Help please!

[ghangis]

 

[ghangis]

I had to change my avatar to get the chicks pic on there. Can anyone tell me, I have 4 eggs left in my incubator that initially I thought weren't going to make it. But after that last surprise. Two of the eggs have pip breaks in them to where I can see the a part of the chick but no movement. The other two eggs have air cells at top and bottom with no breaks/pips. Any ideas?

 

[Bullitt]

Final Tally. 34 Out Of 39 Hatched And Doing Well In The Brooder. There Are 13 Plymouth Rocks And 21 New Hampshire Reds.
For The Questions Above, My Wife And I Did It As A Lesson And Experience For Our 3 Year old. We Will Only Be Keeping 6-8 Hens. The Rest Will Be Going Back To The Farmer That Gave Us The Eggs. Although I Had Spoke To The Farmer And Let Him Know Our Interest In Doing It Again.
I Still Find It Amazing That A Chicken Grows From Essentially Goo And Yolk To A Chick In 21 Days. Incredible!

I argued with my mother that an egg is meat. She said it isn't. I said, the inside of an egg grows into a baby chick, so it is meat to me.

Are you going to keep a few of each breed?

 

[Bullitt]

I had to change my avatar to get the chicks pic on there. Can anyone tell me, I have 4 eggs left in my incubator that initially I thought weren't going to make it. But after that last surprise. Two of the eggs have pip breaks in them to where I can see the a part of the chick but no movement. The other two eggs have air cells at top and bottom with no breaks/pips. Any ideas?

You might try breaking open those two eggs with pip breaks.

I would suggest waiting a couple more days to see if those last two eggs will hatch.

35 chicks from 39 eggs is pretty successful, though.

 

[ghangis]

I'm probably going to keep 4 and 4. I think I will attempt to self pip, what do I have to lose.

 

[ChickenJohn1]

Thanks for this thread. I am watching my hatched chick "bowl" some of the other piped eggs around and was getting worried if I should step in and help. Obviously this has been going on for a long time without me.

 

[ghangis]

Yeah, they rolled over everywhere but, no real issues. I did open the incubator every few hours, when it was getting crowded. We were to afraid of trampling. I would usually wait to after a hatch when the humidity was high and then remove a few. Everything worked great and the chicks are doing as expected.

 

[aoxa]

Yeah, they rolled over everywhere but, no real issues. I did open the incubator every few hours, when it was getting crowded. We were to afraid of trampling. I would usually wait to after a hatch when the humidity was high and then remove a few. Everything worked great and the chicks are doing as expected.

I do this too. They get awfully curious and sit right on the newly hatched chicks or peck them in the eyes. If it makes you feel better, and you remove them quickly enough not to lose too much humidity, it's fine.

 

[Rebdavis]

So ive been stressing over my chicks for a few days because. I thought they were supposed to hatch on friday and havent well I was watching tv and all the sudden heard cheeps from the kitchen where the incubator is!! I flew in here and theres nothing not even a pip but the chick is cheeping. Is it supposed to do that? Does it need help what do I do!!! Its ny first hatch and im as nervous as if I was giving birth myself!!

 

[aoxa]

So ive been stressing over my chicks for a few days because. I thought they were supposed to hatch on friday and havent well I was watching tv and all the sudden heard cheeps from the kitchen where the incubator is!! I flew in here and theres nothing not even a pip but the chick is cheeping. Is it supposed to do that? Does it need help what do I do!!! Its ny first hatch and im as nervous as if I was giving birth myself!!

Yes it is supposed to do that

Your incubator might be running on the cool side if they are two days late. What day did you put them in the incubator? Was it a Friday?

Don't touch. Let them hatch. They need to externally pip and get used to oxygen before they are ready to hatch. Their yolks will not be all the way absorbed until they are ready to break through.