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...
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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...
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(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...
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...
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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I am hatching eggs. They were shipped to me and I have a feeling something was wrong because the shipping was delayed and they shipped when it was colder. Not to mention if something says fragile it’s not always handled as such.
I made a post a while ago, about how strange the air sacs...
so long story short my duck as been in the incubator for about 35 days! and i tried to open it up on the air sac side but it accidently teared the membrane i tiny but and small amounts of blood came out what should i do?? should i try to find the beak and open it there or should i just stop all...
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A bit of a rant but also a cry for help. I've been trying to locate Buff Polish Chickens/Chicks/Hatching Eggs and failing miserably. I've checked every hatchery I can find, searched through Craigslist AND eBay but not a soul has purebred Buff Polish chickens. They're all mutts, mixed...
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I am working on my spreadsheets to prepare for the upcoming hatching/breeding season. I follow Poultry Keepers 360 on Facebook and they have TONS of extremely helpful information there. I thought I would share the spreadsheet I found on their page. If you are just a hobby...
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So one of the ducks we hatched ourselves has been sitting on her nest beautifully for 31 days today she has got off and left it all day. She's a runner.
I've just candled the eggs and most looks like they are at the very end stage. Can't see any movement. but the eggs largely looks like...
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I am planning on shipping eggs this hatching season. I used to do it about 8 years ago, but I have pretty much forgotten the tips and tricks. I'd love to hear y'alls tips on packaging eggs for shipping. I have recieved quail hatching eggs before. They came in a small box that had...
I just moved back to my mom’s house and they have a male and female Rouen duck and the females been sitting on eggs. I candled them. This one internally pipped and is trying to break the shell do I help it? Do I need to move the chick into a warm area after it comes out do I remove it and help...
I have an incubator that can take up to two rubber tubings going from these water bottle attachments (where a plastic 20oz bottle sits in it upside down and a plastic tubing runs to the incubator so there is no need to keep refilling.
I don't need another incubator. All my incubator came with...
Hello!So, i have a situation and cant find any suggestions what to do. We found our polish chicken hiding with bunch of eggs. After candling we found out 3 eggs where viable but one was behind in development. Probably laid later. First two chicks hatched and the chicken refused to sit on the...
My family would love to hatch some Magpie Ducklings. We only found two hatchries that sell them, one has bad reviews and the other was $15 per egg plus shipping (out of our budget for 20ish eggs). I'd be happy to buy from individuals as well, we've browsed Facebook Marketplace, Craigstlist and...
We had a momma sitting on eggs up to 2 weeks ago then she stopped so we brought them in to incubate. One hatched in middle of night. With the yoke sac not absorbed first pic is what fell off earlier. 2nd pic is what it looks like now? Hatching was unassisted but may have been prematurely. Is...
Hi i incubated four eggs, one was lost early on leaving three that developed fine. On day 20 one hatched but its now day 23 and the other two havent. Ive candled them and i can still see veins and the air cell is in tact but i cant tell if they are moving as its too dark in the egg. Ive left...
Hey guys, please help a little newbie!
I have three silkie eggs in my incubator which are on day 11. When I did my check in last night to weigh them and candle, they all looked good. Movement, good blood vessels etc. However when I weighed them, one of the eggs has lost 12 GRAMS since it went...
Hey there! I am incubating eggs for the first time, and I am really worried the eggs don't have enough air
(big overthinker here LOL)
My incubator is from Amazon and inexpensive (I bought it before I realised how important a good one is) and it came with only one 6mm vent above the fan which...