hatching assist

  1. DingusDuck

    Do I need to help these eggs hatch?

    Today is hatch day(the incubator still thinks it is the day before hatch day but in a few hours it will be hatch day). Yesterday a bunch of eggs piped and started to zip, today only on hatched and a bunch the rest of the eggs have seemingly stoped. On egg the the duckling made a strangely big...
    • DingusDuck
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    • duckling hatching hatching assist
    • Replies: 30
    • Forum: Ducks
  2. DuckDuckDragon

    Air cells too small… day 26

    Hi all, I’m currently on Day 26 of incubating 8 Ancona duck eggs. This is my second hatch—my first went extremely well, but I had to constantly monitor and adjust humidity to keep it under 60%. This time, I decided to let the incubator manage humidity on its own, and it stayed fairly steady at...
    • DuckDuckDragon
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    • air cell issue ancona ducks duck eggs hatching duck hatch help needed hatching assist humidity lockdown lockdown advice safety hole small air cells
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Ducks
  3. M

    Egg rocking then nothing

    Hey there this is my first time hatching chicks and I was almost at 100% until I saw an egg was rocking like it wanted to hatch… then no movement. It was doing this for two days. No pip. Should I pip for it? Or just cut my losses?? I really have no idea what to do.
    • Maka
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    • chick stuck in egg egg advice egg help hatching hatching assist hatching help what to do
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
  4. -Shade-

    Overdue chick--Should I help her?

    We have another batch of turkeys hatching right now. There were 8 eggs at the start. One was not fertile, 1 died around day 7, 2 are mysteries that we think one might have died a few days before lockdown or was never fertile, and the other was moving before but has stopped and we are afraid...
  5. Jessica Lyn

    24 hours post pip and no zip

    Out of 17 quail that went into lockdown, 11 have piped. The first one piped 24 hours ago now and has made no progress- multiple others are right along that time-frame and the same thing.. is this normal?? I can hear chirps, but not seeing a ton of movement from the eggs.. I'm really starting to...
  6. T

    When do Hens become Broody and hatch eggs? How to hatch eggs?

    Hi Guys, these are my first Hens so l am not really an expert in this matter. I have two hens and my inquiry is that how do l make them broody or when will they start hatching eggs? Here are the details of my Hens: White Hen (Murgi) Breed = Brahma or Cochin breed, l am not really sure or...
  7. Eggs2chicks

    Help. 3, 5 day old chicks and 2 abandoned eggs starting to pip.

    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??
    • Eggs2chicks
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    • hatching and incubating hatching assist help chick incubating integrate chicks
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Managing Your Flock
  8. Eggs2chicks

    Should I help them hatch out and how. HELP!!!

    So she abandoned the eggs after 3 hatched. Two others were not viable and two were. So the two that were are inside under a heat lamp. First night in one was pecking but never broke the shell. They are both still moving. Should I help them hatch. They were laid sept 2nd. Please help don’t want...
  9. amandamann724

    Chicks pecking at other eggs- blood

    This is our first time hatching chicken eggs. We have two out and they are pecking at the other eggs and each other. One of the eggs they are pecking at now has an open hole and blood. The other egg has a chipped shell where they are pecking but the air sac isn't broken yet. It looks like its...
  10. J

    Duck eggs

    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...
  11. T

    First time hatching. Is this normal?

    I’ve got a hen hatching 6 fertilized eggs we bought and put under her while she was broody. This our first time hatching eggs and one has begun hatching. The head and most of its body have been out about 3 hours but nothing much has progressed since then. Still lying next to the mama hen with...
  12. CourtCalee

    Duckling Assisted Hatch SOS

    Hi All, I have some Pekin/Mallard cross ducklings that i have been incubating. I am on Day 32 and while they were still alive I felt like I needed to investigate why they had not pipped internally. I have broken open the air cell only to find that they are ALL upside down (I now know this is...
  13. hannachristena

    would you safety hole an internal pip w/ no external after 24 hours?

    3 of my eggs have internal pipped yesteray at this time. they are chirping sometimes but there is NO external pip. its been 24 hours and im worried now. would you create a safe hole ? what should i do?
  14. Egg-plant momma

    Hi y'all

    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...
  15. C

    HELP! CHICK STARTED ZIPPING BUT STOPPED

    I have a chick that started zipping about 6 hours ago but stopped and I’m not really sure what to do. I would open up the incubator to help it, but I have 3 other chicks that have pipped and I don’t want to “shrink wrap” them. Should I just wait till the pipped eggs hatch and then help it?
  16. tayjamieson

    Help! Why do our ducklings keep dying during hatching?

    Hello, I'm in desperate need of some insight, I'm pretty heart broken because this morning we had our 5th duckling die during hatching. We hatched eggs about a month and a half ago and we lost a couple which I understand that the mortality rate during hatching for ducklings is roughly 20%, but...
    • tayjamieson
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    • ducklings ducklings dying hatching hatching and incubating hatching assist humidity control humidity problems incubator pekin ducks temperature problems
    • Replies: 27
    • Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
  17. J

    Silicone Flower baking cups for Assisted Hatching

    Hello, I just wanted to share a idtem that I found EXTREMELY useful for assisted hatching. A few years ago some duck eggs I incubated were having difficulty hatching due to the humidity being too low(was my first time incubating and misread the humidity levels for ducklings) and the...
  18. ourcozycoop

    Humidity

    hey everyone We recently purchased a small incubator able to hold and hatch 9 eggs at a time. It has a fan and temp control. I bought a humidor (?) but am having a hard time holding the proper humidity. It’s either too high or too low. Any tips! Hind sight. I should have purchased one with temp...
  19. Kaidorke

    Day 23 and chick is struggling to hatch, I unzipped - not sure what to do now

    hi there, This is my first time incubating and hatching all on my own. Other times was the agriculture class project at school a couple of years ago. I have one egg who has made a hole in is shell, I can see it’s beak and he is chirping away. It was like this for 2 days so I thought I should...
  20. J

    Pipped in middle, zipped and stopped

    Help! My first batch and this little chick pipped 24 hours ago, on day 23 we think, but we did have a problem with the incubator in the first 2 days so it might be day 21 officially.... It pipped in the middle, then zipped, a little bit further round. It's now been sat with this hole which was...
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