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[LocalYokel]

How many eggs in your Bator Granny

 

[Granny Hatchet]

How many eggs in your Bator Granny

none

 

[LocalYokel]

none

 

[LocalYokel]

Should be.........

 

[Granny Hatchet]

I need to figure out this sticky chick thing.

 

[LocalYokel]

High humidity at lockdown

 

[Granny Hatchet]

High humidity at lockdown

I did dry incubation til lockdown and the window dont fog when they hatch.

 

[LocalYokel]

post #5 of 7
4/26/12 at 4:50pm

• yinepu
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there's two kinds of "sticky".. one is a dry type.. where the chick isn't really gooey but can stick a little to the membrane.. usually upping the humidity at hatch will correct it.. I've only encountered it in bators with a fan where the chicks takes their good ol sweet time hatching and gets a teeny bit of the membrane stuck to them from the fan drying them out... if they lay there for too long they can get stuck more.. but usually a quick spritz with a spray bottle of warm water or a q-tip moistened with water and applied to the "sticky" bit will release it

a "wet sticky" chick is one where the humidity was too high during incubation and there is a lot of the amber liquid in the shell.. a lot of times those chicks would drown in the goo.. but sometimes they manage to break the shell and the goo begins to harden on them like a bug in amber.. they can be saved if you catch them in time and give them a bath in warm water (holding them under a running faucet works well for most) while gently rubbing the goo off. upping the humidity at hatch may or may not help (there are a lot of differing opinions on this).. however I believe that if the humidity is kept under control during incubation you won't have to worry about very wet gooey chicks.. personally I never found upping the humidity to help in these types of sticky chicks.. since the fan in a bator seems to thicken the amber goo regardless of the humidity (years ago I had to help a neighbor with gooey chicks .. even upping the humidity to 90% at hatch did nothing to help them.. the only thing that saved them was a warm bath)

 

[LocalYokel]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/657206/sticky-chicks

 

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post #5 of 7
4/26/12 at 4:50pm

• yinepu
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• Location: Texas where we don't feed the Trolls...
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there's two kinds of "sticky".. one is a dry type.. where the chick isn't really gooey but can stick a little to the membrane.. usually upping the humidity at hatch will correct it.. I've only encountered it in bators with a fan where the chicks takes their good ol sweet time hatching and gets a teeny bit of the membrane stuck to them from the fan drying them out... if they lay there for too long they can get stuck more.. but usually a quick spritz with a spray bottle of warm water or a q-tip moistened with water and applied to the "sticky" bit will release it

a "wet sticky" chick is one where the humidity was too high during incubation and there is a lot of the amber liquid in the shell.. a lot of times those chicks would drown in the goo.. but sometimes they manage to break the shell and the goo begins to harden on them like a bug in amber.. they can be saved if you catch them in time and give them a bath in warm water (holding them under a running faucet works well for most) while gently rubbing the goo off. upping the humidity at hatch may or may not help (there are a lot of differing opinions on this).. however I believe that if the humidity is kept under control during incubation you won't have to worry about very wet gooey chicks.. personally I never found upping the humidity to help in these types of sticky chicks.. since the fan in a bator seems to thicken the amber goo regardless of the humidity (years ago I had to help a neighbor with gooey chicks .. even upping the humidity to 90% at hatch did nothing to help them.. the only thing that saved them was a warm bath)

its the wet one