stagger hatching

  1. Timbers Happy Hens

    Staggered hatch question

    I started a batch of eggs about a week ago, they are silkie and silkie mixes. With winter my roosters fertility has dropped quite a bit so out of 20 eggs I only ended up with 9 developing. The rest didn’t even start. I was hoping for a bigger hatch than that so my question is could I add more...
  2. CloneFly

    Staggered Hatch Dilemma

    Hello All! So the day before New Years (Dec.30th) I placed a couple button quail eggs and 2 jumbo quail eggs in my 12slot incubator with hopes that they would hatch... No such luck, but just for the heck of it, I continued placing every button quail egg I've found in the incubator with hopes...
  3. Henora

    No air cell day 21 or 26? Egg dark but light pink normally. Staggered hatch!

    Hi! My hen has been incubating for 25 days. She originally had 8 eggs, and after 2 wks, there were 5 more. A chick from a different hen (under her though) hatched on time (from when she first incubated/sat) on day 21, and one of hers hatched yesterday on day 25. Today, day 26, the hens were...
  4. uktech

    Should I take the hatched chick from the broody hen? Staggered hatch

    Question at the bottom if you want to skip to it. 22 days ago one of my youngest hens decided to go broody and sit on 4 eggs. For some reason, I didn't think she'd stick to it as she was just 8 months old. I was away for work so the wife and kids managed the coop duties for 5 days but upon my...
  5. L

    Warmed up eggs

    I’ll start with my situation then my question.. I was removing some quail from one of my incubators. Because there were still eggs left I heated up and steamed up my bathroom in order to safely open it without loosing humidity. That was successful... I had an egg carton of eggs set aside in my...
  6. S

    Staggered hatch and crushed eggs Help!!!

    So we have a staggered hatch and unsurprisingly it has not gone well. Over the last 3 days we have found 3 hatched dead chicks and one crushed egg with a fully formed chick in it. The most recent chick was shoved to the edge of the nest and I am worried that perhaps the nest might be the...
  7. HuskerHens18

    How long should I let my broody hatch eggs?

    My Sizzle and Belgian Quail have been dual hatching eggs (isnt that so cute?) for about 6 weeks. I throw a few eggs under every couple days and so the last two weeks or so I've been collecting chicks from underneath them. How long is too long to continue this with the same two broodies? I...
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