4th Annual BYC NYD Hatch-a-long

[lesliedow]

YAAY! Our firsYD hatch @10:45 p.m. with another [at least] 11 good pips. This one is loud and vigorous, and promptly climbed out of the tray and landed in the bottom of the 'bator, where it will have to stay...I don't think any harm can come to him...just a bit of damp paper towel down there for humidity. I would just as soon he was up tromping over his fellows to wake them up to finish their work though!

Congratulations! I had one do the same thing. Silly thing hopped back in then too.

 

[RavenWood]

Ohmygosh! xD

It's coming!

 

[EPetrilli]

So exciting to see all the chicks that have hatched today. And very sorry for those of you that have losses I hope everyone had a wonderful New Years Day!!

 

[Roxannemc]

I still have a four eggs that haven't pipped and 1 that has. When should I move my chicks into the brooder? I'd like to give these other eggs more time, but I'm concerned about opening my incubator and vaccuum sealing them into their eggs. I'm not even sure if they have internally pipped yet and they are Marans so I'm not sure I can even candle and see anything. How do people do this without risking the shrinking membrane thing?

If you dont have any external pips right now you can up your humidity to its highest point you are using and then quickly take out the chicks IF they are dry. They can stay in for a day even maybe more but need to be pretty dry so they dont chlll. which takes some hours If you have cracks dont do it.
SEE what the humidity goes down to when youre done and add water by spray bottle works well to up it fast if it drops too low.

 

[CaraDD]

Well, we started out with 24 eggs in the mail. Six didn't make it through shipping. 10 either weren't fertile or stopped developing somewhere along the line. As of right now we have one lonely little splash Silkie and none of the other seven eggs have given any indication of pipping. She may be a house chicken and hang out with the Corgi

 

[Lacy Blues]

I've got 2 vent holes I can plug w/ small corks (I've been concerned about oxygen so I have them both open),

the weirdest part is we have had torrential rain, like literally over 6 inches in the past 24 hrs at my house,

and the acu-rite indoor/outdoor thermometer/hydrometer (outdoor remote IN bator) is telling me my house is 51% while the bator is 44% , so except for needing the heat, I'd be better off humidity wise to just leave the lid off entirely. I really did NOT expect this situation (cooler bator currently has 2 containers w/ water, 1 w/ a sponge inserted partway out the top like a wick, & I'd think the hydrometer was just plain wrong, but then I saw how totally DRY last night's wet washcloth is, it was dripping w/ hot water when I tossed it in about 20 hrs ago).

I didn't mean to close them all the way. You can slow the airflow down considerably without suffocating your chicks, and the humidity should stay higher as well.

Did you try misting the interior of your incubator with warm water and soaking your washcloth without opening too far?

 

[Roxannemc]

I can see it MOVING! OMG! I'm so excited... I bet this little guy comes out tonight. ^.^

Exciting moment...Hecould hatch tonte quickly but some are slower and might be in the morning.When they pip like this sometime they take a long rest like 5 or 6 hours or more then zip out. Others do it all at once.
Hes got his air hole so hew fine. Can breath
Now its just when hes ready.He has to absorb all the yolk and the veins have to drry up in the shell then he'll come out Now its just .

 

[Hurley]

My Ustream Video Feed of the NYD Chicks if anyone wants to see the little'ens for a little bit. (Can only have it up while the boys are otherwise occupied, so just a little bit here. LOL)

 

[Jessiey]

Sorry for my over pics posting... I'm all excited.... Also, this looks like it's in the shape of a chick to me.. artist chick.. haha. Anyone else see it, or am I nuts? xD

 

[pnp4kidz]

We have two out and two more pips!!
The marans are lazy and one pip is in my mystery swap eggs!!

Does anyone know if we are unblinding the swap so we can tell them what their chicks are, and find out if they hatched??