Diary & Notes ~ Air Cell Detatched SHIPPED Chicken Eggs for incubation and hatching

[MommaBee]

I want to comment on what I have missed during dinner and bath time! Everything from Sally's story to Oz "I want a wine bator"!

But I think this needs attention first.

So things settled down a bit. It is moving its head and chirping up a storm. NO more blood veins at all. And since I have never seen an undeveloped yolk sac, I think what I saw was actually ruptured yolk. What do ya'll think?







Another worrisome side note... I don't see a 2nd leg.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Ended up with 10 bantam and 6 duck eggs in the bator...daisy finally laid hers lol....how's that chick doing ..and sally how are your two...and oz I want one too lol

YAY!!!!! they are getting more energetic, I put the "Yeti" chick in a cup for spradle leg she is mad at me lol.

 

[bellah1]

I am not sure about ducks, but if you really want them and you have space in the bator I would steal them, but I was really burnt today with mother nature : ( so I may still be a tad MAD AT HER and this is effecting my opinions!

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I am not sure about ducks, but if you really want them and you have space in the bator I would steal them, but I was really burnt today with mother nature : ( so I may still be a tad MAD AT HER and this is effecting my opini

i just read a previous post so i am sorry sally!
well i really dont have room but i could swing it and how will i lockdown with all the other eggs? my other incubator i ordered still isnt here or i wouldnt even have a problem! today is day 28 for the broodys and only day 14 for my shipped eggs. could i do it in the bator with the other ones?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I want to comment on what I have missed during dinner and bath time! Everything from Sally's story to Oz "I want a wine bator"!

But I think this needs attention first.

So things settled down a bit. It is moving its head and chirping up a storm. NO more blood veins at all. And since I have never seen an undeveloped yolk sac, I think what I saw was actually ruptured yolk. What do ya'll think?







Another worrisome side note... I don't see a 2nd leg.

that looks like a puss filled sack, it doesn't look like a puddle does it, it looks encased

 

[cochins1088]

I want to comment on what I have missed during dinner and bath time! Everything from Sally's story to Oz "I want a wine bator"!

But I think this needs attention first.

So things settled down a bit. It is moving its head and chirping up a storm. NO more blood veins at all. And since I have never seen an undeveloped yolk sac, I think what I saw was actually ruptured yolk. What do ya'll think?







Another worrisome side note... I don't see a 2nd leg.

Hard to tell from the pictures, but since it was foaming at the mouth, I believe it is ruptured. Find a piece of string, cover it in antibiotics to make sure it's safe and tie off the yolk sac as close to the navel as possible. Then cut the baby from the shell.

I then put iodine on the navel to help it dry out. This is what I did to save my 2 chicks.

 

[ozexpat]

that looks like a puss filled sack, it doesn't look like a puddle does it, it looks encased

whatever that is, its in a membranous capsule.

ready the dental floss

 

[cochins1088]

that looks like a puss filled sack, it doesn't look like a puddle does it, it looks encased

The yolk sac can still look fairly encased even if it's ruptured. It could be a small tear.

But again, I can't quite tell from the pictures.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Soooo Where was I all day? IT was NOT a fun day!

After bathing clipping and washing 3 of the 5 dogs I

I went out to check on Black Betty , chicks and unhatched eggs.

FOUND an ICE COLD egg in the middle of the floor and the other like soooo...... abandoned on the nest, she was laying in the middle of the floor with her 2 chicks!
BAD BLACK BETTY! BAD BAD BAD!!! LESSON LEARNED, STEAL your broody's good eggs, leave some fakes and then REPLACE WHEN YOU HAVE ENOUGH ALL AT THE SAME TIME!
DO NOT LET MOTHER NATURE TAKE ITS COURSE! MOTHER nature can be cruel for sure! So if you can help mother nature just a tad DO IT!



I grabbed them both after snapping that pic and RAN into the house and quickly ripped that sucker out of the shell while holding her under the warm work lamp.
SO cold in my hands, I have turned/candled enough eggs to know these chicks were in BAD shape. The other egg had no external pip, no noise, so let it under the lamp while
I stimulated the other chick and rubbed her with a towel and tried to get her warm again through heat and stimunlation. she was BLUE and I am not talking blue cochin blue.
poor thing : ( I felt so bad for not taking them from black betty last night! I second guessed myself again! ugggggg


I opened the egg and saw it had internally pipped, but there was absolutely NO movement.
I assumed it was gone. so I kept it under the lamp while I worked on getting the other warm and stimulated.
I let it sit for almost 45 minutes and finally I said, you know what, you may have a chick that has a tad more yolk to absorb,
But you also have a hypothermic chick in there, best way to warm her up is to get her to open from that ball position.
So thinking in the back of my head she is already dead, I took off the membrane with only a tad of blood, I thought because she was dead,
THANK GOD no blood, and helped her head out to open her body up for heat.
I kept her like that for 30. minutes and rubbed her also gently and she started to breath faintly!
I SCREAMED at the top of my lungs for DH to come and tell me I wasn't loosing it!
SHE WAS moving! very little but she was alive! She would move her head occationally!
I WAS AMAZED, so this was not a case of sitting on hands and waiting for me.
This was get them warm and keep them stimulated. so for HOURS I sat with them and rubbed them and talked to them.

This was while I was rubbing the first one......


This is how she looked when I realized she didn't have any yolk yet.
I think the cold stopped the process.....





a few hrs later........



a few more hrs later.....



and she finally is trying to walk around with the other one! she seems to have curled toes and spraddle legs from weakness....
But we can work with that!



and a few moments ago........ certainly not out of the woods yet.



see umbilical now.......



The first one has a case of droopy neck?????? she is very active but see how she hangs her head? she does pick it up but not stand tall with it..... suggestions?




So this is where my day lead me........ ugggggg

Quote: ABOVE is what has be a bit perturbed at mother nature. : ( I would watch them and then after most hatch pull the extras and at least attempt to hatch them, by then you may be on day 18 anyways, plus I think with ducks you can wait until you see the internal pip to up humitiy

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: I agree, now the question is do you take her out of the shell or not? ugggg I feel comfortable doing this but not telling someone to do so. If it was my chick I would gently lift him until I could get a better look at whats going on in the bottom of the egg. and investigate. But have the dipped floss ready for sure and have something to blot/pressure like sterile gauze if you have a bleed.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

you don't know what stage the yolk is in yet until you see it.

you don't want to tie off a round ball that's trying to get absorbed. but if its long and stringy you will want to tie it off.