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

[Pensmaster]

Me too! Funny to watch the keys go as the sentence appears.

How's your your key board doing right now. Mines slow again but the posting is up on HAL tonight.

 

[Lozuufy]

Oh my word ! I'd be scared to death i would lose that in a crack. Looks like a termite

He was pretty tiny, he's bigger now though.

(This is the article of how I raised him if anyone's curious)
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/hand-raising-a-society-finch-from-an-egg-with-pictures

 

[LocalYokel]

He was pretty tiny, he's bigger now though.

(This is the article of how I raised him if anyone's curious)
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/hand-raising-a-society-finch-from-an-egg-with-pictures

This is awesome!
thanks!

 

[LocalYokel]

This is awesome!
thanks!

And Amazing

 

[Pensmaster]

He was pretty tiny, he's bigger now though.

(This is the article of how I raised him if anyone's curious)
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/hand-raising-a-society-finch-from-an-egg-with-pictures

I read somewhere that the male pigeon helps with the first meals is that true

 

[LocalYokel]

I read somewhere that the male pigeon helps with the first meals is that true

From the article,
even the baby he raised fed and even incubated a later hatch!

 

[Ravynscroft]

Lost 3 ducklings, unfortunately... 7 left... and 8 Ohiki hatched... 2 more Ohiki that may or may not hatch...

 

[ronott1]

Lots of messages

Ron,

Thanks for doing the HAL is was fun and I learned a lot. I afraid nothing got done around here for the past 3 weeks but that's okay

One more question is the chick considered in trouble if the membrane has pulled away from the shell. On one I opened the top of after waiting a day after pip had separated from the shell enough to run a q tip with Bacitracin onto the membrane. It did keep it moist and it did finish piping under the top area I chipped off. Just want to make sure I get that right.

Yes, I usually use water to moisten the membrane--If it is too big, it will dry out and you will have to peel the chick out. The important thing is to make sure it can breath and then wait for the blood vessels to dry out. They can either aspirate the blood and drown on it or bleed to death if too much blood is lost.

I found one that lost or did not have an egg tooth. It had internally pipped but could not zip. I got it out this morning and it is now with the others, so I hatch 33 chicks and they are all doing fine so far!

 

[LocalYokel]

Lost 3 ducklings, unfortunately... 7 left... and 8 Ohiki hatched... 2 more Ohiki that may or may not hatch...

 

[Pensmaster]

He was pretty tiny, he's bigger now though.

(This is the article of how I raised him if anyone's curious)
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/hand-raising-a-society-finch-from-an-egg-with-pictures

That's incredible. Ok he's cute. Wow