Hands on hatching and help

[Ravynscroft]

WE HAVE A SILKIE!!! Jet black (course he's wet!) with black beak and feet! Katie had to go home before he zipped, so I recorded it for her!

Yay, Blooie!!!!

So happy for Katie!!!

 

[WVduckchick]

Yeah for a black silkie!! :yiipchick

Congrats! Has Katie picked out any names yet?

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Ok, @Blooie I'm looking for an update!! lol

 

[WVduckchick]

Ok,  @Blooie
 I'm looking for an update!p   lol

X2!!

 

[RubyNala97]

Ugh, really out of it...

Anyways, got eggs from Ruby today... awesomely amazing packing, very rough PO trip...

Keeping some of them hatch...

I'm keeping my crossed for both of us!!

No progress yet on the earlier pippers, but two more have decided that sounded like fun and joined in.  Temp is stable, humidity is good, peeping and rocking, so I'm just sitting back with a book.  In the same room as the incubator.  On the same side of the room as the incubator.  In a chair right in front of the incubator.  With my face at the window of the incubator.  Not reading my book.  

this was way to funny not to quote!!

Well, we lost teh malpositioned pipper. Cayden cried. First chick loss that he's really cried over, and he helps me do the eggtopsies.  After two and a half days of babying this chick, I think he was really hoping it would make it.  In two days the yolk didn't absorb one bit and today somehow it managed to rupture and when we came back from town and I checked on him tolk was comming out and he was just a gasping.  So sad.

But, we are officially on vacation. At my besties house relaxing. Almost a year since I've been able to see them, so I'm happy. (I know, what the heck am I doing on here....hard to break habits...lol) 

I'm so sorry, Amy. There was definitely an issue going on with that one. It's always hard on the kids. I hope you have a great time on your trip!!

WE HAVE A SILKIE!!! Jet black (course he's wet!) with black beak and feet! Katie had to go home before he zipped, so I recorded it for her!

Oh my goodness!! So awesome seeing my silkies hatch more the half way across the country!!

X2!!

x3!!

 

[WVduckchick]

I guess I did not report on my wrong-end pipper. I do believe this was a classic case of me jumping the gun.

After seeing the pip on the wrong end, I was afraid the membrane was too closed up, so I chipped a little small piece of shell off, just so it could breathe well. At over 24 hours, I broke off a little more shell and found the beak and head. Moistened the membrane well with Vaseline. He was chirping fine and strong. Had to leave for a few hours and came back and he had rotated, as if to zip, but he rotated down under the membrane, where I had broken off shell, and he drowned. I'm thinking if I had left the shell on, maybe he could have broken it normally. OR if I had pulled the membrane away, maybe he could have squirmed out. And had I been home, I would have been watching often enough to have caught it! But I feel like it was totally my fault!

At any rate, there was still a decent bit of unabsorbed yolk, which should have been well absorbed by that time (a good 30+ hours since external pip) so I suspect he wouldn't have made it long anyway.

(and I say "he" because when I pulled him out of the shell, I actually bathed his head and blew it dry to look for the white sex-link spot. Yep, was a boy)

 

[Blooie]

My wrong ended is a puzzlement too! Pipped at the wrong end, but still working at it so I left him alone. Finally got his little beak out, breathing and peeping like crazy, but looks like his head is tucked under his wing. Hope the pics are clear enough. What do you think? Also the little black one has spraddled legs so he's in a brace at the moment. Pics of him and the others shortly - I have to run to the school to see Evan as Ben Franklin in the wax museum.

 

[Blooie]

Okay, still not sure how best to proceed but his peeps are getting weaker so I'm going to try chipping off a little shell.

 

[WVduckchick]

@Blooie that is EXACTLY how mine looked. Almost the exact same spot too. So if you peel off more shell, take the membrane with it, if you can, if it doesn't bleed much. At least make it to where the membrane can't lock it in, if it starts rotating on its own.

(p.s. head is supposed to be tucked under the wing... )

 

[Blooie]

@Blooie that is EXACTLY how mine looked. Almost the exact same spot too. So if you peel off more shell, take the membrane with it, if you can, if it doesn't bleed much. At least make it to where the membrane can't lock it in, if it starts rotating on its own.

(p.s. head is supposed to be tucked under the wing... )

Wonder why it looks so funny then. It's keeping him in just one position...he was able to make the first hole but his head won't go any farther to chip at the rest of it. Okay, membrane with shell. Got it. Cornstarch is handy just in case. I'm going in.........