So for those who remember, I failed spectacularly my first attempt at incubating and hatching my own eggs. Well the first attempt was 100% my fault (I learned the hard way what happens when your humidity is too high for too long), the second was a egg scramble and eggs being left at the post office for too long.
This last attempt was the last straw before hubby decided to rehome my wonderful (and pricey) Brinsea and we would go back to the drawing board. But at long last, after adopting 4 red sex links for the Rural King, I have successfully hatched out 4 perfect specimens of chicken mutts (much thanks to Simz for the eggs!) I have one left in the incubator that I had to help hatch because the membrane had dried out too much for it to do successfully (48+ hours of attempted hatching), and all i did with that was trim away the dried out membrane and separate it from the chick. It did the rest I helped it this morning before i went to bed, and it hatched on it's own during the day. The only issue is that ther is still some unabsorbed yolk connecting said chick to the egg shell. I've left it in the incubator over night while I'm at work hoping that the yolk will absorb and it will be fluffified.
In the event that it hasn't fully absorbed the yolk yet, I need some suggestions. Do I isolate it until it does from the other chicks, who btw are already having pecking contests to see who can tolerate the toe pecks before running away. Do i leave it in the incubaor by itself until it does? And food? It hasn't had any nutrients yet save what it has managed to absorb from the yolk. At what point do i need to intervene and give it some sugar water and crumbles?
Any and all suggestions/advice is welcome.
This last attempt was the last straw before hubby decided to rehome my wonderful (and pricey) Brinsea and we would go back to the drawing board. But at long last, after adopting 4 red sex links for the Rural King, I have successfully hatched out 4 perfect specimens of chicken mutts (much thanks to Simz for the eggs!) I have one left in the incubator that I had to help hatch because the membrane had dried out too much for it to do successfully (48+ hours of attempted hatching), and all i did with that was trim away the dried out membrane and separate it from the chick. It did the rest I helped it this morning before i went to bed, and it hatched on it's own during the day. The only issue is that ther is still some unabsorbed yolk connecting said chick to the egg shell. I've left it in the incubator over night while I'm at work hoping that the yolk will absorb and it will be fluffified.
In the event that it hasn't fully absorbed the yolk yet, I need some suggestions. Do I isolate it until it does from the other chicks, who btw are already having pecking contests to see who can tolerate the toe pecks before running away. Do i leave it in the incubaor by itself until it does? And food? It hasn't had any nutrients yet save what it has managed to absorb from the yolk. At what point do i need to intervene and give it some sugar water and crumbles?
Any and all suggestions/advice is welcome.
