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

[Roan]

I would have left the hour old chick stay in the incubator until dry

So I should put her back in then? It's 96 to 98 degrees in the brooder and though she was pretty dry when I put her in there, she's getting hard to distinguish from the other chicks already.

 

[Cynthia12]

Advice please... I don't know if the 4th is gonna survive. It is still just laying around, often shivering as though it's cold. It has orange goop stuck to its but - looks like yolk - and some white stuff that looks like wet paper - maybe membrane?

I'll try to get a pic.

Thanks

A photo would help, but you can get a wet paper towel, or clean rag and wash it's bottom. They can get what is called pasty butt. This stops them from being able to go to the bathroom. Not sure if this is all poo that is stuck in that area..like I said, a photo would help.

 

[Cynthia12]

Finally...

.... .... ...A PEEP!

I heard it while I was sitting in front of the computer just now (my incubator is literally RIGHT next to the monitor).

And another PEEP!

Hopefully, those fuzz-butts are just fashionably late!

Won't be long, probably while you sleep.

 

[Cynthia12]

So I should put her back in then? It's 96 to 98 degrees in the brooder and though she was pretty dry when I put her in there, she's getting hard to distinguish from the other chicks already.

I snatch mine out. I put them right under the brooder light to dry. I don't like them rolling the eggs around. ron takes care of that problem with...carton hatching.

 

[Cynthia12]

Just had my first one hatch from my late arrival eggs. Looks so big after seeing all of those little Sizzles, and the EE's aren't even that big..looks to be a RSL.

 

[draye]

Quick check this morning: only 40 have hatched. I'm leaving all on until Saturday afternoon. Not looking like a very good hatch this time around.

 

[LPeaslee]

My hatch is complete.

Of the 10 I set, 4 that I placed under a broody were only incubated for a day before the hen decided she wasn't game. Those 4 eggs were discarded.
And of the remaining 7 that were set in the incubator, one quit sometime around day 5. One more quit after lockdown. That left me with 5 hatched chick's.
BUT THEN, DW decided to open the incubator and take pics to post on FB of those 5 "cute fluffy buts".
I just placed 4 chick's in the brooder.

Oh, and by the way, a warning for those of you with a Brinsea Mini, the space between the water pots and the drop for the fan inlet, is just about the perfect size to trap a chick's head when the lid is placed back on the tray.

 

[MisfitMarie]

T_T ........ I heard a PEEP PEEP PEEP two hours ago.... nothing since.

 

[drumstick diva]

shlac sounds like that is the egg sac and the chick hasn't finished absorbing it. The chick needs to be undisturbed (by other chicks etc.) till this is finished. Sounds like it is cold too, can you check that it is get enough heat.

 

[Mahonri]

Love, love, love all of the chick pics.