7th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2016 Hatch-A-Long

[Laurel Meadows]

Happy New Year!! I finally was able to catch up on the thread from late last night and this morning

Love seeing all the pics of the new babies!

My second of the EE crosses hatched this morning about 7:55. Both babies are now in the temporary brooder and loving their heat plate. I will try to get some better pics later today.

So this group in the Brinsea I had 6 of my own set... 3/6 fertile (my roo clearly has favorites). One early quitter so 2/3 fertile hatched.

I still have 5 shipped eggs due to hatch Monday (BBS Marans, BBS Cochin, and calico X Mille fleur bantam Cochins) They went into lockdown today looking good!

 

[venymae]

Does this chicks abdomen look swollen? It was stuck in it's shell and I had to assist it out, there was a bunch of goop in there with it. I got it rinsed and I put neosporin on it's navel (which looks healed or mostly healed).

What do you all think?

That's how all mine look when they first come out, especially if they had a big egg. HUGE belly. I'd say it looks normal.

 

[wornoutmomto3]

OH NO!!! One of my BCM eggs is pipped upside down!!

 

[TJChickens]

All but One RIR chicks are out!
The last one in pipped a coupla hours ago

ONE OF TJCHICKENS BANTAM EE(that lays BLUE!) JUST HATCHED!!!!

5 more of TJCHICKENS still have pips!

Waiting to see if anymore quail will hatch....
Have been collecting eggs anyway so NOT SHUTTING DOWN THE BATOR, EVER!

Yeah chicks!! Go, Go, Go!!!

 

[TJChickens]

OH NO!!! One of my BCM eggs is pipped upside down!!

Ughhhh, Out of my last hatch, they were all upside down. Two hatched by themselves, but I needed to assist 6 others. A few that didn't get pipped, died. You just really have to keep an eye on them.

 

[TJChickens]

Does this chicks abdomen look swollen? It was stuck in it's shell and I had to assist it out, there was a bunch of goop in there with it. I got it rinsed and I put neosporin on it's navel (which looks healed or mostly healed).

What do you all think?

The yolk is still in the abdomen. It should absorb and be normal looking soon.

 

[Saris]

That's how all mine look when they first come out, especially if they had a big egg. HUGE belly. I'd say it looks normal.

Okay, I rinsed as much of the sticky off that I could. It's still drying now, resting a bunch. I'll leave it be.

 

[wornoutmomto3]

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Watching it closely. I wasn't even sure that the chick was still alive when I put the egg in the incubator at lockdown, but I wasn't 100% so it went in. The fact that it pipped is great. I just hope I don't lose it now.

 

[TJChickens]

Well, my "slower" potentially "straddled" chick is moving around a bit better - it wants to play in a pile with the others. I think its a roos as every black or non-white chick I've hatch ends up being male. Anyway, I reviewed @Sally Sunshine 's link and tried putting it in a cup (the espresso cup seemed best) - but he wanted nothing to do with it. Jumped out and piled back up with the others - I guess that means its legs aren't THAT weak...



I have another one unzipping and several more active pips... I have a feeling this hatch will be drawn out over a couple days. Several mixed breed eggs from two flocks - each developing at its own rate! The blue eggs look like they will hatch next.

Make sure they have good traction. Not newspaper. I like to use the most textured paper towels I can get. I also use the rubber shelf liner for the first few days. Or even a dish towel....
It can make the difference between spraddle legged or not. If one is questionable and is kept on a slippery surface, it will always get spraddled. If put on something with traction, it will usually get stronger and be able to keep his legs under him/her.

 

[TJChickens]

Watching it closely. I wasn't even sure that the chick was still alive when I put the egg in the incubator at lockdown, but I wasn't 100% so it went in. The fact that it pipped is great. I just hope I don't lose it now.

Do you have any other pips? The malpositioned ones usually pip first if they pip at all. It's the time they normally would make an internal pip. So they do take longer to hatch from that first pip. I would wait until after any normal positioned ones hatch before thinking about helping. They are often stuck, not being able to turn, but as long as they can breathe, they need the time to absorb their yolk....