Hands on hatching and help

[Blooie]

Well, yes, but since everything is so perfect at Oleo Acres, and since every creature here is so much more advanced and precocious than everyone else's, I thought it was just another sign of advanced life.

 

[dcba flock]

I pull mine as the become active in the bator. My brooder is always warmed on one end to 100F for hatch. Here's my thoughts on pulling them versus leaving them. One, the old LG I was using had the fan kit installed. No fan cover. I actually have had chicks get hurt on the fan. I had one chick get hurt when I left them in there and 7 or 8 had hatched and they were pushing each other off the thermometer. Cracked it's beak. So one of my reasons are I feel they are safer in the bator where they can run and play and strengthen their legs. My second biggest reason is being able to access food and especially water. Hatchling can be dehydrated or become dehydrated. While theoretically a chick can survive from the yolk 2-3 days. You have no way of knowing when the yolk was absorbed. Cobb's development chart tells us (on average) chicks absorb the yolk between day 19-20. So if this took place on day 19 and your chick hatches day 21, logic says they have been utilizing this food for 24-48 hours already. Almost all of my chicks are drinking within the first few hours after getting their feet under them. Some are eating within the first 24 hours while others don't start till into the second day- but it's available for them if they want/need it. I also use sav a chick electrolyte so they get that extra boost right after hatch. Number 3- I don't like my eggs being knocked all over the place. Often it doesn't affect them, but I think it can and does with others. Also, because I keep my humidity high, my chicks won't fluff well in the bator.
I do use videos of chicks cheeping to replace the presence of siblings and keep them motivated during pipping and hatch, plus my brooder is only a couple feet away so they can still hear the others.

I just had another hatch I believe all of those rationals and the little one that popped out last night was starving ate a few different times and drinking when I moved them they are also much more fluffed now that they are out. They are getting around great and still peeping close enough to the bator that the others can hear them I hear them from upstairs lol thank you Amy for responding

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Well, yes, but since everything is so perfect at Oleo Acres, and since every creature here is so much more advanced and precocious than everyone else's, I thought it was just another sign of advanced life.  

I just had another hatch I believe all of those rationals and the little one that popped out last night was starving ate a few different times and drinking when I moved them they are also much more fluffed now that they are out. They are getting around great and still peeping close enough to the bator that the others can hear them I hear them from upstairs lol thank you Amy for responding

You are welcome. Just my opinions. They can be loud buggers.

 

[Blueyes132]

What do they look like? I'm assuming it looks like a piece of wire with a plastic piece attached. Yes/no? I have a Harris farms air circulating incubator.

 

[WVduckchick]

What do they look like? I'm assuming it looks like a piece of wire with a plastic piece attached. Yes/no? I have a Harris farms air circulating incubator.

Do a google image search. And by the way, it's hygrometer (with a G) not hydrometer. A hydrometer is for measuring alcohol. A hygrometer measures relative humidity. If you are unsure if yours has one, the display would read as a percentage, or maybe say "RH" for % relative humidity.

Or if you can post a pic, or link to the bator you have, we can take a look and maybe help you determine.

 

[WVduckchick]

Sorry, just saw your Harris Farms comment. Do you have to model #?

The wire you are seeing is probably the temperature sensor. The humidity sensor probably looks like a small rectangular box, maybe an inch by 2 inches, or smaller, with a grid covering it.

 

[WVduckchick]

The gray plastic part senses the humidity. The silver piece senses temperature.

 

[chantels1]

I need help and didn't get an answer from the search. Lastnight a chick pipped in the side of the egg. I let it be. The other chicks rolled it around, and the yolk busted. It eventually zipped and died in a gooey mess. This morning I found another pip in the side of the egg, pip down. I rolled it over and watched. After a while, I wrapped it in a moist paper towel and candled. Sure enough, the air cell is behind it. It can't progress can it? Over a few hours I have started to help. Very slowly because I am afraid it hasn't absorbed it's yolk. Since it was pip down, I don't know when it pipped. No blood as I am helping. Please advise as the website says this position is almost always fatal. So I want to help. Anyone help one turned like this?

 

[WVduckchick]

I need help and didn't get an answer from the search. Lastnight a chick pipped in the side of the egg. I let it be. The other chicks rolled it around, and the yolk busted. It eventually zipped and died in a gooey mess. This morning I found another pip in the side of the egg, pip down. I rolled it over and watched. After a while, I wrapped it in a moist paper towel and candled. Sure enough, the air cell is behind it. It can't progress can it? Over a few hours I have started to help. Very slowly because I am afraid it hasn't absorbed it's yolk. Since it was pip down, I don't know when it pipped. No blood as I am helping. Please advise as the website says this position is almost always fatal. So I want to help. Anyone help one turned like this?

Can you post a pic? Alot of times the pip looks low, but with drawdown, they are actually in the air cell, and can still progress on it's own.

 

[WVduckchick]

Also, if the other was gooey, I would remove that wet paper towel. It can hinder the air exchange, and even cause a chill. Plus, if it starts to hatch, the towel could get in the way.