So first time one here.
I have two eggs that are being incubated and nested by their mama. And it’s about to ice around here. How should I bring the mother and father chicken in and the eggs?
When I bring the mom inside she always stops being broody, is there a way to keep her broody inside...
Hey guys im looking for some advice. I got 7 hatching eggs and started them January 14th. I have a nurture right 360. I have kept the humidity around 50% and the temperature at 100.5. I do not have them in direct light and I have kept their area warm with a space heater that I have been...
Looking to increase my small gaggle with pretty additions. I have 3 mixed geese that are half white Sebastopol / half pomeranian saddleback (probably all female). Also have 3 colored Sebastopol - one male lavender, one male buff, and one female buff. They are all 8+ months old and the males are...
I went out to check on my mama hens this afternoon. I have two of them, one with 3 hatched chicks & one with 4 unhatched chicks.
The hen that's supposed to be on a nest was out on the town with her friends. This isn't the first time she's left the kids home unattended. 😒 So my CPS (chick...
Thought I did enough research before but I guess not considering this last hatch rate. Throw me all your incubation tips for coturnix quail. For both still air and circulated, and hand turning tips. What humidity do you prefer? Do you dry hatch? What day do you go into lockdown? 14 or 15? What...
Out of 17 quail that went into lockdown, 11 have piped. The first one piped 24 hours ago now and has made no progress- multiple others are right along that time-frame and the same thing.. is this normal?? I can hear chirps, but not seeing a ton of movement from the eggs.. I'm really starting to...
Hello! I am really new to incubating and would really appreciate any advice! I received eggs in the mail yesterday. I let them sit at 55-60 degrees F. Room air is about 55-59. I put the eggs in this morning and when I noticed the incubator was up to 75 % humidity. I then opened the incubator to...
Hi, While I know the title of website is Back yard Chickens. I was wondering if anyone has incubated duck eggs? Unfort I bought a batch of eggs labeled as fertile for Aylesbury breed, However after 10 days no development was seen and the temps where kept at 37.5 Celcius and round 55-60%...
To clarify, my daughter inlaw bought them with the intention to eat them, and gave me 3. They are very clean, so I assume they have been washed, and I believe that eggs sold at farmer's markets are required to be washed around my area (Tennessee). I do not know how long ago they were laid. So, I...
Hi all, I put this egg into a homemade incubator in the mid afternoon of 24th September. I counted 25th as day 1. Today is now day 29 and there is no internal pip. There is plenty of movement when I candled it but it just doesn’t look right. The air sac looks small and I can see it’s beak...
Hi, I have an egg that internally pipped over 48 hours ago. After 24 hours it still hadn't externally pipped so I poked a small hole through the air cell and put it back in the bator. 24 hours later there was no progress and I could no longer hear it peeping. I began chipping away the shell and...
So I have an egg that pipped yesterday and has now started zipping. I wasn't home when it started zipping but I came home to it lying in a pool of yellow liquid. It's still alive, I can see it breathing. Anyone know what happened?
i’m currently incubating some quail eggs for the 4th time. 1st try was success, the rest weren’t, and now i’m doing it again. every time we hatched quails, they either poked a hole or completely got out all on days 23-24. which i thoguht was normal bc i had read it was 25 days, which i’m glad i...
I am thinking about starting an online class for incubating eggs. My idea is to prove a list of required items. And the base of the class using a nurture right 360. As I think it’s a great intro machine and not to costly. Then I will have online zoom meeting or something similar that goes over...
Hey everyone, it’s my first time hatching eggs, and when I bought the incubator I was told to set the temp at 37.7 C and 55 % humidity. And that’s all I had to do. However I added multiple batches at different times. Will I still have to turn up the humidity to 70 % at the last 3 days? Do I...
Hey everyone,
It’s my first time incubating eggs, and I’m incubating 15 eggs in an automatic incubator, all the eggs are growling really well, except one egg, that does have veins, but it’s in a very disproportionate shape, is it going to hatch? And if it does hatch will the chick be normal...
We incubated three shipped eggs in a Rcom pro mini last summer. Two of the three hatched (the other wasn’t fertile). We didn’t do anything special, we just set it to the duck program and topped up the water reservoir when it got low.
We have tried incubating our own eggs this summer (same...
So I've been letting my broody mama sit on her eggs. I was going to let her hatch them but so far at least 2 to 4 of the eggs that were close to hatching were busted open. I had since discovered that my magpies were going in there and eating the eggs via a camera and catching one with yoke on...
My bird has started laying eggs for 4 days. Should I put these eggs into incubator to test? Or should I wait another week?
I have heard that the first week batch is not suitable.(C. japonica)