Hello Ya'll,
I am a classroom teacher and I have a flock of 21 hens. I am hatching eggs in an incubator for my class as we have been studying chickens :) The kids have been so excited as we counted down the 21 days and yesterday there was no action. It is day 22 and nothing. I candled and...
Hello, this is my first post here on BYC and I’m in need of some advice.
To make a long story short I have a duck egg on almost day 28 that hadn’t popped internally. There was one other egg in the incubator with it but unfortunately didn’t make it last night and I don’t know the cause of death...
We were on day 19 of incubation and the night before the chick started chirping. It was always chirping but then today (day 19) after and hour or two I realized I hadn’t heard any chirping i checked the heat and humidity everything was fine. I thought maybe the chick drowned and couldn’t get...
Had one of my five eggs pip yesterday on day 20 and hatched this morning on day 21. I don’t think I’ve heard any other peeps from other eggs and there are no pips. Gonna give em a few more days. what are the odds they are still alive?
I am incubating Mallard eggs at this moment I started off with about 10 of them and four of them died around day 6 and I did and egg autopsy and they were not developed embryos I did another egg Topsy on for more of my duck eggs that died around 18 to 20 days incubation and they looked fully...
Hi There,
Looking for advice please. I had 6 cayuga duck eggs incubating and upon the process only 2 proceeded to develop.
I had silkie chickens years ago but this is first time for ducks.
The eggs were due to hatch 1-2 days ago but still nothing. Upon candling I can see movement as if the...
my goose made its external pip about mid day yesterday but has yet to start piping. Should I be concerned? In incubator, still chirping, and I can hear pecking. With my last 3 I did have to help one hatch. It piped but couldn’t get out of egg, it is a week old now and I’ve noticed it has a...