March 2022 Hatch-A-Long

[T-R-O-U-B-L-E]

I just set 21 eggs for a friend. 17 pure black Cochin Bantam. 4 Cochin Bantam x OEGB. 3 of the 4 have been refridgerated and possibly washed. If anyone wants the link to my hatch a long they can have it!

 

[LadiesAndJane]

First baby is out! Two others have decided to pip on the wrong end so I’ll have to keep an eye on them.

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

3 chicks and 4 ducklings for round one. 12 eggs to hatch on weekend

 

[Josip]

Anne Boleyn is Here , she has to be female by now only one and its day 22 so i think 1 Will be. I see movement in few more eggs but ..meh.

 

[SB907]

I got home from work and was greeted by four pips! Everyone is peeping and wiggly, including the sideways air cell egg

 

[Chookwagn]

Some of the 26 Leghorn chicks I took out of the incubator this morning

 

[Chickens are awsome]

Just set 27 to hatch by the 29th (I am pretty sure that would be correct if I did my math right)

Eggs I set ~

6 BLR wyandottes
6 Porcelain D'uccles
4 Silkies
2 EE x Silkie
9 BYM

This is my first time using an incubator so I'm hoping all goes well.

 

[kurby22]

Hmm, any of you have a chick that seems to be okay other than the yolk sac not fully absorbing? I have read some say that it is okay and should eventually either finally be absorbed or dry up and fall off. Is this true or is this baby a likely cull that won’t thrive? Any experience with this? It needed to be assisted and is up walking and cheeping a LOT and seems rather unencumbered by it other than having to walk a bit awkwardly. I started up my old cheapo incubator and put her in that one to minimize pecking or damage by other chicks but she’s so lonely! I finally decided to try a stuffy to see if that made her less sad and she’s now snuggled up with a pink unicorn

Is there anything more I can do for her? I sprayed the yolk sac with antiseptic and cleaned the guck from hatching…so she just needs to finish that yolk!

I have one last egg that I can hear cheeping but has not attempted to hatch yet. Hoping it hatches over night…I hate assisting as I’m always worried I will do more bad than good. I made it a safety hole and heard the clicking sounds you mentioned @LadiesAndJane. How long do I leave it? It was due to hatch today so not really super overdue, but it internally pipped late last night and still hadn’t externally pipped so I got worried. Now I’m just hoping it feels ready to hatch.

My one “throw in an extra egg to fill all the egg holes for shipping” Cochin bantam mix hatched about 4:45 today and she’s beautiful Not sure what color I will get—mom was a bantam light Brahma and dad was a blue birchen bantam Cochin.

 

[Josip]

I know its not good to do it but i take two chiks out , they pip and never improve.. so i take them out .. their yolk was still not absorbed so i make moist bed inside incubator for them. And i never do it but this time i felt its right thing to do , they are still somehow weak but they are standing.. one apsorbed Yolk fully other aposrbed half and Little what left Will fall off.. i think i Save them.
Photos are from now beacuse photos with yolk out was
So 3/3 from lockdown.
Only nacekd neck hatch on her own.
I hope they all survive

 

[abpatchy]

I took the chicks out of the incubator this morning. After counting and putting colored rings on them so I can distinguish between the breeding groups, I packed them up and take them so they can get their Marek shots. 51 hatched, one was not doing well, I had to cull it. So 50 chicks made it out of 54. I don't think that is half bad.