First time hatching

[jurrasiccluck]

Oh and also when candling make sure the veins are strong and not thin. Hope it works out.

 

[WVduckchick]

I took your advice, and candled, appear way under developed, lot of empty space

Awww sorry to hear that. So is this hatch complete?

 

[sccoterny]

Awww sorry to hear that.  So is this hatch complete?

Nothing else this morning, 4 chicks looking good, one weak one didnt make it through the night. No more hatching, so rough 1st hatch.

 

[thlynch3]

Hey, you probably know is already, but if you only have 1 rooster and 20 tens there is a good chance some of your eggs won't be fertile.

 

[sccoterny]

Yeah, i know, i have 2 roosters and 20 hens but mini just started getting after it cause hes young, so im sure that may have played a part.

Im planning on firing it up again friday with more eggs this time, plus hopefully mini has matured now that another month will pass between trying, plus i did learn alot during this hatch.

 

[jbillings]

Glad your story is going good and happy so far

sadly my pheasants that were suppose to hatch same day as yours have not hatched yet

. I am concerned because I don't even have pip holes yet. what should I do.

 

[sccoterny]

Glad your story is going good and happy so far :yiipchick sadly my pheasants that were suppose to hatch same day as yours have not hatched yet . I am concerned because I don't even have pip holes yet. what should I do.

Sorry to hear your eggs haven't hatched. I candled my others quickly to see what was going on and discovered they hadnt developed, wouldn't hurt, other than that maybe give em a couple more days. Good luck, keep us posted

 

[GraceHomestead]

Since we homeschool my 16 yr old daughter, EVERYTHING is a learning experiance!! With our first candling there were 11 duck eggs non fertile and we had a chicken bloodring and a quitter. So she cracked everyone of the eggs!! All 11 were as suspected non fertile. The bloodring had the thick blood vessel but nothing much more visable. The last quitter egg had an embryo in it and was very neat seeing in person what they actually look like!!

So at hatch when we had 4 that didnt hatch, we went ahead and opened to see why or when they died.
#1 had made it to the internal pip but that was it. It still had a nice size yolk sack on it.
#2 & 3 both did not make it to the internal pip and had huge yolk sacks. They were fully formed just had the big yolk sack.
#4 sadly was breech and so twisted around itself it would have NEVER been able to reach to pip anywhere. It also had a nice size yolk sack.
It was sad BUT she wanted to do it! To learn and see what went wrong. #4 was def not an error on our part and was a good learning that sometimes even in humans babies get twisted and stuck.
We are on our second incubation..this time with 2 incubators! 1 has our eggs in it and the other has eggs from friends!! Last night was 1st candling and in our eggs we had 5 infertile and 1 bloodring. Whittney pointed the bloodring out before I did. Lol hands on learning is the best way to go!! In our friends eggs we had 5 nonfertile and a ? That we will give until day 14. She was excited to crack the eggs to "make sure" they were infertile and of course she was spot on about the bloodring!!

 

[WVduckchick]

Ah well that's not good.

Just saw this. Check it out

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Since we homeschool my 16 yr old daughter, EVERYTHING is a learning experiance!! With our first candling there were 11 duck eggs non fertile and we had a chicken bloodring and a quitter. So she cracked everyone of the eggs!! All 11 were as suspected non fertile. The bloodring had the thick blood vessel but nothing much more visable. The last quitter egg had an embryo in it and was very neat seeing in person what they actually look like!!


So at hatch when we had 4 that didnt hatch, we went ahead and opened to see why or when they died.
#1 had made it to the internal pip but that was it. It still had a nice size yolk sack on it.
#2 & 3 both did not make it to the internal pip and had huge yolk sacks. They were fully formed just had the big yolk sack.
#4 sadly was breech and so twisted around itself it would have NEVER been able to reach to pip anywhere. It also had a nice size yolk sack.
It was sad BUT she wanted to do it! To learn and see what went wrong. #4 was def not an error on our part and was a good learning that sometimes even in humans babies get twisted and stuck.
We are on our second incubation..this time with 2 incubators! 1 has our eggs in it and the other has eggs from friends!! Last night was 1st candling and in our eggs we had 5 infertile and 1 bloodring. Whittney pointed the bloodring out before I did. Lol hands on learning is the best way to go!! In our friends eggs we had 5 nonfertile and a ? That we will give until day 14. She was excited to crack the eggs to "make sure" they were infertile and of course she was spot on about the bloodring!!

That's awesome!!

Have you seen the video above?? I'm betting your daughter would like it.

 

[jbillings]

Candles last night only two fertile looked today and I think one is hatching

what is the thing hanging down