I cracked them open and NO BULLS EYE... I then did a double check on my maran eggs that are supposed to go into Lockdown on Saturday... and I had to toss out 4- Quitters looks like day 10- I'm not even sure if these guys are viable... as I didn't see any movement from the Marans.. but the egg is full.... and the both the Aracuna looks like they have blood rings around it.
I am so disappointed... out of 12 Araucuna eggs.. I candled them tonight and 9 were clear.
I am down to 3 Marans- and 2 Araucuna
to boot... my day 19 Maran in lockdown has shown no sign of piping!
On the flip side ALL my silkie eggs have great veining!
That's what I was thinking-some kind of mesh. I have never had a problem with chicks hitting it, now 2 in one hatch and I just told a member that was concerned I'd never had a problem. Augh! And thank you.
"So, where I am...I had ANOTHER chick get hurt by that blasted fan, this one more serious. Almost scalped the poor guy. I'll be surprised if he doesn't end up blind in one eye now."
Had the same thing happened to me few years back.
I got some old window screen and cut out a small piece then super glued it to my fan. No more problems!
" 2 have pipped internally"
How do you tell if they've pipped internally?
"So Overall average would be 76% from numbers set and 89% of number that went into lockdown, if the other 11 make it out."
Hay that's great... I'll take 76% all day long
Whew, been a long 24 hours and not done yet!!
Yep the last few hours seem to be my hardest as well.
I really don't know why the 9300 didn't hatch as well, my guess is that the mercury thermometer I had to use was on the low side so the spikes on the 9200 for long durations compensated for that. So far, all but three hatched in the 9200 and after checking for sounds I eggtopsied and they were dead within the egg. I can still hear one peeping in the 9300, so I'll leave it alone for now: quite a few eggs left in it. On a second note, the eggs that were "Rhode Island Red" we're anything but! There were some barred rocks, solid blacks, even a few whites... Guess that's what you get when you pay $5 a dozen.
I'm up to 29 chicks, but I will have to cull two of them... One has bugged eyes and I researched all night and haven't heard a story of one making it yet, likely swelling in the brain. You can tell something's wrong, he's slow and constantly falling asleep while standing. The other had splayed legs and I tried to make a splint, his legs are stiff now and he can barley walk. It's gonna kill me; I would always (and still do) stop every time I see a turtle in the road to move it across because I would cry if I saw one smashed on the road. I don't know how I'm gonna do it, but here goes to researching on BYC the next few hours.
Other than that, I have 27 beautiful chicks and couldn't ask for anything better... I gotta feeling I'll have some more eggs loaded in a week or two. I'll post pictures later.
