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

[ChickenCanoe]

I have the incubator on for a hatch this week. I almost put today’s eggs in without thinking.

I put 16 chicks in the coop this morning. I'm pulling 4 chicks out of the incubator to put in a brooder and then after fumigation, I'll be setting approximately 2 dozen eggs. I procrastinated and didn't get into the Easter HAL in time.

I was supposed to present a poultry class at one of our community colleges this coming Saturday, April 4. All classes through the end of April have been cancelled with no rescheduling. 10 students had signed up when they cancelled it last week.
So I guess they are taking it month by month.

 

[Phage]

Yes I know but to be confined 24/7 for weeks has it's price....

Like not dying?????

 

[ChickenCanoe]

An updated list of countries affected by Covid-19.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020...ium=article_page&utm_campaign=read_more_links

 

[BullChick]

Why isn’t the mail here yet?! I want my eggs!!
Forget waiting to hatch, I cannot even wait to incubate!

 

[Uff Da]

Ok, 13 eggs have have hatched. Two were dead in shell from what looked like malposition. I have another malposition here that is still alive, but not done absorbing yolk/veins. I have no idea where the head is--I couldn't feel it through the membrane--but I'm worried if I don't get it air soon, it won't make it. Thoughts? Ideas? Wisdom?

And then I have the fella on the left there. It got stuck while zipping and its siblings pecked the whole top of its beak raw. Now they won't leave it alone because it is bright red. I put all of them except this one in the brooder, so it isn't being pecked now. Can I put something on it to keep them from pecking? I don't have Blu-Kote but I do have Gentian Blue. Do you think that would help?

 

[BullChick]

I don’t know. I hope you have an easier hatch next time.

 

[Akrnaf2]

An updated list of countries affected by Covid-19.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020...ium=article_page&utm_campaign=read_more_links

The all planet.

 

[Akrnaf2]

It doesn't bother me at all.

Are you confined in a 80 square meters apartment with 5 persons like the average people here?

 

[Akrnaf2]

Like not dying?????

This is not the price this is the wanted outcome,

 

[BullChick]

The eggs are here, and resting. We’ll see if I wait until tomorrow.
@ChickenCanoe the nineteenth is Orthodox Easter. Your chicks will be a few days late, but we can have our own Easter hatch!