Day 21 chick still in progress

[PD-Riverman]

please want advise i want to save this chick

You got some good info. having hatched 1000's and 1000's I do the sugar water for a quick fix to try and perk up some weak looking chicks and for sure is has helped ALOT, but as stated---some just will not make it. You do what you can do and Nature will take care of the rest.

 

[shahbaz84]

I couldnt find these product here in qatar vetnary doctor gave me this shown in picture is this good

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[shahbaz84]

 

[shahbaz84]

One question i placed eggs on plane net type surface and locked down three days before today on chick hatched and he is disturbing other eggs (rolling them) do the eggs can be harmed this way by the chick??

 

[shahbaz84]

this chick doing truble for other eggs

 

[WVduckchick]

this chick doing truble for other eggs

Just try to watch if any of the others are pipped, that it doesn't get rolled and close the pip. It doesn't happen often, but I have had it happen.

I draw a vertical mark on the side of my eggs, showing me which side I set upward, so if they get rolled, I can tell really easily. I will usually try to put them with the correct side back up, if I can. I use a straw, or pipe cleaner, or piece of wire through a vent hole to gently roll it back over.

Congrats on the hatchling!!

 

[PD-Riverman]

One question i placed eggs on plane net type surface and locked down three days before today on chick hatched and he is disturbing other eggs (rolling them) do the eggs can be harmed this way by the chick??

The chicks playing soccer ball has Never effected my hatch. I have long trays and they might roll some to the other end. Again has not effected my hatch----I don't even think about it.

 

[WVduckchick]

The chicks playing soccer ball has Never effected my hatch. I have long trays and they might roll some to the other end. Again has not effected my hatch----I don't even think about it.

As many as you hatch, I'm sure you can't watch every one. But for us small timers, I don't like risking them. I don't have tons to spare. Have you ever emptied your tray and found a pipped egg, with the pip pointing down, and it didn't hatch?
(seriously, I'm curious, since you hatch so many)

 

[PD-Riverman]

As many as you hatch, I'm sure you can't watch every one. But for us small timers, I don't like risking them. I don't have tons to spare. Have you ever emptied your tray and found a pipped egg, with the pip pointing down, and it didn't hatch?
(seriously, I'm curious, since you hatch so many)

I do not mean to offend any one---I just go by my results and post what I have seen. When I got into hatching heavier---every week---I had incubators in the house---in the mud room----next to the bedroom door and it got so bad with eggs rolling/chicks making noise during lock down it was keeping my wife awake a lot I slept through it most of the time. BUT while sitting in my chair watching TV----I would hear eggs rolling during the hatch. I had good hatches with the cheap Styrofoam incubators but soon built my cabinet incubator and hatcher you can see in the pic. I could set more eggs in them---at the start of using them I Mainly had 50 to 100 eggs in lock down per week, that was just to much egg rolling during lock down so I had to move the incubators to a out building. The first 4 weeks in my hatcher I hatched 100% with 102 eggs being my largest hatch at that time---the 5th week end I hatched 77 out of 78 eggs in lock down. When I walked in the out building after moving---during a lock down at Times I could hear eggs rolling before I open the door----I would go in and shine a light into the hatcher to see about how many had hatched and watch a few minutes---kept hearing eggs get knocked around.

One time I put 178 eggs in the hatcher, and for some reason a few did not hatch---I never for sure figured that out but felt I had the bleach mixed to strong when I cleaned the hatcher because I could still smell bleach inside after the hatch----so I blamed it on that----That made that hatch 95%. That was the lowest after getting serious into hatching I ever had. Example my next to the last hatch(my last hatch was a few pheasant eggs and hatched 100%) was 236 eggs in but I allowed/humored my 80 yr old Mother by allowing her to candled the eggs for her First Time helping me---3 eggs she questioned me about during the candling----I told her each time that egg was not any good----each time she would hold the egg and look at me and say it might hatch----I would say---OK I will mark it and put it in the hatcher for you. On day 22 when she went out with me to take the hatched chicks out---233 hatched, her 3 eggs did not. She said---well you were right. Yes there was a lot of knocking eggs and rolling in ever hatch.

But to answer your last question ----Yes I have open to remove the chicks on day 22 and have found a egg or two and some times 4 maybe 5 at the most out of a hundred to 278(don't remember which) that had pipped and not hatched. I just quickly(no chipping away at the shell) break them out the shell and put them back in to warm up/dry for a while---most all would dry off and be ok, but have lost 1 or 2 along and along after breaking them out.

So the reason I say It has never hurt my hatch for the Eggs rolling around is because I do not feel it does----just being honest.

 

[WVduckchick]

I do not mean to offend any one---I just go by my results and post what I have seen. When I got into hatching heavier---every week---I had incubators in the house---in the mud room----next to the bedroom door and it got so bad with eggs rolling/chicks making noise during lock down it was keeping my wife awake a lot I slept through it most of the time. BUT while sitting in my chair watching TV----I would hear eggs rolling during the hatch. I had good hatches with the cheap Styrofoam incubators but soon built my cabinet incubator and hatcher you can see in the pic. I could set more eggs in them---at the start of using them I Mainly had 50 to 100 eggs in lock down per week, that was just to much egg rolling during lock down so I had to move the incubators to a out building. The first 4 weeks in my hatcher I hatched 100% with 102 eggs being my largest hatch at that time---the 5th week end I hatched 77 out of 78 eggs in lock down. When I walked in the out building after moving---during a lock down at Times I could hear eggs rolling before I open the door----I would go in and shine a light into the hatcher to see about how many had hatched and watch a few minutes---kept hearing eggs get knocked around.

One time I put 178 eggs in the hatcher, and for some reason a few did not hatch---I never for sure figured that out but felt I had the bleach mixed to strong when I cleaned the hatcher because I could still smell bleach inside after the hatch----so I blamed it on that----That made that hatch 95%. That was the lowest after getting serious into hatching I ever had. Example my next to the last hatch(my last hatch was a few pheasant eggs and hatched 100%) was 236 eggs in but I allowed/humored my 80 yr old Mother by allowing her to candled the eggs for her First Time helping me---3 eggs she questioned me about during the candling----I told her each time that egg was not any good----each time she would hold the egg and look at me and say it might hatch----I would say---OK I will mark it and put it in the hatcher for you. On day 22 when she went out with me to take the hatched chicks out---233 hatched, her 3 eggs did not. She said---well you were right. Yes there was a lot of knocking eggs and rolling in ever hatch.

But to answer your last question ----Yes I have open to remove the chicks on day 22 and have found a egg or two and some times 4 maybe 5 at the most out of a hundred to 278(don't remember which) that had pipped and not hatched. I just quickly(no chipping away at the shell) break them out the shell and put them back in to warm up/dry for a while---most all would dry off and be ok, but have lost 1 or 2 along and along after breaking them out.

So the reason I say It has never hurt my hatch for the Eggs rolling around is because I do not feel it does----just being honest.

I wasn't trying to offend you either! We've been around enough threads together, I just know you hatch large batches, so I was curious.

That's great "real" data, and very interesting stuff. I can't imagine hatching 200+ at one time. I just hatched 21, and it feels like a bunch.

Thanks for sharing.