Anyone going to have eggs hatch in novemeber?

[kizanne]

Remember if you open them to moisten the membrane. By opening you are letting more moisture escape but it allows you to add more too.

 

[Sweetlilbaby]

Remember if you open them to moisten the membrane. By opening you are letting more moisture escape but it allows you to add more too.

I been every 30 to 45 minutes. Now two of them have good movement in them I'm just dripping water off my finger onto the membrane. because i find that to be easiest. I noticed the last time i did it the top egg had it move towards my finger til it touched threw the membrane. it was so cool.

 

[Sweetlilbaby]

the two with stars have very visible movement. Hope they are okay like that for the next 3 hours while i'm at appointments. when i get home i'll dampen the membrane again. but i can't do anything while I'm gone,. I just did it. Hope that is enough for them.

 

[kizanne]

It should be enough. The one on the front right looks like it quit early in the game.

Can't quite see the others on the right. When the membrane is moist you should be able to see them breathing.

Yours are in a more difficult position in that they haven't pipped at all.

 

[dolly85]

I am deeply sorry if I offended you or angered you in any way... I seriously wanted to know the reason why you died them and what it would do to the chicks. I have never heard about it before and was really curious about it. I would love to hear more about it if you would not mind sharing the information. As I can see that I asked a question that is highly debatable (by your answer) please feel free to PM me info. Sounds interesting to me, and I am sure that my brother would be totally into hearing about it too!!

Yes, dying chicks deeply offends some people, I'm so sorry for the lecture! I wrongly assumed you were asking for totally different reasons.

Besides an expirement for the kids and I we wanted to identify certain chicks hatched from certain eggs. If you want details on how we did it please let me know. We took pictures of the process.
An update: The chick is still alive and doing well! He has made some progress, not a complete zip though which would make me happier. I'll try to post a picture in a little bit. We have several other pips as well, some of these guys are pretty vocal! I love talking to them and hearing them peep back.

 

[Sweetlilbaby]

It should be enough. The one on the front right looks like it quit early in the game.

Can't quite see the others on the right. When the membrane is moist you should be able to see them breathing.

Yours are in a more difficult position in that they haven't pipped at all.

tonight i'm going to remove all but the two that i've seen movement. sadly I can now see a BIG problem. How well do they do hatching *** first? cause my chicks keep moving but keep ending up with butts near where the air sac was. They are very wiggly though. the two are. I'm hoping they come out soon. I keep talking to them encouraging them. and with where their incubator is they can hear the hens outside.

 

[Sweetlilbaby]

Yes, dying chicks deeply offends some people, I'm so sorry for the lecture! I wrongly assumed you were asking for totally different reasons.

Besides an expirement for the kids and I we wanted to identify certain chicks hatched from certain eggs. If you want details on how we did it please let me know. We took pictures of the process.
An update: The chick is still alive and doing well! He has made some progress, not a complete zip though which would make me happier. I'll try to post a picture in a little bit. We have several other pips as well, some of these guys are pretty vocal! I love talking to them and hearing them peep back.

How do you color the chicks? This summer I'll be hatching once a month with eggs from my moms. So I was thinking with FREE eggs I'd try something like that when my nieces are here as a science project How far into incubation do you do it? Where in the egg do you put the food color? how much food color? is there a way of screwing up?

 

[MarineCorpFarmr]

15 hatched so far today

 

[dolly85]

Sweetlilbaby- I have one pipping from the wrong end right now as well. Its not doing as well as I would like and from what I've heard they often times need help. They are sometimes okay if they pip really fast but if the egg turns over they still may drown. I hope you get a chick or two from this hatch. How awful to lose babies.

 

[Ashburnham]

Babies out and about - success rate 8 out of 8!
Can't beat the old fashioned way sometimes.