4th Annual BYC NYD Hatch-a-long

[tadpole98]

Good Morning everyone! Finished my chores enough to drop in I set 19 eggs, 3 made it to lockdown (but one didn't look active at that time, turned out a quitter) and had 2 hatch. One hatched upside down, and in hindsight, I should have just made sure it could breathe and left the shell in tact sans the little hole for breathing and let him do his thing. Fortunately, despite my interference, he's doing great. Here are my pictures:

This one suddenly zipped, and after taking this picture, I switched the camera over to video just in time to catch it throwing off the lid in a dramatic fashion and rolling right out of the shell! It was amazing!


He dragged a little blood around, but not much. Cute little bugger!


Then, the upsidedown pip that I had been messing with. Sinde the other one hatched, I waited a few more hours, but the membrane was getting dry, so I eventually removed it and took him out. He still had stuff in his belly, and he bled. It looked awful! But her turned out to be just fine. Lesson learned, leave 'em alone if everything else looks good (good looking membrane, could breathe, leave alone! LOL. I should not have peeled back the shell, and exposed the membrane causing the rest of the troubles!


Here they are drying off in the 'bator


Here they are in the brooder


And here they are again, sweet little peeping fluffy butts

awwwwww i love seramas!

 

[gabrielle1976]

they all rushed out all excited and quickly started shoving their way back in, except for Nikki lol

Whoot we'r free we'r free, GASP NOOOOO go back in go back in !!!!

 

[tadpole98]

yay!! we have a 5th zipper

this is going rather slow than usual.
usually half woulda been out by now, but after the fifth is out i still have 19 more..

 

[featherz]

Yuh, I've had chicks come out with messed up navels, just put a bit of flour on em to stop the bleeding.. that said never had a chick that 'smelled really bad'. I'd still separate that chick out at least for a bit - chicks should not smell bad right out of the egg..

 

[featherz]

Mine are popping out like popcorn - seven out so far!!! I see several more pips.. only one egg looks a little iffy - kind od a runty looking egg and no pip yet. But we shall see. So far I have five blacks, one silver and one buff - all naked neck.

 

[tadpole98]

Yuh, I've had chicks come out with messed up navels, just put a bit of flour on em to stop the bleeding.. that said never had a chick that 'smelled really bad'. I'd still separate that chick out at least for a bit - chicks should not smell bad right out of the egg..

just regular flour?
can do! can it be frozen? all the flour he have is in the freezer, but i guess it should defrost fast enough.

ETA- i cant believe i spelled flour as flower *facepalm*

 

[Brookhavens]

no

Just keep an eye on it. It may have just rushed out towards the end and just needs some time to catch up.

 

[champer]

Woot! First chick hatched about 30 minutes ago. While getting photos from camera to puter, the screen froze and now things are all wonky here and I can't get my photo to load here. Aaaaaggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh


Cluck-cluck, glad things worked out for your chicks, they are cute!!!!


Tadpole, hope that chickie does OK, love the little blondies!

 

[Brookhavens]

Good Morning everyone! Finished my chores enough to drop in I set 19 eggs, 3 made it to lockdown (but one didn't look active at that time, turned out a quitter) and had 2 hatch. One hatched upside down, and in hindsight, I should have just made sure it could breathe and left the shell in tact sans the little hole for breathing and let him do his thing. Fortunately, despite my interference, he's doing great. Here are my pictures:

This one suddenly zipped, and after taking this picture, I switched the camera over to video just in time to catch it throwing off the lid in a dramatic fashion and rolling right out of the shell! It was amazing!


He dragged a little blood around, but not much. Cute little bugger!


Then, the upsidedown pip that I had been messing with. Sinde the other one hatched, I waited a few more hours, but the membrane was getting dry, so I eventually removed it and took him out. He still had stuff in his belly, and he bled. It looked awful! But her turned out to be just fine. Lesson learned, leave 'em alone if everything else looks good (good looking membrane, could breathe, leave alone! LOL. I should not have peeled back the shell, and exposed the membrane causing the rest of the troubles!


Here they are drying off in the 'bator


Here they are in the brooder


And here they are again, sweet little peeping fluffy butts

Keeping my fingers crossed for you on that frizzle. I know how badly you want one.

 

[tadpole98]

Mine are popping out like popcorn - seven out so far!!! I see several more pips.. only one egg looks a little iffy - kind od a runty looking egg and no pip yet. But we shall see. So far I have five blacks, one silver and one buff - all naked neck.

SWEET!! so far i have two yellows (one is a tiny bantam)
one splash cochin and a red star