EMOJI HATCH ALONG 5/18 incubation

[GreenJay]

Hello new babies!

Love Charlotte and Selkie new names!

 

[LaFleche]

I got really overwhelmed with the hatching

Of course you were with multiple incubators hatching simultaneously left and right!

The chick that might not make it is in the back with a fluid pocket under its skin. You can see where the feathers are not covering it.

How about naming the little one Hunchy?

 

[athomas718]

Of course you were with multiple incubators hatching simultaneously left and right!

How about naming the little one Hunchy?

Hunchy. That’s funny.

My husband says that chick is strong and seems to not really notice the fluid sac. So we’re hoping it’ll absorb and it isn’t actually “mushy chick”.

 

[LaFleche]

So we’re hoping it’ll absorb and it isn’t actually “mushy chick”.

"Mushy chick" is actually something different as it is a term used for chicks that have contracted a bacterial infection via the umbilicus which can happen when they hatch early before the opening is completely closed after absorbing the yolk.
Their abdomen will swell continously and become a more blueish reddish colour due to the raging infection.
Sadly, most of them will die after a few days.

 

[athomas718]

"Mushy chick" is actually something different as it is a term used for chicks that have contracted a bacterial infection via the umbilicus which can happen when they hatch early before the opening is completely closed after absorbing the yolk.
Their abdomen will swell continously and become a more blueish reddish colour due to the raging infection.
Sadly, most of them will die after a few days.

So is there a different issue that can cause just fluid over the side of the back like the chick has?

 

[pecky33]

hatched 4th - now named Rosetta
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Yay Rosetta! (Love the name!)

 

[pecky33]

Between midnight and 4am -
- first Brahma pip!

Whohoo !!!

 

[athomas718]

I helped get out of its shell after over 36 hours pipped. It did good, is getting dry, but it’s a pip squeak! And I just hope it makes it.
I named it Psyche. It doesn’t have any deformities or anything. It can walk well. It’s just teeny.

 

[athomas718]

pipped!!!!!!!

hatched and is almost done

have not - and I don’t think ever pipped and I was just seeing stuff.

pipped but died in the eggs and when I inspected it. :/

 

[athomas718]

I come bearing pictures!!

(don’t have a name for it yet)

Psyche (previously )

I hope Psyche’s pipsqueak status doesn’t hinder her!

Brooder!!!