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

[Bazy]

Dearest CHAMPIONS (that would be the nice kids) of the bad, bad Acronym lady (that would be me):


I had four external pips this morning. One is at the completely WRONG end of the egg. I mean, right about a centimeter from the point... Either I incubated this poor baby upside down, or it's really confused!

My question is what do I do? I'm perfectly patient and am fine with doing nothing at all but this has NEVER happened to me and I would like to know what is the best course of action. It pipped around 8-9 a.m. Honestly, it's a very important egg or I would just leave it alone.

Thanks In Advance

 

[ronott1]

Im being on my best behavior laugh out loud ron. Insert thumbs up winking smiley faced dude thingy. Hashbrown: no hating

You are doing great!

 

[ronott1]

Dearest CHAMPIONS (that would be the nice kids) of the bad, bad Acronym lady (that would be me):


I had four external pips this morning. One is at the completely WRONG end of the egg. I mean, right about a centimeter from the point... Either I incubated this poor baby upside down, or it's really confused!

My question is what do I do? I'm perfectly patient and am fine with doing nothing at all but this has NEVER happened to me and I would like to know what is the best course of action. It pipped around 8-9 a.m. Honestly, it's a very important egg or I would just leave it alone.

Thanks In Advance

Check our Sally sunshine's article for great and fantastic information on wrong end pippers for lots of help.

Generally, you want to get the egg tilted back up so the the end with the pip is higher. Make sure the chicks beak is visible in the pip and it is not clogged up with goo. Let the chick go as long as possible without helping it. A lot of them will get out fine. Watch for it to start zipping and stop and listen for the peeps getting weaker.

I had a Delaware that pipped the wrong end and the chick eventually broke out like it was the Hulk!

 

[casportpony]

Dearest CHAMPIONS (that would be the nice kids) of the bad, bad Acronym lady (that would be me):


I had four external pips this morning. One is at the completely WRONG end of the egg. I mean, right about a centimeter from the point... Either I incubated this poor baby upside down, or it's really confused!

My question is what do I do? I'm perfectly patient and am fine with doing nothing at all but this has NEVER happened to me and I would like to know what is the best course of action. It pipped around 8-9 a.m. Honestly, it's a very important egg or I would just leave it alone.

Thanks In Advance

I've had a few wrong end pips hatch on their own, some needed assistance and lived and some died. I am not an expert, far from it, but I think the best thing to do is keep that humidity high and wait 24 hours.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Read this *thoroughly* before assisting:

• Guide to ASSISTED Hatching

Here is another article that she wrote:

• Hatching 101

-Kathy

 

[Roan]

Wow, great response to my little joke! I didn't mean to start any criticism though. lol er I mean Laughs Out Loud.

Anyway, since I'll be hatching chicken eggs, I will start them on 12/10/14. My question is, should I wait until 12/04/14 to start collecting the eggs for 'bating?

I have a specific fridge for storing eggs and the temp is set at 40 F. So I should be okay with gathering now, right? Since my ladies are just coming out of the molt and are just getting over the stress of a very determined hawk that I've finally driven off, they are laying very few eggs atm.

PS Bazy, I'm glad you liked my joke 4 times more than everyone else. lol *whispers* Don't worry, I understood rotflmbo.

Footnote:

Acronyms and abbreviations used in this post:

lol = Laugh Out Loud
'bating = incubating
40 F = 40 degrees Fahrenheit
atm = At The Moment
PS = Post Script
rotflmbo = Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Butt Off

Now we're all on the same page and there's no need to single anyone out for something that countless thousands do everyday.

As a side note: One should not berate another for something that the one also does. For example, if you've ever used the word "sonar or "ATM" you have used an acronym.

Sonar = Sound Navigation And Ranging
ATM = Automatic Teller Machine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym

Others that you use without realizing it may include:

Scuba = Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus, Super Cool Undersea Bible Adventure or Submillimeter Common-User Bolometer Array > http://www.bing.com/search?q=what+d...=-1&sk=&cvid=7802402a3f2748ddb51e75b59e461ed7

FBI = Federal Bureau of Investigation
CIA = Central Intelligence Agency

Here is a link to the most common acronyms for several categories:

http://abbreviations.yourdictionary.com/articles/common-accronyms.html

And for on here, the most common of all is BYC which means...Back Yard Chickens

Again, this is not meant to offend or single anyone out. It is merely a response to those who feel it necessary to call someone out for using a form of communication that we are ALL guilty of using at one point or the other.

 

[ronott1]

Wow, great response to my little joke! I didn't mean to start any criticism though. lol er I mean Laughs Out Loud.

Anyway, since I'll be hatching chicken eggs, I will start them on 12/10/14. My question is, should I wait until 12/04/14 to start collecting the eggs for 'bating?

I have a specific fridge for storing eggs and the temp is set at 40 F. So I should be okay with gathering now, right? Since my ladies are just coming out of the molt and are just getting over the stress of a very determined hawk that I've finally driven off, they are laying very few eggs atm.

The research I have seen is that cold storage of hatching eggs does not help unless the eggs are over two weeks old.

The eggs can be collected for a good 10 days if they are home collected eggs. I like to keep them near a bathroom sink in a flat that is tilted. two or three times a day, twist the eggs a half a turn.



The eggs are set with the big end up and the storage container that is at the back has water in it.

 

[silly4buttons]

 

[Roan]

The research I have seen is that cold storage of hatching eggs does not help unless the eggs are over two weeks old.

The eggs can be collected for a good 10 days if they are home collected eggs. I like to keep them near a bathroom sink in a flat that is tilted. two or three times a day, twist the eggs a half a turn.



The eggs are set with the big end up and the storage container that is at the back has water in it.

Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately, my 3 yo grandson lives with us and is all about the eggs. lol That's why I had to get a specific fridge for the eggs and put in my room since my room is off limits. He would even go so far as take eggs out of the kitchen fridge and ask me to put them in the incubator. lol

As for the storage container to which you refer, I don't see on in the picture so I'm curious as to what purpose it serves?

And lastly, speaking of putting them in a flat for storage, I use a still air incubator so I was wondering, I've read on here somewhere something about using egg cartons in the incubator to help keep the eggs from getting knocked around by hatching chicks. Is this a good idea or no?

I just set (21 days ago), 24 eggs in the incubator but we had an extremely cold night one night and our gas lines froze so without the external heat source, the temperature in the incubator dropped down to 96 degrees and until we could get the lines thawed, it stayed around that for almost a full day. So now, I believe all of our eggs except 4 (which hatched 3 days ago) are dead. I will do a water candling later to be sure.

But the point of this story is the same as every other hatch I've had, when the new chicks begin flopping around and exploring, they inevitably bump into other eggs, which (from what I've read) causes the unhatched chicks to have to reposition themselves for hatching.

 

[Amberjem]

ok ron, I think I will be your DIY incubator addition to the hatch along.. seeing what I can put together here