Late Feburary-Early March 2016 Hatch-A-Long!

[casportpony]

[COLOR=141823]Everybody is dead. i just opened two of the pipped. Dry inside eggsack gone but dead with their beaks stuck thru crack and membrane otherwise membrane not shrinkwrapped just tough.  I am ready to cry.[/COLOR]

So sorry!

-Kathy

 

[Danielle2189]

[COLOR=141823]Everybody is dead. i just opened two of the pipped. Dry inside eggsack gone but dead with their beaks stuck thru crack and membrane otherwise membrane not shrinkwrapped just tough.  I am ready to cry.[/COLOR]

Oh no. That's heartbreaking. I'm so sorry that happened to you. I wonder what happened.

 

[feedman77]

[COLOR=141823]Everybody is dead. i just opened two of the pipped. Dry inside eggsack gone but dead with their beaks stuck thru crack and membrane otherwise membrane not shrinkwrapped just tough.  I am ready to cry.[/COLOR]

Sorry for the loss.

 

[NTBugtraq]

Day 19 started, 67 have gone into lockdown. I will open only once every 24 hours until day 23.

I'm so sorry for your loss folks who have suffered. If your eggtopsy shows a shrink-wrapped chick, it suggests you may have opened the bator too many times after "lockdown". After Day 18, you do not candle again until you are doing an eggtopsy. After Day 18 you are not opening the incubator to check on anything, you are opening to remove fully dry chicks.

The more you can leave a lockdown be, the better your results.

 

[WthrLady]

Two more of the 'duds' are peeping. And another 3 'duds' air into the air cell. Late bloomers!

 

[NTBugtraq]

Two more of the 'duds' are peeping. And another 3 'duds' air into the air cell. Late bloomers!

I don't get the point of your chatter...you gave up on them a little while ago??

 

[JadedPhoenix]

Day 16 out of 28 for my turkeys. So more than half way through. I do have to get a new battery for my thermometer and hygrometer. The button battery was going dead and I went to open up the battery compartment to just check to see what type of battery to get and then it wouldn't come back on. I have my backup thermometer in the bator still but I prefer the combo since it is more accurate.

 

[WthrLady]

I don't get the point of your chatter...you gave up on them a little while ago??

I moved some this morning, day 23, to the "questionable egg" side of my incubator when I pulled out a dry chick and added water. This afternoon, 5 of those eggs, showed some further development.

 

[casportpony]

Day 19 started, 67 have gone into lockdown. I will open only once every 24 hours until day 23.

I'm so sorry for your loss folks who have suffered. If your eggtopsy shows a shrink-wrapped chick, it suggests you may have opened the bator too many times after "lockdown". After Day 18, you do not candle again until you are doing an eggtopsy. After Day 18 you are not opening the incubator to check on anything, you are opening to remove fully dry chicks.

The more you can leave a lockdown be, the better your results.

I'd like to see pictures of these "shrink wrapped" chicks, and I'd like to see what position they were in, because it's quite possible that they were malpositioned in some subtle way.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Two more of the 'duds' are peeping. And another 3 'duds' air into the air cell. Late bloomers!

Congrats!

-Kathy