June Hatch A Long

[AquaDuck]

Promise not to spam you all, but I'm finding hatched baby hilarious! I've yet to see one break out of the egg so I'm watching until I go to bed. (My laptop is by the incubator anyway). My other babies I had to go to bed before they fully dried (Why do I ONLY have babies at night?!). SpinCycle is keeping up to his/her name! Now that they're drying a bit they keep standing up, fluffing their wings and spinning in a circle before flopping down again.

I hadn't realized just how DEAD they look after they pop out of their egg. Scary!

I have one other that's thinking about coming out here soon. SpinCycle kind of pipped and zipped so quick that I didn't even realize it was happening. This one is taking his time to make sure he gets it right. And the others are happily snoring in their eggs.


In the form of an actual question - SpinCycle keeps walking over the eggs and knocking them around. Is that a bad thing?

Congrats on your early baby!
After 100's of hatchlings, I still find myself fascinatingly watching them. They're so precious and clumsy!

I HATE that the early ones keep walking over and messing up the eggs, so I take the first ones out when they're dried and it looks like the rest are taking a break. You should wait until SpinCycle has a friend though, babies don't do well on their own.

 

[Tatuana]

Congrats on your early baby!
After 100's of hatchlings, I still find myself fascinatingly watching them. They're so precious and clumsy!

I HATE that the early ones keep walking over and messing up the eggs, so I take the first ones out when they're dried and it looks like the rest are taking a break. You should wait until SpinCycle has a friend though, babies don't do well on their own.

And noisy! She peeps all the time. I do have to other chicks that are less than a week old in my brooder. I put her in with them for the night. The others seem content to hide in their eggs. Which means I'll wake up to a million.

 

[Bookworm0124]

I've never ordered eggs before, it's my first year hatching. After I get them from the post office do I need to do anything like let them sit before putting them under my duck?

 

[Ohlivia]

All my fluff butts have hatched!! Originally starting with 12 mixed coloured lorps I had 10 viable. One didn’t pip in the air sack and sadly passed and another egg just didn’t progress...I had to help a few as the membranes were drying out too much... but I have 8 beautiful peeps. By the looks of them, they’re all going to be white or blue in colour. A bit disappointed that I didn’t get a black one but none the less they are all here!

 

[Bookworm0124]

View attachment 1800825 All my fluff butts have hatched!! Originally starting with 12 mixed coloured lorps I had 10 viable. One didn’t pip in the air sack and sadly passed and another egg just didn’t progress...I had to help a few as the membranes were drying out too much... but I have 8 beautiful peeps. By the looks of them, they’re all going to be white or blue in colour. A bit disappointed that I didn’t get a black one but none the less they are all here!

That's so exciting!! Congratulations!

 

[jolenesdad]

OMG ITS LIKE CHRISTMAS MORNING!!!!!

@Bookworm0124 yes. Shipped eggs should pretty much always rest. I would also candle them. That way you’ll know how bad the air cells are. If they’re pretty bad and they’re fairly fresh, like collected the day or two before shipping, you should rest up to 2 days to let the air cell settle.

@Tatuana good advice from @the cluck juggler. I take them out too as soon as they’re dry. In fact last time I made hatching compartments that fell apart and Made a big problem inside the barrow so I took a lot out wet. I just used a really small brooderwith a heat lamp set to make the entire space 95, as soon as they dried moved them to the regular brooder. Also, if you hold that first chick it won’t scream as much.... and you’ll have a sort of imprinted chick.

I agree I hate when they knock them around. People say “but in the wild....” or “under a broody they’re fine” but this isn’t that. There’s more space than either of those, they’re on a slick surface, and they’re getting volleyed around. I’ve lost two eggs that were pipping/zipping and I didn’t see it and they got rolled where that was on the bottom and they suffocate.

It’s a personal choice for sure, but I am an early taker-outer for sure. Also, they may not NEED food or water for 72 hours, but they sure do eat and drink when you get them out... so I would rather not deprive them of that.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Never heard of eggs starting to develop just sitting in regular outside heat. But then again I live in a cold country. Interesting. But sad for your part, at least 3 of those look dead. Some forget that storing eggs is an essential part of the incubation process (like me, I forget...)
Crossing fingers that the rest makes it!

It's so hot here during the day right now that I could hatch eggs without an incubator if it didn't cool off at night. Lol
After candling yesterday I don't think I'll be getting more than 3 chicks to lockdown. With the combination of early development and then being delayed on and off, AND she said a dog knocked them over and ate most of them. There were originally around 19 Mallards and 12 Silver Sebrights. Only 11 Mallards and 1 Sebright made it to the Incubator. The Sebright has air cell is very mobile but since it's the only one I set it anyway. Time will tell but I'm going to start looking for more Mallard eggs...

 

[CluckNDoodle]

View attachment 1800825 All my fluff butts have hatched!! Originally starting with 12 mixed coloured lorps I had 10 viable. One didn’t pip in the air sack and sadly passed and another egg just didn’t progress...I had to help a few as the membranes were drying out too much... but I have 8 beautiful peeps. By the looks of them, they’re all going to be white or blue in colour. A bit disappointed that I didn’t get a black one but none the less they are all here!

They're so cute!!!

 

[jolenesdad]

It's so hot here during the day right now that I could hatch eggs without an incubator if it didn't cool off at night. Lol
After candling yesterday I don't think I'll be getting more than 3 chicks to lockdown. With the combination of early development and then being delayed on and off, AND she said a dog knocked them over and ate most of them. There were originally around 19 Mallards and 12 Silver Sebrights. Only 11 Mallards and 1 Sebright made it to the Incubator. The Sebright has air cell is very mobile but since it's the only one I set it anyway. Time will tell but I'm going to start looking for more Mallard eggs...

:-(

My last hatch I had two Ameraucana eggs with air cells that were WRECKED. I left them out of the incubator and then 20 minutes later ran back and put them in.

Anyway, long story short, those were some of my healthiest chicks.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I didn’t touch them for 3 ish days in a carton in the Bator and turned them in an upright position with an automatic turner.

There’s hope!!!

 

[Tatuana]

Checked a million times before opening the incubator to take out the old eggs. Eek decided to pop out overnight with Voodoo! Only problem is Eek is now trying to put himself back in the egg. He's been wearing one for over an hour. Voodoo is trying to shove himself in the egg with Eek. I hate to tell them this, but they're not going to fit.

Incubator bottom replaced with non stinky paper towels, extra eggs removed, and babies tucked. I had to replace the water I had in there as well. Eek tipped it several times. I didn't want to open the incubator, but my room STANK, and the towels weren't good for more babies.