february hatch along

[CABINHOLLOWNC]

9th, and final, egg hatched out on it's own this afternoon. Unfortunately it had not fully absorbed the eggs contents. No yolk but some very bloody viseral type stuff. I gave her a rinse then trimmed off the extra stringy bit. Dabbed on some Neosporin. Then put her back in the newly cleaned and disinfected incubator. I've never had a chick with this issue to this extent. But the ones I did scabbed over and healed up nicely. Hoping for the same with this one. The plan is to keep her in the incubator till tomorrow evening and see how she does over the next 24 hours.

On a happy note all eggs that made it to lock down hatched! That's a first for me.

And what good is a post without a picture. So here she is!

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She is so cute!! How is she doing today? Congrats on the hatch...great results!!

 

[CABINHOLLOWNC]

Good morning everyone!

I hope you and your eggs and chicks are all doing well! I went ahead and candled my 9 eggs this morning. The air cells look great in all of them. Its near to impossible to see inside of my olive eggs, but I did see developed veins in all 4 of them. Both of my pink eggs are developing and 3 of the 4 blue eggs are developing. The 4th blue egg appears to be a clear (I'll be speaking with Zaffer about this . I'm guessing this non-fertile egg happened when he was inducting his 5 new ladies to his harem and was giving Ms. Esmeralda a break for a few weeks...I think she was happy for the break ...being his favorite was taking a tole on her feathers). I moved it to the front of the incubator for easy access and will candle it again on Monday...I don't like to remove any eggs till I'm 100% sure of their status

 

[Joplus]

Hello and welcome to the hatch! Congratulations on your new baby!!! I see you like to "dry hatch", I try to keep my humidity between 35%-45%...guess you could say I stay in the middle of the road when it comes to humidity, I'm a little higher than a dry hatch but not as high as most (45-55). It sounds like you have everything covered!

As for the staggered hatch, do you have a second incubator to do lockdown in? When I do a staggered hatch, I'll borrow my sister-in-laws incubator and set it up a few days before lockdown and then just move the eggs over that are ready for lockdown and leave the second setting of eggs in the incubator to continue to do their thing.

What color Ameraucana's are you hatching and do you know what your 'freak" crossings are? LOL!

I hope your hatch goes well!

I don't have a second incubator unfortunately. My ameraucana are yellow and grey. I think they are actually Easter Eggers. My freak hen is white with a beard and lays a rust colored egg (I think olive egger and white leghorns cross) and is bred to black polish. My middle channel is filled with water but I'm in Arizona and we're also running the central heat. Thanks I'm excited!

 

[WVduckchick]

Following along.... Just set 27 eggs last Saturday, so they aren't due till early March, but I'm so excited to be incubating again!

 

[Cynthia12]

Happy Valentine's to me. Went to bed seeing 2 pipped, woke up to a chick cryng from just hatching... had 2 that had. The third one is a larger egg. Tomorrow is actual hatch day.

 

[WVduckchick]

Happy Valentine's to me. Went to bed seeing 2 pipped, woke up to a chick cryng from just hatching... had 2 that had. The third one is a larger egg. Tomorrow is actual hatch day.

 

[gimmie birdies]

 

[CABINHOLLOWNC]

Happy Valentine's to me. Went to bed seeing 2 pipped, woke up to a chick cryng from just hatching... had 2 that had. The third one is a larger egg. Tomorrow is actual hatch day.

They couldn't wait to be your valentine!!!!
Congrats!

 

[CABINHOLLOWNC]

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Right back at ya Sal!

 

[chickenmama109]

Happy Valentine’s Day I’m gonna go in to lock down on Tuesday that will be the 18 day