July Hatch-a-Long (including 4th of July hatch-a-long)

[Oldhallchicks]

What am I looking at here? The yolk sack was broken, but it nearly all absorbed now.

baby is all crusty, but moving around and chirping a lot so seems to have plenty of energy.

what is this loop looking thing on the abdomen?

 

[ariri30]

Her second hatch of the year. I hope her last. I’m desperately trying to keep the other three for not going broody anymore this year.

 

[FortCluck]

What am I looking at here? The yolk sack was broken, but it nearly all absorbed now.

baby is all crusty, but moving around and chirping a lot so seems to have plenty of energy.

what is this loop looking thing on the abdomen?

Looks like intestines to me. I would try to push it in before the hole closes. I use a qtip with antibiotic ointment (no pain relief) to do this.

 

[Trisseh]

What am I looking at here? The yolk sack was broken, but it nearly all absorbed now.

baby is all crusty, but moving around and chirping a lot so seems to have plenty of energy.

what is this loop looking thing on the abdomen?

I’ve had a couple hatch that way, they didn’t pull the loops of bowel all the way in before absorbing everything else... I haven’t had one that’s been like that make it. my boss (he’s a vet) and I even tried to carefully replace the herniated tissue and put a purse string suture in. Didn’t work, died within a couple hours of hatch. They just seem to have a glitch... one of the quail lived longer And was super spunky but eventually i culled it because it was fading.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

A storm came through last night. We had a power outage about 10:30 PM and lasted an hour and 13 minutes. My govee temperature/humidity sensor tracks by the minute and in that time, the temperature in my old style Sportsman cabinet went from 99.9 to 94.3 before it started climbing when the power came back on. It was under 99 for about an hour. It would have been worse in winter but it is about 85 in that room now. I'm sure they're fine. In that length of time the internal egg temperature wouldn't have dropped much. Probably like a hen getting off the nest for a half hour.
There are 4 different settings in there.

 

[Hucklekree]

Two pips for me yesterday evening. One on the wrong end. I monitored it, said a prayer and went to be. Two chicks in the bater this morning! These are my own barnyard mix (whatever they might be, seven years in the making) Two more mixes and one crevecoeur egg left for today. I have 34 chicks coming from Murray Mcmurray tomorrow. :s Then one more barnyard hatch and a Sulmater hatch both in Aug. After that we are done for the year.

I have been so impressed with the crevecoeur eggs. I ran out of room so I saved it in a dark, coolish place after placing the rest in the bator. Then eight days later (after shipping) I stuck it in as space opened up and now there is a chirping chick working on hatching!

The two sets of Bieles are still comically mismatched in size. And I have a correction they are two days apart, not one.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

That's still quite a difference even for 2 days.
Yay for the hatching late setter eggs!!

Watcha got coming from MM?

 

[Hucklekree]

Ooo that is a good question!

From MM I am hopefully going to receive:

Speckled Sussex hens (to go with the roosters I hatched out of shipped eggs from Meyers)
Andalusian hens (same as above)
Partridge Rocks (same as above)
Crevecoeurs (widen the gene pool for the batch I already have thanks to shipped eggs)
Jumbo Cornish Crosses
Delaware Heritage Broilers
White Face Black Spanish straight run
White Sapphire straight run (to appease my lack of CCL success this year)
A mystery chick.

 

[Oldhallchicks]

@Trisseh aw thanks guys. I’ve pushed them in with a q-tip as suggested by @FortCluck. I’ve also put some antibiotic ointment on it and a sterile wound dressing kind of like a diaper.

the chick was super loud during all of that, but quiet afterward. It also hadn’t absorbed the yolk because Idont think it was quite ready to hatch when mama or the other hen started picking its shell off so it was all stuck in there this morning whem I assisted it out. It also hasn’t really opened its eyes and I think it’s eyelids are sort of stuck shut with all the gunk.

it’s had some sugar water mixed with raw egg yolk and has taken that quite well. It’s still chirping, but not moving much.

how long would you give a chick like this before you cull? I was thinking giving it overnight (if it makes it through), and then checking to see if the intestines are still in. but if it’s no better in the morning, we may need to put it out of its misery.

it’s in the brooder with the others now and I’ve tried to make it a cosy little bed. The other chicks all look like they are gathered round a hospital bed

 

[Hucklekree]

@Oldhallchicks I am sorry you are dealing with this. I just had to deal with one in my last hatch. Nothing I did seem to fix it. I ended up culling at about 14 hours after hatch when it became apparent to me it was not going to make it.