Hands on hatching and help

[Ravynscroft]

Help! One just hatched and it still has a little bit of the yolk attached to it

What do I do ?

Just a little bit? Is it moving around? Can you post a pic?

 

[jenniferlamar70]

12th...

Thank you. I've been getting up early and m6 sleep deprived brain is a little foggy lol

 

[Ravynscroft]

Help! One just hatched and it still has a little bit of the yolk attached to it

What do I do? Moving around a lot

Now I see the pic, lol... can you get a better pic of the belly?

 

[Ravynscroft]

Thank you. I've been getting up early and m6 sleep deprived brain is a little foggy lol

All good, I understand, drinking coffee myself...

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I need hands on hatching help! LOL! I have a silkie egg in the incubator that had slipped by me and gotten under a broody. It looked at least a week behind development of the others that hatched two days ago. I pulled it about 2 weeks ago. Anyway. I came to turn the eggs, no lockdown, I never saw an internal pip or anything and look what I find...a big pip! But there has been no draw down and when I candle the egg does NOT look pip ready. Looks like day 18. I don't hear peeping but I see movement when I candle. I'm going to bed soon but if I don't hear peeping in the morning I will make a bigger hole and look. This egg is so weird! No drawdown but a pip (was not pipped at 9:30pm when I turned last. Now 11:45pm)..anyone ever have that before?


Eta: heavy veining and a good space between where the chick meets the membrane. My good candler is in the room where the baby is sleeping.

I was going to say, "You with a weird egg??? No way" but.....

Update on my last Call set... 15 eggs made it to lockdown (Ruby I counted 1 twice, lol)... 3 pipped wrong end so assisted... 1 I messed up making a safe hole, so had to assist it... 8 Calls pipped, zipped and hatche all on their own and last 2 had excessive goo and couldn't spin to zip, so assisted those... and 1 quit after internal pip...

14 happy, healthy Call 'lings...







And this is the smallest, named Lilly...

Awesome! Congrats!!!

I have 3 with a space in the membrane large enough that their bills are showing and I can see lots of feathers. I peeled back the shell and moistened the membrane with Vaseline. They are opening and shutting their bills as if they are trying to say something and if I talk to them they give me the sweetest little peeps

I am in love, I have to make sure they all hatch and are healthy. Thank you so much for the help

Good luck!!

I just checked on this egg. No peeping, no movement at all that I could see. Just heavy veining and a lot of space still under the air cell. So I was pretty sure it pipped early through to much veining and was not alive. I opened the pip hole just a tiny bit and saw a beak right there breathing normal.

So I put it back. That egg is going to need a lot of time. Amy always says my eggs are weird and this one definitely confirms it!

See, you already expect it....lol

Hey everybody, just wanted to update you on my three keets I hatched last week: two of them are doing great, eating and drinking like champs and more than doubled in size!

The little chick I hatched is not doing well at all. He started going downhill yesterday. I was able to get him to drink electrolyte water from a syringe, but he refused to eat. Tried mush, tried egg yolk, nothing. Today he can barely stand and can't hold his head up at all.

I know what this means and how it's gonna end, but I just wanted to thank everyone for the chick-saving tips they've shared, because I tried them all and I know I did everything I could.

I have him wrapped in a towel right now and he's snuggling into me. All I can do now is make him comfortable.

Thank you all for your help and encouragement, it makes this easier.

Yes, you do. You know you gave it every chance and you should be proud of yourself for that.

Help! One just hatched and it still has a little bit of the yolk attached to it

What do I do? Moving around a lot

I was going to help, but...

Now I see the pic, lol... can you get a better pic of the belly?

I'll let Ravyn do that.

 

[jenniferlamar70]

So many babies!!! I feel like the time is crawling by here lol

 

[confusedturtle]

He just rolled away from it (yuck!) and it seems to not be attached anymore. Then he rolled over right on top of it and is sleeping on it. He/she seems ok, just resting and peeping every now and then at the other duck bills that are poked out of their eggs lol. He/she doesn't seem to be in any distress, still watching, I will take a pic when he moves off of it again.

 

[jenniferlamar70]

He just rolled away from it (yuck!) and it seems to not be attached anymore. Then he rolled over right on top of it and is sleeping on it. He/she seems ok, just resting and peeping every now and then at the other duck bills that are poked out of their eggs lol. He/she doesn't seem to be in any distress, still watching, I will take a pic when he moves off of it again.

Aww congrats on the baby. Can't wait for pics.

 

[Ravynscroft]

He just rolled away from it (yuck!) and it seems to not be attached anymore. Then he rolled over right on top of it and is sleeping on it. He/she seems ok, just resting and peeping every now and then at the other duck bills that are poked out of their eggs lol. He/she doesn't seem to be in any distress, still watching, I will take a pic when he moves off of it again.

Sounds like it's just hatching goo, not yolk... but please do post a pic when you can... sounds like your little is doing just fine, good job!

 

[Blooie]

I'm heading to Casper this weekend. There's a BYC member who lives down there and I won't have anything to do while Ken's in his meetings. QUICK, somebody remind me that I have too many chickens and chicks now and DO NOT need to pick up hatching eggs....hurry!!!!