hatching

  1. S

    Chick on back

    I have a chick that looks like it just hatched (sometime between 12-7) and seems to be stuck on its back, trying to get up but just can’t get turned around. I have other eggs in there that have pipped so I’m not sure if I should open it up, it’s also 8pm, should I see how it’s doing in the AM or...
  2. Littledarlingfarm

    Help, I’ve failed and opened my incubator

    Yesterday was hatch day. In the morning I had the horrible luck with the power going out for 3+hours. I had a few active eggs moving, chirps, and one especially active egg. I dont have a backup power supply, (its on the shopping list when the money is there) so I googled and did the advice of...
  3. hennyp

    Show me your ancona chicken crosses!

    after losing some elderly hens this spring i'd like to incubate some of my flock's eggs to bring my numbers back up. i'm really hoping to hatch one of my ancona hen's eggs because it's so hard to find pictures of ancona crosses. here's a photo of annie the ancona, & one of my mystery mixed...
  4. Fallenone05

    Bleeding out on hatching

    I've hatched eggs a few times and I've never had this happen before. Baby developed, was fine, pipped the egg, zipped the egg... I went to lie down for a while (I have covid and being up too long makes me weak), and when I came back, zipped chick hadn't made any progress on getting out further...
  5. calichooks

    Sexing Pea Combs at Hatch?

    Here’s a phenomenon I’d recently wondered about as I’ve hatched chicks: Are males obvious from hatch sometimes? I know there’s a sentiment “you’ll never truly know until they crow or lay an egg”, but I fear it’s cracking up to possibly be a lot simpler than that! Maybe. This is the mom of...
  6. WallabyOfChaos

    Black/Blue Mottled Cochin Bantam & Frizzle Cochin Bantam Hatching Eggs in Texas

    ☙ Description ☙ Fresh, fertile hatching eggs from our purebred flock of Black Mottled and Blue Mottled bantam Cochin chickens. I test for fertility weekly and so far the hens are laying well and fertility is looking great! These beautiful little birds are very docile and make excellent pets. The...
  7. F

    Helping a stuck chick hatch?

    Hello everyone! Apologies if I’m not posting correctly- I’m a long-time lurker, but never found a reason to post/register until today! We’ve had chickens for about 5 years now, and this is our first year hatching. Twelve eggs incubated and ten made it to viability. We had a silkie egg pip on day...
  8. chickengang11

    Serama hatching issues

    Hello everyone! A while ago I found 2 broody seramas sat on 3 eggs, candled all of them and they all seemed to be fertile. I don't know how long they were sat on them, but 1 has hatched just yesterday and seems to be healthy. The other 2 haven't shown any signs of external or internal pipping. I...
  9. C

    Intro

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I currently have quail (2) How many chickens do you have right now? None but at this time I have 8 adults, 12 young child cks and eggs in the incubator. I am regularly breeding them (3) What breeds do you have? Cotournix quail...
  10. shamrockfarms459

    where do i keep button quail??

    can we keep them inside?? where do we keep them? we are hatching buttons the estimate hatch date is February 5 . thank you for reading or replying!
  11. PrettyEgg101

    Hatching Emu Eggs

    Hi! Day 44 of incubating two emu eggs my temps have been at 97.5 and about 30% humidity. I haven’t notice either make any wiggles yet. When I let them cool for a couple mins the end pointed down stays warm while the end I assume that is the air sack lowers in temp, is this a sign of a chick...
  12. G

    Rooster & Hen Hatching

    I sometimes like to hatch birds, my favorite being button quail. The last batch I hatched was way over distributed with roosters. Out of about 30 eggs that hatched, 20 of them were roosters. I won't go into the horrors these little bastards played with me and the hens, but this was a CF from...
  13. E

    fun color possibilities?

    hi all! so i’m hatching 5 doz+ Silkie eggs 🤞🏽 (color listed below.) while i’ll have pure breeding pens in which i will focus on SOP, i’m wondering what fun colors i could get from crossing any of the following, other than different colored barred/cuckoo/mottled? thanks! -B/B/S -Black Mottled...
  14. justaboy

    Will this work?

    I’ve been wanting to hatch more chicks, but my bator is currently being used for quail. I have another incubator that was like $30 on Amazon, it’s still air and you need to mist it to add humidity. I’m wondering if when my quail go on lockdown I could place them in there while my chicken eggs...
  15. S

    Quail egg candling not looking great.

    Hi everyone, I'm completely new to birds and have never incubated anything before. I recently got quail eggs locally and put them in the incubator on 8/31 about 1-4 days after they were laid and they're now going on day 9. I made a massive mess up in the beginning and the eggs had way too high...
  16. Oxydziedhens

    Australian show quality Orpington breeders

    Hello! I am a show quality orpington breeder in Western Australia! And I am looking to introduce some new bloodlines into my current flock. What are some good orpington breeders that sells fertile eggs and is willing to post them to me in rural WA? (Bunbury region) I am mainly looking for blue...
  17. A

    Help with hen incubating eggs!

    Hello! Our stubborn hen would not get out of her broody spell (over a month)and nothing worked to break her, gal was determined to be a mom lol so we ended up caving and giving her a two eggs. They were laid a couple days apart. I’ve candled them off and on through the weeks and both seemed to...
  18. T

    hatching eggs and rehoming roosters?

    i want hatching eggs and i have the incubator already, but i'm afraid of having to rehome roosters. there's a few animal sanctuaries near me, but it depends on their capacity whether or not they can take them. but there's also just no sexed chicks near me at this time. i also don't want to...
  19. J

    Need some help and advise as its my 1st time

    Hi can someone please help me this is my 1st time incubating and I'm sure my duck egg has died as there was a power cut last week in my whole area for 4 hours and the incubator switched off after that I noticed a red line inside my egg and there has been n9 change, there is a air sac and a...
  20. newchickychick

    Fanciful Frigid Fall Hatch-Along

    We wanted one last hoorah as we go into the autumn and stop hatching until next spring. Most likely. Probably. (My husband is an enabler. We're building more coops, got an extra new brooder... 🤭) The naming theme is Fall/Autumn or Winter themed. (Avalanche, Flurry, Pumpkin, Samhain, Leaf...
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