June Hatch A Long

[LilyD]

That view is pretty slick, though. It looks like you’re RIGHT there!


Eeeeeeeeee. I’m so in love already with these ducks. The views are AMAZING.
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Love it what light are you using that is a great view!!

 

[LilyD]

I have a chick this morning! The orphan egg hatched at dawn. Against all odds, I really was not expecting success with a heating pad in a plastic tote.
Broody hen and babes are doing fine this morning out in the coop. Next big challenge for this chick is will she adopt it?
View attachment 1812691 Last night we went to TSC and got permethrin poultry powder. I swept out and dusted the main coop, nests, not the birds yet. This morning I will move mom and babies and clean out and dust their area and dust mama with the powder. Does this sound okay? Is this stuff alright around chicks?

Congratulations!! Gorgeous baby

 

[Mosey2003]

Well, even though I almost never candle other than day 17, curiosity got the better of me again with these shipped eggs and I candled them again last night. Today is day 21, and they look more like day 15 embryos. Is it common for shipped eggs to be delayed? Rather worried here. Some did move, at least.

 

[jolenesdad]

Well, even though I almost never candle other than day 17, curiosity got the better of me again with these shipped eggs and I candled them again last night. Today is day 21, and they look more like day 15 embryos. Is it common for shipped eggs to be delayed? Rather worried here. Some did move, at least.

Tbh I don’t know.... but I’m very curious about this. By day 15 embryos what are you seeing?

In my March hatch I had this issue. Many eggs seemed to develop with the bottom half clear. Right at lockdown it seemed they were still developing but many did not hatch.

With more experience under my belt I’m trying to track this more and continue to follow through the hatch. I’ve got a couple duck eggs that are shipped that are kind of the same this time. I’m trying to keep better specific notes on each egg. How it was incubated and turned, where it was in the incubator, and then following through hatch.

If I was really brave I’d start eggtopsies on those eggs, and I think I’m alMost ready.

 

[Mosey2003]

Way too much room, very small chicks.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Here's another pic of orphan Spitzhauben chick hatched on heating pad. What do you all know about how to introduce to the hen and the other 3 chicks, now 2 days old? I plan to wait until it's fluffed out, and very active....it's calling out for mama.....
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I would definitely wait until the middle of the night to sneak the chick under momma. Some hens don't mind new chicks in broad daylight and will adopt any chick they walk by but I like to play it safe. Like @Mixed flock enthusiast mentioned getting up early tomorrow morning to make sure it's accepted as well!

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Goosie number 1 hatched in the middle of the night last night and 2 of the other eggs still have small pips. I'm going to step in if I don't see any changes in the next couple of hours but that 4th egg has been unsettlingly still through all of lockdown. It was so dark in the eggs on my final candling that it's possible that one had passed before I actually put them on lockdown. As long as I get 2 so they're not lonely I'll be happy for a first-time goose hatch...but I don't like late development losses so I would prefer all 4 hatch!

 

[MichelleBelle]

Y'all I'm so excited! My mystery chick has just hatched. I bought some guinea fowl hatching eggs from a guy and didn't carefully inspect each egg until I got home and discovered one egg was clearly a bantam egg. Pretty cream colored egg that was medium sized. Today is Day 19, and mystery chick just busted out of its shell. The little guy is pure black, with the exception of a thin white patch along the edge of the wing. Four toes, with feathering extending all the way down the toes. The little one is drying out and fluffing up in the incubator. I'll take a picture when s/he's dried off more

 

[SueT]

I would definitely wait until the middle of the night to sneak the chick under momma. Some hens don't mind new chicks in broad daylight and will adopt any chick they walk by but I like to play it safe. Like @Mixed flock enthusiast mentioned getting up early tomorrow morning to make sure it's accepted as well!

I don't know if I can manage getting in there at night. Last night they were in a back corner which I wouldn't be able to reach very well. Their pen, a partitioned off part of coop, is long and narrow and door is at one end.
Today is chilly. It's rainy and 60º, so there's a lot of huddle time happening. I'm thinking I really want to monitor the reactions. Moonshine is a dedicated mama, and she trusts me with her babies, I think I may risk doing it in daytime. Maybe behind her back. Baby will know what to do, and will slip right in.
For 2 yrs, this hen has gone broody every month in warm weather. I got so tired of going thru broody breaking, I thought it would be easier to let her hatch babies, lol. Little did I know!
Of course adding the 4th egg late was my own fault. But I was afraid that at least one of the others might have been sitting on the counter too long to hatch. #4 was laid that day that I popped it under the broody, still warm.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

I don't know if I can manage getting in there at night. Last night they were in a back corner which I wouldn't be able to reach very well. Their pen, a partitioned off part of coop, is long and narrow and door is at one end.
Today is chilly. It's rainy and 60º, so there's a lot of huddle time happening. I'm thinking I really want to monitor the reactions. Moonshine is a dedicated mama, and she trusts me with her babies, I think I may risk doing it in daytime. Maybe behind her back. Baby will know what to do, and will slip right in.
For 2 yrs, this hen has gone broody every month in warm weather. I got so tired of going thru broody breaking, I thought it would be easier to let her hatch babies, lol. Little did I know!
Of course adding the 4th egg late was my own fault. But I was afraid that at least one of the others might have been sitting on the counter too long to hatch. #4 was laid that day that I popped it under the broody, still warm.

Good luck! As long as you're able to monitor then I don't see any harm in trying! Keep us updated!