4th Annual BYC NYD Hatch-a-long

[missydcpc]

Still not a peep or pip.....Never could get my humidity above 40.

 

[TMNfarm]

I have 7 out now, with one really struggling to zip, and 3 pips. The rest haven't even pipped... Should I be concerned about them, or is it normal for them not to have even started? All of them were developing very well at lockdown...

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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[Sally Sunshine]

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[Sally Sunshine]

Still not a peep or pip.....Never could get my humidity above 40.

 

[Happy Henhouse]

Happy Henhouse,
You know we are having the exact same problem, and you are only about 200 miles from me. I know there were a bunch of others in this part of the country who have uncharateristically low hatch rates in late nov./early dec. and at the time I wondered if it had anything to do w/ all the big windstorms (ie massive sudden air pressure changes) we had at that time. (& which at least I have had throughout this hatch esp. the past 14 days). I'm not sure if anyone has ever studies the effect of rapid large changes in air pressure on egg incubation, but I don't expect it would be a good/helpful thing... 

Also, I really want to know, given the low humidity problems I'm _certain_ I have had & am having what if anything I could actually do if I have live ones who are shrink wrapped.
(Actually I'd also like to know if they are all dead already, so I can stop dragging it out, clean up & move on to problem solving for the duck eggs I intend to set next week!)

'course best of all suddenly all your & my eggs would peep, pip, and hatch all happy & healthy before midnight tonight ...

Good thought. I was a NICU nurse before medical condition that has made me have to leave my babies and when the barometric pressure dropped we would fill up in the unit. Everyone would go into preterm labor! Seems like it might affect our little chickies, too.

My humidity got a little low a few times during incubation ( I think), but wants to be high now!

I think I'm going to candle and maybe do a float test. Wish me luck and here's hoping you'll hear some little peeps soon.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

INFO for ya all, I saw it come up twice now just ran accross this!



SILKIES ~ "VAULTED SKULL" info http://www.hattricksilkies.net/articles_vaulted_skull.html

 

[Fuzzybird]

INFO for ya all, I saw it come up twice now just ran accross this!



SILKIES ~ "VAULTED SKULL" info http://www.hattricksilkies.net/articles_vaulted_skull.html



Yup know this! LOL My wonderful little Tansy had a high one at hatch.

 

[delisha]

I finally have three out and three pips..my shipped eggs are still quiet as a mouse...It seems to be taking much longer than usual. My bator must need replacing. it is old as dirt. When I bought an incubator a long time ago, you spent tons of money when you spent $120.00 for a really nice large one. Now for the same money you get some tiny little thing. Frustrating. OH well....

 

[TMNfarm]

This last little guy was really struggling to zip. I've been watching him breath through a hole in the shell all day. It seemed right for the beginning that something was different, like it was wetter in his little hole than in the others. When he started to zip, he was really struggling and not progressing at all. In the time it took two others to zip and hatch, one after the other, he hadn't even gotten 1/4 of the way around his shell. His breathing was getting labored, and earlier, he had been chirping really loud, and had stopped chirping all together. I made a snap decision to try to chip away a little shell for him since the only other two pipped aren't even through the white membrane... I'm glad I did! He was glued! I had to wet him down and peel the inner membrane off of him... When I finally got him it, he seems strong, but really tired!