I'm a newbie with silkies and just had my first one hatch in the incubator!! (From my silkie hen's very first eggs). I am a bit concerned about the other two eggs that have pipped but no progress. They both pipped yesterday morning, and one poked a hole through so I was hopeful and thought that...
Hello! First time Hatcher here. I have three very healthy and very active Pekín duck eggs that are on day 24 of incubation.
I had my first internal pip about 24 hours ago. The air cell was large - about 1/3 of the egg. After waiting 24 hours and no external pip, I performed a quick candling to...
Day before hatch day and I came home from work to several eggs wiggling and pipping. One is pipping at the pointy end, I know that's not good. How long do I wait until intervention if I choose to do that?
Hi! I am only hatching one egg in a homemade incubator. I saw a slight external pip yesterday at 5pm with some bruising around it and upon candling found that the external pip is about half an inch away from the air sac. At 1pm today I noticed the external pip has a little bit of shell sticking...