6th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2015 Hatch-A-Long

[SallyinIndiana]

The term is wry neck. Most times the chick does not make it.

 

[ronott1]

Of the ten we set, only two hatched,only one survived.
A third egg had development but quite. The rest were just clear and no development at all. The little babe is sweet and likes spending time with people and hiding in hair.

I hope your next hatch is better!

 

[Kaylish]

Well I never did catch up but I did get some quick pictures this afternoon.


My NYD hatch:

The Red Orpingtons


Mottled Orpingtons


The Bantam Crew: 6 - 1/4 Silkie 3/4 Cochin (3 blacks, 2 blues and a ?) and 1 White Cochin

Another shot featuring my 2 favs


My "Fluffy-Footed Crested Green-Eggers" (Bantam Cochin over Crested Cream Legbar)


and the whole group


I had so much fun with all of you. It made for a great New Years countdown! and a HUGE THANK YOU!!! to @ronott1 for hosting

. I'm already marking the calendar for next year.

...and I *MAY* have set some more bantam eggs this morning...

 

[ronott1]

Well I never did catch up but I did get some quick pictures this afternoon.


My NYD hatch:

The Red Orpingtons


Mottled Orpingtons


The Bantam Crew: 6 - 1/4 Silkie 3/4 Cochin (3 blacks, 2 blues and a ?) and 1 White Cochin

Another shot featuring my 2 favs


My "Fluffy-Footed Crested Green-Eggers" (Bantam Cochin over Crested Cream Legbar)


and the whole group


I had so much fun with all of you. It made for a great New Years countdown! and a HUGE THANK YOU!!! to @ronott1 for hosting

. I'm already marking the calendar for next year.

...and I *MAY* have set some more bantam eggs this morning...

Chico is not too far...

Congratulations!

I like the separators you are using too.

 

[ronott1]

My hatch is over and it was good!

I hatched 6 of 11 shipped australorps. There were 7 that developed



One is a Splash!

The Trader Joes eggs did very well! I set 24. 18 made it to lockdown and 16 hatched. One died after hatching so I have 15. Here they are all together.

 

[FuzzyHens]

My hatch is over and it was good!

I hatched 6 of 11 shipped australorps. There were 7 that developed



One is a Splash!

The Trader Joes eggs did very well! I set 24. 18 made it to lockdown and 16 hatched. One died after hatching so I have 15. Here they are all together.

Adorable! Congrats on the splash!

 

[Lamancha]

I'm not officially part of this hatch-a-long, but have been following along rooting everyone on.

Now I need some advice. I have a chick/egg that is on day 24 right now. It pipped three days ago at the wrong end. I left it alone for a long time but finally today I pulled it out to check on it. It is still alive but just barely. I started chipping the shell away and it is a major sticky chick. Super-glue sticky with sticky tan liquid dripping everywhere. I zipped the top of the shell off, and noticed a little un-absorbed yolk. As soon as I saw that I put it in a cup still sitting in the bottom half of the shell.

The poor thing is stuck to itself, the cup, the shell, the paper towel, and now it's eyes are glued shut (they were open a little bit ago). I guess my question is.....should I just leave it alone in an attempt to get it to absorb the yolk? Will the sticky crud cement on her and become impossible to get off? Should I try to wipe her eyes off at least? Thanks guys.

 

[jbenson]

What am I going to do with this one? (S)he needs a pet home. Anyone?

I had two like this last year, one went home with some other people (and did not survive) and one stayed with me, it was my favorite too. I worked hard to try to help it for weeks with vitamins and so forth and sometimes it would seem to get better and then it would get worse. I came home from work one day to find it had had one of it's freak outs and fell over backwards in the corner of the brooder and got stuck between the side and the watered and couldn't get up and drowned. It never really made any progress. I determined it was probably a flock nutrition deficiency. I increased my flock protien intake and put vitamins in their water for a while and did not have any more like that.

 

[hennible]

I'm not officially part of this hatch-a-long, but have been following along rooting everyone on. Now I need some advice. I have a chick/egg that is on day 24 right now. It pipped three days ago at the wrong end. I left it alone for a long time but finally today I pulled it out to check on it. It is still alive but just barely. I started chipping the shell away and it is a major sticky chick. Super-glue sticky with sticky tan liquid dripping everywhere. I zipped the top of the shell off, and noticed a little un-absorbed yolk. As soon as I saw that I put it in a cup still sitting in the bottom half of the shell. The poor thing is stuck to itself, the cup, the shell, the paper towel, and now it's eyes are glued shut (they were open a little bit ago). I guess my question is.....should I just leave it alone in an attempt to get it to absorb the yolk? Will the sticky crud cement on her and become impossible to get off? Should I try to wipe her eyes off at least? Thanks guys.

I recently saw a thread were someone took a duckling completely out of the shell with the non absorbed yolk and just kept everything moist ...need to do something like that maybe... The duck made it and absorbed the yolk sac. Also on the first post on here there's a link to a guide to assisted hatching... Best of Luck

 

[ronott1]

I recently saw a thread were someone took a duckling completely out of the shell with the non absorbed yolk and just kept everything moist ...need to do something like that maybe... The duck made it and absorbed the yolk sac. Also on the first post on here there's a link to a guide to assisted hatching... Best of Luck

Thanks for the tip!

I'm not officially part of this hatch-a-long, but have been following along rooting everyone on.

Now I need some advice. I have a chick/egg that is on day 24 right now. It pipped three days ago at the wrong end. I left it alone for a long time but finally today I pulled it out to check on it. It is still alive but just barely. I started chipping the shell away and it is a major sticky chick. Super-glue sticky with sticky tan liquid dripping everywhere. I zipped the top of the shell off, and noticed a little un-absorbed yolk. As soon as I saw that I put it in a cup still sitting in the bottom half of the shell.

The poor thing is stuck to itself, the cup, the shell, the paper towel, and now it's eyes are glued shut (they were open a little bit ago). I guess my question is.....should I just leave it alone in an attempt to get it to absorb the yolk? Will the sticky crud cement on her and become impossible to get off? Should I try to wipe her eyes off at least? Thanks guys.

I use moistened q tips to moisten the shell to get off as much as possible. I will often leave the bits of goo on if it is not too bad. If it is bad, you can wash them with warm water. They can soak in it-- about 90 degrees. After they are clean, dry it off with a hair dyer.

It needs food and water. A drop of nutridrench, nutritional yeast, poly vi sol or etc. will perk it up too.

Good job and I hope it makes it! Pleas post back with updates.