Hi this is our first time hatching eggs and we’ve had a couple issues one of the chicks came out like this
She seems to be a pretty normal chick so far but I do worry if it’s normal especially since the side she was on of our incubator I think has some issues with ventilation that’s the side...
This is my second time ever trying to hatch my own eggs. I had only 1 hatch my first go around so I got a new incubator because the one I was initially using was an old hand me down.
Round 2, I followed everything. Candled at day 18 and got them ready to go for lockdown.
4 hatched… on day 19…...
I raise ringneck doves. Even though they are different in some ways than chickens i still think someone here can help me. I have a pair that are first time parents. They had 2 eggs that went a day over the due date to hatch. I looked last night under the hen and saw that both eggs had a small...
Possum had a LOT of trouble hatching and I was really sure he wouldnt survive the night. He was limp, weak, quiet, it was bad!
He ended up getting a lot of extra snuggle time with me checking on him; the first time he fell asleep belly up I was like “aww look! So tired he couldn’t even right...
Muscovy incubator hatching- first time. Day 36. 8 eggs. 4 external pips and one egg with dark circle on small end of egg?? What is this spot. Does it need help? Also, is external pips large enough? Anything I should do? Lockdown Temp at 98.5 and humidity at 62%. Is this okay? 1 vent fully open...
Hi guys, so I don’t really know what I’m hoping to achieve with this post, other than (at the very least) to utilise my current situation as an informative experiment for others to refer to, should they find themselves in a similar situation to me right now.
So it is my first time trying a bit...
Long story short I have 2 issues. I am new to quail and have cortunix. I need advise and help to find out were I am going wrong here. I do not want to keep killing chicks before they get out of the egg!
Problem #1: Hatch rates in my incubator are low and chicks are dyeing in their shells fully...
Hi! We are hatching our first round of chicks, we have always bought chicks before now, but a friend of my husband’s thought it would be a fun project for our daughter while on stay at home. Not a great hatch rate, but we had one pip and then she kept fighting and just couldn’t get unzipped. I...
Hello everyone! Thank you in advance for any and all suggestions!
I have an advanced Brinsea incubator and I am having low hatch rates. It is all automatic and everything so it should work really well. I have read a lot of reviews about how they always have high hatching rates because they are...
So this keet hatched with the cord wrapped around it's body and I ended up having to cut it because it started to suffocating it. I cut it and it bled a bit but it's ok now. The only problem is that it looks so different than the umbilical cord I've seen before on chicks so I just want to make...
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This is my 2nd batch of guineas in the same incubator, and I know I'm doing something wrong. 15 eggs all moving when candled and totally viable. Out of those 15 in this batch only 6 hatched. The ones that hatched also hatched early. The first one started hatching in the...
Okay , so as you know from afore mentioned with SHELBY that we are having hatching issues .
We get a pretty good hatch rate for the most part, But lately we are still losing alot in the eggs from being in the incubator the humidity and the temperature are electronically controlled and...
Hi! So I’m just starting to hatch out my first group of turkey eggs. This is my first time hatching turkeys and I understand they can be more challenging. So far I have one hatched and many more pipped.
The egg I have provided a photo of pipped about 19 hours ago but the chick has made little...
Okay, I really need help! And to calm down. I have two really bad issues. and one not so bad one.
1. Hatching duck egg; I don't have an incubator anymore, so when eggs are abandoned in the nest it's always a huge issue for me. So i have one egg. All day it's been on a hot water bottle in a box...
I had an egg that would be ready to hatch any day now but just two days ago I candled the egg and all I can see is blood! No veins, no chick, no anything.
What could've happened? I saw it moving around about 5 days ago and it was fine! Did it explode inside the egg? How can I stop this from...
I have done 4 hatches so far in my incubator, and this problem occurs in all hatches, to about 25-50% of the hatch. It has occurred with chicks from several breeds, and also to a Chinese painted quail chick, so I know it isn't a genetic issue.
The incubator is a little giant still air...
Apologies in advance for lots of reading, but this situation is rather strange and I'm new to this.
Okay, so long story kind-of short...My mother wants to raise chickens. She set up an incubator etc, and put in about 36 eggs, different breeds (I had no idea she was planning this so don't know...
Hello, BYC Community-
I seem to have an angry incubator- it turns on, but stays at 70° F the whole day, which is terrible for my eggs. I looked through the whole manual for the incubator and there was nothing to troubleshoot. No matter how much I switched and changed the temperature settings, it...
Help! My incubator humidity dropped and this guy internally popped two days ago. He is still giving me small movements. I broke open the shell to give assistance and have been wetting the membrane for the past 8 hours with no further luck. What should I do now? Is it too soon still and he wasn't...