Hands on hatching and help

[caesargirl]

All eggs have external pips and 3 are zipping!!!

 

[Sarkchick]

First duckling out!!! All looks good!!!

Awesome. Go lil quackers

 

[Ravynscroft]

All eggs have external pips and 3 are zipping!!!

 

[rossfam06]

Ok, so day 14. One more week to go, or about that. The silkie eggs you can hardly see anything in. They are full. The Spitz are coming along nicely. Appears to be pretty much on target. The greens are, well green and can't see anything, but I haven't since day 2 so....   Air cells I am happy with for the most part. I am no longer turning except when I candle, so pretty boring here. Even my incubator is holding steady and not giving me any work.  The next few days need to hurry by, cause I really want to see these silkies. Thinking we'll be seeing some action by Tuesday morning which will be well into day 19- from the silkies at least.

How many silkies you got growing??? I have 100%%%%% :yiipchick. I am so excited! ! I can't wait to see what colors you get and what colors I get!!!

 

[caesargirl]

3 have hatched!!! I'm going to leave them in the bator overnight. 2 more zippers!
Pics tomorrow when I get to work (lousy signal at home)

 

[rossfam06]

3 have hatched!!! I'm going to leave them in the bator overnight. 2 more zippers!
Pics tomorrow when I get to work (lousy signal at home)

Yay!!!!! Congrats on your babies!!!!

 

[WVduckchick]

Yay!!!!! Congrats on your babies!!!!

 

[rossfam06]

I found it!!!!

 

[AmyLynn2374]

How many silkies you got growing??? I have 100%%%%%

. I am so excited! ! I can't wait to see what colors you get and what colors I get!!!

14 I got 18, 2 were early quitters, like the only development was the "blood island" on the yolk. The other two I thought were no development but when I pulled them one of them looked like it had a faint red mark on the yolk as well so I am saying 1 with no development at all and three that quit as soon as they started almost. The other 14 are looking great. I had to keep my humidity quite a bit higher than I am used to, but I am very happy with the 14 day size of them.
I'm excited too. I can't wait. I have one that I have marked as being a black one...lol I swear it's so dark and always has been...lol I'm really hoping for a couple partridge colored as well cause she sold hers and it'll be the only chance I get from hers...lol I just hope they all make it out!
Good luck with yours!

3 have hatched!!! I'm going to leave them in the bator overnight. 2 more zippers!
Pics tomorrow when I get to work (lousy signal at home)

Congrats!!!

 

[RubyNala97]

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.

I didn't know you had turkeys and guineas! And peas & ducks...wow, you've got your hands full! Oh and a baby in the way! That's amazing!

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!!

I'm sorry about the chick. Let me just say this, mine kept fighting for 3-4 days and it was terrible to watch. Each morning I would hope to find that it had passed overnight but it would still be laying there and peeping. I tried a bunch of different stuff but it's little lungs were full of the sticky stuff. In a way I am happy you did not have to go through that.

The guy on his back...is he in the brooder or the incubator still?

Good luck.  Can't wait to see if you luck out and get them to hatch.  Once they get late it's nerve racking because you just don't know what is gonna happen.....  I am in the same boat as you.  Day 29 on my ancona ducks and thought all hope was lost thanks to the bacterial outbreak.  Just candled 5 or 6 of them and found that 2 of them are just starting to pip internally.  I tapped on their shell and could hear them peeping and nibbling away at the membrane!!!  Sure hope we can at least get a few to hatch......  So excited again!!!!

Great news!!

I had a Call take 3 full days after til she was ready to come out, lol... every morn I figured she would be gone, but she fought hard... once she was ready, she popped out and started running around like a maniac... she turned out happy and healthy and is about to hatch her own brood with her best friend...

She is on the left, Lady Grey... and Crash is on the right...

Oh my goodness!! I love it!!

They are Silver Welsh Harlequins. Had 11/12 shipped eggs hatch. The little one was 3 days later than the others. I did a total assist, even the internal pip. No idea what the problem was. All were malpositioned. It has balance issues but is getting better.
I also have week old Runners, black, blue, chocolate and a cream.

And month old Sweedish/Pekins

Good luck with yours. Pics when you have them
Linda

Wow!!! Excellent hatch! You rock!!

Ok, so day 14. One more week to go, or about that. The silkie eggs you can hardly see anything in. They are full. The Spitz are coming along nicely. Appears to be pretty much on target. The greens are, well green and can't see anything, but I haven't since day 2 so....   Air cells I am happy with for the most part. I am no longer turning except when I candle, so pretty boring here. Even my incubator is holding steady and not giving me any work.  The next few days need to hurry by, cause I really want to see these silkies. Thinking we'll be seeing some action by Tuesday morning which will be well into day 19- from the silkies at least.

You have to remind when lockdown is, is it Sunday or Monday? I hope my one egg hangs in there till then!!

They were shipped from Tennessee to Arkansas. Sorry no pics of when arrived. These are day 7. I think. But showed air cells

#5 was DIS. and #11 was the late hatch
Packing was very loose. This is box as I opened it.

That's exactly how my new batch of call eggs look. The air cells look just like that. Loose and wobbly but not detached. I would be amazed if I got a hatch like yours!

How many silkies you got growing??? I have 100%%%%% :yiipchick. I am so excited! ! I can't wait to see what colors you get and what colors I get!!!

Awesome!! I can't wait to see your and Amy's chicks!!