I had a very successful hatch so far but one of my chicks (the last one to pip) was having trouble and making no progress so I stepped in to help (gently, carefully with all precautions taken of course). When he was almost out of the shell, I noticed one of the feet had all of the toes shorter...
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While I don’t really have a question as such, I thought this was such an interesting crazy thing to happen, I might as well document it on here!
Sooo my beautiful Turkey girl Irene (rescued from the Xmas dinner trade, lol) recently decided to get it on with my adorable stag Bronson...
She's currently my my only egger chick, and my only seemingly troubled hatch (out of a hatch of 12/18 if she hatches & survives). The incubator temp is 99% and humidity is 60%. She pipped about 30-31 hours ago, but we're going on 24+ with the zip line and half crack away. The exposed membrane...
So my emu hatched 30 minutes ago and i noticed that it was bleeding. I thought it was just from egg but then i saw a bigger puddle underneath. I pur a napkin underneath it and not sure if its going to survive. Should i put pressure on where its bleeding or let it sit on the napkin. I did not...
Hello all, I have recently been incubating call ducks and I ran into a lot of problems during hatching. I got eight eggs off of eBay and they all arrived with no cracks but pretty wonky air cells. I let them sit large end up for 24 hours before incubating and 6 out of eight developed (one was...
Hello all, I have recently been incubating call ducks and I ran into a lot of problems during hatching. I got eight eggs off of eBay and they all arrived with no cracks but pretty wonky air cells. I let them sit large end up for 24 hours before incubating and 6 out of eight developed (one was...
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I'm having issues with my new Janoel 12 incubator. I had the temperature holding steady at 37.9 so I put eggs in this morning and when I checked the temperature with another thermometer, it seems to have dropped down to 36.5 and I'm nervous to fiddle with it now.
Temperature set...
Need help dont know what to do.... possible emergency idk. Day 2 since he chipped the egg now doesnt have a whole section of shell but the membrane is fully intact micro veins not many decent looking ones.... scared.
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i had a duckling hatch early last week from a breach position which at first I thought had curled toes. But it now sems like either some sort of leg deformity that I cant find any info on, or a neurological issue, which seems to be getting worse the stronger the duckling gets.
Since...
Hey, I am down too 4 chickens, I put 22 eggs in the incubator. I am a little worried because all the other batches were fails... Is there anything I can do to increase there hatch rate?? I turn them three times a day and I keep the humidity at 45-55% and the temperature at 102.5F because it is...
So I'm hatching out muscovy ducks, it's been about 38 days, I set 20 eggs and so far 2 have hatched. A third one started hatching 2 days ago, made a little hole and then hadn't progressed in 2 days. He was peeping and all so I decided to help him out a bit, I found out that his wing was across...