Help!!!Day 24, no chicks. Please read. Pic of chick!

[glenda in ms]

I am using a Little Giant. One dead chick- interal pip. Blood all in membrane. The chick in the picture is most way outof shell- has a huge yolk sack attached....still chirping but not vigorous-probobly wont make it...

Now, what about the other three who passed float test...no chirping, but moving. Do I just let them be? Last two chicks were huge (the dead one and the struggling one). Packed tight, tight,.

I wonder why at 24+ days the one living has such a big yolk sac yet?

I really just want to cry at this point. I have hatched many eggs from my own flock and my neighbors flock in this bator and had good results. These are the first "shipped eggs I have ever tried. I so wanted these Blue Copper Marans and Black Copper Marans.

Bewildered....

 

[glenda in ms]

None have hatched on their own.

 

[gitlost80]

It sounds like they are early. Your thermometer might be way off, causing them to hatch late. They may still make it. I think you should just put them in the bator, cross your fingers and pray. I just read somewhere also that you dont count the day you put them in as day 1,but 24 hours after you put em in, which is news to me, but makes sense. Dont give up hope, but let mother Nature take a shot at hatching these guys

 

[glenda in ms]

Is this external intestine? This is the only living chick.

 

[glenda in ms]

Help? Is it suffering?

 

[gitlost80]

Poor Baby. That is yolk that wasnt absorbed. He looks Really Preemie to me. Keep him warm and comfy.And maybe put a warm moist paper towel over him so he feels secure and cuddled.

 

[Minniechickmama]

I hear your story and feel your pain. I just shut off my bator after getting 1 chick out of a set of 34 eggs. They were RIR and Silkies I bought on auction here. I know that using shipped eggs is always a chancy predicament. Most were clear or little development. I had 5 RIR make it to the end or close, the 2 that pipped couldn't get out of the shell and I had one Silkie with the same deal. It makes me very, very sad, but it is a chance you take with having them go through the mail.
I am lucky enough to live near one of the top breeders in this here part of the country, so I am going this week to get 5 dozen from him to set. Hopefully, with a lot less handling, those will do better. I also have a dozen BLRW in the bator that I set yesterday and a dozen Dark Cornish coming next week as well.
Shhh, don't tell my husband I also ordered 30 chicks from a hatchery too.

This hobby/business has its ups and downs. I comes with the territory.
Sorry yours aren't doing any better than mine. Maybe the stars were misaligned when we set them?

 

[JAHVREM]

i have experimented, helped assisted, succeeded and failed.

it seems to always take a while in the beginning of the season to get things set properly.

it does sound like your temp was too low, thruout, and your humidity was not high enough in the end.


i use an old fashioned mercury thermometer, i can calibrate it to my body temperature.....and know that it is correct.

my incubator is homeade, and has hatched many many chicks.
it has also killed many many chicks.

it always goes back to temp and humidity.

some genius out there needs to invent a highly dependable accurate hygrometer/thermometer that is consistant.


i just hatched 21/29 eggs that were mailed from oklahoma to cincinnati in january!! remember how awful the weather ws then??
thanks banjoejoe~~!!



good luck, its sad, but learn why it didn't work. i lost a bunch of silkies cuz my bator puked. i wanted to cry. when you get development and they don't hatch, its the bator, not the breeder!!!

 

[glenda in ms]

One little chick, the one in the picture is still alive, just got on his feet today! Trying to teach it to drink and eat! What else do
I need to do to help this wobbly little baby? It is a blue copper maran....I really hope it makes it!

Thank you all so much for the help and encouragement.

 

[gitlost80]

Be really careful when trying to give water. Use an eye dropper and put a teeny tiny drop on the tip of his beak,like the size of this letter" o"on this screen. A full drop could drown him. Cant wait to see him!