Incubating Eggs With a Heating Plate

[emmsx3]

Please keep us updated as to your progress. Stop spraying water, it does cool off the eggs and you don't want that. You need a hydrometer to measure the humidity. It should be lower (30% - 45%) until lockdown where is should be up to about 70% ... Alot depends on the size of the air cell.

@sylviethecochin @Pyxis @Kiki

The eggs hatched! I posted an update

 

[ChickNanny13]

Where's the update

 

[ChickNanny13]

Sorry I'm still new to this so please bare with me...I saw that person say "hydrometer" so I assumed that's what they were calledAnd alright, I will no longer spray the eggs with water.

No worries.
There are both hydrometers and hygrometers.
The latter measures humidity.
The former measures specific gravity of liquids for things like testing lead acid batteries and antifreeze.
Good luck.

My aplologizes on the confusion ... I neglected to re-read my post before posting
@emmsx3 I'm on the Big Island ... Thankfully Amazon ships here but no matter what form of delivery is offered, there is no such think as "Overnite" either. Don't pay for it cause it won't happen ... 3 Day Priority still takes a week. Only when mailing "InterIsland" does it get faster however, everything must go through Oahu before their destination

 

[emmsx3]

Where's the update

It's on the previous page, page 3 along with pictures.

 

[emmsx3]

My aplologizes on the confusion ... I neglected to re-read my post before posting
@emmsx3 I'm on the Big Island ... Thankfully Amazon ships here but no matter what form of delivery is offered, there is no such think as "Overnite" either. Don't pay for it cause it won't happen ... 3 Day Priority still takes a week. Only when mailing "InterIsland" does it get faster however, everything must go through Oahu before their destination

No worries! And I'm glad you understand my struggle when it comes to Amazon shipping with Prime aha.

I agree that even though it comes with the benefit of fasting shipping, yes it still does take a week and even longer when there were times they lost my package or they ship it back to Oahu and then back to my island again. It's very frustrating, I may consider just canceling it then

 

[emmsx3]

Here they all are! All dried, eating, and drinking. And also using the same heating plate I used to incubate them to keep them warm. They are all adorable and I'm so happy it all turned out well
Thank you again everyone!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Awesome! They look great.

 

[emmsx3]

Awesome! They look great.

Thanks! One of the eggs that were small though was a late Hatcher. And that baby chick is so small...

She’s all dried and fluffed up but she has not eaten yet. We have to spoon feed her water because we noticed there was a piece of the membrane still in her mouth that she swallowed when she was hatching from the inside.

The other two are eating fine but we have to spoon feed the littlest one and when she drinks she tilts her head back to drink it and does that for a while as if she’s trying to get whatever it is on her throat down.

Now she has little bubbles coming out and it feels slimy. She stumbles and yesterday she couldn’t stop distress chirping. I don’t know what to do

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Do you have any Nutri-Drench or can you get to a feed store that sells it?
If not, in a pinch you could use Enfamil Poly-Vi-Sol vitamin drops without iron.

 

[ChickNanny13]

You may want to wet their feed, making a mash ... Messy but maybe easier for them to eat. Chicks can go without food/water for at least 3days.

Where are the "bubbles" coming from, her nose or mouth?

Are you able to remove that membrane? Sounds like it's causing her problems drinking, water maybe going down the wrong way & will cause her to aspirate.
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