Hands on hatching and help

[Ren2014]

I gave up on trying to catch up. 160+ pages was taking longer than I though, lol, so I'm just going to jump in

 

[Ren2014]

Got home to around 10 internal pips and 6 external pips. The externals are just the first cracks, but the domino effect has begun!! There is one with an actual hole going!!!

YAY for the domino effect!

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Oh, thank you! She's been named Sweet Pee, after my very favorite (and ridiculously fun) song! Except now that she's drying off and beginning to fluff a bit, I suspect that I see a white dot on her head, so she might end up being a him. That's okay....the name stays!!
Congrats! Now it's time for another stupid Blooie question.....and the first one of you who laughs and/or rolls eyes gets a thwack!!.....how do you tell if they've internally pipped? I didn't these two were doing anything at all until the first holes appeared in the shell. I know, I know...don't say it!

I have Neosporin but it has the pain relief stuff in it. I also have Betadine. The cupboard is barer than I thunk it was since my last infections. (once you have gangrene infections are nasty - and frequent!) So looks like a run to Tractor Supply tomorrow. Leave it to me to not have the one thing I should have on hand....and here I thought I was prepared for everything! Maybe it'll just dry up and fall off by tomorrow, but that still leaves the eye to deal with. You all ROCK!

You only see an internal pip if you candle. The beak will be a shadow in the air cell and you know it's made it's internal pip. Also, if you hear cheeping from inside the egg before the external pip, that is another sign that they have internally pipped.

I just had one chick hatch perfectly fine last night. The second zipped completely this morning and stopped. I don't like to get involved especially when the progress looks good so I never opened the incubator. I checked at 12 and at 3 and now it was still the same. So I decided to check on it and he was almost like glued in there. I keep my humidity low during the first 18 days, 25-35. And at lock down between 65-80. What am I doing wrong. This also happened on my last hatch I had 5 hatch out and about 6 that got all glued up. Please help. TIA

Just goes to show hands on or off you can still have problems. I would never let a zipper go more than 1/2 an hour without an investigation. zipping should not take that long and the majority of the time if it does, there's a problem. Have you ever checked your hygrometer for accuracy? The numbers look good if they are accurate. It could just be the eggs themselves are more or less porous.

I gave up on trying to catch up. 160+ pages was taking longer than I though, lol, so I'm just going to jump in

Jump in!!! I wouldn't read al the way through either...lol

 

[Ren2014]

I don't like the looks of the Cream Legbar's navel.

Very red, a little puffy, tissue under the skin looks kinda bluish, green watery diarrhea. Also has one eye that is stuck shut. Cleaned that off with warm water and a cotton ball but he's still not opening it. He's active, chirping, so I don't know. I repeat, how do you people DO this time after time!

It may have been suggested already, but betadine works really well. I had to take a break after my last time because it didn't go so well.

for your little one.

 

[Ren2014]

7 Muscovy eggs day 7, all fertile and showing good veins. Average wt. loss just 2%. How do you decrease humidity when you don't even have any water in the incubator??

 

[RubyNala97]

The EE is out no problems and doing well. The first one I posted about is out still some amount of shell stuck to its butt and sleeping a lot not running around chirping like mad like the others. Leaving it in the incubator and keeping an eye on it for changes.

This may not be the case but it may have aspirated a little on all of the extra fluid. This happened to me when I had a really wet one and I did the carton too but there was to much fluid around the beak. Once you move it to the brooder, try to listen to the lungs to see if you hear a clicking sound or wheezing. Or look for any bubbles that may come out of the mouth or nostrils.

Oh, thank you!  She's been named Sweet Pee, after my very favorite (and ridiculously fun) song!  Except now that she's drying off and beginning to fluff a bit, I suspect that I see a white dot on her head, so she might end up being a him.  That's okay....the name stays!!  
Congrats!  Now it's time for another stupid Blooie question.....and the first one of you who laughs and/or rolls eyes gets a thwack!!.....how do you tell if they've internally pipped?  I didn't these two were doing anything at all until the first holes appeared in the shell.  I know, I know...don't say it!

I have Neosporin but it has the pain relief stuff in it.  I also have Betadine. The cupboard is barer than I thunk it was since my last infections. (once you have gangrene infections are nasty - and frequent!)  So looks like a run to Tractor Supply tomorrow.  Leave it to me to not have the one thing I should have on hand....and here I thought I was prepared for everything!  Maybe it'll just dry up and fall off by tomorrow, but that still leaves the eye to deal with.  You all ROCK!

You may not need anything on it. Just keep it clean, if you can.

I just had one chick hatch perfectly fine last night. The second zipped completely this morning and stopped. I don't like to get involved especially when the progress looks good so I never opened the incubator. I checked at 12 and at 3 and now it was still the same. So I decided to check on it and he was almost like glued in there. I keep my humidity low during the first 18 days, 25-35. And at lock down between 65-80. What am I doing wrong. This also happened on my last hatch I had 5 hatch out and about 6 that got all glued up. Please help. TIA

This just happened to me on a recent hatch. My humidity was good but when the chick failed to zip within 2 hours (I left the house when it started and thought it would be out when I got home) it got all glued. I believe it happened because the membrane was exposed for so long. The chick that hatched right after I helped the glued zipper out was fine. Especially in forced air incubators because the fan is right over them. This is just my theory on the ones that have a lot of membrane/chick exposed but do not exit the shell in a timely manner. I'm not sure on the other 6 that you had though. Maybe you're humidity was on the low side during incubation. Have you calibrated your hygrometer?

I gave up on trying to catch up.  160+ pages was taking longer than I though, lol, so I'm just going to jump in

Do it!!

7 Muscovy eggs day 7, all fertile and showing good veins.  Average wt. loss just 2%.  How do you decrease humidity when you don't even have any water in the incubator??

Ha! I've had this dilemma! For me, what worked was a carbon/charcoal mix for removing moisture out of the air. I bought a tub at the dollar store and put a cup of it in my incubator. It went from 55% (with no water...it was August) to 25%. I had to remove the cup and put fresh stuff in every other day-ish.

 

[wabbit1964]

This may not be the case but it may have aspirated a little on all of the extra fluid. This happened to me when I had a really wet one and I did the carton too but there was to much fluid around the beak. Once you move it to the brooder, try to listen to the lungs to see if you hear a clicking sound or wheezing. Or look for any bubbles that may come out of the mouth or nostrils.

I believe this is probably the case. before I put it upright in the carton it did have bubbles coming out. No more bubbles but still pretty lethargic

 

[BigWeenMachine]

Well, just added 3 runners to my hatcher that are about 3 hours into day 27. I threw out 3 more fully formed quitters and have 5 that are soon to be dead that I left in the bator. 2 maybes that are moving but the clear spots are over a third of the egg so they're prob gonna quit too. None of my anconas have pipped, even internally. So mad at myself for being duped by that hygrometer. I knew something was weird when I kept adding water to my bator to try to get the humidity up. I just chalked it up to growing the air sacs too fast and the eggs weren't releasing moisture anymore. At this point I have already killed 9 and have 18 more on the way out that I just havn't called yet. There are maybe 7 all together out of 34 that might have a chance of hatching; however, 4 of those hit 28 days in the morning so thus begins the countdown to tossing them out for being too late.

Somehow though, the one turkey egg that was cracked in the bator is still kicking away and right on track to be stuck in the hatcher in a couple days. Guess that's a silver lining since the turkey hens kicked out all their eggs and are now sitting on guinea eggs from our lone guinea with unfertilized eggs, lol.

 

[wabbit1964]

I believe this is probably the case. before I put it upright in the carton it did have bubbles coming out. No more bubbles but still pretty lethargic

Sad update on this pretty yellow chick.. s/he did not make it through the night.

I have one EE that hatched on its own last night and has a big belly and stays on its back kicking its feet. I wonder if anyone has had this issue and how to help this chick? He's got strong lungs and chirping away trying to move around but cant. Advice??

Edited to add chick #2 is doing better is waddling around a little bit .. progress!!

 

[lovesanimals101]

Day 22 on Japanese bantams still having hope because last night i was looking at the eggs and heard some little chirps coming from one egg and when candle for a few seconds looked like an internal pip other didn't though really excited!!