Hands on hatching and help

[casportpony]

The badges are in!!!!!!

Congrats to:

@RubyNala97
@BYC910
@FridayYet
@RavynFallen

YAY!!!!!!

Congrats!

-Kathy

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Remember you can nominate *four* people per month! I suggested that they increase the number, but until then, nominate away!

-Kathy

I've been nominating!!!

 

[jenniferlamar70]

I've been nominating!!!  

How do you nominate?

 

[Pyxis]

How do you nominate?

Here is the Nomination Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1pr-EWXuMRP3tbXzVbMyYcz3qytv1LHPMFSlsqgtFFWw/viewform

There are a couple different ones you can nominate for.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Here is the Nomination Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1pr-EWXuMRP3tbXzVbMyYcz3qytv1LHPMFSlsqgtFFWw/viewform

There are a couple different ones you can nominate for.

You're quick...lol

 

[Pyxis]

You're quick...lol

Or just on here too much, lol.

 

[jenniferlamar70]

Here is the Nomination Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1pr-EWXuMRP3tbXzVbMyYcz3qytv1LHPMFSlsqgtFFWw/viewform

There are a couple different ones you can nominate for.

You're quick...lol

Or just on here too much, lol.

Lmao thanks

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Or just on here too much, lol.

 

[Pyxis]

Look who's doing much better.

 

[RubyNala97]

So 8 out of 9 chicks hatched. The 9th being so dark I couldn't candle it. It was infertile so I consider this a 100 percent hatch!! They are so cute.

EXCELLENT!

Good news! I found a couple of Brinsea Octagons on FB, with turners, so I'm getting one. I'm not sure I'll hatch any more this season, but it sure will be nice to have an extra for next year. :yiipchick And I have to share a couple new pics of George. I got this adorable little guy from @Laurel Meadows and he already has me wrapped around his little toe. He's a real sweetie! It was wonderful meeting a fellow BYCer and her family! And one of her beautiful daughters picked a cute little boy for me (I couldn't choose!!) He will eventually replace my blue frizzle bantam cochin Armand (yes, Armand's days are numbered). Meet George!

Are they 20's? Are you getting 2? How do you find these deals?? You kill me!....I mean congrats! VERY handsome boy!!

The whole site is kinda wonky, so its not just you (this time...lol!) I decided I wanted to keep his daughters, frizzled and smooth ones, and get a smooth male from different blood lines, so I can have the "option" of getting frizzles or not. With Armand, I would not be able to keep any other frizzles at all, plus any hatchlings would have the possibility of being frizzled, so.....I've decided not to use him anymore. Not to mention, he has taken a fancy to attacking my boots and is being a real butt lately (only to me!), so he kinda made his own deal :/

It's always the handsome ones (and the boys you like) that I turn on you! I swear!

I'm having a hard time uploading pictures for some reason, but I will try to explain what is going on. (I'm clicking to add a picture from my computer, but it just stays in a constant state of "loading" and won't let me add) I have 3 Serama eggs that made it to lockdown 2 days ago. I started out with 6, but three were already past the 10 day mark and didn't make it very far, or not at all. My incubator is a still air and I've been keeping it dry for the first 18 days due to high humidity here in Southeast Texas. Dry it stays around 50%. The temperature has been steady at around 99.5-100 degrees. From everything I've read, Seramas tend to come a little earlier due to their size. On day 18, I upped the humidity to roughly 65-75%,...I just put a sponge in with water on it and it is still very hard to keep it at 65-75% without it trying to go to 80% due to our natural humidity here. Today is day 20 and still nothing. No cheeps signaling any internal pips or anything. I decided to crack the incubator open since my humidity was already so high and I kept a spray bottle with warm water on hand if I needed to spray inside. I candled and I can tell that two are DIS. UGHHHHHHHH....@!!! One is still alive though with good veins, but why hasn't it even internally pipped? What is going on? I've been monitoring everything like a hawk for the past three weeks and this is soooo discouraging. Is there anything at all I can do to help this one little lone survivor still in his/her shell?

I was going to comment on your temps, but that's been covered. Is this your first hatch? Trust me, don't give up (on hatching or this last egg). You sound like you've really been on top of things and want to get it figured out. Just keep trying and you will get a great hatch. You never really know what's going on with someone else's eggs. for your last guy!!

Well, I just did a completely assisted hatch. I know it was hatch day and not actually late but I knew something was wrong. When I candled I had four very late DIS - one malposition and the rest too big to pip and hatch on their own. The last one however was still moving so I decided to go in. Once in there I found it internally pipped away from the air cell because it had been too big to get into position properly. It started gasping for breath the second I opened everything up so it was very very close to suffocating. All the veins looks good so I went for the full assist. Its navel is still a little more open than I'd like so it's currently sitting in the bottom half of its shell in a cup to finish closing up. I'm so glad I decided to go with my gut feeling that something was wrong and opened that egg up.

No way! That's awesome. Wish you had pics!!

So my little assist silkies legs look really spaced. Maybe not spraddle legged but maybe on the way. I made a something to hold her legs closer together with those rubber band tags you can get for your chicks. Will this help?

It's very common with silkies. I use vet tape but as long as the legs are close together but wide enough for the chick to walk it will work. Sometimes it only takes 24 hours to correct and others take up to about 4 days.

The badges are in!!!!!! Congrats to: @RubyNala97 @BYC910 @FridayYet @RavynFallen YAY!!!!!! e

Thank you, Amy!! what a great group to get badges with! I would have never known if you didn't tell me. One of the downsides to always being on a mobile.

Yes, Ruby, BYC and Friday recieved friend badges and Ravyn got her Spirit Badge!

Ooohhh, I gotta look up the spirit badge now. For some reason it sounds appropriate.