April Hatch Thread--Come Join Us!

[naglady]

Yay! Movement! That's a great sign. Hope they are making their way into the world...The dark eggs seem to be difficult to hatch!

mine are suppose to hatch tomorrow also.. Good Luck

 

[9lilchicks]

So, not to seem greedy but I don't wanna throw out or dissect any of my last four if someone has some story of their eggs hatching a day or two after the others.

This process was nerve wracking and very rewarding. One chick was kinds stuck so I used a q-tip to help him a bit and just kept waiting for him to hep himself. Then I saw his tiny eye looking right at me! All squished up and stuck. I pealed a tiny bit off but didn't feel comfortable putting him back in the vapor and disturbing the temp for the others, not to mention the two drying ones were pummeling him. So, I kept him gently in the palm of my hand under a light and picked a tiny bit of peel. He worked so hard and was born right in my hand. IT WAS AMAZING! So, needle to @yahoo.com, I am a bit more bonded to tiny Benjamin the button quail. I can add pics of the process but my six yer old was filming soooooo..... Don have high expectations
Pic coming next...

 

[Penny Hen]

Have you given it some Nutri-drench for Poultry? I used it once to help a dove that flew into a window and ruptured its eye and was walking in circles with an obvious concussion. I put her in a box where it was dark and fed her the Nutri-drench in water for a day with a syringe until I could contact the wildlife bird people to take her. By the time I turned her over to them she was no longer circling and the rupture eye was drying up. They were amazed that she had survived. I put it to placing her in the dark box (I have migraines and that was just an instinctual response) and the Nutri-drench water that kept her from dehydrating.

I had used their product for my lambs and kids for years and have seen it really juice up a weak one. I believe in their poultry product to do the same after watching the dove.

 

[chickydee64]

So, not to seem greedy but I don't wanna throw out or dissect any of my last four if someone has some story of their eggs hatching a day or two after the others.

This process was nerve wracking and very rewarding. One chick was kinds stuck so I used a q-tip to help him a bit and just kept waiting for him to hep himself. Then I saw his tiny eye looking right at me! All squished up and stuck. I pealed a tiny bit off but didn't feel comfortable putting him back in the vapor and disturbing the temp for the others, not to mention the two drying ones were pummeling him. So, I kept him gently in the palm of my hand under a light and picked a tiny bit of peel. He worked so hard and was born right in my hand. IT WAS AMAZING! So, needle to @yahoo.com, I am a bit more bonded to tiny Benjamin the button quail. I can add pics of the process but my six yer old was filming soooooo..... Don have high expectations

Pic coming next...

HI,
I keep my eggs in till day 25............Have a big hatch right now that was due Friday...started last night...............
Even with a hen, they do not always hatch on the same day..good Luck

 

[Penny Hen]

That's good to know. I have some blue eggs and I can't see nothing. But I have been running the incubator dry and I can make out the air pockets in some of the white eggs. I have 11 more days to go and so I am slowly bringing the humidity up a bit each day. By the way glass beer bottles filled with water and a paper towel wick do a great job both as a humidifier and a thermal sink.
My homemade incubator is using a dehydrator coil that is on constantly and a light bulb that is wired into the thermostat. The dehydrator keeps it from dropping lower than 93 at any time and the light bulb gives me the rest. I am going to replace the water heater thermostat with a more reliable one after this hatch. It has been too difficult to get the adjustments just right and the range is at best 5 degrees before it will cut back on again.

I am hoping I get at least some chicks from this. So far none are stinky but I don't have a proper candler. The little LED flashlight lit up the white eggs but I couldn't make out the rooster spots and while I was able to see the air pockets develop and a roundish shadow I can't make out veins and stuff like is shown in the BYC photos. The blue eggs are just impervious.

 

[KRCronos]

Okay we day 21 almost over here. No more pipps, Hear some peeps but cant tell if it the two that hatched or one of the other eggs. My girlfriend says they look bad and to take them out of the bator but the last one came into the world at 8:30am only been about 11 hrs now. was going to wait and take them out in the am. feathers look a bit damp still to me and I'm trying to get the brooders temp to level out at about 95. I just raise the heat lamp up some more may have to raise it again before I go to bed.

I should leave them in the bator untill atleast tomorrow morning right? Alittle input would be great.

If their sisters don't hatch in the next 3 days I will have about a 95% mortality rate. was probably my humiditiy and I understand the dark eggs thing. I have brown eggs and cannot tell if they were fertial or not.

Thanks for all the post's on the forums, you all have been very insightful. Well I have my next set starting to go into the bator once this set is finished. I am trying to get this years flock started. I'm going to do a cycle 1yr/2yr/3yr and cycle them through after the 3rd year. maybe don't know if the soon to be wife will let me.

But I'm doing this for a small income sell the eggs and for a food suppliment after year 3. heard that in year 3 the egg production drops way off. Right now I have 16 girls for 1 roo and 1 roo for the next set of 16 girls. will be about a year difference between second set and second roo but I think it will be ok any thoughts on that as well?

 

[TheCrazyChick]

Just a quick update on my Silver Penciled Plymouth Rock that hatched with a severe navel obtrusion. I really had no hope for it, but it just kept plugging away. It didn't lay around, never SHUT UP, and held its own with the other chicks. It was, however, much smaller and weaker than the rest. It never fluffed up, due to egg stuff plastered everywhere, eyes were never open, and it never laid done and rested, always just wobbly on its weird little skinny legs.

Last night I gave it a sponge bath to attempt to fluff it up, hoping nice soft feathers would help to keep it better warm. I also read a post about eye issues and decided to treat its eyes with my contact solution.

Happy to report this morning that its eyes are now open and bright and it has fluffed up nicely. I also decided to place the week olds in the brooder with the 3 days olds and remove the distressed one and put her in the smaller brooder by herself. I erected a mirror so she wouldn't die of loneliness. She has now quit chirping non stop and is running around like crazy. Still a little bit wobbly, but SO much better.

I guess the reason for my post is simply ... don't give up. Sometimes the simplest things will save a chick. A good lesson for life, too. Sometimes the simplest things will save someone. Period.

 

[chickydee64]

Okay we day 21 almost over here. No more pipps, Hear some peeps but cant tell if it the two that hatched or one of the other eggs. My girlfriend says they look bad and to take them out of the bator but the last one came into the world at 8:30am only been about 11 hrs now. was going to wait and take them out in the am. feathers look a bit damp still to me and I'm trying to get the brooders temp to level out at about 95. I just raise the heat lamp up some more may have to raise it again before I go to bed.

I should leave them in the bator untill atleast tomorrow morning right? Alittle input would be great.

If their sisters don't hatch in the next 3 days I will have about a 95% mortality rate. was probably my humiditiy and I understand the dark eggs thing. I have brown eggs and cannot tell if they were fertial or not.

Thanks for all the post's on the forums, you all have been very insightful. Well I have my next set starting to go into the bator once this set is finished. I am trying to get this years flock started. I'm going to do a cycle 1yr/2yr/3yr and cycle them through after the 3rd year. maybe don't know if the soon to be wife will let me.

But I'm doing this for a small income sell the eggs and for a food suppliment after year 3. heard that in year 3 the egg production drops way off. Right now I have 16 girls for 1 roo and 1 roo for the next set of 16 girls. will be about a year difference between second set and second roo but I think it will be ok any thoughts on that as well?

Hi,
They all look bad right after hatch.sometimes I think they are dying only to have them up running around the next day........................
I prefer to give them more time than less before putting them in the brooder............
They can stay in the bator two or three days.....they are still living on thier egg sack.Makes sense if you think when thier hen mama is hatching.she cannot
teach them to feed till all the eggs hatch........again, not always on the same day....
It will be fine with Roo two...................Good Luck.oh, and welcome

 

[chickydee64]

Crazy Chick.
Very sweet.thanks for updating us and not giving up on your littl

e one

 

[chickydee64]

O.K......................
Took another nap.(still sick)
Woke up to two more.7 so far...1 zip...1.pip.
I was so upset when I was in the hospital thinking the eggs were going to die..............
Crazy isn't it that they choose to come late.\I think what it really is,is that the chicks have never done all the reading, discussing ect. that we go through
trying to control mother nature................

They just go with nature............
Back to bed for me..............................