Hands on hatching and help

[WVduckchick]

That's called a paint?  Okay, I got 2 of those...hard to tell them apart!  

Thanks Ravyn and Amy.  And @WVduckchick
 thanks for holding my hand this morning, especially after you'd just l lost yours!.

just happy to be here and tickled chitless for you and Katie!

 

[slordaz]

grats blooi on getting through it

Sorry WV, it's hard as heck to call on a mal positioned, but something I've noticed as I have ended up with a lot of them using the incubator with a turner, the position they are in the yolk doesn't absorb, or they have intestinal tract on the outside. tomorrow mine in the incubator will get candled and set down on day 15 as per that seems to have fixed my mal position problems, even putting them upright in egg carton when I turn off the incubator it's right back to where it was before high mortality due to mal positions. Thanks Amylynn for that idea of stopping turner at day 15

 

[AmyLynn2374]

grats blooi on getting through it

Sorry WV, it's hard as heck to call on a mal positioned, but something I've noticed as I have ended up with a lot of them using the incubator with a turner, the position they are in the yolk doesn't absorb, or they have intestinal tract on the outside. tomorrow mine in the incubator will get candled and set down on day 15 as per that seems to have fixed my mal position problems, even putting them upright in egg carton when I turn off the incubator it's right back to where it was before high mortality due to mal positions. Thanks Amylynn for that idea of stopping turner at day 15

You're welcome.

 

[Pyxis]

Congrats Blooie! I love silkies, might get some eggs sometime this year to hatch. They don't seem to like our New England winters though.

I'm in a lull between hatches. Next ones go into lockdown Tuesday. I'm gonna use the time to give the incubator a good scrubbing - between two hatches of ducklings and one hatch of chicks all back to back it needs it.

Also had a cemani hen go broody yesterday. Gonna let her hatch the seven eggs she has.

 

[Blooie]

Thanks for the kind words, but they may have been a bit premature. How in the heck do I fix THIS?

 

[slordaz]

Thanks for the kind words, but they may have been a bit premature. How in the heck do I fix THIS?

the one I had with that didn't do nothing, other than taking it to the water and food, next day she was standing fine

 

[RubyNala97]

I'm at a wedding but I had to check in quick to see how it was going.

Wv, so sorry you lost that guy. It's always easy to say that if we did something different the outcome would have been different. There's no way to know for sure. Just take what you learned and add it to experience. @WVduckchick
Blooie...wow...really amazing seeing all those babies and how you handled the wrong-ender. I would give that one chick with the curled toes 12-24 hours to see if they flatten out. If not it's easy to make some booties that will flatten them. Great job! Any more pips???
Here's a pic of booties:

@Blooie

 

[ShanandGem]

@Blooie, my day 19 chick had one foot that looked just like that. By the end of the following day she had straightened out and is perfectly fine now.

 

[Ravynscroft]

X???

Blooie, I dunno how many said to give it a day, but I agree... Silkies seem to take a day to get their feet under them properly...

Set Ruby's eggs today, along with some more of my Am's...

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I had a wine cooler. First alcoholic drink I've had in TEN years. I can actually feel it. Why am I telling you this, I dunno, but I didn't have anything chicken related to say.