February 2023 hatch-a-long

[Sally PB]

85 days to wait for my chicks... Please keep posting pictures so that I get my daily allowance of cuteness!

 

[gimmie birdies]

I have a no peck area but still view the others.
I am going to move the older ones to a diff brooder, mostly because of the smell.

 

[dominiquePL]

Help!!! I have a chick that pipped 38 hours ago. After 26 hours, I tried to open the hole a little more and it started to bleed. This morning at hour 38 I tried to zip a little more and it started bleeding so I stopped. It's still in there moving and peeping. What do I do?

Oh, hang on there... It is so tough... If you want to intervene open the egg from the air cell only. Mark where it is and don't go over this line. Do not touch the inner membrane (covering the chick) before you check the situation with blood vessels there. Is it doing this eating-like movements with his beak? If yes don't do anything before it stops that.
Good luck!

 

[Janeothejungle]

Barred Rock chick is next to hatch. Two more wiggling eggs and one that looked good a lockdown to go.

 

[dominiquePL]

85 days to wait for my chicks... Please keep posting pictures so that I get my daily allowance of cuteness!

85 days! You poor thing...
No problem bedtime:

 

[Sally PB]

^^ Thank you!!!

 

[gimmie birdies]

My older (week and 1/2) ones are now in a different brooder where I don't have to smell'm. (6) I kept my younger ones (7) in and they seem livelier now the younger ones (under a week) are getting lively too.
Another reason I like older chicks in separate brooder, is they poop alot, and young ones need to learn to eat, and may give up if they get a mouth full of poo by accident. Below are the newer chicks enjoying their space.

Even though the NN was kinda older, she was gentle so she got to stay.

 

[KDawn02]

Oh, hang on there... It is so tough... If you want to intervene open the egg from the air cell only. Mark where it is and don't go over this line. Do not touch the inner membrane (covering the chick) before you check the situation with blood vessels there. Is it doing this eating-like movements with his beak? If yes don't do anything before it stops that.
Good luck!

Thank you so much! Yes it's still making eating like movements with it's break.... Just seems weird after almost 40 hours now after the pip. I'll give it until tonight and try again to peel back some shell. Thanks again!

 

[BrittnyChicks]

The three eggs in lockdown have all internally pipped! One has already externally pipped!

 

[lilwanderer]

my day 18 and 17 eggs i candled for the last time, both are well, althought the day 20/21 egg looks to have died, veins have faded and no movement.