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[jeremy]

I lost a BW chick this morning. It pipped and partially zipped itself out of its egg 2 days ago. I waited as long as i could stand it before helping it. It's membrane had stuck itself to the chick and I guess the struggle of fighting against it for two days exhausted it too much. It's weird because I've had no others shrink wrapped at all out of this hatch.

 

[enggass]

I thought maybe you all could help me with a question. I posted in the Incubating and Hatching section - with no luck - so thought I would ask here being that it pertains to Lav Am eggs I am hatching...

I have some small Lav Ameraucana eggs in the 'bator which have been developing nicely to this point. I just candled them on day 14.
What I noticed is that relatively the air sac seems somewhat large compared to my other eggs, and the rest of the egg is quite dark. Just like what a normal sized developing egg would appear like on day 18. Is this because the eggs are so small? I can't imagine they developed any more quickly because I have some normal to bigger sized Barnie eggs in with them and they seem to be right on track... I would imagine this is the case - assuming the chicks are born normal size they would occupy more off the overall egg interior.
Thoughts?

 

[BooBear]

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awe so sorry to hear that.

My first blue wheaten chick hatched out fine the second partial zipped too. The next morning I noticed the membrane looked dry in which I paniced, called in at work, went into rescue mode. I managed to save little Candy who for the first day looked as if she was not going to make it. Gave her some Polyvisol and made sure she got some water. Candy did eat some of her food. Today she is running around with the 1st chick Cotton. I gave them both Polyvisol this morning to help keep them perky.

It is day 23 and I still have 3 eggs that have not done anything yet. I know there are developed chicks in these eggs so I am feeling abit anxious myself.
May have to resign to that all that I have is the 2 that have made it thus far. I have terrible hatch rate with shipped eggs.

 

[BooBear]

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Has your humidity been on the low side through the incubation? Oversized aircells can be a sign of too low humidity.

 

[enggass]

I guess yes. 35%-40%.... This is how my last hatch was and it was very successful. Also, the other normal sized eggs that are in this batch are fine, it's just that these eggs are small so relatively the air cells are bigger.

 

[happytxchick]

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I had the same thing happen yesterday, but this one never made it out of the shell...it zipped almost completely. Is it a humidity fluctuation or something?? I just don't understand why one, but not all the others!

 

[BooBear]

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Maybe the chicks are gonna be smaller? I am not sure either then. Hopefully they will hatch ok for you.

 

[BooBear]

For cuteness, here are the only 2 that made the hatch.

The white fuzzy chick is Cotton who hatched without any trouble.
The golden chick is Candy who had to be rescued as she got stuck in her egg after starting to zip.
None of the other eggs made it. So these are my Blue Wheaten Ameraucana chicks:

 

[admhotel]

Just put my Silver Am. eggs from Pips&peeps into lockdown. 14 out of 16 shipped eggs.

Not bad for eggs from WA to NY. Also have 4 of my own BBS eggs that are in lockdown too. 42 eggs in this incubator and the other incubator goes into lockdown tomorrow. We are about to have alot of fuzzy butts running around

 

[SuburbanFarmstress]

Hey fellow Ameraucanans, would you mind taking a look at my little flock and giving me your opinions? Happy Chook seems to feel they are mostly girls, but I bought them straight run (they were the only chicks that hatched out of two dozen eggs) and I have a hard time believing my luck is that good! I fully expected at least four of them to be roos, because fate likes to do things like that to me, lol.

Thanks for looking!