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gksym007 said:

Hi everyone, What a great web site. I am just new today and we have our very first eggs hatching in a incubator right now. It is day 20 and 10 out of 18 have hatched and we helped 2 that had a bit of shell stuck to them. Have had two that pecked a hole and nothing more. I amuse they have died. Still have 8 in and will leave them till the weekend. Great fun.

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sagealbright said:

The two hatched chicks are doing great. They are more friendly than any other chicks we have hatched. Maybe because it is just the two of them. The third egg never pipped. I waited until day 26 and then decided I wanted to open it up to see if I could tell what went wrong. The chick was fully developed. Looks like she never got into hatching position since her head was tucked completely under her wing. Only thing that was odd was that there looked to be some sort of goopy tumor hanging out of it's stomach. Poor little chick was so close!

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AmyLynn2374 said:

Great on the two. I have found the smaller the hatch the more friendly the chicks. Hatching position is head under wing-beak up. The "goopy tumor" most likely was unabsorbed yolk. So chances are the chick died between day 18-19, so right around lockdown. You might find this interesting:

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sagealbright said:

That is very interesting! I wish I knew what caused the chick to die. The two that made it are from out easter egger and out cochin frizzle roo. Hoping at least one of them gets the frizzle gene! The one that didn't make it was black with white on its chest, it would have been so cute!

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AmyLynn2374 said:

It's hard to tell when you have just one DIS chick. Eggtopsies are most useful when you have multiple DIS, to pinpoint a specific problem. Not so much with just one or two. If you have a good hatch and two or three DIS chicks, chances are, the chick was too weak or that specific egg lost too much or not enough humidity or sometimes even sat in a cool spot/warm spot for the duration and just didn't have the optimal conditions. Each individual egg is so different and has so many variables (ex: shell porousity,thickness, age/health/nutrition of layer, differences in storage time of egg) that we can not generally provide the optimal conditions for every egg in the bator. So, it's to be expected that for unseen reasons that you get a couple that don't hatch after lockdown. Apparently my magic number is 3. With the exception of my last hatch, I usually get about 3 that do not hatch but made it all the way to lockdown.

I've decided I want a couple frizzles too...lol

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