FEBRUARY Hatch-A-Long 2015:Please Read First Post To Join H-A-L

[Dispatch273]

I've got two pips! Yay!

 

[LisaLouHoo]

I've got two pips! Yay!

Keep on pippin' chickies!!!

 

[Thirteen]

I am so worried that my two chicks are roosters -- would a SLW rooster over a barred rock create a sex linked chick?

I have a SLW/BR, and an SLW/EE: both chicks are black and white, and both have a large white spot on their heads. Feet and legs are black washed, but I can't do roosters, and need to know ASAP.


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[Cpolanco3]

Well, I originally started with 15 barnyard mixed eggs.... I have hatched out 25 so far throughout this month and have another dozen in lockdown right now. It will be a good month afterall!!!!!!

Claudia

 

[Heron's Nest Farm]

Update on my high drama hatch:
All seven OE babies have started eating and drinking. Even the weakling is much stronger and doing what all the others are doing. To those who haven't followed, I had to assist 3 eggs after my cat tipped over the cage, including the incubator that was in the cage. The remaining 3 eggs became shrink-wrapped after the incubator was flipped open and they spilled out. So here they are successfully learning about eating and drinking.

Wow! What an amazing success. How did you figure out they were shrink wrapped and assist?

I got a chickie!! After finding my first pip this morning at 3:40 my little cream bar just hatched! Needs a little drying but here's the first look

This photo is great!

Well, I originally started with 15 barnyard mixed eggs.... I have hatched out 25 so far throughout this month and have another dozen in lockdown right now. It will be a good month afterall!!!!!!

Claudia

Congrats! That is a lot of hatchin'! How big is your incubator?

 

[ChickenLady2014]

I got a chickie!! After finding my first pip this morning at 3:40 my little cream bar just hatched! Needs a little drying but here's the first look

 

[LisaLouHoo]

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[COLOR=006400]Wow! What an amazing success.  How did you figure out they were shrink wrapped and assist?[/COLOR]



Well, I know from all my reading that humidity is SO important in a hatch, hence the lockdown. The other 4 chicks pipped and zipped out within an hour each and of the remaining 3, only one had started zipping and the other 2 hadn't even pipped yet. So when the cage got knocked over and the bator actually tipped over and everything spilled out including water, humidity, eggs, everything. I waited over an hour and the zipping chick had stopped but I could see it was alive and not making progress, so I opened it up and could see that it was trapped inside the shrunken white membranes, so I peeled them off using warm water and soaked paper towel. I was going to leave the other two that hadn't even pipped yet, but just had a feeling that they would probably never pip if they were shrink wrapped, too. I just pictured that they had a window of time if they were still alive. I ended up being right, but, of course took a chance. I have read that assisting should be a last resort for many reasons. If this was a natural occurence, then the chick needs to work at being born in order to survive. In this case, the cat messed it up and I took a chance.

 

[ChickenLady2014]

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[COLOR=006400]Wow! What an amazing success.  How did you figure out they were shrink wrapped and assist?[/COLOR]



Well, I know from all my reading that humidity is SO important in a hatch, hence the lockdown. The other 4 chicks pipped and zipped out within an hour each and of the remaining 3, only one had started zipping and the other 2 hadn't even pipped yet. So when the cage got knocked over and the bator actually tipped over and everything spilled out including water, humidity, eggs, everything. I waited over an hour and the zipping chick had stopped but I could see it was alive and not making progress, so I opened it up and could see that it was trapped inside the shrunken white membranes, so I peeled them off using warm water and soaked paper towel. I was going to leave the other two that hadn't even pipped yet, but just had a feeling that they would probably never pip if they were shrink wrapped, too. I just pictured that they had a window of time if they were still alive. I ended up being right, but, of course took a chance. I have read that assisting should be a last resort for many reasons. If this was a natural occurence, then the chick needs to work at being born in order to survive. In this case, the cat messed it up and I took a chance.

So glad you were successful in helping them hatch.

 

[Ariver50]

Hello, I might be a couple of days early. My Muscovy is sitting on a number of eggs. I was only able to retrieve one. She got a great nest and the weather seems to be on her favor. Last year was frozen. Go Venice.

 

[cedarcovefarm]

Got another! Sweet little Orpington