4/17/12 Hatch buddy anyone?

[mygreenkitty]

Here's the photo. My first chick ever. Now, if I could just stop her playing soccer with the other eggs everything would be OK.

Oooohh, congrats on your first baby! Can't wait to see it fluffed up. I'm so excited for you guys! I'm sitting here watching my eggs do NOTHING! Of course, I just went into lockdown this morning! lol Soooo hard to wait when you all have pips and zips and babies! Hubby thinks I'm nuts when I sit there forever at the incubator, just willing those eggs to move just a tiny bit!!! haha Keep the pics coming!

 

[mygreenkitty]

Hey guys, sorry I've been gone a while. April turned out to be a hella of a month for me.
Good news though is that I'm hatching! Gotta love my new BrinseaMini. Looks like I'll get some kind of awesome hatch rate for the first time ever. I'm really pleased their hatching well, since I usually have late hatches, and was planning on upping the humidty today. Got into work to see several pips, and they seem to be fine, so I'm just watching and seeing. If I see issues, I'll add the water. But it looks like an accidental dry incubation worked well for me!

I, of course, have no clue what the one I hatched is. It's fairly large, mostly yellow with a black patch in it's middle back. It's pretty tuckered from hatching, but very cute. I think it feels lonely and needs it brothers and sisters to come on out!

Yay!! pictures! pictures!

 

[mygreenkitty]

Sadly I am the one suffering losses. I have 4 hatched, one of which the yolk sack is coming back out and is a little bloody. Not moving around as much as the others and not hanging out with them.....

Also I had one that piped yesterday and another of the many that did today that both had very large pips but died before they could get the rest of the way out. Plus they still had active blood veins.

But on hopfuly a more positive note I still have two that are piped and 5 that have done nothing as of yet

Oh, no! So sorry for your losses! That's so hard when they get 'almost there', and then die at the end.

Hopefully the rest of the hatch goes well!

 

[my4ladies]

By the way, does anyone else just sit there staring at the incubator for hours on end (or is it just me?)

Perfectly normal behaviour, right? Not bordering on insane in any way shape or form.

Good luck to everyone.

LOL!!! SO glad to hear I'm not the only one questioning my sanity!!

So, everyone, the eggs I put under my broody are all hatched!!!! 5 bantam cochin babies (2 hatched an entire day early).

Tomorrow is 21 days for my 'bator babies, and there is not a single pip. I was at least hoping they could give me a little encouragement. Well, maybe this means they won't hatch while I'm sleeping.

I haven't been here in a few days, but I've read all the posts. Congrats to everyone whose babies have hatched!!!

 

[my4ladies]

Also, I forgot to say that I have a possible, but hopefully not, catastrophe.

I realized on lockdown day that the humidity on my thermometer has not been working. I filled the reservoirs in the bator and the humidity didn't read any higher, which I thought was odd. So I added wet sponges...still stayed the same...very weird. So I put some water in a plastic toy bin that was slightly smaller than the 'bator and set the 'bator right on top of it...still NOTHING!! Then I saw the condensation in the windows (just around the outside of them) and knew for sure it was a faulty thermometer/hydrogemeter (the temp is accurate...double checked that.)

So I have NO clue what the humidity is. I already have some eggs in there with some totally messed up air cells (w/ liquid inside them)...and now I'm thinking they might drown : (

Does anyone have a Little Giant Still-Air? Can you tell me how much (if any) condensation you have in your windows...maybe I can try to kinda gauge it that way. I'm aiming for 65-70%.

 

[Farmin Momma]

Please help, I don't know what to do with this chick. The yolk sack has come back out all the way and is now bleeding. Do I cull it or is there a way to help?

 

[curranchickens]

[COLOR=0000CD]Please help, I don't know what to do with this chick. The yolk sack has come back out all the way and is now bleeding. Do I cull it or is there a way to help?[/COLOR]

I am so sorry to hear that! I wish I had good advice for you. On my last hatch, I had a similar problem. My chick was born with the yoke sack wrapped up around his back and stuck to the top of his head. Luckily, the yoke itself was obsorbed and it was mostly just an empty sack. It kept him from fluffing up and drying off. I removed him and gently gave him a warm bath to try to get the gook off him so he was clean. The sack was not bloody and not filled and not attached to his bumb (which was good). He was alittle bald on his back but he is now a week old ad doing great.

When I researched what to do, I searched "unobsorbed yoke". I think the consencus was to separate the chick so the others will not peck it to death and wait. Some people said that it was fairly common and in many cases the chick ends up obsorbing it after a while. I would separate and wait and see.

Keep us updated.... Good luck!

 

[Farmin Momma]

Thank you. I appreciate it.

 

[GVChickenMan]

I hope your little guy is alright Farmin Momma.

I have a cautionary tale. I so nearly messed things up. I had 2 eggs that started to pip at 9am yesterday and then did nothing. The inmates sounded weak last thing last night and I was just about preparing the tweezers to dive in and save them. Even first thing this morning the outlook looked bleak. It's now 07:15 my time and the second one has just hatched. They are absolutely fine.

Lesson learnt, they know what they're doing and they'll do it in their own sweet time.

Update: Of the 5 that made it to lockdown, I have 4 little darlings (girls by the look of it) and one egg that has done nothing yet. I'll give him a few more days though, it's only day 21 after all.

Good luck all. My thoughts are with you Farmin Momma.

 

[KnD ranch]

aww best of luck with your sick little girl farminmomma...im kinda in the same boat... 8 of 9 hatched out so far, but one looks small and premature compared to the rest..she left a big yolk in her egg, but she made it out alone, so ive got her seperated and hoping for the best too..the one left in the incubator is moving but no pips yet...
..and a sleepy chick pic for good measure