5th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2014 Hatch-A-Long

[chicken pickin]

final count 4 chicks out of 45 set: 3 OEs and 1 Orpington

Dealing with the snow in PA….got one happy camper here...

 

[FeyRaine]

Okay, that was not easy. He is completely filling the air cell. plus he has part of his wing out (looks like a bubble). Shell is very hard, break in chucks rather than pieces. The dark area towards the bottom looks like a HUGE vein. Blood at the top was from where he was pushing through.

Sorry not the greatest pic.

Oh dear, I agree from what I see there are a ton of bright red veins so the chick has not absorbed the blood from them or likely the yolk yet at the time of this picture, ie not at all ready to exit the egg. Not sure how long it has been since this but the chick need to finish absorbing b/f anything else. It looks like you have the beak clear for breathing so that should be good. Hopefully the chick has by now finished absorbing and come out, if not you'll need to help when the blood is absorbed b/c w/ that much of the shell open the membrane will surely shrink wrap/ turn to super glue when it dries out which it will almost surely do. (Hot wet qtip can help). The more the chick can do on its own the better up to a point (they can get weak or die if they struggle too many hrs). Go to Sally Sunshine's assisted hatch info. (link on first page of this hatch along) everything I've done was based on that. Do understand its 50/50, they chick may has something seriously wrong that caused all this problem in the first place, or not. The one I helped this hatch #15 is doing great today, but I've had several assisted ones that did not, so be perpared either way...GOOD LUCK!

 

[JDchicks]

final count 4 chicks out of 45 set: 3 OEs and 1 Orpington

Dealing with the snow in PA….got one happy camper here...

We have one too. Greatest breed!!!

 

[BoereMeisie]

Question here to prove ignorance How did you ID infertile eggs before set?

No I didn't ID infertility before I set the eggs

I tossed them on day 10 of incubation due to no development - hence I tossed them due to infertility

 

[JDchicks]

Oh dear, I agree from what I see there are a ton of bright red veins so the chick has not absorbed the blood from them or likely the yolk yet at the time of this picture, ie not at all ready to exit the egg. Not sure how long it has been since this but the chick need to finish absorbing b/f anything else. It looks like you have the beak clear for breathing so that should be good. Hopefully the chick has by now finished absorbing and come out, if not you'll need to help when the blood is absorbed b/c w/ that much of the shell open the membrane will surely shrink wrap/ turn to super glue when it dries out which it will almost surely do. (Hot wet qtip can help). The more the chick can do on its own the better up to a point (they can get weak or die if they struggle too many hrs). Go to Sally Sunshine's assisted hatch info. (link on first page of this hatch along) everything I've done was based on that. Do understand its 50/50, they chick may has something seriously wrong that caused all this problem in the first place, or not. The one I helped this hatch #15 is doing great today, but I've had several assisted ones that did not, so be perpared either way...GOOD LUCK!

Congrads on your survivor.

Stayed up until 3am helping this one. I did follow the assisted hatching guidelines. But she just kept pushing at the hole and breaking the veins. Her veins never receded. Unfortunately, she didn't survive. She was a frizzle x Silkie.

Luckily, I was able to successful assist 2 others using the guidelines. One that got stuck zipping and one that was shrink wrapped (probably from helping the one above).

 

[FinaC]

Here's a short video of my new baby quail. Moved 65 of them to the brooder last night, 3 more that hatched over night and I still have a few eggs that haven't hatched.

 

[jlynnet]

My son took some not so great pictures.
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[Gardeningmama]

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I missed this...Congrats on the chicks. I know it wasn't what you hoped for but, at least you got a few fuzzy butts. Bella is beautiful!

 

[brahmabreeder]

Here's a short video of my new baby quail. Moved 65 of them to the brooder last night, 3 more that hatched over night and I still have a few eggs that haven't hatched.

That's a lot of quail

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[FeyRaine]

Congrads on your survivor.

Stayed up until 3am helping this one. I did follow the assisted hatching guidelines. But she just kept pushing at the hole and breaking the veins. Her veins never receded. Unfortunately, she didn't survive. She was a frizzle x Silkie.

Luckily, I was able to successful assist 2 others using the guidelines. One that got stuck zipping and one that was shrink wrapped (probably from helping the one above).

Sorry, it is hard when you put personal effort into it and they don't make it, but I would say that one was doomed b/c it should not have been so intent on hatching when it clearly was too early so something was wrong overall that you could not fix.

Good that the others turned out better & now you have more first hand know how to draw from in future when trying to make the call. I know if I hadn't had my own past hands on then I likely would not have been able to save #15 this time, it was a pretty tricky situation but I lucked into that middle ground between too much & too little help and luckily the issue appear to all have been the wonky shipped aircell shape, not a malformed chick (she and she is a CL pullet!! is acting 100% normal, pooping etc so I lucked out there, could very well have been otherwise!)

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And to the several ppl still waiting on eggs, esp. the Late Set Gang
I'm still here w/ ya'll , I've got that next batch of home grown eggs DUE WED next week....so it isn't over yet ;>