incubation

  1. WILIFORD

    32 in lockdown

    I just put 32 eggs in lock down this morning. My goal this year is to raise them through the whole process using only my wool hens. No artificial light, no heat source, other than the wool hens. I started out with 41 eggs. I only candled at day 10 and day 18. At day 10: I disqualified 3 eggs as...
  2. Oldegarlicshnapp

    What’s the significance of egg size?

    I have Ko Shamo and Old English bantam in the incubator right now. The Ko Shamo eggs are larger than the bantam eggs, but they’ve both been incubating together at the same time. Though I see that since the bantam eggs are smaller, that they’re taking up more space in their eggs. The Ko Shamos...
  3. DuckDuckPromise

    Lord’s Willing, how much pip before the zip?

    Hey friends! PRAISE THE LORD, we have an external pip on our Cayuga duck egg!!! 😊😊 I’ve read over the sticky thread on the topic, but I couldn’t find (or maybe overlooked) a general timeframe between the external pip to when they start to zip... I did see on the thread that they pip and then...
  4. S

    Malpositioned call duckling- yolk on top

    My call ducklings are way past hatch day (usually day 26, they are on day 30). I have lost a few since hatch day, so I've decided that I'm going to inspect the remainder. I have already done an eggtopsy on one of the ones that I lost and it was in an odd position and trying to pip through the...
  5. C

    See nothing on day 5

    Hi guys, I’m new to incubating. So I’m not really noticing anything in my egg. I’m thinking maybe it’s not viable? The photo is today on day 5, I can’t tell much difference. Is this egg not viable? Should I leave it longer? Many thanks.
  6. missmaqs

    Are there two chicks in this egg?! Natural incubation/hatching day 14-ish

    I posted the footage here because I was just so excited to get her movement on camera, but am I going nuts or are there two chicks in here? Or is that just her absorbing the yolk? She should be a little over two weeks along.
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    • candling double egg egg candling egg hatching hatching hatching and incubating incubation incubation day 14 movement two chicks
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    • Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
  7. PioneerChicks

    (Poll) What humidity do you keep your incubator at?

    What do you generally try to keep your humidity at? What is your average hatch rate?
  8. DuckDuckPromise

    Candling First Baby Ducky Eggs!

    Hi there!! Praise The Lord, we have set some baby ducky eggs for the first time! We set 6 eggs originally; 2 pretty white Pekin, and 4 Cayuga. The eggs were set on Valentine’s Day (Feb. 14th), so if I read correctly, that makes their hatch date Mar. 14th. I have researched and tried to gather...
  9. C

    Help with candling

    Hi guys, I’m new to candling, my egg has been incubating for 3 days and looks like this. Is this normal? I can’t see any veins or anything but the dark patch is very large.
  10. starrri

    !emergency! Lockdown day 16 or 17? (Chicken eggs)

    Hello everyone, I noticed that the egg has been wiggling around all day (it's day 15, almost day 16) I'm considering starting lockdown on day 16 or day 17 now, but I don't know. It's my first time hatching eggs too. The egg that is wiggling a lot is a bielefelder barred rock/ or buff orpington...
  11. starrri

    Egg is rocking back and forth before day 18

    Hey.. is it normal for an egg to rock back and forth before day 18-21? I'm on day 15 and I swear I see it moving.. 🥺
  12. B

    Major change mid-incubation: Switching from tilting to manually turning

    Incubation began 7 days ago. The incubator I'm using has a built in "automatic turner" but technically, it doesn't actually turn/rotate the eggs. It only gently tilts/rocks them back and forth. The last time I used this incubator was also the first time I used it, and I had a very poor hatch...
  13. starrri

    Moving incubator

    Hi everyone, This question is probably weird, but The plug outlets in the room the incubator is in stopped working, so I moved the incubator downstairs and replugged it elsewhere. I would like to move it upstairs today if the outlets get fixed but i'm afraid of stressing the eggs. Would it be...
  14. bridgetamelia98

    Celadon quail not hatching

    I am on day 21 now of incubation and I only have had one chick hatch out of 16, she hatched yesterday. One seemed to of pipped but then no movement, it’s seems the chick has died in the egg and there is no movement or pipping from the rest. Is there still a possibility that more could hatch or...
  15. ebisu

    Using the Nurture Right 360 but with only a few quail eggs

    My coturnix quails are barely laying now so I don't have enough to fill the incubator without risking viability by waiting to have enough. I have a tray that was 3D printed to fit quail eggs which it fits 40 or more I can't remember exactly. I have 10 eggs that are about 6-7 days old now. Does...
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    • Thread
    • eggs incubation lockdown nurture right 360 quail quail advice
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Quail
  16. m1chelle1

    Complex Multi-Egg Incubation Advice (Duck, Quail, Chicken)

    Hello BYC Fam :frow:frow:frow So I *usually* only set like with like when incubating. But I want to try to set duck chicken and quail eggs together today. I have a new GQF cabinet incubator, which is AMAZING btw :love. Its been running for over 24hrs now, and is holding steady at 99.5 F...
  17. S

    Chick hatched but there’s blood??

    We have had a chicken sitting on eggs for a few weeks and they are now hatching. She kept one chick and stopped sitting on all the other eggs so we have brought them in under a heat lamp. They are doing well now, except for one. He was the coldest but perked up a little after under the warmth...
  18. Adil_Ali

    Incubating humidity confusion

    Hey there, it’s the last 3 days of incubation, and one of the eggs started pipping. and I know I’m supposed to stop turning the eggs and increase the humidity. But I’m not sure on what the humidity should be set to ? cheers Adil
  19. A

    Coturnix Quail Day 18

    Hello! This is my first time incubating any eggs. I had them mailed to me which I know can affect hatch rates. This is day 18, lockdown started day 15. 3 hatched out on day 16 but i had two eggs pipped so i was trying to wait for them to hatch. it had been almost 10 hours of the 3 chicks in the...
  20. Kimmyh51

    Ducklings… I’m questioning the need for ‘Lockdown’

    This might be a controversial subject and I don’t want to get into a debate, but my experiences with hatching ducklings in an incubator have left me questioning how valid and necessary the ‘lockdown’ really is…. having said that I am often incubating ducklings during the last half or quarter...
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