Hatch-Along - Setting eggs this weekend (Jan5/6) WHOS WITH ME!

[fisherlady]

Well bad news, after everything, I just found my tiny Jaylee dead in the brooder : (
was alive 30 mins ago when I last looked
no obvious cause, could have gotten injured by the larger silkies is some non visible way,
or maybe even w/ the hand feeding it still wasn't getting enough,
or it might have had some other issue (it sure had not appeared to grow any since hatching 6 days ago).

I'm seriously frustrated.

Oh... dang it.... that is rough! So sorry!

 

[chicken pickin]

I set my next batch of eggs this morn. 6 Cream Legbars, 1 of my own Japanese Bantams (her 2nd egg) and we picked up 2 new chickens last night and on the car ride home the silkie/EE cross laid me a pretty little green egg in the box (she was in with a roo of her same cross so hopefully its fertile So 8 eggs in total went into the bator this morn, unless Penelope the JB gives me her 3rd egg today and Ziggy the new SIlkie/EE cross gives me another

 

[fisherlady]

I set my next batch of eggs this morn. 6 Cream Legbars, 1 of my own Japanese Bantams (her 2nd egg) and we picked up 2 new chickens last night and on the car ride home the silkie/EE cross laid me a pretty little green egg in the box (she was in with a roo of her same cross so hopefully its fertile So 8 eggs in total went into the bator this morn, unless Penelope the JB gives me her 3rd egg today and Ziggy the new SIlkie/EE cross gives me another

I hope they do well for you!! Pics of your new silkie cross??

 

[dblea202]

day 22 for our eggs all three were wobbling yesterday but it seems to have slowed down a little bit. We havent seen the one move since probably 8 lastnight. they have been wobbling for three days now....starting to worry

 

[fisherlady]

day 22 for our eggs all three were wobbling yesterday but it seems to have slowed down a little bit. We havent seen the one move since probably 8 lastnight. they have been wobbling for three days now....starting to worry

I wish I knew what to say... I don't have any experience though in incubator hatching. I missed all of the steps.

I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that all goes well with these eggs for you though... you've been trying so hard you deserve a few fuzzy butts!

 

[dblea202]

I wish I knew what to say... I don't have any experience though in incubator hatching. I missed all of the steps.

I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that all goes well with these eggs for you though... you've been trying so hard you deserve a few fuzzy butts!

i know! we are thinking they could be late because we had a few days where the temps were down at 97 for a good bit so it could have slowed the growing down a little bit, other then that we have no idea what could be wrong with them. we are hoping when we get home today that we could have some pipping

 

[Aschenfire]

Congrats to the new chick mommies and daddies, and I am so sorry to you guys who lost babies...It's never easy no matter how short their little lives have been. *hugs*

Here are my two which hatched from this hatchalong... one week old yesterday, London and Raine...exchequer Seramas

 

[fisherlady]

Wow!! So cute! What day were they born? They look so much bigger and more feathered then my Australorps or Barred Rock babies!

 

[FeyRaine]

@ Aschenfire -- Those are some really cute chicks, the dark / light contrast of the feathers is quite striking.

@dblea202 -- running late sounds like a good theory given the low temps. What has your humidity been like? what is it now? Do you think it could be an issue?
I've got my finger cross, really want to see you posting happy pics of fluffies here soon.


UPDATE -- 2 duck egg appear still alive, 1 had pipped mid-egg & when silent so I assisted & opened up the air cell part of the shell, the outter membare was paper dry, the inner membrane wet & still w/ blood in veins, it has been decreasing slowly over almost 24 hrs now so I guess it is still working on absorbing, now sure how long that takes in ducks, seams like way longer than chicks.
Anyway it was still alive w/ no sign of wanting to come out this am. Keeping bator at 90plus humidity w/ a wet paper towel tent over the duckling on a half shell situation just trying to let it do whatever it needs to, I think it could push out whenever it wants, nothing looks sticky, so just waiting hoping. The other egg had been tapping tapping tapping & it was more than a day so I got worried re: suffocation w/o external pip, so at like 2am I made the tinyiest pin prick pip at the tip end in the air cell area, so at least I know it can stay inside for days now w/o lack of air. Based on the other one having pipped 24 hrs ahead I'm hoping that was the correct choice, but I didn't make a look inside type opening, just really a pin prick for oxygen, trying to let the rest proceed natural if possible. I soooo want these 2 Welsh Harlequin duckling to make it. I have other ducks, & 1 WH Drake who wants a proper gf. so we all wait...

NEXT TRY --
Ok so I'm going to go forward and try a 3rd hatch. I'm going to use the borrowed 30 egg LG, & if I can round up enough eggs also will side by side use this diy bator as a test.
I am of course collecting what eggs of mine are worth hatching, that is 1 Ame roo over 1 EE hen w/ mint green eggs, & the Buckeyes , 2 eggs so far, hope they just keep laying dispite the move. (All my others are pullets or a game hen & I'm just not going to do those small eggs again at this time, too upsetting). I have a very very nice person who is collecting some eggs and shipping them to me a week from today, so that will help me get enough to try again. Not sure it will fill both bators, but third time is a charm, I'm gonna have a happy hatch yet!

Have a great day everyone!

 

[Aschenfire]

Wow!! So cute! What day were they born? They look so much bigger and more feathered then my Australorps or Barred Rock babies!

They were hatched out late Sunday night, the 27th. I think the little Seramas really feather in and mature faster than many other breeds, too. They are not bigger than your Australorps I bet they look HUGE but they're not much bigger around than a 50 cent piece when you look at them from above... and might be 2 1/2 or 3" tall