hatching

  1. 6-Hens-and-Me

    What do you feed your quail and chicken Chicks?

    Hello everyone! I was curious, what do you all feed your chicks? Quail chicks as well as chicken chicks. I would usually feed my quail chicks 27% protein and I can’t get a hold of my usual chick crumb for the chicken chicks, so I was wondering if 27% would be too much for their kidneys to...
  2. B

    100% dry hatch or partial dry hatch?

    ive been having problems with chicks both making it to hatching but drowning in the egg and also chicks dying after about day 7-10. i suspect the latter is because i have to open the incubator once a day to refill the humidity since i cant do it from outside. im looking into trying a dry hatch...
  3. C

    Is this the ring of death?

    This egg has been consistently growing since the beginning but has this bullseye type of shape when candling. It’s day 22, they’ve been on lockdown since day 18. No pipping from any of the eggs yet but this is the only one that looks this. It seems to have gotten more pronounced since...
  4. FAFOfarm

    SOS -HELP -Duckling emergency

    HELP! Duckling 1 hatched on its own, Duckling 2 is a little behind. Duckling 1 has no pecked and pulled at the membrane of Duck 2 and POPPED A BLOOD VESSEL. How do I help duck 2 without killing it myself? qtip and blow dryer?
    • FAFOfarm
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    • bleeding duckling emergency hatching
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: Ducks
  5. S

    Experiment on Hatching Rates School Project :) Need Help With Finding People to give chicks to!

    Hi! I am an experienced chicken hatching high schooler! I used to run a chicken business with my mum when we lived in Canada, now in the US Wisconsin. I wanted to run an ethical experiment/study on hatch rates of different incubating and egg conditions like egg weight and dry hatching vs...
    • skwankschwanke
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    • #dryhatching cheeseheads chick egg weight experimental hatching hatch hatch a chick hatching humidity hatching wisconsin
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
  6. 6-Hens-and-Me

    What temperature do you set your incubator at for different eggs? I’m curious!

    What temp and RH do you set your incubators at for chicken eggs Is it different for quail, and duck eggs? Let me know what stats you find work best!
  7. BrianaIH

    Fun! Beginner Incubating

    My first go at a few eggs was so fun to watch with the kids. Had 3/4 hatch fully healthy, learning new things along the way to better my next batch of eggs !:jumpy:yesss:
  8. M

    I'm planning to hatch chicks for sale for the first time soon.

    I've been around small scale chicken flocks my whole life. My grandma had chickens, my mom had chickens, and I've had a flock of around a dozen for the past 5 years. This year I'm upscaling and doing things differently. I currently have 5 roosters, 35 hens, and one pekin duck hen. I have...
    • member 701893
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    • barred rock easter egger hatching maran maran breeding olive egger
    • Replies: 170
    • Forum: New Member Introductions
  9. J

    Hello I Need to know what breed and gender this baby chick is !

    I purchased these eggs online and this is the chick after 20 days does anyone know the breed and gender ?
  10. Lhynes1478

    Is this egg dead?

    My broody grabbed eggs while I was on vacation. The ones that I knew went in on 1/4/25 hatched in the past two days. There are 3 that look completely dark, but not seeing any movement. I don’t know what day she grabbed these so I don’t know when to expect them. I also can’t really see any veins...
  11. Jberd70

    Looking for EasterEgger hatching eggs near Midlothian Texas

    Good morning all, we are looking for fertile Easter Egger hatching eggs near Midlothian, Texas 76065. Anybody have any recommendations?? Thank you for your responses!
  12. JellyBeans1115

    Eggs were hatching and now thier Not?

    So I sold a person a trio 2hens/1roo of Ayam Cemani. Back on October 6, 2024. They were brother and sisters trio ( she was made aware, I had Different Roosters available Not related, but I guess thats what she wanted because the trio was 6month in age) As soon as she got them home she collected...
  13. Debbie292d

    BYC Valentine's Day Hatch-a-Long

    Valentine's Day is Friday, February 14th, 2025. February is when the chicks start hitting the farm stores. Hatcheries do well in February, as there aren't many of us hatching now. One reason is we aren't getting too many eggs, if any. This year, I'm going to save up any eggs I get, set...
  14. Ch1cken Tender

    Serama Egg Hatching Day

    In the process of hatching Serama eggs and such, I have found that many people get many different hatch days with their Serama eggs. So, I decided to create a poll so that beginning hatchers can know the average hatch day and plan accordingly. Thank you for contributing your experiences!
  15. J

    day 10 of hatching eggs

    how does this one look?
  16. AZHomesteadPoultry

    Small home hatchery Setters and Hatchers

    Hey everyone. I've Recently Started down the road of hatching Chickens for side income, and progressing my duel purpose chicken project. I'm gone working in Alaska May-Sept fishing, and have a dream of working for myself while taking my turn as stay at home parent here in Southeast AZ Sept-May...
  17. C

    Hello fellow chicken lovers

    Hello everyone, I am Bell I love to use this site and reference and learning guide. I’ve joined today to ask one of my own questions. How to improve fertility in Heavy Breed? (Specifically Orpington 50% and Brahma -%) I’ve had great fertility rates with my lighter breed of my three flocks...
  18. B

    Pekin Duck Egg - Saddled? (Help!)

    Hi everyone, (Sorry, I'm a newbie - I hope this has been posted in the right place) I need some advice regarding a Pekin duck egg. It's currently on day 5 of incubation, and has has been automatically turned in my RCom Mini Pro incubator. I’ve avoided candling as the eggs were purchased via...
  19. K

    Pekin eggs

    Duck eggs. When do you intervene? Half of them have chipped huge holes when they piped. Picture of one of the eggs in question. They piped yesterday and the membrane where the hole is appears to be drying it's turned white and now yellow and sunken a bit even though the tray is filled with water...
  20. Timbers Happy Hens

    Staggered hatch question

    I started a batch of eggs about a week ago, they are silkie and silkie mixes. With winter my roosters fertility has dropped quite a bit so out of 20 eggs I only ended up with 9 developing. The rest didn’t even start. I was hoping for a bigger hatch than that so my question is could I add more...
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