Hands on hatching and help

[AmyLynn2374]

Awww, they are so cute! Mine are just light brown and oval shaped yet.

This is going to be your best hatch yet!!! I just know it!!

 

[Blooie]

I sure hope so! These eggs look great! I'm thinking I can actually lay them horizontally for incubation this time with these air cells. Just a question though - I thought I read somewhere that humidity requirements are a little different for Silkies than for other eggs. I don't know where I read it, but it seems to be stuck in my head and I'm driving myself crazy trying to find it again. I don't want to make any mistakes this time.

 

[slordaz]

hello everyone, need some help trouble shooting what I am doing wrong at lock down, have very high mortality rate between lock down and hatch, use the built in a meat thermometer and an accurite for temp monitoring and humidity

I am using a LF fan force with egg turner and temps and humidity stayed steady the until increased the humidity and stopped turned at day 18 at lock down to 60-65, turner had 38 viable eggs, this time had 1 hatch and fine, next day 1 hatched with a little help as couldn't get more than the external pip, some have died but some are still alive in there so left them. When I did the 10 day candle looked like a few were a few days behind the others developmental wise.

Previous attempt was Dry incubation of 14 eggs and all 14 were viable at lock down, stopped turned at day 15 increased humidity to 60-65 and 7 internally pipped and spiked a temp of 110 and killed the whole hatch

also have a question on this chick I had to help, she's chirping and talking to the one already hatched, put her in a bowl in the incubator as she has a sack that looked more like intestines on the out side of an open navel,, left her in the incubator in bowl in case any others hatched , it has been 12 hours and all it looks to have done is drained a greenish liquid out of the sack. anything else I should be doing for this chick or just wait ans see what mother nature says?

 

[WVduckchick]

hello everyone, need some help trouble shooting what I am doing wrong at lock down, have very high mortality rate between lock down and hatch, use the built in a meat thermometer and an accurite for temp monitoring and humidity

I am using a LF fan force with egg turner and temps and humidity stayed steady the until increased the humidity and stopped turned at day 18 at lock down to 60-65, turner had 38 viable eggs, this time had 1 hatch and fine, next day 1 hatched with a little help as couldn't get more than the external pip, some have died but some are still alive in there so left them. When I did the 10 day candle looked like a few were a few days behind the others developmental wise.

Previous attempt was Dry incubation of 14 eggs and all 14 were viable at lock down, stopped turned at day 15 increased humidity to 60-65 and 7 internally pipped and spiked a temp of 110 and killed the whole hatch

also have a question on this chick I had to help, she's chirping and talking to the one already hatched, put her in a bowl in the incubator as she has a sack that looked more like intestines on the out side of an open navel,, left her in the incubator in bowl in case any others hatched , it has been 12 hours and all it looks to have done is drained a greenish liquid out of the sack. anything else I should be doing for this chick or just wait ans see what mother nature says?

My initial thoughts are temps too low; hot/cold spots; or parent stock issues. Where did you get the eggs? Maybe an issue there?

Meat thermometers are usually very accurate, but have you checked it anyway? Try the ice bath test on it. Also have your hygrometers been tested for accuracy?

Not sure what to tell you about the little one.... did it make it through the night? Any more pips or anything? Oh, and did you open the eggs after the failed hatches? (Yes, 110 will likely kill them fairly quickly, but if your thermometer is reading higher than actual, maybe it didn't really get that high)

Sorry so many questions... just trying to cover some bases.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I sure hope so! These eggs look great! I'm thinking I can actually lay them horizontally for incubation this time with these air cells. Just a question though - I thought I read somewhere that humidity requirements are a little different for Silkies than for other eggs. I don't know where I read it, but it seems to be stuck in my head and I'm driving myself crazy trying to find it again. I don't want to make any mistakes this time.

I had to run my humidity between 40-50% for Ruby's eggs to keep them from loosing too much moisture too fast. (More often than not at 45% ish).

hello everyone, need some help trouble shooting what I am doing wrong at lock down, have very high mortality rate between lock down and hatch, use the built in a meat thermometer and an accurite for temp monitoring and humidity

I am using a LF fan force with egg turner and temps and humidity stayed steady the until increased the humidity and stopped turned at day 18 at lock down to 60-65, turner had 38 viable eggs, this time had 1 hatch and fine, next day 1 hatched with a little help as couldn't get more than the external pip, some have died but some are still alive in there so left them. When I did the 10 day candle looked like a few were a few days behind the others developmental wise.

Previous attempt was Dry incubation of 14 eggs and all 14 were viable at lock down, stopped turned at day 15 increased humidity to 60-65 and 7 internally pipped and spiked a temp of 110 and killed the whole hatch

also have a question on this chick I had to help, she's chirping and talking to the one already hatched, put her in a bowl in the incubator as she has a sack that looked more like intestines on the out side of an open navel,, left her in the incubator in bowl in case any others hatched , it has been 12 hours and all it looks to have done is drained a greenish liquid out of the sack. anything else I should be doing for this chick or just wait ans see what mother nature says?

Where you running dry for this hatch? IF not what was your humidity? When you eggtoposied were the chicks extremely wet, extra fluid in the shell?

The one in the cup doesn't sound good. Green is not a color you want to see and is usually a sign of infection.

 

[WVduckchick]

I had to run my humidity between 40-50% for Ruby's eggs to keep them from loosing too much moisture too fast. (More often than not at 45% ish).

My goodness, you got some beautiful chicks out of that batch! So poofy! Will be fun to watch them develop.

I have no clue what's going on with the silkie/cochin mixes of mine. The poofs aren't poofy, they are spikey! lol




And check out Dudley with my 3-week old SDW!

 

[Blooie]

I had to run my humidity between 40-50% for Ruby's eggs to keep them from loosing too much moisture too fast. (More often than not at 45% ish).

Where you running dry for this hatch? IF not what was your humidity? When you eggtoposied were the chicks extremely wet, extra fluid in the shell?

The one in the cup doesn't sound good. Green is not a color you want to see and is usually a sign of infection.

Ah, thanks! That must be what I was thinking of......but my brain cells are older than the rest of me and don't always function in sync with the rest of me! Going to set them this morning. Not used to setting eggs by laying them down. It's a whole nuther world out there suddenly!

 

[AmyLynn2374]

My goodness, you got some beautiful chicks out of that batch! So poofy! Will be fun to watch them develop.

I have no clue what's going on with the silkie/cochin mixes of mine. The poofs aren't poofy, they are spikey! lol




And check out Dudley with my 3-week old SDW!

I did!! I think 5 out of the twelve had the prominent vaulted heads. They are gorgeous. I especially like the gray/silver poofballs...lol

I love the little spikey!!! lol And I swear I want to steal Dudley!

 

[slordaz]

I had to run my humidity between 40-50% for Ruby's eggs to keep them from loosing too much moisture too fast. (More often than not at 45% ish).

Where you running dry for this hatch? IF not what was your humidity? When you eggtoposied were the chicks extremely wet, extra fluid in the shell?

The one in the cup doesn't sound good. Green is not a color you want to see and is usually a sign of infection.

yeah ran it dry up until lock down, humidity dry was in the 30-35 range then at lock down raised it to 55-60. first chick hatched and was dried with in an hour.

This one having problems was pretty wet took her , this morning it's almost dried, up the stuff drained for several hours, so kept changing the paper towel under her, she seems to be getting her strength now and trying to climb of the bowl

haven't had much sleep so eggtopsies are gonna wait until this afternoon.

 

[slordaz]

My initial thoughts are temps too low; hot/cold spots; or parent stock issues. Where did you get the eggs? Maybe an issue there?

Meat thermometers are usually very accurate, but have you checked it anyway? Try the ice bath test on it. Also have your hygrometers been tested for accuracy?

Not sure what to tell you about the little one.... did it make it through the night? Any more pips or anything? Oh, and did you open the eggs after the failed hatches? (Yes, 110 will likely kill them fairly quickly, but if your thermometer is reading higher than actual, maybe it didn't really get that high)

Sorry so many questions... just trying to cover some bases.

Yes I check calibration before Starting the incubator up. no on hygro as built into the digital temp.humidity on both, should I consider a stand alone one?

Little one that had issues at hatch is finally dry, made it through the night got strong chirping convo going on with the one in the brooder, no more pipps at start of day 23. That was previous hatch that spiked that temp. Temp fluctuations this time was usually withing +/- .02 to .05

as it's fan forced I have it set to 99.5

These are eggs out of my own flock transported them about 5 miles from farm to house, and still let them sit 24 hours , had a broody hatch out 11 and only lost 1 after hatch last week she did have some quitters and 2 that died on shell without pipping, but think most of those can be contributed to she had to many eggs but wouldn't let us take any, all the girls helped her and she tossed 6 out finally out of 30. Even our mean rooster is scared of her since she went broody