Adventures in Incubating Shipped Eggs

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Morrigan said:
I agree! This forum has totally gotten me more invested in the hatch this year.

Just trucked back down the basement for the umpteenth time to check. The first pip from last night looks like it is starting to make progress. It may be ready to zip! :fl:fl:fl
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Yes, thanks for staring this thread. We have a great group, and its good to make this journey together, with all the joys and rough spots, too.
 
Just got home from work, and checked on the two incubators. The Yosoo that I ran at 99.5 doesn't even have a pip, I think.

All the action is in the HB, which I ran at 100.5.
-The noisy Appenzeller has quite the long legs on her, and is using them to kick the poor wrong-end Svart egg around like a soccer ball.
-Chick #2 (Sebright) was just joined by Chick #3 (another Sebright), who is wet and tired and getting stomped on by the Appenzeller.
-No more progress for the Svart that pipped at the wrong end.
-The 2nd Appenzeller egg has a nice pip and it looks like unzipping has started.

I was going to move the rowdy chick into the brooder, but I have changed my mind about using the expensive heating plate I got (a Titan, from the UK - kind of like the Brinsea Ecoglow, but cheaper). If the chicks are under there, I won't be able to see them, and that worries me.

Since I'm off work for the next two days, I've decided to use a 75w red lizard light in the brooder while I'm home. I can switch out to the heat plate while I'm away.

What do you use for heat in your brooder? Do you feel it is effective? Safe?

I'm also getting ready to put color colded velcro zip ties on chickie ankles. Do you use a method to tell your chicks apart?
 
A chick has hatched. :celebrate

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It is still soaking wet and stumbling about the incubator. Eggs are rolling everywhere and it has got a LOUD peep.

Now, I've got to step away and run to the feed store. They were out of chick food yesterday if you can believe it.
 
Cerise1924 said:
Just got home from work, and checked on the two incubators. The Yosoo that I ran at 99.5 doesn't even have a pip, I think.

All the action is in the HB, which I ran at 100.5.
-The noisy Appenzeller has quite the long legs on her, and is using them to kick the poor wrong-end Svart egg around like a soccer ball.
-Chick #2 (Sebright) was just joined by Chick #3 (another Sebright), who is wet and tired and getting stomped on by the Appenzeller.
-No more progress for the Svart that pipped at the wrong end.
-The 2nd Appenzeller egg has a nice pip and it looks like unzipping has started.

I was going to move the rowdy chick into the brooder, but I have changed my mind about using the expensive heating plate I got (a Titan, from the UK - kind of like the Brinsea Ecoglow, but cheaper). If the chicks are under there, I won't be able to see them, and that worries me.

Since I'm off work for the next two days, I've decided to use a 75w red lizard light in the brooder while I'm home. I can switch out to the heat plate while I'm away.

What do you use for heat in your brooder? Do you feel it is effective? Safe?

I'm also getting ready to put color colded velcro zip ties on chickie ankles. Do you use a method to tell your chicks apart?
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Sounds like the Appenzeller is a handful!

Last year I was fortunate enough to have broody hens providing the heat. Very safe and effective. :D I'm so sad not to have one this year.

Prior to that I have used heat lamps. It has worked out fine, but I've always worried about the fire risk, So, this year I am going to try out the heat plate (Ecoglow) That's one of the reasons I am going to brood them inside the house for the first week. I want to keep a close eye on them to make sure that they are using it.
 
If a chick hasn't zipped 24 hours after pipping, I see if it needs help. I took out the Svart egg, and - thank goodness! - it is still peeping very strongly. I wrapped it in a warm, wet paper towel and carefully chipped away at the shell, from the wrong-place pip towards the air cell. There was a big gap between the outer and inner membranes at the air cell, and the inner membrane was full of thick blood vessels.

I put the chick back in the incubator, damp paper towel and all. It may still need help getting out of that egg, but it's still not time to help. It's breathing and yelling, so that's good. I think it will make it. :fl

Absolutely no pips, wiggles or peeps from my 99.5 incubator.:hmm I would be so depressed and anxious today, if I hadn't run the second incubator a degree higher.

How is everyone else doing?
 

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