First Time Egg Candler Scared!

[WVduckchick]

see I told you did not think of a bad egg  glad at least one of the girls are on the ball .

I'm glad she was right on that one!

 

[BYC910]

Hey col did you stick ones beak in the water all it takes is one to show the others

 

[AmyLynn2374]

The chicks do not really want to eat or drink, all they want to do is sleep, is this normal? I have showed them where water is.

Yes. You would too if you just managed to break out of a little egg after being all cramped up...lol They are fine. When they are ready they will eat and drink and start running around.

 

[WVduckchick]

Sooooo how many chicks this morning Cole?

 

[coleson12]

Sooooo how many chicks this morning Cole?

Still 2, but it seems the 3rd will come soon, the pip looks a little different and when I PLAY chirping music the egg starts to move. But no zipping yet

 

[coleson12]

My one chicks keeps pecking the other, and the one pecked runs away(seems like it hurts). Is he trying to hurt him?

 

[coleson12]

When my two chicks hatched they knocked around all the eggs and sent them flying(not literally). Could this cause them not to hatch?

 

[WVduckchick]

My one chicks keeps pecking the other, and the one pecked runs away(seems like it hurts). Is he trying to hurt him? 

When my two chicks hatched they knocked around all the eggs and sent them flying(not literally). Could this cause them not to hatch? 

These things are all normal, although hard for us to watch. It seems so wrong, but remember how it happens in nature. They do it all the time, just not while you are watching. Pecking at each other lets them determine dominance and "pecking order", but they rarely actually hurt each other. Think of it like school. Everybody knows who the bullies are, and learns to either beat them or stay away! Lol
The egg rolling shouldn't hurt them either, may even stimulate them, just watch for pips that may end up pointing down after they are turned around and over.

 

[coleson12]

These things are all normal, although hard for us to watch. It seems so wrong, but remember how it happens in nature. They do it all the time, just not while you are watching. Pecking at each other lets them determine dominance and "pecking order", but they rarely actually hurt each other. Think of it like school. Everybody knows who the bullies are, and learns to either beat them or stay away! Lol
The egg rolling shouldn't hurt them either, may even stimulate them, just watch for pips that may end up pointing down after they are turned around and over.

Ok thanks, I moved the eggs back to original positions when I took the chicks out. If I see an upside down pip what should I do? My one egg pipped around yesterday at noon. When is the time for assisted hatch?

 

[AmyLynn2374]

My one chicks keeps pecking the other, and the one pecked runs away(seems like it hurts). Is he trying to hurt him?

Chicks (and older chickens) will peck at each other and tease each other, that's normal, but if there is excessive pecking where on is hurting or drawing blood then that can be a problem.

When my two chicks hatched they knocked around all the eggs and sent them flying(not literally). Could this cause them not to hatch?

The "experts" say that chicks knocking eggs around does not affect the unhatched eggs. Ask what I think and it would be that while most chicks can probably handle being rolled around that I personally believe excessve egg soccer can be cause of some of these unhatched eggs especially pippers that die in shell. Everyone is so quick to blame opening the bator, but no one wants to attribute any of these deaths to stressed out chicks from being kicked around. Anyone that's had chicks shipped knows the toll that stress takes on chick, why people don't think the same can occur in bator from being knocked around beatas me. When the egg is under the hen and chicks are born those chicks aren't kicking the sibs around. They are nice and packed and being set on, so logically they can't even say it's "normal". (But they do.)