hatching and incubating

We had one chick hatch late friday/early saturday. Another pipped around the same time and unzipped then hasnt moved or chirped in 12+hrs. It has brown spots around the membrane that looks pretty thick. There is another one that pipped later and unzipped but then stopped and now is all brown...

I posted the footage here because I was just so excited to get her movement on camera, but am I going nuts or are there two chicks in here? Or is that just her absorbing the yolk? She should be a little over two weeks along.

I'm a Assistant Director of Nursing for a small nursing home. I've brought in a small incubator and a few eggs from our kids 4H Show chickens. The plan is to keep the residents involved. And once hatched I'll leave them here in a small brooder for a few days to a week. I've Placed the incubator...

My rooster is still getting the hang of things, but I've let my broody Silkie sit for about seven days and I am not sure that the eggs are doing much? I am letting her hatch naturally / no incubator as I live in the desert. Was just wondering if these look viable. I noticed the air sack is...

Hello All!:frow I used my nurture right 360 to hatch my first few goose eggs, and it worked great! Its too small to hatch a larger number of goose eggs, so I got a GQF cabinet incubator to be able to do more eggs from my flock. I was curious how seasoned hatchers hatch their goose eggs? During...

I know I've probably been unnecessarily obsessive over the development of the chicks. But although I've had chickens for a while, this is the first time I'm incubating them myself. So I think it's Day 21, and I've heard chirping on and off since last night from the first egg. No movement, just...

So while reading through the threads on here I’ve heard the term “lockdown” being mentioned a lot. Now I have my eggs under a hen, not in an incubator, and was wondering if I should still take her off the nest to eat and drink after the 18 day mark. I’ve been taking her off once or twice a day...

Hello everybody! We are the Griffin's, a family of 5 in Sterling, Alaska. I am a first time hatcher although we had free range chickens as a kid, we are attempting serama eggs. This is our story so far, if anyone has tips, pointers, help, advise, or constructive criticism let me have it. We...

Hey everyone, I just hatched 3 silkie chicks. One hatched day 19, two hatched day 20, and now it is day 21 and there is one egg that's pipped and is about to hatch. It will probably hatch tonight or tomorrow. Can the chicks who hatched on day 19 and 20 survive with ought food for so long? Some...

So I'm running some mock trials in an incubator I just made, and the temp/humidity is perfect, but once I raise the humidity my temperature drops about 2-4 degrees. I'm hatching 9 ayam cemani and 9 silver deathlayer eggs soon (18 in one incubator at the same time), and I'm wondering if 96-97 is...

Greetings! Question for all my chicken folk! I put 3 eggs in the incubator Sunday night 03/08 and then put 6 shipped eggs in the same incubator the following Wednesday early morning 03/11. A difference of about 3 days. Trying to figure out when to put the eggs on lockdown and how to work the...

Ok so hen gave up after first 3 hatched and we had to bring them in as it’s cold outside. Now 1 has started to pip and the other should be right behind that. How do I integrate them with the mother and other two chicks when they finish zipping out??

How do I do a hatch-along? Like... this? Am I doing it? I just put some eggs in the 'bator after some of them had quite an adventure. There are 17 mille fluer d'uccle in there that finally got to me after being shipped from Newfoundland on Monday. The seller requested the eggs be held for...

I had a duck sitting on eggs and hatched six of them when she got off the nest. There were still around 20 eggs in the nest. I took those eggs and put them in the incubator. Doing the math, if the six hatched at 28 days and the understanding duck eggs hatch between 28-35 days, I was on day 42...

I’m located in Missouri. I am going to be selling a 3 month old sportsman 1502 cabinet incubator. It also has the automatic watering system and many extra hatching trays as additional accessories. All in all I have over $1000 into everything. I am wanting to sell for $800 plus shipping cost or...

for the second year in the trot, I’ve had two broody Peking hens sitting in the same row of nesting boxes. I put fertilised eggs under each. In both years when one hen’s chicks start hatching, the other hen deserts he eggs, and joins the other one. The deserted eggs have almost fully formed...

I’m going to do a hatch! I’m collecting my own eggs for the first time ever, and was wondering about the sizes. I’ve got some red hyline layers that are 1 1/2 years old laying 70-100g eggs, I’m keeping the best of the 70-80g ones. My Marans has only been laying for 2 1/2 months, but I really...

hello im Jackie im new here. i have 30 chickens and 5 guineas . and 11 chickens and 12 guises eggs in the incubator. i think im addicted. my hubby and I share the chicken love.its our family time thing . my lil girl loves to see the process of the chickens hatching. ive never hatched guineas...

Hi, so I'm rather new to all of this. My Pekin Min has been through a lot. With being the main target by my drake, and then somehow breaking her leg we kept her separate to rest and heal. We used a huge dog crate in the barn to keep her separated. And at night since the drake couldnt get to Min...

Hey everyone! Just hatched my first eggs in my incubator! 4 eggs left out of 14. First one pipped 43 hours ago. Two of the remaining eggs are the two breeds I wanted to hatch the most. We are on day 23 from the day I put them in to start incubation. The humidity has been around 58-60 for two...