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This is my first time ever attempting to hatch my own eggs! 🐣 I recently Read somewhere on here that when you first place your eggs in the incubator, if placed in the evening you won’t count day 1 until the next day, is that correct? I placed My Eggs March 26th at around 7pm and calculated my...

This is My first time hatching Chicks 🐣 and I recently come across a post that states You don’t count day 1 of incubation until the next day if the eggs where placed in the evening. I placed My eggs March 26th at around 7pm and counted 21 days from that which is April 16th (today) So would that...

This is my first ever hatch, only one fertile chick egg out of 4. I’m not seeing any Pips yet or hearing any chirping. The chick did seem to be very active as it has turned the egg itself almost completely around with all the wiggling inside the day prior. I am doing dry incubation so no...

Hi, I have call ducks and I’m trying to hatch eggs in my incubator but not having good results. I’ve never done a dry hatch before. Would a dry hatch work with call duck eggs? If so could someone please explain to me how to do a dry hatch. Thank you

I was letting my duck hatch some eggs (4) and forgot to make note of the day she started incubating I'm having trouble determining what day they are on. Video 1 (egg 2) Video 2 (egg 2) Video 3 (egg 1) Video 4 (egg 3) forgot to get a video or picture of egg 4 Really to know since egg 3 got a...

Hello, I am hatching my first ever quail eggs. I have a Hova-Bator 1602N. I have zero experience with an incubator. I read temperatures are 98-101F and humidities 45-65%. My eggs arrive tomorrow USPS. I wanted to get the incubator up and running and figured out. Please can anyone tell me the...

A thought occurred to me, my nest box hatch just opens with a slight push, and it’s not so far off the ground to think a raccoon couldn’t get in there easy peasy. What are some ways to predator proof a lift-able hatch only a couple feet off the ground? I currently have a brick on the top 😂 I...

I just put 32 eggs in lock down this morning. My goal this year is to raise them through the whole process using only my wool hens. No artificial light, no heat source, other than the wool hens. I started out with 41 eggs. I only candled at day 10 and day 18. At day 10: I disqualified 3 eggs as...

Hi guys, I got these quail eggs from a supermarket, wasn’t expecting much. I’ve also never hatched eggs before. All of them were duds until I got to the last one, I think this shows some sign of life?? Although I am new to this, what do you guys think? It’s day 4 fyi.

What's up y'all, these eggs have been cooking 20 days and they've all been wiggling about for a full 24 hours. I'm hoping to see some external pips here soon. Feel free to join the stream at any time. These Barbu de Watermael could be any sort of color. I'm getting anxious! I have attached the...

Hey friends! PRAISE THE LORD, we have an external pip on our Cayuga duck egg!!! 😊😊 I’ve read over the sticky thread on the topic, but I couldn’t find (or maybe overlooked) a general timeframe between the external pip to when they start to zip... I did see on the thread that they pip and then...

Does anyone have any idea how I would go about finding some Cayuga duck eggs to hatch? I always hate ordering chicks online to be shipped. :hmm I appreciate any leads!

I was adding water into the hole on my incubator to increase humidity. It’s been a weird few days in my chicken world. I staggered eggs in the incubator from my hen and rooster to see if they’d hatch. The first one hatched two days ago and I sold her today (so she wasn’t lonely any more). I...

I was silly and decided to test out if my chickens eggs were fertile. We have a rooster but they’re all still young and the hens just started laying so I wasn’t sure they would be. I put 5 eggs into the incubator, 2 at the same time, 3 spread out over 5 days. Of course they all developed and...

I have a turkey hen sitting on a clutch of eggs rn. I thought both of my hens were broody but it turns out one of them had still been laying and my other hen would just put the new eggs under her. I didn’t know until a few days ago when I candled them and noticed the differences in development...

May 2021 - our year-old flock was able to hatch a few of the eggs

It’s that time of the year again! I started a small hatchery and have had many inquiry’s about my easter hatch. (Ducks) I decided it’s time to start planning for it and get my incubators clean and do some maintenance on them after I had a disastrous last hatch. How do you guys clean, sanitize...

Hi everyone! I'm looking for advice, mostly to calm my nerves, lol! I'm getting ready to have Silkie eggs shipped to me for hatching. They were laid in CA and are being shipped to Southwest CO, our elevation is approx 6,600 ft. We will be using 2 Incuview with Humidistat incubators. The...

Not sure why the additional work was not done, they'd gone this far... to just make an auto sexing breed like the cream legals, etc. Someone posted this about a decade ago, " California gray is a breed that is based on the Barred Plymouth Rock X Leghorn It is then crossed back on Leghorn to...