EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[daxigait]

Total of 12 hatched! I'm very happy with our outcome. My class is enjoying the little fluffy butts

 

[daxigait]

Kenpo time. You guys have a great evening.

 

[iLikeMineFried]

A little advice please! I will try and keep it short. I have a blue ameraucana who pipped the wrong end of the egg(shipped egg) at day 19, and zipped itself free today (day 20), but when it kicked out of the egg, the yolk was not fully absorbed and there was a lot of bleeding. As soon as I noticed at my hourly check, I took it out and the inner membrane was still attached with a chunk of shell. I dabbed flour on it and got the bleeding to stop. Removed the chunk of shell. The chick is in a food storage bowl in the bator, but I'm not sure if it's going to make it. It is breathing shallowly and barely moves if I tap on the bator window. The chick was pretty big for the size shell it was in, and the egg also had a saddle shaped air cell. This was my first time with shipped eggs, and I don't think I like doing it. Is there anything I need to do for the chick, or just let it be? It's been 5 hours since I found it like this, and the yolk seems to be absorbing, and the membrane attached looks like it's drying out some, but the chick is still just laying there.

 

[kwhites634]

 

[BullChick]

A little advice please! I will try and keep it short. I have a blue ameraucana who pipped the wrong end of the egg(shipped egg) at day 19, and zipped itself free today (day 20), but when it kicked out of the egg, the yolk was not fully absorbed and there was a lot of bleeding. As soon as I noticed at my hourly check, I took it out and the inner membrane was still attached with a chunk of shell. I dabbed flour on it and got the bleeding to stop. Removed the chunk of shell. The chick is in a food storage bowl in the bator, but I'm not sure if it's going to make it. It is breathing shallowly and barely moves if I tap on the bator window. The chick was pretty big for the size shell it was in, and the egg also had a saddle shaped air cell. This was my first time with shipped eggs, and I don't think I like doing it. Is there anything I need to do for the chick, or just let it be? It's been 5 hours since I found it like this, and the yolk seems to be absorbing, and the membrane attached looks like it's drying out some, but the chick is still just laying there.

I am so sorry that you have waited so long for an answer!
You have done everything right. It doesn't sound like the chick should die from its hatch. If it does perish, it is likely going to be from an internal problem.

 

[5Sons Coop]

Long day I am whipped and sore. Picking up chicks in the morning.

@ChickenCanoe thanks for the info on the tough grass. They will be in chicken tractors due to the amount of predators. There is years of tall dead grass that is basiclly straw. Hope they turn it into muclh like in there current run. Mainly it's an excuse to order a twice the meaties I normally do I will put all my current chickens out there over the summer too. The main part I want to do is 1/2 acre.

 

[5Sons Coop]

We'll see how effective this one is; plenty of folks rave about them. Only direct cost was the peanut butter. Would have taken 10 min. max if the 1st soldering iron I grabbed had worked.

I used them they work great. I use a soda can, but a plastic bottle should work.

 

[kajira]

I stuck an extra 8-9 chicks under my broody who already had 3 babies she accepted... so far, she's allowed all of them to hang out under her. They are about 3? days old.

She seems fine with them. We'll give her a couple days before turning her loose again with all her new babies.

 

[daxigait]

A little advice please! I will try and keep it short. I have a blue ameraucana who pipped the wrong end of the egg(shipped egg) at day 19, and zipped itself free today (day 20), but when it kicked out of the egg, the yolk was not fully absorbed and there was a lot of bleeding. As soon as I noticed at my hourly check, I took it out and the inner membrane was still attached with a chunk of shell. I dabbed flour on it and got the bleeding to stop. Removed the chunk of shell. The chick is in a food storage bowl in the bator, but I'm not sure if it's going to make it. It is breathing shallowly and barely moves if I tap on the bator window. The chick was pretty big for the size shell it was in, and the egg also had a saddle shaped air cell. This was my first time with shipped eggs, and I don't think I like doing it. Is there anything I need to do for the chick, or just let it be? It's been 5 hours since I found it like this, and the yolk seems to be absorbing, and the membrane attached looks like it's drying out some, but the chick is still just laying there.

It is likely resting and if the yoke is absorbing that is progress. You have helped it and given it a chance. The waiting and hoping is just hard. .

 

[daxigait]

I stuck an extra 8-9 chicks under my broody who already had 3 babies she accepted... so far, she's allowed all of them to hang out under her. They are about 3? days old.

She seems fine with them. We'll give her a couple days before turning her loose again with all her new babies.

That is a nice broody. Good luck.