"Springing in the Chicks" 2016 April Hatch-a-Long Hosted by Mike & Sally

[darkbluespace]

I would wait till most of the veins are absorbed which would probably take overnight or so, then help it's head out with a q-tip and let it come out of the rest of the shell when ready. I just make sure they stay moist, wrapped in layers of wet paper towels.

I tried to quote you @billiejw89

 

[ShrekDawg]

@billiejw89

 

[ShrekDawg]

There

 

[billiejw89]

I tried to quote you @billiejw89

@billiejw89

Thank you! It would be nice to get an extra chick to make an even dozen. This one is just lagging behind for some reason. The majority hatched on day 20.

 

[karenerwin]

tomorrow/ Sunday is day 10 for the 15 Black Penedesenca eggs. So I will be weighing & recording the weights. I'll let you know what they are compared to the original weights so that hopefully someone can let me know how they are doing.

Good night, everybody.

 

[chickendreams24]

Ah shucks, it's drying out and it's light.  :/  I hope the other one is a girl.  I think there is only one more in there.  A lot blue orpington's.  One or two Jubilee Orpintons.  red cc's.   I think those are the cuckoo.

Oh where'd you get the Orpingtons from? Yes I think the cc stands for cuckoo. Also where are you located? Jw you said you had many hours and I was going to tell you if you end up with a spare blue cockeral I'm looking for one. Of course I would never turn down a hen too lol

Congratulations on the hatch and go check out the bielefelder thread the people on there are wonderful and biels are supposed to be great birds.


In fact congratulations to everyone on all the pips and peeps!!!!

@Chaos18
Update on my hatch. Put new batteries in my candling flashlight tonight. Wow so much better, I hadn't realized how dim it had gotten. Day 9.5 here and after my temp spike of 113 a few days ago I couldn't wait any more, as expected I lost a bunch of the eggs. I don't know how many exactly. I'm still sick and stupidly didn't count before eggtopsying them all into a big bowl. Ugh well I want digging through that of course. It was probably about 20-30 I can give a better total tomorrow or day 14 for sure.

There were some inferts and a couple really early quitters but most of the eggs I pulled look to have quit BC of that temp spike. Since that fiasco the incubator has been right on. There were two eggs that I got some really good looks at the embryos when I opened them up. Which was neat. We have always cracked eggs in Ziplocks previously which are neat but kinda amoosh the embryo.

Well guys if you can believe it I got my eggs down to one layer in the bator, well less than a layer actually. That have me a problem though BC we're turning the bator and the eggs would roll all over. Naturally I had to add more eggs lol.... Right? Lol I filled the whole making my staggered hatch worse. But I don't think any of the previously placed staggered eggs are doing anything. I'll give them a few more days to be sure.

I did leave some eggs in the incubator that I wasn't quite sure about so I'm sure I'll be pulling more at the next candle. All in all though I'm amazed any survived the temp spike despite that I caught it right away. Most of the eggs look really good. However nearly all of my buff Orpington's eggs were doing nothing. Quite strange and I wonder if it has anything to do with the chick that died that was missing an eye and leg earlier this month from under a broody. The hen that layed the egg and the father should be the same but aat the same time these two fathered several other perfectly normal chicks. Some of her eggs looked like inferts when opened and some were very early quitters only one or two of hers seemed to have quit BC of the temp spike.

 

[chickendreams24]

Also just don't wrap it up so tightly that it doesn't get oxygen through the paper towels.
@billiejw89

 

[melnjerm]

baby peeking over the other eggs

YAAAAY!!

 

[slordaz]

Chicks should e hatching under hen any day

10 day candle of the 42 in the incubator, have 7 that are questionable but veining out so will recheck next week

 

[billiejw89]

Also just don't wrap it up so tightly that it doesn't get oxygen through the paper towels.
@billiejw89

Got it, I will keep everyone updated on how its going.