Two fold question...
Day 25 in the incubator for my bobwhites. The majority are hatched and in the brooder, but I still have several cheeping and pipping. I have several that have pipped on the wrong side of the egg. It's more of in the middle or towards the point of the egg.
1. What causes...
Hi everyone. I have one egg left out of 18 - a combination of shipped and local call duck eggs. Only one of the local eggs made it to lockdown (late in the season and low fertility rates)
Yesterday around 4pm I heard peeping and could see shadowing in the air cell, but no bill/internal pip. A...
I'm just super excited so I made a thread! My girls just stared laying and I popped one egg in the bator and it pipped this morning! It's from my Sapphire Olive Egger (she doesn't lay green eggs but oh well) and most likely my White Japanese Bantam. It's pipped at the wrong end but I've had eggs...
Hi, I'm hatching my first batch of eggs and as I was putting them into lock down tonight I noticed one had pipped at the wrong end. We can hear it chirping, does this mean its getting air? How do I check if the membrane is punctured? Can I open the bator to check on it or will it hurt the other...
Hello new friends. So I am totally new to this whole hatching thing. My mother in law is an experienced hatcher, so I relied on the information she gave me to get started. She forgot to mention that the eggs should be incubated blunt end up.....so we did quite a few "upside down" and now we have...