3rd Annual New Year's Day Hatch!!

[Jeffross1968]

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Sorry!! Have no idea what to tell you, did you flip it over? Could it have splay feet? Can you google it? Sending you good vibes, wish I could help.

You can try putting it in a small glass or cup (yogurt cup?) to keep in upright until it's stronger. I put a baby pheasant in a shot glass once. Good luck.

Had one last night that laid on it's belly with it's legs way out front and couldn't walk. Apparently, it was just exhausted. It took some time...hours, but it finally took it's first steps. By this morning, he was almost normal. Sometimes you just have to give it time.

 

[cherylcohen]

LOVE all the pics!!!

 

[Melissa Rose]

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It looks like little Chili is waving his winglet "Enough Already!!!!"

 

[craz e laid e]

OMG

I thought "That's All Folks" and almost unplugged bator. My DH walked by and said "There's another pip!" One of the SFH eggs (one that had crack we waxed) has a pip!!!

So can't fill out my sheet YET! By the way, does a Cubalaya have 5 toes and feathered legs? It wasn't marked X, so I assumed it was supposed to be pure, but

. At least it hatched and is healthy.

 

[Melissa Rose]

Three Iowa Blues are working on their day today

They didn't want to hatch en-mass with all the others I guess

 

[champer]

I had a chick that just could not seem to rotate in its shell to zip. After watching it make no progress for over 24 hours, I finally cracked the shell on the line it started and it hatched within 20 minutes. Unfortunately, it couldn't straighten out and stand up. The next day, I took it out and held it in an upright position and let it use it's feet to push on my hand. After about an hour of that, it was finally able to get to it's feet and is doing great today! I had 2 others who seemed to have the same trouble of not being able to rotate in their shells to zip, they just kept poking at the open hole. Is this common? Is it that they are too big or something else?

 

[In His Service]

I am still waiting on 12 eggs, though I believe there are some duds.

Officially, I had 1 hatch on New Year's Eve; 4 hatched on New Year's Day, but one died.

 

[HHandbasket]

Mine are in lockdown and due to hatch tomorrow (I set late). So far, not even so much as a pip. Hope they're okay.

 

[Jeffross1968]

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I've had it happen a few times. All but once they survived, and the one that died was doing a strange gasping for air, and never chirped. So not sure what that was all about. I have one in there right now like that. I took it out, started removing a little shell, about half way around, until I hit a little blood pocket. Put it back in hoping it not only survives, but does the rest on it's own. Very strange though, this one has a completely dry white membrane under the shell. It had pipped underneath, on a wet paper towel. We didn't know. So I think what happened was that when that section of paper towel dried, it began sucking humidity from the egg, leaving it dry and unable to move around in the shell. I'm going to give it another hour, and if it hasn't progressed, I'll do a little more. Scary stuff....

 

[gryeyes]

Mine go into lockdown tonight. We can drag this out all week!!!