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Awe. Gotchya.The whole site is kinda wonky, so its not just you (this time...lol!)
I decided I wanted to keep his daughters, frizzled and smooth ones, and get a smooth male from different blood lines, so I can have the "option" of getting frizzles or not. With Armand, I would not be able to keep any other frizzles at all, plus any hatchlings would have the possibility of being frizzled, so.....I've decided not to use him anymore.
Not to mention, he has taken a fancy to attacking my boots and is being a real butt lately (only to me!), so he kinda made his own deal
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?
While bantam breed chicks CAN and OFTEN do hatch early, that does not necessarily mean that they WILL. If you are running a still air and using forced air temps, I wouldn't count on them being early. Still air recommendation is actually 101-102 with the temps taken near the tops of the eggs. However, running it at 100 would most likely just delay the hatch. Like WV said, any breeds with the creeper gene (short legged) has a DIS expectation, if the parents were both short legged, of 25%. I would give it another day or two, especially with a slightly lower temp, for the last one to make an attempt.
WOW!!!
I've had this happen a couple of times! Of course I found it upon eggtopsy. Where there were no signs of an internal pip but upon removing the shell there was a pip into the membrane where it had pulled away from the shell, but wasn't in the air cell. As a matter of fact one of those green eggs that I put in with the silkie hatch that hadn't turned had actually pipped through the membrane at the bottom where it was pulled away, but never made it through the shell and drowned on the extra fluid in there.
Don't beat yourself up. The slightly lower temps usually delay them, but it wasn't significantly low. Stay hopeful and keep us updated, please.
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