December hatch-along

[Cerise1924]

Really sorry to hear that. So your chick did an internal pip and then ran out of air before external pipping?

I'm thinking that may be what happened. Do you know how long before they run out of air?

I've read that one shouldn't intervene until it's been 24 hours since the internal pip, but in the middle of the night, it had been eight hours and I no longer was hearing peeping. I got concerned. I opened up a little hole in the air cell, and found a perfectly formed chick, no longer alive. Should I have put in the air hole earlier? I wish I could have saved that chick, but I did not want to interfere to early and cause harm.

 

[Cerise1924]

Really sorry to hear that. So your chick did an internal pip and then ran out of air before external pipping?

I'm thinking that may be what happened. Do you know how long before they run out of air?

I've read that one shouldn't intervene until it's been 24 hours since the internal pip, but in the middle of the night, it had been eight hours and I no longer was hearing peeping. I got concerned. I opened up a little hole in the air cell, and found a perfectly formed chick, no longer alive. Should I have put in the air hole earlier? I wish I could have saved that chick, but I did not want to interfere too early and cause harm.

 

[Thenewgoat]

Okay i need some chicken experts help. I got eggs i was told to be black stars the man would not let me see his birds but after driving down there i got them anyway. Now 7 have hatched and they do look like a black star but they have feathers down there legs which i could not find any where what breed do i have.

 

[RCCheshire]

@rccheshire are you still waiting on 15 to externally pip? Do you check internal pips? How are the 4 doing?

We had a surprise 4th pip and zip and hatch in 30min today. 2 left and I'm wondering if I should candle for movement or take the other chicks out and have a listen for chirps.

Today is day 23.

I am going to check for internal pips tonight or tomorrow. I haven't done that before but I looked at a few tutorial like things and I think I know what I'm looking for. Will let you know how it goes!!

 

[Thenewgoat]

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I had a baby two baby chicks pip the wrong end of the egg and after a day i helped the first one out because it was looking like it would never make it out it turned all the way around and piped the air cell then came back where it started. well when i got it open on the end the chick pushed right out a soon as i sat it down it was for the most part normal looking at the yolk sac it had a small bump there but it has mostly gone now. He/she is not walking and it has been 6 hours it keeps its legs crossed and does not sit up but lays on its side. How do i help it and should i help the other one out of its shell the white lining around the the pip is turned brown.

 

[NysiaAnera]

[COLOR=FF0000]HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I had a baby two baby chicks pip the wrong end of the egg and after a day i helped the first one out because it was looking like it would never make it out it turned all the way around and piped the air cell then came back where it started. well when i got it open on the end the chick pushed right out a soon as i sat it down it was for the most part normal looking at the yolk sac it had a small bump there but it has mostly gone now.   He/she is not walking and it has been 6 hours it keeps its legs crossed and does not sit up but lays on its side.  How do i help it and should i help the other one out of its shell the white lining around the the pip is turned brown. [/COLOR]

So sorry I cannot help. :-(

 

[NysiaAnera]

Well, we will not be having any new chicks this month. We came home Christmas Eve and found our first December broody off the nest, the eggs like ice, and all 15 chicks dead. We both have been so upset about it. I just keep thinking that had I not switched the eggs when I set the ones Friday night, they would still be alive and hatching Wednesday, just under the wrong hen. Tonight when we got home, there she was, in a nest box on 4 or 5 fresh eggs. Now I just don't know what to do. She obviously still wants to brood, and she is just as vicious as she has been, but I don't know if I want to give her new eggs. I know the biggest issue was being kicked off her chosen nest box and her eggs being commandeered by Buffy. I wonder now if she will accept being in a different nest box, and recommit to brooding and stay on new eggs. I have 12 eggs ready for her...

 

[TheKindaFarmGal]

Okay i need some chicken experts help. I got eggs i was told to be black stars the man would not let me see his birds but after driving down there i got them anyway. Now 7 have hatched and they do look like a black star but they have feathers down there legs which i could not find any where what breed do i have.

Black stars are hybrids that can be sexed at hatch. Any breed can be used to make them as long as the hen is barred and the rooster is not barred or dominant white. It's totally possible one of the breeds used in the cross had feathered legs (a dominant trait) that it passed on to the offspring.

 

[Thenewgoat]

How do i sex them at hatch i would love to know hen/rooster ratio as they all look alike but one

 

[kie4]

I'm thinking that may be what happened. Do you know how long before they run out of air?

I've read that one shouldn't intervene until it's been 24 hours since the internal pip, but in the middle of the night, it had been eight hours and I no longer was hearing peeping. I got concerned. I opened up a little hole in the air cell, and found a perfectly formed chick, no longer alive. Should I have put in the air hole earlier? I wish I could have saved that chick, but I did not want to interfere too early and cause harm.

Hi @Cerise1924 , I'm the same and tried to leave alone for as long as I could stand.
We had 3 pip and hatch out on day 22. Then one came on day 23. No noises from the other eggs so I candled them and sure enough they were dead towards the end of day 23. I did an eggtopsy but couldn't work out why they were fully developed and didn't internally pip. One was wet inside the membrane which could have meant the humidity was too high. If anything though, the humidity was low during the first 18 days. Then I upped it to 65-75% for the lockdown.

8 eggs delivered by USPS. 2 didn't start developing, 6 made it to lockdown, 4 hatched. The last one to hatch has a funny right leg. He has a splint on now but doesn't seem to be improving on day 3. So it could be a final number of 3/8. Right now though it's 50% from shipped eggs which is par for the course I hear.