Help! Day 22 and wobbling reduced...

[slordaz]

i am so sorry she didn't make it, it's a 50/50 chance when you have to assist, My last hatch I had one die in the shell too for no apparent reason, was ready to hatch she just never pipped, yolk was fully absorbed veins receded, you did what you could to try and help her and she may have had something else going on to not have turned to position so her beak was towards the egg shell. I am also sorry ended up falling asleep sitting here
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...tions-and-deformities-in-chick-embryos.67021/

 

[Mewmew]

i am so sorry she didn't make it, it's a 50/50 chance when you have to assist, My last hatch I had one die in the shell too for no apparent reason, was ready to hatch she just never pipped, yolk was fully absorbed veins receded, you did what you could to try and help her and she may have had something else going on to not have turned to position so her beak was towards the egg shell. I am also sorry ended up falling asleep sitting here
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...tions-and-deformities-in-chick-embryos.67021/

Thats okay, i really appreciate your help through it all. Im in the uk and i stayed up watching her until 4am,when i had to take a friend into work, and when i got back she had sadly passed away. Thank you for all your help though! I have some more eggs starting incubation tonight- (i purchased these a few days ago) so i'm really hoping that as the conditions are right from the very beginning, that the hatch rate will be high and problem free. But if these guys dont make it, I'll take that as a sign I'm doing something wrong and i wont try anymore. After watching the poor chickie wiggle for days only to perish, i dont think i could do it again because i feel at fault. i know i did what i could, but i didn't do enough right. (Like the wrong incubator to begin with/not assisting enough/soon enough/etc). Maybe i candled too much and thats why its head was down to get away from the light?

But hopefully in 21 days i can add some sucessful hatch pictures to this thread. I have so much respect to mummy hens- they make it look effortless! If these next ones hatch, they will be hatching the eggs they lay- nature knows best!

Thanks again for the help and advise though- i truly do appreciate it. xx

 

[slordaz]

Thats okay, i really appreciate your help through it all. Im in the uk and i stayed up watching her until 4am,when i had to take a friend into work, and when i got back she had sadly passed away. Thank you for all your help though! I have some more eggs starting incubation tonight- (i purchased these a few days ago) so i'm really hoping that as the conditions are right from the very beginning, that the hatch rate will be high and problem free. But if these guys dont make it, I'll take that as a sign I'm doing something wrong and i wont try anymore. After watching the poor chickie wiggle for days only to perish, i dont think i could do it again because i feel at fault. i know i did what i could, but i didn't do enough right. (Like the wrong incubator to begin with/not assisting enough/soon enough/etc). Maybe i candled too much and thats why its head was down to get away from the light?

But hopefully in 21 days i can add some sucessful hatch pictures to this thread. I have so much respect to mummy hens- they make it look effortless! If these next ones hatch, they will be hatching the eggs they lay- nature knows best!

Thanks again for the help and advise though- i truly do appreciate it. xx

There is a lot of good information here on the link I posted, if Eggs are being shipped they need to settle for 24 hours before putting in the incubator. I found what worked best for me was incubating them laying down but I have a different one, it took me some bad hatches to get the hang of it also the instructions on incubator is assuming everyone is at sea level which make you have to learn the hard way if your not at see level. Also if you read that link I posted earlier on mal positioned there are links to read also on if it is an incubator issue, it could be where your getting them from has an older flock , nutritional deficiency any number of things can cause it, Brinsea here are usually pretty good

There are great monthly hatch along were you can post and get advice too, @Ridgerunner @PD-Riverman really helped me a lot when I wanted to give up and now I'm getting good hatchrates, but read all you can about hatching in an incubator in articles here too

 

[Mewmew]

i am so sorry she didn't make it, it's a 50/50 chance when you have to assist, My last hatch I had one die in the shell too for no apparent reason, was ready to hatch she just never pipped, yolk was fully absorbed veins receded, you did what you could to try and help her and she may have had something else going on to not have turned to position so her beak was towards the egg shell. I am also sorry ended up falling asleep sitting here
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...tions-and-deformities-in-chick-embryos.67021/

Nothing to be sorry for- you really helped, and im genuinely grateful. Sorry if i kept you up though. And sorry to hear that you had one die in yiur last hatch too. Its a bittersweet experience isnt it? Lets hope both of us have more sucessful future hatches though. And thank you again- truly. Xx

 

[Mewmew]

There is a lot of good information here on the link I posted, if Eggs are being shipped they need to settle for 24 hours before putting in the incubator. I found what worked best for me was incubating them laying down but I have a different one, it took me some bad hatches to get the hang of it also the instructions on incubator is assuming everyone is at sea level which make you have to learn the hard way if your not at see level. Also if you read that link I posted earlier on mal positioned there are links to read also on if it is an incubator issue, it could be where your getting them from has an older flock , nutritional deficiency any number of things can cause it, Brinsea here are usually pretty good

There are great monthly hatch along were you can post and get advice too, @Ridgerunner @PD-Riverman really helped me a lot when I wanted to give up and now I'm getting good hatchrates, but read all you can about hatching in an incubator in articles here too

Thanks for the links- I'll be sure to check them out. Im not at sea level either- i had no idea that can effect things! x

 

[slordaz]

nothing to be sorry for. always better to have someone there with you even if it is just for moral support. My first attempts drove me insane as the incubator would fry the whole hatch when it went into lock down and lots of mal positioned, it does get better, but is part of hatching in an incubator, with lots of reading and advice from people I went from 0-2 chicks per hatch that were assisted to seldom having to assist and might loose a few in the shell, that is better than what the hens do, but sometimes it's better if you have a broody hen to let her do it or chicken math really catches up to you lol.

 

[slordaz]

I hatch out at 5000 ft above sea level, there are lots of things that can affect it, I have to leave vents and plugs out the whole time and do better with keeping humidity about 20-25% until lock down then only raise it to 55-60%, not only does your elevation effect incubating, eggs should be from a similar elevation or it can cause issues. you also should sterilize the incubator after you hatch out, but before you set eggs, start the incubator the day before you want to set and do spot check with independent thermometer to make sure you don't have cool spots and things are accurate.

 

[Mewmew]

I hatch out at 5000 ft above sea level, there are lots of things that can affect it, I have to leave vents and plugs out the whole time and do better with keeping humidity about 20-25% until lock down then only raise it to 55-60%, not only does your elevation effect incubating, eggs should be from a similar elevation or it can cause issues.

Thats a good point. The only eggs that survived until lockdown were ones I'd collected from a local smallholder. The others were all shipped from smallholdings across the uk. So the elevations would be different. Im reading up on that now. your advice has been amazing! x

 

[slordaz]

Thats a good point. The only eggs that survived until lockdown were ones I'd collected from a local smallholder. The others were all shipped from smallholdings across the uk. So the elevations would be different. Im reading up on that now. your advice has been amazing! x

well was hard earned and most of it from more experienced people and someone always starts a hatch along for the month, you can do a search for them.

here is the link for the October hatchalong
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/october-hatch-along-2019.1333803/page-2#post-21790091