hatching

  1. T

    challenging spring and summer

    I've had an unusually challenging spring and summer hatching chickens out. My egg collectors were refrigerating the eggs in the beginning and not placing them correctly for incubation 😭 We've had horrible power surges and brownouts all year, especially during critical times like lockdown and...
    • tolmema
    • Thread
    • austra white breeding designer chickens dominant white hatching incubation lavender ameraucana lavender gene
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    • Forum: Pictures & Stories of My Flock
  2. bellalovesducks

    Shrink wrapped duckling? Passed away?

    So our welsh harlequin hen incubated eggs on her own. They were doing perfect up until the external pips. One egg ended up pretty smushed because momma got nervous and stepped on her. This is our first time hatching eggs so we figured to just let her be and she would take care of it.. well it...
  3. S

    Advice please, pip 26+ hours ago, no progress.

    Hello, I’m relatively new at incubating (this is my second round). I have 3 eggs on day 22, 1 chick has fully hatched (it went from first pip to hatching in 18 hours). The other two chicks pipped 6 hours before that chick (who has now hatched), with very little progress over the last 15 hours...
  4. F

    I lightly hit an egg that is 23 days along

    I have broody mama on eggs, and half have already hatched.... she moved off the eggs so I gently transported them from the old nest to where she was currently on the way I bonked an egg... what could this do to the chick? Would it be ok? Also can spinning a chicken egg on hatching day hurt the...
  5. P

    Peafowl Hatching/Walking Issues

    Hi gang, A month ago I bought 4 peafowl eggs from a lovely guy near me. I put them in my (very cheap) hobbyist incubator with little hope but and interest to see what happened. This morning we work to one hatched and two pipped which was exciting! By late afternoon, it was clear that the...
  6. PerturbedPanther

    Wantage, NJ - Dutch Owlbeard Hatching Eggs

    Would anyone be interested in Dutch Owlbeard eggs? My breeding stock is from Greenfire Farms. The hens are lemon, the rooster is a lemon/gold mixture. They are pickup only, since I am not NPIP certified. $7 each or $75 for a dozen.
  7. Muser

    First time hatching eggs

    Hi All, I have a big broody Orpington/Brahma and she's super keen to sit on eggs. Been trying to break her for a good week, she's currently sat in chicken jail and I just feel terrible for her so having second thoughts about maybe putting some eggs under her to hatch. I was going to order...
  8. K

    help! my duck is hatching infertile eggs

    hello! i have a female duck that has been laying an egg per day for almost 2 years but on May 8th she began making a nest and laying all of her eggs there… none of them are fertile since i don’t have a drake, but it’s been over a month and the last few days she’s been refusing to move so now i...
    • kln
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    • duck duck eggs duck nest duckling advice hatching hatching advice laying eggs pekin duck
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Ducks
  9. C

    Uneggspected hatch

    hen hatched one baby chick last Monday. Separated mom and baby and they’re doing great. Unexpectedly had another egg hatch today in the main coop with 2 hens laying on top of it. When I moved them to collect eggs I saw it and one of them protected the baby and the other looked like it’s shoving...
  10. P

    GQF cabinet incubator for sale

    I have a GQF cabinet incubator for sale. I believe it is a 1200 series. It has 3 egg trays, holds 290 chicken eggs, water reserve system with bucket, auto Turner, 6 adjustable vents on back, high volume air circulating fan, newer electric thermostat, and backup wafer system. Works great, I've...
  11. chimkinlover

    Poultry Breeding Pens/Coops

    I've been getting into raising rarer breeds of chickens/poultry, so I'm looking for breeding pen/coop ideas. I have lots of groups/pairs I would like to keep separate so I was wondering if anyone had any info/ideas to help me out. I found a few double decker cage ideas online, which seem very...
  12. Horou

    Call duck Eggs wiggle but no internal pip Day 25

    When to go into lockdown? Egg #1 and 2 have been wiggling, and Egg #3 has been just no movement of any kind. Egg #1 & 2 are in an incubator together, and Egg #3 is in an incubator by itself. It's Day 25. We tried to candle them with a heat lamp ontop, and flashlight underneath, to keep the...
  13. H

    Trouble hatching

    I’m at a loss on ideas i tried looking up what could cause this and can’t find anything. the eggs are rested a few hours before put in and put in pointy end down humidity on lockdown is 70% and temperature is 99.5 this egg was doing fine moving when i put it in the incubator for lockdown on day...
  14. S

    Dead egg?

    All the rest have hatched while we were on vacation )we had someone watching them.) except this one. We figured it’d hatch out by now we collected these all about the same time. But to me it kinda looks like it stoped growing but I’m not too sure how to tell and the dark kinda blood spot on...
  15. FenrisMau

    Want to buy African Goose hatching eggs

    Looking for either African or Super African hatching eggs... I need 6 of them. Looking for this color pattern, please show me the color of your stock. And please don't be offended if I decline... looking for this specific coloration. Will need to be shipped to Rincon, GA. Thanks in advance!
  16. EquiAsh95

    Assisted hatching?

    This egg has been like this for 8 hours. Membrane is starting to dry out and turn brown. The last time this happened I had to assist the chick out. Should I wait a little longer before assisting? I don’t want to ruin the other eggs. Most have pipped but not made any progress in the 8hrs I’ve...
  17. D

    Help needed! Duckling about to die!

    i am hatching mallard duckling that were abandoned by the mother since the second day, and when they first started hatching, 3 of the 4 eggs made an external pip and died for unknown reasons, the fourth started cracking yesterday and it was chirping 5 hours ago but now he isn’t moving much and...
  18. Galaxy_rules

    What happened?!

    It’s day 23 for my eggs under Blackberry ( broodie ). Yesterday morning I went to let my chickens out, everyone ( except Blackberry ) came out as usual. I scoped up three cups of pellets for 11 chickens outside, then I scooped a small bit of stage two chick food out for Blackberry ( I usually...
    • Galaxy_rules
    • Thread
    • #thegurlklub australorp black australorp blue australorp chicks broodie hen chicks hatch a chick hatching late dead in shell
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
  19. MotherDucker3

    Please help!! call ducklings dying during hatch

    I started with 7 eggs, all fertile and all were growing and developing fine. 3 days ago I candled and 2 of the eggs had died and stopped growing, no veins and the inside was yellow. There 2 both had much smaller airsacs then the rest so I’m assuming that is why they died? I removed those 2 and...
  20. S

    Incubating/hatching

    We’re incubating and hatching chicks it’s our first time and we hatched the first 2 successfully, i have one that i heard chirping from inside the egg so i came over to look and saw the shell had a crack in it but i haven’t heard anything and it hasn’t cracked anymore in 3 hours, the other 2...
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