picked up an egg and out it to our Hatcher light (pic in post). To see if it was fertilized and it...

Hi there, I have 3 hens sitting in 3 nesting boxes. 2 started within days of each other, and the 3rd started a week late. The boxes are 36 inches off the floor. Should I move all 3 when the chicks hatch to the floor in separate boxes or put them in the shed I. The run? Should I build a ramp to...

Is it normal for her to lay eggs wherever and just ignore them? Will she gather the eggs when she's ready to incubate? How many eggs will she lay before sitting on them? Right now she has five eggs in the enclosure, just ignoring then. The enclosure is decently sized and they have a sort of arch...

Well, maybe more like #2.5 since this is Wilma's second go-round on "real" eggs. She's done everything a mother hen can do to give her adopted babies a shot at coming out, and weathered some impressive rain storms the last couple days. With luck, there will be chicks before Sunday. Have a...

My neighbor gave me these eggs to incubate. She labelled them above. The roo is a Blue Cochin. Does anyone have any idea what these crosses may look like? The 3 I have marked don't look to be viable, but I'm keeping them in for the next week to be 100% sure.

I received Black Copper Maran eggs from a local farmer and one hatched chick looks suspiciously like a campine 🧐. I assume maybe a campine and maran mix if anything as it came from a dark brown egg. Here are some pictures of the chick. It has spots around its eyes, striped back, and a little...

I have had ducks for a few years, and finally bought an incubator last year. I had a very low hatch rate, on my first try, but my ducks were 5 years old and I’m pretty sure that was the biggest problem w my first attempt. I was given a dozen duck eggs a few weeks ago from a friend who has the...

Hi there, I'd like to share my experience with my first hatch ever. We got chickens two times before, but those were hybrid chickens and they died after 3-4 years. After that, we decided to not keep chickens anymore, but when we found an Omlet Chicken coop, we finally were ready for chickens...

So I have a 2 year old black Spanish hen that has just gone broody within the last couple of days. We do not have a tom anymore for fertile Turkey eggs to hatch and I have an incubator full of eggs due to hatch this Saturday (5 days away). If she just went broody, is it too soon to put chicken...

At the end of yesterday, Day 21, I candled all of my eggs. I found two out of 13 that I could see movement in and were definitely still alive. Well, something in me told me to leave the other eggs in there. And I am glad I did, this morning my mom called me into the kitchen yelling, “you have a...

I think there isn't anything else I can do ??? This egg never lost the weight even though low humidity and daily cooling and spritzing. Honestly, didn't think it would make it this far. About 12 hours ago I noticed that it externally pipped, NOT in the air cell. (This egg with abnormally...

I have one goose egg at day 21 in the incubator that has not been losing the required weight. I have been dry incubating and it shows humidity at 25%, but the air cell is not growing the way it should. The little bird is very active in the shell and I figure the shell is just extraordinarily...

Hi, I hatch and sell ducklings and chicks and I was wondering…. what price are ducklings selling for this year? My last batch of chicks sold the day and day after they hatched. A local farmer said that I should raise the price chicks from $4 to $5 each. Should I keep selling my ducklings at $6...

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...

Hi everyone me again, it's day 21 today my baby hatched this morning at 6.40am I have another egg in there which hasn't pipped and haven't noticed any movement when I quickly just candled. I didn't notice any movement on day 18 either. Should I just wait it out a few more days? Pic of my hatched...

What is you incubator humidity setting for quails? TIA

I’m deciding between having a hen hatch eggs for me this year or using an incubator. If you prefer one over the other, could you describe why? I’m doing research on the pros and cons of both so anything is helpful.

The first chick hatched in my new incubator but she keeps walking around all the unhatched eggs, which is causing them to roll around. I marked both sides so I would know which side to turn them to, and I stopped turning them two days ago. I read that if they are turned after that time period...