hatching issues

I’ve got a frizzle chicken that because of her past experience with chickens she is an honorary duck and has decided to hatch out three duck eggs. She has been very good at sitting on them everyday and today is supposedly hatch day. I candled them a week ago to make sure they were still alive...

I was adding water into the hole on my incubator to increase humidity. It’s been a weird few days in my chicken world. I staggered eggs in the incubator from my hen and rooster to see if they’d hatch. The first one hatched two days ago and I sold her today (so she wasn’t lonely any more). I...

Okay so starters this little guy had some issues hatching. I don't know what happened exactly but when it pipped externally there was blood on the membrane. A good bit of it. If I had to guess I think it tried to hatch too early. As when it did hatch it had not fully absorbed the yolk and what...

I have duck eggs that are 1 day past the 28 day due date. I can hear them squeaking but none have piped. How long do I wait? When if at all should I intervene?

Hello everyone I'm new to this site, and have been very impressed with all of the help from members. This is my second hatch in a styrofoam diy bator. My first hatch was miserable, however I don't give up. So that brings me to today. Today is day 21. Everything's has been stable minus a couple...

I need some advice please. This is my first attempt at hatching call duck eggs. We started with 41 eggs. Our females wouldn't sit. After a week we candled and the number dropped to 14. Out of 14 we had 4 die in their shells, 6 hatches. One was a "star gazer" and perished within 12 hours...

Hope is a two-week old Pekin duckling who Tammy refused to give up hope on. While she was growing within an egg, Hope spent the majority of her time under Pumpkin, a broody hen. The last couple of days, she was relocated to her mother’s nest. However, on day 28, Tammy noticed that her mother...