Hands on hatching and help

[RubyNala97]

It sounds like you're doing all you can.  Maybe just keep it up until right before you leave and make the decision then? Increase the nutridrench dose?

Have you checked your feed?  Two unrelated chickens with wry neck at the same time could be a nutritional problem?

That's a good suggestion about the feed. I give them a grower feed called "show & grow". Neither is laying yet but I keep oyster shell filled in the run. Maybe I'm giving them to much table scrapes and it's causing an imbalance. Also, I'm wondering if the fermented feed could of had anything to do with it. (I give dry crumbles all the time and FF once a day). Then about a month ago, I gave everyone a preventative dose of corid for about a week and I read that depletes vits, so I gave them extra vits for a week after that. I don't know, but I don't like this one bit!!

I'd say you will know your answer within a day or two. I think either they get better quickly or just continue to go downhill.

They are both way worse tonight. I do not like seeing animals suffer. I've decided one more day and then I'm done.

4 babies. 2 roos, 2 pullets, I think. Two with dark legs and 2 with light legs, but the last 2 were pretty sticky so I washed them and dried with blow dryer. Waiting for them to fluff up so I can examine their heads.

I am amazed. Using a styrofoam bator, LG 9200, shipped eggs with detached air cells which became saddled, and it being my first hatch, I got 100% hatch rate. That just goes to show you how much great info is on this site and how many helpful people are apart of it. Thank you all for contributing!

Great job!!

Is that line the drawdown? So thats what they look like when layed on their side for incubation instead of upright? And the chick will pip and one end or the other?

Oh no, that line was just so I could mark the broodys eggs and pull new eggs as they are added to the nest. I actually saw another member that drew lines like that and I thought that was a pretty easy way to tell them apart. The chick should pip right around the crunched in part. I don't know if that's good or bad and I didn't want to try to clean it up for fear that I would cause bleeding. I was really shocked the chick was still alive.

 

[jenniferlamar70]

Well one blue cochin has hatched. 3 more externally pipped and one internally pipped. Hopefully they will all be here by tomorrow. One has pipped what looks to be right below the air cell. I saw a little blood when it first pipped but it seems to be ok now.

 

[Ravynscroft]

 

[RubyNala97]

Well one blue cochin has hatched. 3 more externally pipped and one internally pipped. Hopefully they will all be here by tomorrow. One has pipped what looks to be right below the air cell. I saw a little blood when it first pipped but it seems to be ok now.

How'd it go?

 

[jenniferlamar70]

How'd it go?

Well 3 have hatched. 2 more are externally pipped. The last one that hatched I left in the incubator to dry. When I woke up the humidity was so high it was still wet and it's eyes were stuck closed. I moved it over to the brooder and it's slowly drying. It's hair is coarse though. The first 2 are little fluff balls lol the last 2 are just taking their sweet time lol. Hopefully soon.

 

[WVduckchick]

Well 3 have hatched. 2 more are externally pipped. The last one that hatched I left in the incubator to dry. When I woke up the humidity was so high it was still wet and it's eyes were stuck closed. I moved it over to the brooder and it's slowly drying. It's hair is coarse though. The first 2 are little fluff balls lol the last 2 are just taking their sweet time lol. Hopefully soon.

for the others

 

[WVduckchick]

How'd it go?

Any action with that broken shell egg?

 

[jenniferlamar70]

Any action with that broken shell egg?

X2

 

[RubyNala97]

Well 3 have hatched. 2 more are externally pipped. The last one that hatched I left in the incubator to dry. When I woke up the humidity was so high it was still wet and it's eyes were stuck closed. I moved it over to the brooder and it's slowly drying. It's hair is coarse though. The first 2 are little fluff balls lol the last 2 are just taking their sweet time lol. Hopefully soon.

Good on the hatch but poor little sticky baby. Lol. You might have to give it a light bath with baby shampoo if he dries really hard. It's so funny seeing the hard babies next to the fluffy babies!

Any action with that broken shell egg?

No, nothing yet. I've refrained from opening the incubator since so much of the outer (and a little of the inner) membrane is exposed. But I'm thinking, if it's still alive it should be internally pipped today. With all that crushed shell it pretty much has an external pip already, right? I don't know. I'll check and update....actually I just checked now but it's really bright in the house. I could tell the cracks went all the way through but I didn't hear cheeping and I couldn't make out movement for sure. The egg felt heavy, which usually closer to hatch the lighter they feel. So I don't have a good feeling. Now if the chick doesn't make it, when will the broody give up??

 

[jenniferlamar70]

Good on the hatch but poor little sticky baby. Lol. You might have to give it a light bath with baby shampoo if he dries really hard. It's so funny seeing the hard babies next to the fluffy babies!
No, nothing yet. I've refrained from opening the incubator since so much of the outer (and a little of the inner) membrane is exposed. But I'm thinking, if it's still alive it should be internally pipped today. With all that crushed shell it pretty much has an external pip already, right? I don't know. I'll check and update....actually I just checked now but it's really bright in the house. I could tell the cracks went all the way through but I didn't hear cheeping and I couldn't make out movement for sure. The egg felt heavy, which usually closer to hatch the lighter they feel. So I don't have a good feeling. Now if the chick doesn't make it, when will the broody give up??

Well it actually ended up fluffing up quite nicely and since I unstuck it's eyes they are fine now too. It's very weak. This is the one that initially pipped through a vein. It took forever to hatch and ended up needing a hand in the end because it was so weak.