Hands on hatching and help

[RubyNala97]

Oh dang, I want some bantam Ams!
Good luck! Hope your new bator shows up soon.
congrats so far. And continuing

I'm figuring out who's eggs are who's by what hatches out of them! My sis-in-law got some white-dot chicks, which have to be Katherines so now I finally know (99% anyway) which eggs are hers. Now if they just keep looking the same LOL!

I'm not keeping any of the chicks. Wish I could ship to you! Isn't it nice to know who lays which egg? I have figured out which eggs my one pretty paint one lays. They are really white-ish and smooth and shiney. Then over the weekend I was looking in the run and I saw one girl standing in the very corner where the 2x4's meet. She had her face pushed into the corner like she was in a time out. I was thinking "what the heck is this chicken doing?". I opened the door and stepped in, just in time to see her pushing out the egg. It was gross and cool at the same time! It was actually wet when it came out. I picked it up and in seconds it dried right before my eyes. Very interesting!

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I'm not keeping any of the chicks. Wish I could ship to you! Isn't it nice to know who lays which egg? I have figured out which eggs my one pretty paint one lays. They are really white-ish and smooth and shiney. Then over the weekend I was looking in the run and I saw one girl standing in the very corner where the 2x4's meet. She had her face pushed into the corner like she was in a time out. I was thinking "what the heck is this chicken doing?". I opened the door and stepped in, just in time to see her pushing out the egg. It was gross and cool at the same time! It was actually wet when it came out. I picked it up and in seconds it dried right before my eyes. Very interesting!

That's your first time watching one lay?
I know which eggs my raven lays, the two brown nns, my Spitzhauben and my austrolorp mix. The rest- no clue...lol

6 Out. One Spitz finally emerged. Going to try to get a couple hours sleep. Have a good night people.

 

[Blooie]

Nite Amy...here's hoping the rest hatch out while you dream of new eggs and perfect incubators!

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Nite Amy...here's hoping the rest hatch out while you dream of new eggs and perfect incubators!

Have to sleep to dream, right??? lol

All but three of the Spitzhaubens are out and those are pipped, two significantly. another silkie out, for a total of 4 (2 white and 2 black/grayish). 5 more silkies pipped and 3 internally pipped with the same two just sitting there. (I know there's still life in one of the two-the other I am not sure about.) So we are looking at a dozen silkies at least when we are done. I better have 10 girls and 2 boys, cause I don't think I can part with any of them at this point.....lol

The other 2 greens I don't think will do anything. Right now it's looking like 22 babies out of 27 that made it to lockdown.

 

[BigWeenMachine]

Okay, thanks so much. Couldn't remember who had told me they had a friend with anconas, LOL.

 

[BigWeenMachine]

I'm not keeping any of the chicks. Wish I could ship to you! Isn't it nice to know who lays which egg? I have figured out which eggs my one pretty paint one lays. They are really white-ish and smooth and shiney. Then over the weekend I was looking in the run and I saw one girl standing in the very corner where the 2x4's meet. She had her face pushed into the corner like she was in a time out. I was thinking "what the heck is this chicken doing?". I opened the door and stepped in, just in time to see her pushing out the egg. It was gross and cool at the same time! It was actually wet when it came out. I picked it up and in seconds it dried right before my eyes. Very interesting!

It's so weird to see them actually lay an egg. I watched my blue palm turkey lay the egg that I hatched in the incubator so I know that one should grow up to be another blue palm. I'm shocked that it hatched cos when she laid it, it fell off of the tarp and into an old light fixture that was on the floor and cracked it. I thought it would die for sure but somehow it survived even with the bacterial outbreak in the incubator.

I brought that turkey back inside last night since there was no way to be sure it wouldn't fall outta the nest again and to make it sure it ate and drank well. That lil brat kept us up all night screaming for his mama, LOL. Cute but extremely annoying.....

 

[BigWeenMachine]

After the happy post yesterday, I have unfortunate news. I went out to bring them in right before sundown last night and found blood all over the ramp that led into their pond. I checked all the babies and they all appeared fine. However, the pure white ancona that hatched was acting extremely lethargic and couldn't even keep it's head up. By this morning, it had passed. After looking closely at it I noticed it had blood around it's mouth. My only conclusion to this is that the blood outside must have come from this duckling coughing it up.

Now this was one that had bacteria in the egg and I've heard that bacteria can kill a chick all the way up to 14 days old. Does anyone have experience with this or heard of a chick hemorraging blood like that before?

 

[Laurel Meadows]

CONGRATS!  She's beautiful

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I had a terrible time controlling the humidity in my Genesis on first run.  I couldn't get it up for hatching and I really think it was the cause of many DIS.  I haven't used it since.  Went back to my LG 9300

CONGRATS!

Aw that had to be very frustrating to spend so much on that incubator and have it cause problems with your eggs

That's definitely a big strike against the Genesis then. I have enough problems with low humidity in my house so it looks like the Genesis is not the right bator for me either!
I appreciate you letting me know your experience with it. Good thing you held on to your LG!

 

[lovesanimals101]

This isn't a very good pictture but if you look at the beak you can that its not right.

 

[RubyNala97]

It's so weird to see them actually lay an egg.  I watched my blue palm turkey lay the egg that I hatched in the incubator so I know that one should grow up to be another blue palm.  I'm shocked that it hatched cos when she laid it, it fell off of the tarp and into an old light fixture that was on the floor and cracked it.  I thought it would die for sure but somehow it survived even with the bacterial outbreak in the incubator. 

I brought that turkey back inside last night since there was no way to be sure it wouldn't fall outta the nest again and to make it sure it ate and drank well.  That lil brat kept us up all night screaming for his mama, LOL.  Cute but extremely annoying.....

That's amazing that it hatched! I've had several cracked eggs that I've incubated. The ones that were cracked and sealed pre-incubation always developed but then quit due to bacteria. The ones that cracked during incubation made it. That egg survived against all odds!
How many more days do the Turkey moms have on the eggs? It would be awesome if you could leave the poult with the mom if it could have access to food and water but with them being up on the tarps that would be hard. I don't know anything about turkeys so I wouldn't suggest moving them. Hmmm...what are you gonna do?

After the happy post yesterday, I have unfortunate news.  I went out to bring them in right before sundown last night and found blood all over the ramp that led into their pond.  I checked all the babies and they all appeared fine.  However, the pure white ancona that hatched was acting extremely lethargic and couldn't even keep it's head up.  By this morning, it had passed. After looking closely at it I noticed it had blood around it's mouth.  My only conclusion to this is that the blood outside must have come from this duckling coughing it up.

Now this was one that had bacteria in the egg and I've heard that bacteria can kill a chick all the way up to 14 days old.  Does anyone have experience with this or heard of a chick hemorraging blood like that before? 

Oh no! That's sad. I'm so sorry. I don't have experience with this.