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[ZooMummzy]

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Oh my she is so cute!!!! Lol that is funny how she is in control...love the photos!

Oh, I have your eggs ready to send out tomorrow

 

[chipmunkridge]

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Oh my she is so cute!!!! Lol that is funny how she is in control...love the photos!

Oh, I have your eggs ready to send out tomorrow

GOODY! I am calibrating the incubator, everything seems to be functioning correctly. And I bought a egg candler while I was at the hatchery today. That and those nifty pictures posted will assist me!!!

 

[ZooMummzy]

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Oh my she is so cute!!!! Lol that is funny how she is in control...love the photos!

Oh, I have your eggs ready to send out tomorrow

GOODY! I am calibrating the incubator, everything seems to be functioning correctly. And I bought a egg candler while I was at the hatchery today. That and those nifty pictures posted will assist me!!!

Yay! Go to this thread too https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=261876 Silkiechicken - my hatch instructor lol - used my eggs from my layers for this thread. Very very helpful! I still refer to it every time I hatch.

Oh and shipping is $16

 

[auntpa-k]

Laura, remember me telling you I started the one egg that I knew should have hatched by then, but it had already died? Well I had a second one. The same thing.

The shells are just so tough. These are my little guys first eggs, I wasn't even sure that they where fertilized. That makes two. And they were perfectly formed. So I decided to 'help' the others. And the first one, must not have been ready. I caused it to bleed. (I hate that!) The second one I started so..carefully....., then it happened! darn it! (funny part. not funny ha ha, funny strange) I panicked! Grabbed the first thing I saw (which was plumbers tape. Why there was plumbers tape laying around on the kitchen counter I'll never know!) But anyway. I put just a tiny piece of this tape on the egg just to stop the bleeding. Now, I had the whole end off (big end). The membrane is still covering the chick. I didn't really know what to do, so I made sure it had stopped bleeding and placed it back in the bator to keep warm. That was Saturday night (very very late Saturday) Sunday, I was afraid to look. Today, when I went to turn my turkey eggs, I picked it up and checked it with the light. The chick is still moving! I could not believe it! It is still alive! It shouldn't have any trouble getting out, mostly just start ripping thru the membane. Do you think it will live? Have you ever had this happen? What should I do? I'm afraid to hardly even touch it, now. AWWwwwwww!! After this last hatch, I'm putting the bator away for awhile! I need to rest my 'head'!! I'm not going to quit, just a rest! A time-out. I have 4 very cute babies (2 and 1/2

eggs still in bator) and hopefully 4-ish baby turkeys in a week-ish. So I can concentrate on them. I'm starting to have egg nightmares!

I will have to try and get pics of the 4 babies tomorrow! (it is supposed to be sunny) They are changing so fast. I can't believe it. I thought I had 2 roos and 2 hens, now I'm not for sure. Could be 3 roos and a hen, 4 hens, 3 hens and a roo?? It seems they change to something different everyday!!
Thanks for all your help.

 

[ZooMummzy]

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Actually, I have and with mixed results. Half live, half don't. At this point in time since this happened over 24 hours ago, it is time to hatch the chick. It has probably absorbed all the yolk sac by now so with a wet papertowel, slowly start peeling the membrane off - more like sliding it slowly. After you get it out, put it back in the incubator to dry a bit or in a brooder by itself. It will take 24 hours for it to get up or die - sorry to say. Sometimes less, but usually not more than. One of the little chicks from this last hatch I helped out completely. It took exactly 24 hours and within a matter of minutes of that time frame, it was up and screaming for food. If you put it in the brooder - which I do suggest - make sure you monitor the temperature very closely since it won't be able to move out of the heat or back into it. You basically have to watch it for 24 hours straight. I hope this helps!

 

[Cackling Hen]

Here are the some more pictures of my 2 hatch

 

[BHep]

I HAVE A PIP !!

One of Napoleon's eggs. More like a chunk out.

 

[ZooMummzy]

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His babies are always the first out for me too!

 

[TinyTotsSeramas]

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His babies are always the first out for me too!

you two are lucky... Nepoleon's egg started smelling today so I took it outside an cracked it open... there was nothing in there

 

[ZooMummzy]

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His babies are always the first out for me too!

you two are lucky... Nepoleon's egg started smelling today so I took it outside an cracked it open... there was nothing in there

I will send you more when you want them Tiffany