Hands on hatching and help

[ShanandGem]

@AmyLynn2374 I am so sorry. I tried to respond last night but sometimes the combination of Windows 10 and BYC just doesn't work :-(.
We have all had those moments where we felt responsible for the loss of a bird. I console myself with the knowledge that I am doing the very best job I can to care for and raise these animals, and that they have a quality life far beyond that which they would most other places. Every time something devastating happens there is something to be learned from the experience, something to do diffierently or approach from a different angle. It's a terrible blow when the result is a dead bird, but keeping chickens seems to be an endless cycle of gain and loss. We are all terrible suckers for punishment, I'm afraid.


Edited to add: about two months ago my dog killed half my Lavender Cuckoo Orpington chicks. Twice. My heart aches for you today. I know what you're going through.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

@AmyLynn2374
  I am so sorry.  I tried to respond last night but sometimes the combination of Windows 10 and BYC just doesn't work :-(.
We have all had those moments where we felt responsible for the loss of a bird.  I console myself with the knowledge that I am doing the very best job I can to care for and raise these animals, and that they have a quality life far beyond that which they would  most other places.  Every time something devastating happens there is something to be learned from the experience, something to do diffierently or approach from a different angle.  It's a terrible blow when the result is a dead bird, but keeping chickens seems to be an endless cycle of gain and loss.  We are all terrible suckers for punishment, I'm afraid.


Edited to add:  about two months ago my dog killed half my Lavender Cuckoo Orpington chicks.  Twice.  My heart aches for you today.  I know what you're going through.

. Awe, thanks.

 

[jenniferlamar70]

When they internally pip you can often hear them cheering inside the egg. Isn't it cool? You will probably see an external pip w/in 24 hours.
Thank you.
About the same. Still not putting much pressure on it but eating and drinking. I was telling Ruby that I decided not to separate her as long as she can move around and eat and drink because I feel she needs the companionship of the siblings. I opened the coop for them this morning and she is, so far, staying in the coop resting the leg, but every time I check them at least one of her siblings are laying in there with her, keeping her company. It's like they are taking turns so she's not alone.
No. Lol

Why? Lmao... I'm going to go mad lol

That was supposed to be cheeping not cheering. We recently got an IPad and I swear it doesn't think I know what I am talking about and insists on changing half of my words!!!

I type quickly and then hit send. Afterwards I'll notice my spell check auto corrects my words into something misspelled or not the right word. If I put lol it always makes it lok. ***. Drives me crazy cause then I look completely illiterate lmao..

 

[WVduckchick]

Day 20 with my silkie eggs. Tomorrow is hatch day. Geez the suspense is again killing me lol. I keep wondering if their is a point where your not on your toes in anticipation.

Hasn't gotten any better for me. I have a broody due today, and I'm at work, wondering if any have hatched yet! lol

@AmyLynn2374 I am so sorry. I tried to respond last night but sometimes the combination of Windows 10 and BYC just doesn't work :-(.
We have all had those moments where we felt responsible for the loss of a bird. I console myself with the knowledge that I am doing the very best job I can to care for and raise these animals, and that they have a quality life far beyond that which they would most other places. Every time something devastating happens there is something to be learned from the experience, something to do diffierently or approach from a different angle. It's a terrible blow when the result is a dead bird, but keeping chickens seems to be an endless cycle of gain and loss. We are all terrible suckers for punishment, I'm afraid.


Edited to add: about two months ago my dog killed half my Lavender Cuckoo Orpington chicks. Twice. My heart aches for you today. I know what you're going through.

Sorry for your losses too, and I agree, we just have to know that we do the best we can.

Concerning Windows 10, I bet you are using Edge? Switch over to IE. BYC does NOT like Edge, but still works fine with IE.

 

[ShanandGem]

Hasn't gotten any better for me. I have a broody due today, and I'm at work, wondering if any have hatched yet! lol


Sorry for your losses too, and I agree, we just have to know that we do the best we can.

Concerning Windows 10, I bet you are using Edge? Switch over to IE. BYC does NOT like Edge, but still works fine with IE.

I actually do use IE. My computer has had the wonks since the upgrade. I think it just doesn't have the processing power it needs.

 

[WVduckchick]

I actually do use IE.  My computer has had the wonks since the upgrade.  I think it just doesn't have the processing power it needs.

Ok great. I thought I was using IE when I first upgraded, till I found a menu item that said "open in Internet Explorer". I thought so I hit it, and BYC works much better after I figured it out.

 

[Laurel Meadows]

When they internally pip you can often hear them cheering inside the egg. Isn't it cool? You will probably see an external pip w/in 24 hours.
Thank you.
About the same. Still not putting much pressure on it but eating and drinking. I was telling Ruby that I decided not to separate her as long as she can move around and eat and drink because I feel she needs the companionship of the siblings. I opened the coop for them this morning and she is, so far, staying in the coop resting the leg, but every time I check them at least one of her siblings are laying in there with her, keeping her company. It's like they are taking turns so she's not alone.
No. Lol

Glad to hear she's eating, drinking and has some company! I took the very same approach to let my chick stay with the group when we had a bantam Cochin chick who somehow injured her leg /hip and was straight legged and unable to bear much weight. I decided not to isolate her for the same reasons you mentioned. I wasn't sure she would recover. It did take almost 3 weeks but she did it. I can't tell her apart from the other small Cochin now

Hopefully your silkie will be ok too

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Why? Lmao... I'm going to go mad lol
I type quickly and then hit send. Afterwards I'll notice my spell check auto corrects my words into something misspelled or not the right word. If I put lol it always makes it lok. ***. Drives me crazy cause then I look completely illiterate lmao..

It's unreal. I was texting my son's father the other day and it kept changing my son's name from "Cayden" to "Hayden". I was grrrr...I think I know my kid's name!! I'd rather not have auto correct. I may have a lot of typos/misspellings, but at least you can normally tell what the word is and it doesn't change the whole meaning!

Hasn't gotten any better for me. I have a broody due today, and I'm at work, wondering if any have hatched yet! lol


Sorry for your losses too, and I agree, we just have to know that we do the best we can.

Concerning Windows 10, I bet you are using Edge? Switch over to IE. BYC does NOT like Edge, but still works fine with IE.

I use Google Chrome. I hated IE and Edge wasn't much better in my opinion. When I first upgraded to windows 10 on my laptop, I regreted it. I was having a lot of problems. This was way back when they were releasing it for trials. Then after a few updates I stopped seeing all the glitches and problems. When I finally updated my desktop, which is basically my son's, lol, we didn't really have a whole lot of glitches and problems.

Glad to hear she's eating, drinking and has some company! I took the very same approach to let my chick stay with the group when we had a bantam Cochin chick who somehow injured her leg /hip and was straight legged and unable to bear much weight. I decided not to isolate her for the same reasons you mentioned. I wasn't sure she would recover. It did take almost 3 weeks but she did it. I can't tell her apart from the other small Cochin now

Hopefully your silkie will be ok too

Glad to hear that. Gives me hope.

 

[rossfam06]

Hasn't gotten any better for me.  I have a broody due today, and I'm at work, wondering if any have hatched yet!  lol


Sorry for your losses too, and I agree, we just have to know that we do the best we can.

Concerning Windows 10, I bet you are using Edge?   Switch over to IE.  BYC does NOT like Edge, but still works fine with IE.

Ooooo!!!! That would drive me crazy!!! Let me know how it is!

 

[teaandyarn]

Would love some advice!

First off - I'm incubating 7 eggs right now that were under a broody who quit after 2 weeks, and she'd been sitting on them inconsistently for a couple of days at that point, but apparently just enough to keep them alive. This was broody's first time to be broody (at 4 years of age, even, it was weird!) and she never plucked her breast, so not sure if humidity early on was ever what it should have been. Eggs went under the broody (in a private cage inside the house, because our roo is weirdly obsessive about what goes on in the nest boxes) on Tuesday, June 7th. So we're on day... 24 now? We went on 'lockdown' on day 18. I'm using a Brinsea Mini Eco incubator, but it doesn't have a humidity detector, so just keeping the water well filled.

Two eggs seemed to also be developing slower than the others, but are now catching up. I have been candling 2x/day (morning and evening) since day... 21/22? One of those. I am definitely a hands-on hatcher, even if this is only my first hatch. Screw lockdown. They were 'late'.

Over last night and today, we finally have internal pips! First chick pipped sometime yesterday before 9 pm (I had last candled between 5 and 6 that morning). Two more pipped right then, and then three more pipped overnight between 2 pm and 5 am (when I get up every morning). I'm pretty sure #7 has internally pipped at some point mid-morning today, but I'm not seeing a good view of it so not completely positive. (This is all internal pipping.)

20 minutes ago - I got cheeps from #1 internal pipper! Still no sign of EXTERNAL pipping on any of them, though, and I candled again. Air cells are definitely getting bigger, but #1's is really big and looks to be conforming to the shape of the chick, and I can't see a definitive beak anywhere. I *can* see it breathing, but wondering if it is malpositioned, and possibly worried about 'shrink-wrapping'. Since I don't know for sure if it's been 24 hours since it internally pipped, should I wait much longer (it will have DEFINITELY been 24 hours by 9 pm tonight - currently 2:40 pm), or try and open it up from the air cell end?