malposition

I have two eggs that are the smallest ones (1 and 1/2”) and both the chicks inside are malpositioned. One chick is from a clutched that all hatched today. I see it’s toes wiggling inside when candling (I kept it in the same position all the while). Should I poke a little hole somewhere? I...

this is the first egg of the clutch and pipped this morning and started zipping soon after but they have not made any progress in more than 4 hours and the membrane looks like its dry and looks like its going hard humidity is 75-80% and temps are high end of 37c baby is peeping and trying to...

Hi everyone! I successfully opened an air hole for a malpositioned call duck. Feeling pretty happy that I was able to catch the issue (already had one die due to malpositioned in this batch). how do I keep the now-open air cell moist so that the yolk sack doesn’t dry out? The yolk sack is...

Hi, So this is my first time hatching duck eggs. I noticed one of the eggs had a hole in this morning it could have happened last night while I was sleeping but it seems to be in the wrong end. My air cells were a bit weird *being shipped even though I set them for over 24hrs) so I am not sure...

Hi all, I’ve just joined these forums but I have 5 duckling eggs (mix of Aylesbury and Mallard) and they’re on day 28 today. Yesterday, all 5 had made a small external pip but 4 have pipped on wrong end. Didn’t concern me too much as all had made a relatively big enough hole in the membrane and...

So I am hatching a large batch of eggs at the moment, and have had all sorts of problems. From one chick hatching with an unabsorbed yolk, to another hatching through the wrong end. Right now, I have opened the bator to transfer around 1/3 of the chicks to a different one, just so that they...

Hi, I am wondering if there is much truth to a chick pipping away from the air cell being fatal? I know that pipping at the wrong end of the egg (flipped around) is apparently not... I have read the assisted hatch article on here. I expected my shipped MGB to have trouble so did my research, as...

Hi friends, this is a spin-off thread of »Charleston we have a Broody here!«. - In a nutshell: Katharina, one of my Indian Runner ducks managed to hide a clutch of eggs from me and was suddenly sitting on nine eggs. Seven cheeky ducklings hatched, one egg was a stinker and one was missing. Two...

Hi there! This is my second attempt at hatching call duck eggs. I have several questions about call duck hatching since they seem to have a much more complicated hatch than other ducks. I had 3 fertile call duck eggs in the incubator(and also have 2 fertile swedish eggs in there as well)...

So I'm not sure what's going on but I currently have 5 pips on my bantam eggs and 4 are on the wrong end. These were shipped eggs but they arrived in perfect shape. Temp during incubation was 99-100.5 and it was an almost entirely dry hatch. We did have a couple very rainy days where the...

I have a pullet that decided to go broody in January. Of course, she is a silkie. Go figure. At first I wasn’t going to let her hatch out anything, but this girl was insistent. I remember chicks hatching when I was growing up but that was over 15 years ago. So after spending hours for days...

Hi! I am only hatching one egg in a homemade incubator. I saw a slight external pip yesterday at 5pm with some bruising around it and upon candling found that the external pip is about half an inch away from the air sac. At 1pm today I noticed the external pip has a little bit of shell sticking...

I’m not sure how this happened, but ive been aiming for 70-80% humidity in my incubator. The lowest it has gone is 66%. We are at Day 14, and air sacs are pitifully small. Is there any way to fix this? Take humidity WAAAAY down for a while? I’m desperately trying to preserve the genetics of a...

The chick had its foot over its head and it couldn't zip. I chipped away some of the shell for it. (Please..no comments about not assisting chicks..it's already been done and it's not what this post is for. Thanks!) It quickly got out on its own, but it is having trouble getting on its feet and...

I think my Muscovy might be backwards in its egg. What could I do for it? How could I know for a fact? I thought it enternally pipped on day 31 but I heard no peeps so I ignored it. As the days went on it kept moving like crazy and looked even more like it was enternally pipped. Yesterday I made...

Ive been watching eggs pip today, and I noticed one of my eggs pipped very much on the wrong end. All it did was crack the egg, no hole yet. But I can hear a chick practically screaming inside the incubator, I can't tell which egg it is. I currently have 2 eggs pipped, plus the third one who is...

I had a tiny duck egg and a goose egg incubating together since 9/25/17. The duckling hatched on 10/23 but no progress with the goose egg. I thought maybe the incubator temp was too low and it just needed time. This morning it passed the float test but a while ago I started worrying about it...

So I had an emergency. My 15 year old brought me 4 nests of bantam Cochin eggs. Various stages of development!!! (I have since educated her.... ) she let them sit outside for 2 days. 105 during day, low 70's at night. Eggs were cold. I candled and one was internally pipped 2 others ready...