lockdown advice

  1. DuckDuckDragon

    Air cells too small… day 26

    Hi all, I’m currently on Day 26 of incubating 8 Ancona duck eggs. This is my second hatch—my first went extremely well, but I had to constantly monitor and adjust humidity to keep it under 60%. This time, I decided to let the incubator manage humidity on its own, and it stayed fairly steady at...
    • DuckDuckDragon
    • Thread
    • air cell issue ancona ducks duck eggs hatching duck hatch help needed hatching assist humidity lockdown lockdown advice safety hole small air cells
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Ducks
  2. Oshi55

    Call/Runner Duck Eggs Incubation on Day 25... Lockdown Tips Appreciated!

    Hi again, BYC community! I'm having some fear about whether or not I'm doing something wrong, and would love some validation and tips from the pros here that've successfully hatched duck eggs before. So, for a bit of context here, I'm currently on day 25 of an incubation period, and am using a...
    • Oshi55
    • Thread
    • call duck eggs duck duck egg hatching duck eggs incubate lockdown advice lockdown day 1 runner duck runner duck eggs
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
  3. G

    HELP!!! EGG CRACKED BADLY

    First time incubating and it's day of lock down! One of the eggs slipped outta my hand and hit the floor. The egg shell broke badly but the membrane is still intact! But I felt so f-ing terrible, I literally started crying cause I probably killed this baby. I picked up the egg gently and it...
  4. K

    Pekin eggs

    Duck eggs. When do you intervene? Half of them have chipped huge holes when they piped. Picture of one of the eggs in question. They piped yesterday and the membrane where the hole is appears to be drying it's turned white and now yellow and sunken a bit even though the tray is filled with water...
  5. J

    Noticed Early Internal Pip

    Would I be right in upping the humidity now and putting into lockdown? No chirping but lots of wombling! Day 23 at the moment but they seem further along
  6. M

    Am I doing lockdown right?

    I have five eggs in lockdown right now and I just want to make sure I have everything right. I have a little Govee thermometer/hygrometer monitoring everything and the temperature is rock solid but I feel like the humidity might be a little high. Should I keep the humidity on the higher end or...
  7. Hannah12

    Me and My Chickens

    Hi all! I’m Hannah. I have two hens currently. We had a third chicken, a gorgeous rooster. Roosters and kids don’t mix well but I was fortunate enough to be able to rehome him! He needed more space and more hens I think haha. His name was buttercup (black Australorp) :) my other two are a black...
  8. PhoenixManz

    When to start lockdown for eggs that started incubating on three different days?

    Hey all! I have some eggs in an incubator that started incubation with a broody, and we're given to her over three consecutive days. i.e. 12th 13th and 14th February. When should these eggs be put into lock down? On the 18th day for the earliest ones, or for the latest ones? So should they go...
  9. O

    Help with duck eggs!!

    I had 12 viable duck eggs at lockdown, raised the humidity to 65-70 percent and left them, I had 3 hatch, 4 internally pip but no external pop and died, 2 I think popped through a blood vessel as lots of bruising on the egg and looked to be leaked blood everywhere when I candles them, and the...
  10. DovesFlock

    Lockdown tips/info needed

    I don’t know the proper temp and humid for lockdown. I’ve been doing 60-65 humid and 100 temp but both the two chick that have gotten close to hatch both tried to hatch without fully absorbing the yolk. I’ve changed the temp to 99 and I’m not sure if that’s enough to help or if I need to bring...
  11. S

    Help!!

    Ive been incubating a couple crested and cayuga duck eggs the past few weeks and today as I went to remove the egg turner so I could place them on lockdown and as I was returning them to the incubator I noticed that 3 of the eggs had pipped! Im just worried that me moving them around while...
    • Scarii5y
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    • ducks help appreciated lockdown advice pipped
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Ducks
  12. R

    Lockdown Humidity Help

    It’s currently day 18 and I kept my incubator at 50-55% humidity the entire time, I live in Ok. What humidity would be ideal for lockdown? I have it at 75% rn, but I feel like that is way too high.
  13. -Shade-

    Overdue chick--Should I help her?

    We have another batch of turkeys hatching right now. There were 8 eggs at the start. One was not fertile, 1 died around day 7, 2 are mysteries that we think one might have died a few days before lockdown or was never fertile, and the other was moving before but has stopped and we are afraid...
  14. FreeRanginChick

    Call duck eggs: Day 3 of lockdown, no progress

    Hi everyone. I have searched and read everything I could related to my issue before resorting to posting. I am on day 3 of lockdown (Day 25 of incubation) with my three remaining call duck eggs. They were shipped eggs, I lost five in early stages due to broken air sacs. Anyways... All three...
  15. lawschicks10

    Why is my chick taking so long to hatch?

    I can see the hole my chick has made in its egg but it’s been hours and there is no further movement into him hatching more out of the egg? Could the chick be dead or why is there a delay?
  16. Jessica Lyn

    Help! Incubation tips

    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...
    • Jessica Lyn
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    • advice appreciated cotournix quail dry hatching hand turning hatch advice humidity incubabtion lockdown advice quail advice tips and tricks
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Quail
  17. H

    Accidentally went into lockdown too early… help!

    It’s my first time incubating, and I started a batch of eggs (only 3) which was a bad idea, as none of them made it. However I have 8 I’ve been incubating, and I thought today was day 21, but I’ve had no pipping, no movement, nothing. So I candled again and realized 1 didn’t make it, the other...
  18. 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...
  19. I

    humidity fluctuations in lockdown!

    hi there, my eggs are on day 19, yesterday i had the humidity way to high for lockdown. i let it be hoping it would lower over time, and it has the hydrometer of the incubator i am using says 76, i do not have an individual hydrometer and that is a fault on my side this is my first time using...
    • izzyschickiess
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    • day 19 humidity humidity issues humidity problem humidity problems incubator fluctuations lockdown lockdown advice lockdown humidity
    • Replies: 14
    • Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
  20. A

    Urgent Please help! Day 23 ducks might be internally pipping

    This is my first time using and incubator and the eggs are at day 23. Yesterday I noticed something really strange. It looks like in all the eggs the baby ducks are rubbing against membrane, but I’m not sure. I was wondering what to do because these guys look like they wanna come out. Do I go...
    • Apartmentduck
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    • emercency hatching a duck hatching a duckling incubabtion internal pipping lockdown advice no external pip premature saddle air cell too early
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
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