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  1. Tbjenkins2007

    May 2020 Hatch-A-Long

    We did it! I used a gauze rag and warm water to help moisten it’s inner membrane better and piece by piece we were free! Now it’s nuzzled in a lightly moist cloth on my hot pad in my lap
  2. Tbjenkins2007

    May 2020 Hatch-A-Long

    So it already had broke through the outer shell. And then it seems to have been cemented inside the shell. I’m trying to ungoo the baby so it can move out of the shell. It’s like a mix of shrink wrap and yolk glue. We shall see how this goes, I am hands off I haven’t helped a baby like this but...
  3. Tbjenkins2007

    May 2020 Hatch-A-Long

    Sorry I just saw this reply. It’s been in there breathing and chirping , I can see it’s beak it looks completely stuck
  4. Tbjenkins2007

    May 2020 Hatch-A-Long

    Thank you. Yea I can see it’s beak and it’s chirping. It literally looked cemented in. Maybe a warm moist washcloth and a warm dry towel?
  5. Tbjenkins2007

    May 2020 Hatch-A-Long

    Ok ok today has been eventful! Out of the 19 in incubator 3, 10 have hatched! I’m excited because I had low hopes. For this hatch. Any way I have one egg, that during zippering it looks to have gotten its egg sac punctured, and it seems as if the yolk has cemented the baby in its egg. It’s in...
  6. Tbjenkins2007

    May 2020 Hatch-A-Long

    Ok so, incubator 1: I set 15 turkey eggs, lost 2 early. Then 13 went in to lockdown. 2 quitters, and 9 total hatched! So excited for turkeys! Incubator 2: had same results as listed before, but wry neck didn’t make it. So a total of 13 hatched but lost 3. So 10 out of a total of 28 at...
  7. Tbjenkins2007

    May 2020 Hatch-A-Long

    Incubator 1: day 28! 4 turkeys and a 5th one zippering! Incubator 2: day 22 I have 12 chicks. Had a total of 14 hatch, 2 passed pretty dang quick-one had an intestinal separation :/ and the other hatched and just passed. Had 4 quit mid zipper, and I still have a bunch, but I think they are...
  8. Tbjenkins2007

    May 2020 Hatch-A-Long

    I got mine from neighbors, and usually I don’t have such issues. Kind of a bummer but I think I’ll have better luck next time
  9. Tbjenkins2007

    May 2020 Hatch-A-Long

    One turkey out! My first turkey hatchling one more almost free! And a few more on their way
  10. Tbjenkins2007

    May 2020 Hatch-A-Long

    Yea, I may stick to raising my own to hatch from now on, since I have the best luck with my own. I had a lot not make it past lock down, I think this is my worst hatch. Out of 30, I still have 13 that i believe quit. I couldn’t hear a heartbeat with my stethoscope on any of them. On the...
  11. Tbjenkins2007

    May 2020 Hatch-A-Long

    So today has been up and down I had 1 complete zipper quit on me, and another come out, then quit, and another with wry neck that I’m nursing now. Iv had 10 others break out. And still waiting on some more. My neighbors eggs are the ones giving us trouble, she just had a wry neck the other day...
  12. Tbjenkins2007

    May 2020 Hatch-A-Long

    Day 21 for incubator 1 with my turkeys. They have one more week! Had 14 with 1 dud at last candling. So we shall see! Day 15 for incubator 2 with chickens. Started with 36 eggs. Over all I pulled 6 duds last week, and there were a total of 2 quitters. So I’ll be going in to lockdown with 28...
  13. Tbjenkins2007

    May 2020 Hatch-A-Long

    So today is day 17 for my turkeys. And I have an air sac question. There’s one egg who’s air sac has grown significantly more than the rest. Baby is moving just fine in the egg, should I worry? They have about 10 days left. Last week it’s air sac was the same as the rest
  14. Tbjenkins2007

    May 2020 Hatch-A-Long

    Large styrofoam coolers! Like from Omaha steaks, not the cheap ones from the grocery store Today while I was tweaking the humidity in my incubator, I decided to candle my eggs, 4 days in and they all had little life in them! I’m so excited
  15. Tbjenkins2007

    May 2020 Hatch-A-Long

    We are trying it out this time it’s new. We actually started to build it with wood dowels, they warped. Then went to a different metal rod but the eggs wouldn’t turn. These are made actually out of the metal from a tomato cage! They are working ok, I think. I may make something to keep it in...
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