I'm so tickled!

[mrchicks]

At this point, I think I would help. Let me know how it turns out.

 

[Sylviaanne]

Ok, I now have 9 chicks that I have put in with the 2 week old chicks I have. Everyone seems to be getting along well. I have a 10th chick but it's the one that was still attached to the shell and it has a little string still attached to it that I didn't notice when I put it in with the others but the older chicks noticed right away so I put it back in the incubator in hopes it will fall off in another few hours. I still have 3 other chicks in their shells so it's not a very good hatching from 37 eggs but some of them may be late bloomers and I will candle them tonight to check. Today is the day they were due to hatch. If no more hatch, I'm ok with that. I can say, "I tried." Sylvia

 

[Sylviaanne]

I lost the last 3 pipped babies. I still have 15 eggs unpipped and making no sound. Yesterday was day 21 but one of the eggs was stuck to the mesh this morning so I water tested all the eggs while I had them out to rinse the stuck egg from the mesh. All of them rose/sunk to the level of the air sacks except one. It bobbed above the water about 1/3 of the egg shell, way below the air sack ring, this egg I think is seeping. Since I water tested all the eggs, I rinsed and dried them off and if any of them are seeping, there will be no doubt.

Does anyone know why they seep? No cracks. Sylvia

 

[Sylviaanne]

I have put more eggs on and some of them are seeping. Does anyone know why they seep? I have not done anything to them, such as putting numbers or dates or even air sack rings on them that might cause a tiny hole or anything. I have had to remove 3 eggs and still have 2 stuck to the rails.

I have the rails full so it was hard to try to get the eggs loosened. I remembered that the rails are supposed to come off, so I tried that. I could only get one side of the rails off so I put it back and left it. Before that I removed the whole turner and held it over a bucket and poured warm water over the stuck eggs. One came loose but there are still 2 stuck. I found a business card and tried to wiggle it between the egg and the cup but it didn't work. I am going to wait until tomorrow and try the warm water again. Maybe they will loosen up since I already poured water on them.

 

[subhanalah]

They are rotten. Sometimes it just happens.
They'll explode if you don't take them out and get on your other eggs!

 

[Sylviaanne]

They are rotten. Sometimes it just happens.
They'll explode if you don't take them out and get on your other eggs!

I just went in and tried to move them, the whole rail moves but the eggs don't. What else can I try?

 

[Sylviaanne]

What might happen to the other eggs if I put a wet warm cloth over them? That would include the stuck eggs.

 

[subhanalah]

Maybe rubbing alcohol on a qtip to loosen up the goop.

Just make sure the non-bad eggs stay in the incubator and don't get cold

 

[Sylviaanne]

Maybe rubbing alcohol on a qtip to loosen up the goop.

Just make sure the non-bad eggs stay in the incubator and don't get cold

I went in to candle them and unfortunately, I dropped one of them. It was rotten. It popped all over the eggs in the incubator. I don't think the height I dropped it from was more than a quarter inch, if that. It was really ready to pop. I had it off to the side to keep an eye on it. I couldn't tell if it was seeping or if it had been seeped on. The way the rails turn one of the stuck eggs or one of the seeping eggs that I removed could have leaked on it. There was no easy way to clean the mess up with the eggs in the turner and in the incubator. I unplugged the turner took it to the faucet and rinsed the bad egg off all of them. Removed them from the rail and worked the 2 stuck ones loose and tossed them. I dried the turner and the eggs and got them back under the heat as fast as I could but who knows how many will live after that? Both of the stuck eggs came off with some shell missing, one I know was bad but the other looked like it might have had a developing chick in it. My husband cleaned the incubator while I cleaned the eggs. I just hope some of them make it. In good health.