April 2020 Hatch-A-Long! All are welcome!

[BluebirdHomestead]

Jealous of your hatch rate. This was my first experience with shipped eggs and I’m currently 5/18. Most didn’t even make it to day 7 for me.

I should have clarified that these are my first non-shipped eggs. I’ve always had them shipped hence why I’m used to awful hatch rates. My best one was 11 out of 19 or 20 on shipped eggs.
I drove a couple hours to pick these eggs up and 17/22 original eggs made it to lockdown.

 

[BluebirdHomestead]

Also: note to self - don’t set groups of eggs 2 days apart if you also have a third group of eggs that doesn’t need to be in lockdown yet and you only have 2 incubators. I still have one incuview occupied by 1 baby that just hatched (the 9th) and the 2 I’m assuming plus the 3 that haven’t pipped.
Tomorrow is day 20 on my 13 G-Bear Marans eggs and I had planned on quickly washing the hatcher and switching them over to where the BBS are now so that my Sky Girl eggs that I’m super invested in don’t get bashed around. But I definitely can’t move the Marans eggs into that incubator yet. Aside from it being a mess, I don’t want them to get knocked around while they get ready to pip because the air cells aren’t the best. Sigh. So I tucked my Sky Girl eggs off to the side and am going to try to wrap up the BBS hatch in the morning, wash that incubator and rescue my Sky Girl eggs (day 15) before the Marans start hatching.

 

[Ted_Harrell]

My Dominiques should go into lockdown this afternoon...

 

[Akoharski4]

Okay another morning, another weird chicken issue for you all

Freshly hatched chick (#6) with its umbilical/yolk sack still attached... the chick is behaving normally. But it is somewhat bloody. Not sure if I should snip this off? Or leave it? Anyone experienced this before?

ETA: yolk is fully absorbed

 

[BluebirdHomestead]

Ok so I helped my last little one that I’d started assisting out this morning. It looked like he’d been trying all night. His belly button has a bulge coming out of it. I’m hoping it recedes on its own. I have him in a cup to keep him still. It’s not like a bunch of yolk and it isn’t bleeding. It was not attached to the egg shell. Ideas of what to do or expect?

 

[BluebirdHomestead]

Ok so I helped my last little one that I’d started assisting out this morning. It looked like he’d been trying all night. His belly button has a bulge coming out of it. I’m hoping it recedes on its own. I have him in a cup to keep him still. It’s not like a bunch of yolk and it isn’t bleeding. It was not attached to the egg shell. Ideas of what to do or expect?

Here are some pics. One of him resting and the other trying to show what I’m talking about.

 

[Kimlew]

Welp, it's time to start up a thread for those of us that have babies hatching in April! All hatchers and all birds are welcome .

Easter babies: please enter your hatches in the 11th annual Easter Hatch A Long 2020! Participants here have eggs that are not hatching close enough to Easter to count for that event, but ALL April babies are welcome so feel free to chat about your Easter babies with us as well!
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I set 8 cayuga duck eggs on 3/13, due 4/10-4/11 (entered in EHAL). They are too early to really candle yet, so . They are shipped eggs from Fat Hen Farms and they were packed very nicely, but the air cells are definitely wonky. I will be trying to handle them as little as possible.

There will definitely be more eggs set to hatch from me in April! But at present my bators are full to the gills. There are 8 chicken eggs (barnyard mix, my own flock) due on 3/31, so they might make an appearance here as well.

Happy hatching!

Hello can I join in I'm new to all this thread stuff. Don't know how to chat without replying to someone any help would be awesome... I have chicks due to hatch Tuesday and Thursday next week

 

[Akoharski4]

UPDATE**- I searched other forums and found other people tied off the umbilical area with a piece of dental floss. So I did the same and snipped off the excess. I also put some styptic powder on it just as a precaution. No bleeding from where it was trimmed. Also no signed of mushy chick syndrome. Her abdominal area looks normal aside from the umbilical area. (No swelling or fluid.)

Okay another morning, another weird chicken issue for you all

Freshly hatched chick (#6) with its umbilical/yolk sack still attached... the chick is behaving normally. But it is somewhat bloody. Not sure if I should snip this off? Or leave it? Anyone experienced this before?

ETA: yolk is fully absorbed

 

[Akoharski4]

Here are some pics. One of him resting and the other trying to show what I’m talking about. View attachment 2072185View attachment 2072186

Are we hatching the same chicks here?!

 

[Fatimetta]

Happy to see all your babies hatching! I hope the ones with issues get resolved. It sounds like you guys have lots of experience! I'm thankful to be able to connect with people who know what they are doing!