incubating

  1. Chickenwingwing

    Candling day 3 are they dead

    hi this is my first time incubating using the brinsea mini incubator. I know #3 is prob dead, but what about the others? They have been in there since Tuesday. Thanks for your help
  2. Crazy Duck Lover

    Good layer feed?

    Hello everyone! Currently I have a few sets of duck eggs incubating but I was wondering if y’all could help me pick out a good quality layer feed for top notch eggs. I plan to sell eggs once my ducks can lay! Also, what would be a good food for drakes? Can they eat what the ducks eat, or do they...
  3. Katiewshrum

    Day 20 and not a pip

    Currently halfway through day 20 and there are no pips in any of my 9 eggs. I candles before lockdown and all 9 had progressed beautifully. I have had difficulty regulating the humidity. It’s dropped as low as 65%. Temp has stayed steady at 38C. I know the chicks will come if and when they are...
  4. meepANDpeep

    How/when to add humidity to shipped eggs?

    I have 3 shipped silkie eggs and one shipped turkey egg. I let them rest for 36 hours, and they've been in the incubator since Wednesday... I didn't start turning them until Saturday and I have been turning them very gently in the upright position at a slight angle clockwise then counter...
  5. JoshuaBurke

    My chicken hatched!

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  6. damicochickens

    Is this the umbilical cord??

    Hello! This little guy just hatched and were wondering if this is the umbilical cord?
  7. Z

    Dirty egg

    Hello, I have been incubating silkie chicken eggs for 8 days now and I just read something about not putting dirty eggs in the incubator. I already put a dirty egg as shown in the pic and was wondering if it would be fine. I candled them yesterday and everything seemed to be fine with the embryo...
  8. Bird_Lover_17

    Incubator for a hatching newbie

    hey! So I'm planning on hatching some quail eggs this spring, (but I need to save up the money for an incubator now). Does anyone have any suggestions? I was thinking the Brinsea Mini II incubator for size... Just so that you can get an idea of what I'm thinking of: -Automatic turner -Not a...
  9. Z

    Temperature and humidity for hatching chickens

    Hello, I am hatching Silke chicken eggs and I am very confused on what the temperer and humidity should be for incubating them. I am keeping my temperature at 37.5 Celsius and humidity at 50 to 55. Whenever the humidity goes below 45 my incubator beeps. are these the right settings? On...
  10. Ravenlover

    Hatching A Pet new eggs

    well eggs arrived Monday around 7pm let them set till about 4am when i woke up made sure incubator was at 99.8 then loaded it up and waited and watched as tempt slowly crawled back up then i been checking and adjusting as the day got hot \o.o/ humidity is steady at 41% with no water added and...
  11. Lpskitfit

    Incubating Duck Egg with Insulated Lunch Box

    Hello all! My ducks are not being broody at all and I've finally decided to try and incubate them myself without an incubator. I've got an insulated lunch box, a heating bad, and some warm wet wash rags with an egg. My mom put the mallard egg we had in the fridge so I've been left with a large...
  12. BantyChooks

    Ended Official 2020 BYC Halloween Hatch-Along

    # Contest Name Host 1 Official 2020 BYC Halloween HAL Egg Decorating Contest! TwoCrows 2 Official 2020 BYC Halloween HAL Pumpkin Carving CluckNDoodle 3 Official 2020 BYC Halloween HAL Fall on the Farm Photo Contest jolenesdad 4 Official 2020 BYC Halloween HAL Poultry Pumpkin Eating...
  13. K

    DUCK EGG CRACKED WITH NO PIP (MAYBE DEAD)

    Hi! This is my first time hatching duck eggs - I have two duck eggs that I’m incubating right now, both of them were a week old and fertile when I got them. Today is around day 26. One of the eggs might be dead now because I didn’t see any movements/there was a lot of air sacs that were moving...
  14. Dfarago

    Bleed out in eggs

    I have Muscovy ducks that lay and raise their own eggs and ducklings. My ducks have both successfully hatched and raised clutches separately however out of this clutch only one egg hatched out of about seventeen eggs. I candle every so often (not consistently but every two weeks) and out of...
  15. V

    Hatching Guinea keets. Help!

    Hi I am hoping someone can help me. This is my first time hatching Guinea keets and I am now on Day 28 almost 29 the first one pipped start of day 24 I have 6 keets alive and 1 pending. I Also have another 11 eggs in the incubator I candled them all before lockdown it looks like they were all...
  16. totribet

    Not sure what to do

    Earlier this week I was picking up eggs in the coop that the broody had abandoned. One of them started chirping at me so I took it quickly to the incubator and it hatched a couple of hours later no problem. A second one was candled and there were veins and movement so it’s currently in the...
  17. luv geese

    Egg pic help needed🤗

    Hello I had three eggs incubating- no real idea when they were to hatch So I just put them in there and waited. One hatched yesterday and here are pics of the other 2. They look completely different upon candlingeven tho I took them from the nest on the same day I just don’t know when they were...
  18. Keely Noodle

    First Time Hatching Quail - Very Worried

    To get to the point, I'm worried about my friend possibly (non-purposefully) sabotaging the survival of her quails. It's her first time ever hatching anything, and she is hatching some bobwhite quail eggs bought online. I lent her my incubator which I've used for indian runner duck eggs, all...
  19. Chirpingchickens

    Chick just hatched with something on bottom!

    I’m new to incubating and it’s day 21. I don’t know if this is normal or not. It doesn’t look yellow like a yolk. More green and white kind of like poop. I don’t know if it’s actually poop though. Do chicks hatch with a string of poop attached to its butt? I may just sound really dumb haha! The...
  20. E

    (HELP!) Day 30 with my duck egg and still no internal pipping

    I started incubating this duck egg on may 19th and it still hasn’t hatched. I’ve been incubating it with my homemade incubator. So I know the temperature has been fluctuating between around 93-100 degrees. I checked on the duck egg recently and I can still see it moving but I can’t see any...
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