Hands on hatching and help

[jenniferlamar70]

I tagged some people in your other thread. Hopefully they can answer some of your questions. 

Thanks so much. All the info has been so helpful. I'm starting to feel better. I know we can't sell birds but adleast I can still have my closed flock for pets. That makes me feel a little better.

so sorry 

Thanks

Wow, that bites.    Hope you get some answers.

Thanks and me too.

Good Luck. My problem was not mareks but My State vet where I had my necropsy done---explained everything to me in e-mails/phone---what to do, not to do, what med etc, etc. I even e-mailed a few times shortly after the test. Never had to seek another Vet??

I didn't have it done at the vet. They don't know much here about chickens. I asked them about mareks this morning and they didn't know anything. Told me to check online..

Yup, it is.

Sorry to hear that.

Thanks. Hopefully I can live vicariously through you lol. I love your silkie chicks!

 

[Gorman Farm]

My hatch is complete. They all made it out 4 blues and two light ones. The last one hatched out 3 this morning so her head isn't fluffed yet. Real happy with the quality. Decided I was keeping this batch. Going to collect this week to do one more silkie hatch to sell...and I will sell...lol Out of the Four hatches I've done so far I have 10 I've kept. Hopefully at least half are girls and my silkie flock will be complete.

so cute congrats

 

[AmyLynn2374]

so cute congrats

Thanks.

 

[Pyxis]

Yep these Calls are gonna be interesting. Just put a safety hole in one because I noticed a weird stain on the inside of the shell, candled, and it was blood. Opened the egg just a little bit and the duckling had clearly hit a vein while internally pipping. But it's alive and active, so that's good.

I also found a very late quitter and opened it. It was feet over head malpositioned. It was also very sticky in there. I hope that's not a sign that I'm going to have a bunch of sticky ducklings.

 

[casportpony]

Yep these Calls are gonna be interesting. Just put a safety hole in one because I noticed a weird stain on the inside of the shell, candled, and it was blood. Opened the egg just a little bit and the duckling had clearly hit a vein while internally pipping. But it's alive and active, so that's good.

I also found a very late quitter and opened it. It was feet over head malpositioned. It was also very sticky in there. I hope that's not a sign that I'm going to have a bunch of sticky ducklings.

Sorry about your quitter.

on the others.

 

[elizabethu42]

I just started a new batch of eggs to hatch, so excited

 

[jenniferlamar70]

Yep these Calls are gonna be interesting. Just put a safety hole in one because I noticed a weird stain on the inside of the shell, candled, and it was blood. Opened the egg just a little bit and the duckling had clearly hit a vein while internally pipping. But it's alive and active, so that's good.

I also found a very late quitter and opened it. It was feet over head malpositioned. It was also very sticky in there. I hope that's not a sign that I'm going to have a bunch of sticky ducklings.

Oh I hope they hatch OK.. Make sure to update.

 

[Calichicken2015]

We don't live in high altitude but when I hatch during the summer its very hot and dry. It makes it impossible to keep my humidity up. I started using sponges to extend the time in between adding water. Not sure if that would work for you or not but might be worth a try.

Thank you! Definitely going to give it a try!

 

[rochesjourney]

My hatch is complete. They all made it out 4 blues and two light ones. The last one hatched out 3 this morning so her head isn't fluffed yet. Real happy with the quality. Decided I was keeping this batch. Going to collect this week to do one more silkie hatch to sell...and I will sell...lol Out of the Four hatches I've done so far I have 10 I've kept. Hopefully at least half are girls and my silkie flock will be complete.

I can't decide who is cuter........the chicks or the dog. ADORABLE!

 

[rochesjourney]

Not bad. I would raise it just a tad more, cause they are slightly big for day 5, but I had collected eggs of my silkies that were like that because I collected for 2 weeks and didn't provide the best storage conditions, and just slowed it down raising the humidity a bit. But I don't think they are dangerously big.

I think I'm going to start checking the size of air cells and see if that tells me anything. I'm hatching turkey poults right now. I started with 10 eggs. 1 quit and 2 were clear. 7 made it to lockdown. The 4th one is zipping right now. All of them have been sticky. I have been working on humidity. I raised from 50% to 55% for this batch for incubation and close to 70% for hatch and they are still sticky. I am at an elevation of 2000 ft. so I've been working on the humidity level. I'm not too sure what else to do at this point.