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Thank you for responding and help.
Did I lose all chicks after hatch can be interpreted differently, so let me say of 18 eggs:
4 were Cracked (actually 1 a small area smashed but not seeping, 3 hairlines that looked like scratches but seeped in incubator)- I hatched that batch upright in egg crate, so everyone was in their own cup.
3 were Infertile
3 blood rings 1st candling,2 more in 3rd week
2 died in process of me assisting
4 died following hatch.
3 were jiggly,looked like water moving inside. I incubated and they developed, 2 died before hatch, one on target w/13% wt loss, one 2 g under) 1 hatched, was 1g above target.
I misspoke above, I think, looking back through notes, 3 were internally pipped on 9/30. I inserted air holes on 10/1, I assisted hatch on 10/2. Violet died the next day, lavender died day 5,buff day 6, dundotte 7th.
The 2 that died while assisting, they were so stuck that I was working briefly then giving a rest while going to another and rotating. One was attached to the shell still. At the time I said like umbiblical cord, but that was probably the albumin? I didn't pull it, set it back in attached and it was unattached by the time I went back to it, but dead. Both had the distended bellies, you said green, I thought looked like hemorrhage-dark purple/black, under skin. Otherwise, mushy chick is much what it sounds like. I didn't recognize fluid pockets, just distension and large dark swelling on bellies that pushed yolk to side.
Weight loss, most but the tubby who died last were on target for 13% wt loss or a tad more. Tubby was still 3 g over target. Turning was manual since in crate; the last 2 weeks though, I started tilting the incubator with a block instead of opening the unit, to keep maintained. Still was doing 7-8x a day.
I didn't see discoloration or distension on first 3 to die this week, but Tubby had a couple dark spots,and greenish distension. Tubby erupted when I picked it up. I didn't look to see if it came from vent or abdomen. I should have but was too rattled.
Yes, wash,dry hands before and after handling, have been using gloves. Incubator bleached, everything inside of brooder destroyed. I've soaked brooder x2 in heavy bleach. If I spray down with microban before another wash, do you think will be ok to use again?
Necropsy good idea, but I incinerated immediately to prevent spread elsewhere.
Did I lose all chicks after hatch can be interpreted differently, so let me say of 18 eggs:
4 were Cracked (actually 1 a small area smashed but not seeping, 3 hairlines that looked like scratches but seeped in incubator)- I hatched that batch upright in egg crate, so everyone was in their own cup.
3 were Infertile
3 blood rings 1st candling,2 more in 3rd week
2 died in process of me assisting
4 died following hatch.
3 were jiggly,looked like water moving inside. I incubated and they developed, 2 died before hatch, one on target w/13% wt loss, one 2 g under) 1 hatched, was 1g above target.
I misspoke above, I think, looking back through notes, 3 were internally pipped on 9/30. I inserted air holes on 10/1, I assisted hatch on 10/2. Violet died the next day, lavender died day 5,buff day 6, dundotte 7th.
The 2 that died while assisting, they were so stuck that I was working briefly then giving a rest while going to another and rotating. One was attached to the shell still. At the time I said like umbiblical cord, but that was probably the albumin? I didn't pull it, set it back in attached and it was unattached by the time I went back to it, but dead. Both had the distended bellies, you said green, I thought looked like hemorrhage-dark purple/black, under skin. Otherwise, mushy chick is much what it sounds like. I didn't recognize fluid pockets, just distension and large dark swelling on bellies that pushed yolk to side.
Weight loss, most but the tubby who died last were on target for 13% wt loss or a tad more. Tubby was still 3 g over target. Turning was manual since in crate; the last 2 weeks though, I started tilting the incubator with a block instead of opening the unit, to keep maintained. Still was doing 7-8x a day.
I didn't see discoloration or distension on first 3 to die this week, but Tubby had a couple dark spots,and greenish distension. Tubby erupted when I picked it up. I didn't look to see if it came from vent or abdomen. I should have but was too rattled.
Yes, wash,dry hands before and after handling, have been using gloves. Incubator bleached, everything inside of brooder destroyed. I've soaked brooder x2 in heavy bleach. If I spray down with microban before another wash, do you think will be ok to use again?
Necropsy good idea, but I incinerated immediately to prevent spread elsewhere.
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it was a cuddle bug, it wanted to be close. Off to 2nd article - I'm convinced this was it,even if every s/s didn't present. You know I'd have been dinging you guys relentlessly if their bellies looked like that.
- since the 1st 2 had no s/s and the other 2 presented at the same time..
