January Hatch-a-long 2018

[gimmie birdies]

the egg started to hatch one direction 3am, then it is aimed the other way 5:30 am. I decided to name her Hope, because I hope she is a girl.

 

[picanins]

My of 3 Fri. hatch eggs, I have one zipping. A power outage didn't help right before a hatch, pics soon.

Day 8 on my other eggs.

Sorry about the power outage - that's a COMPLETE bummer!!!!

 

[Cynthia12]

What would cause a malpositioned chick?

Could be a few different reasons. Shipped eggs will often have high air sacs, sometimes on both sides. That's called saddle air sac. I often find that they either don't make it during lockdown, or, if they pip, can't turn..no room...so I assist the hatch. Another reason is, for small eggs with, such as, silkies with high vaults often have a hard time turning. Another reason, a huge chick is in that large, but...very narrow egg. I unfortunately have a very pretty blue egg, that is doing well for now, but, has a very high air cell on one side, and, the egg is one of those long narrow eggs. Sometimes, with all of these situations they surprise you! Sometimes they will hatch just fine, and even hatch at the wrong end. Not often, but once in a while. Always a pleasant surprise.

 

[Cynthia12]

Hatch complete! I hatched 19 out of 22 eggs for an 86% hatch rate! I performed an assisted hatch for my last egg and I think he's going to be fine. Drying off in the incubator now. I performed eggtopsies on the other eggs, two had external pips. The we're malpositioned and piped at the wrong end and in those cases piped into a blood vessel causing them to die. The third did not pip but was also malpositioned and dead upon opening. After looking at egg shells I realized that two other chicks were malpositioned but hatched successfully. So 26% we're malpositioned! I wonder why that is? Some of these eggs were probably at least 10 days old since this was an emergency hatching situation. Maybe that's why? I'll post pics once everyone is fluffy and dry! Thanks for staying tuned!

Good job on assisting! Wow, that's a lot that weren't able to turn. You mentioned anther reason why they don't make it .. after pipping.. hitting a big blood vessel ..they drown. Man, that upsets me to find some that had pipped, but didn't make it. Sorry. But, you still had a great hatch! Congratulations! Can't wait for pictures.

 

[picanins]

Day 10 over here in Florida!!! Temp stable at 100 degrees (Thank you Genesis Hovabator for taking the stress out of this process) and humidity risen from 30% to 40% over the last week (I'm dry hatching). Other than the first 5 that were not fertile, I think I see 3 rings (put them aside) but everything else is growing and veining nicely!! Yay!!!

 

[Cynthia12]

I like dry hatching. For those of you not seeing anything on day 5 of candling, you will be surprised at how often you will see something by day 7. I've found waiting until day 9 or 10 now because of past surprises.

 

[Cynthia12]

Oh, and often times in the beginning, a very large blood vessel developing, can be mistaken as a blood ring because it is stretching out about half way around the egg. Best wait for other tell tell signs of it being a bad egg. No air sac by day 8..or movement is a good sign. Well, bad sign.

 

[chickenmama109]

I like dry hatching. For those of you not seeing anything on day 5 of candling, you will be surprised at how often you will see something by day 7. I've found waiting until day 9 or 10 now because of past surprises.

What is dry hatching

 

[Kenny_]

I dumped around day 12 -- is that too late?

I just looked at the calendar and realized that I'm on day 16 for my silkie eggs! Yay! Closer to lockdown than I thought!

 

[chickenmama109]

This is my rir in my arms

And my rooster that all of my eggs in the incubator are mixed with