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DylansMom said:
casportpony said:
I lost one while it was zipping... I guess it managed to turn, but blocked off the air cell? So in a panic I helped a few along. Have several that lost 18-20%, those were the ones I helped. Should also mention that I have fired three of my broodies, just two broodies left, one on your five eggs and another on a few more of my eggs.


-Kathy
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Noodle was one of 2 that pipped straight thru both membranes and the shell, missed the air cells completely. I did not have that happen at all last year. The first one was scary, the egg was just sitting there surrounded by eggs with visible pips but not doing anything. So finally my curiosity got the better of me and I pulled it out of the hatcher and when I did it let out a loud chirp. It was so loud it scared me because without a pip it shouldn't be that loud, so I turned the egg over and there was a big bloody pip in the bottom. I honestly don't know how he did it without bleeding out or suffocating, he was limp also and I didn't have too much hope for him, but I wrapped him in a wash cloth and put him back in the hatcher overnight and this morning he was sitting up and looking around. How come you fired the girls?
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Fired one 'cause she tried to eat one of the chicks while it was zipping and the other two started getting off the nest more that once a day. There are probably another 5 or 6 that I'll can set some eggs under, just didn't want to do it with these eggs while they were pipping.

-Kathy
 
I could cry...
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Out of my 2012 hen with white flights and spot on throat by 2012 boy with the same white markings. This one also zipped past the air cell and suffocated.

-Kathy
 
I think I just my first halfway shrink wrapped! It had pipped and chirped for about 4 hrs. It never went any further. So I took it out of the bator, and the outer membrane was struck to it, I wet it withe warn water (where it was struck) and touched it with my CLEAN finger. It had already absorbed all of the blood and yoke. It turned loose. I put it back in the bator, it kicked the shell loose and finished hatching. I took it out and put it in the hatcher.it sleep for about an hr then it was fine!
 
Peachick hatch from hell! The last were all malpositioned and even though I helped, it was too late for one of them and one doesn't look like it will be alive in the morning. Sigh...

-Kathy
 
casportpony said:
Peachick hatch from hell! The last were all malpositioned and even though I helped, it was too late for one of them and one doesn't look like it will be alive in the morning. Sigh...

-Kathy
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Seems to me a lot of people are having really poor or really difficult hatches this year. Is anyone having a really great year for hatches so far?????????????

I thought that about the first silver that pipped wrong and had to be extricated, but a night of rest did wonders, I hope the same happens for you. So sorry about the white one.
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I think i am having a great hatch with the test eggs and random ones i have found and stuck under the hens, i have only lost 2 out of 15 , one shrink wrapped before it even pipped and one turned the wrong way, to me this is a great hatch here.
I am learning that weather the hens incubate or i do i am still faced with the same issue of wee peas being turned the wrong way and i now believe it is because they do not loose the proper water weight at 2 weeks making it hard for them to get positioned in the proper direction for hatching.
 

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