Hands on hatching and help

[RubyNala97]

Oh and @WVduckchick I was searching the run for the missing egg today, no sign of it BUT I found my ring that I thought I lost at the grocery store last year!!!! how crazy is that!

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Oh and @WVduckchick I was searching the run for the missing egg today, no sign of it BUT I found my ring that I thought I lost at the grocery store last year!!!!

how crazy is that!

 

[RubyNala97]

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?  

Also, I've been thinking that maybe your humidity was to high? How was the air cell growth? Did you trace them by any chance? And what did you find from the eggtopsies? How far along were the 3? If they were very close to hatch, was there a lot of fluid?

 

[RubyNala97]

I swore I lost it at Walmart while I was grocery shopping over a year ago. I didn't even really care about the egg anymore, I was just happy to find my ring!! Lol.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I swore I lost it at Walmart while I was grocery shopping over a year ago. I didn't even really care about the egg anymore, I was just happy to find my ring!! Lol.

That's funny! What's even funnier is after a year it was still out there!

 

[WVduckchick]

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

VERY handsome boy!!
It's always the handsome ones (and the boys you like) that I turn on you! I swear!
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I just got one of them. Yes, both were 20s. He had an Eco and an Eco digital (from my research, it's older model and more common in Europe) so I took the manual Eco. Also had the turner with it for $175. Not bad? Cleaned it up tonite and testing it right now. I have chocolate orpington eggs and self-blue OEGB eggs on their way to me now!

And thanks on George. He's a real sweetie. Hopefully he doesn't turn into one of "those guys" LOL

Oh and @WVduckchick I was searching the run for the missing egg today, no sign of it BUT I found my ring that I thought I lost at the grocery store last year!!!! how crazy is that!

sorry no sign of the egg, but that's awesome to find the ring!
I finally found that pair of earrings of mine in the run too.

And congrats on your badge. You are a great friend.

 

[jenniferlamar70]

Freaking out! I had to go grocery shopping and my husband just called and said the first duckling hatched!! Seriously I can't get through this line fast enough!!!!

 

[jenniferlamar70]

Look who's doing much better.

Glad she is doing better that's great!!

 

[jenniferlamar70]

 

[jenniferlamar70]

Here is a better pic..