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  1. S

    Help! Two dead chicks, not sure what to do

    Hi everyone, this is our first time we've had a hen go broody completely and since we have a rooster we figured we would let her sit on them. However, we have had two chicks hatch out about a day apart and both have died. We just found them under Mama dead. I am worried the broody is homicidal...
  2. ChickenMamaSarah

    Pipped at the wrong end about 24 hours ago

    I’m not sure what to do with this little guy. This egg pipped at the wrong end about 24 hours ago and didn’t make much progress throughout the day yesterday. When I came out this morning I saw the egg looking like this. The chick is moving and peeping but the membrane looks dry and there is...
  3. HenniesInMyHeart

    PLEASE HELP! Chick Pushing Against Membrane: Help Or Wait?

    I have made external pip holes for my silkie chicks because I keep losing babies at the end and just figured out because I am at high altitude, they don't get enough air in lockdown! I made holes in the top of the shells because I don't want to lose these babies. My question is this: If my baby...
  4. vrsilver

    Hatching Issues- Help!

    Hello BYC! This is my first time posting, although I’ve read a lot on the site prior to tonight. I am hatching chicks for the first time. I rescued them from a local university- they were left over from a developmental class and were going to be destroyed :-( The eggs I got were at varying...
  5. Seasonmomma

    Internal pip over 27 hours ago and still no external pip, help!

    First off, I have read the Sally Sunshine assisted hatch post several times over. I just can’t decide if I really should do something or wait it out some more. Yesterday was day 19, I had an internal pip at roughly 5:45am, heard peeping and saw a little moving all throughout the day, but today...
  6. L

    My chick pipped, but nothing else.

    So this is my first time hatching time eggs, and I had a chick pip at 3:30pm yesterday, and I was watching it for the whole night, nothing else happened. Currently my chick has her beak out and peeping away, but nothing else. It’s almost been 24 hours and I’m worried. I’m prepared to help them...
  7. C

    Hatching chicks under hens

    Hi, This summer 8 of my hens decided to go broody so I put some eggs under them, the eggs are red shaver X silky. I have 26 viable eggs due in the next few days and 4 have started hatching today. I had 6 hatch a few days ago and we had to help all of them but 1 hatch, as the shell was super hard...
  8. Ash999

    Help!! Newly hatched duckling struggled

    Hello. This is my first time doing this and he was struggling coming out the egg for over 40 hours so we assisted today and we got him out the egg but all he wants to do is stay curled up in a ball? is there something wrong? will he survive? please help)-:
  9. Erin Brotherson

    Should I intervene

    Hey guys, Me and my partner are new to the world of incubation. We started with 7 eggs 30 days ago (started 18th of September) and We have reason to believe that only 2 are still kicking as they're showing signs of movement and have both internally piped. One of the eggs has cracked the outer...
    • Erin Brotherson
    • Thread
    • duck hatching assist help for incubating duck eggs
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Ducks
  10. K.Riggs

    Please tell me your shipped egg experiences!

    OK, I know a lot of people have a lot of trouble incubating shipped eggs. I got 12 Cayuga eggs. One was smashed on delivery and went in the bin. One was infertile. So I now have 10 of 10 fertile eggs on day 18 moving vigorously. The air cells aren't good some worse than others and I even...
    • K.Riggs
    • Thread
    • cayuga ducks chicks ducklings hatch advice hatch rate hatching hatching assist incubating lockdown shipped eggs
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
  11. NettyM

    Assist or leave

    we have 2 Indian runner duck eggs in a Brinsea advance mini incubator . Originally 4 but 2 weren't fertile . On day 30 we heard tap tap tapping but after 24 hours could see no pip so after much deliberation decided to quickly look and see if chick has pipped underneath and sure enough it had and...
    • NettyM
    • Thread
    • duck eggs ducks hatching assist hatching chicks hatching ducks incubation pippedeggs
    • Replies: 123
    • Forum: New Member Introductions
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