June Hatch-A-Long

[kelseyk]

can i join? and are broody mamas allowed?
a week ago my hen went broody and her eggs are 1 week old today. I candled them and they all look great!
this is her first time and I gave her 3 eggs to start with this year.
she is a silver laced Wyandotte and is 1 year old.

it’s crazy because I have 2 Wyandottes in my flock (one silver and one black) and they have both gone broody!
i also have a BO but she hasn’t gone broody (really feisty on the nest)

I’ll post some pictures tomorrow or the next day!

Welcome! Yes broody hatches are welcome to join. There are quite a few broody's in the group right now.

 

[kelseyk]

can i join? and are broody mamas allowed?
a week ago my hen went broody and her eggs are 1 week old today. I candled them and they all look great!
this is her first time and I gave her 3 eggs to start with this year.
she is a silver laced Wyandotte and is 1 year old.

it’s crazy because I have 2 Wyandottes in my flock (one silver and one black) and they have both gone broody!
i also have a BO but she hasn’t gone broody (really feisty on the nest)

I’ll post some pictures tomorrow or the next day!

I am no help, sorry. I haven't dealt with anything like that before. I hope the chick pulls through for you!

 

[kelseyk]

Going to bed with 5 pheasants hatched, 2 pipped and waiting on 7-8 to start.

 

[AquaDuck]

Hi everyone! My eggs are getting ready for hatching

This time I got a rather big batch of muscovy duck eggs, they're on day 29, and a dozen chicken eggs, day 19. Excited about the chicken ones. Hopefully most are from my black roo who passed away, I wanna get some descendants from him.

 

[FortCluck]

My Partridge Cochin broody came out of her cabin this morning with five cute fluff balls from five eggs I gave her. DH is re-thinking the prohibition against selling chicks (b/c of the Covid). He doesn't yet know about the six Lt Brahma pullets I ordered from the feed store since I think most of those I hatched are males, or about the two other broodies in the main coop...

I have light brahmas too I think they are all pullets. TSC got them by accident in their order.

 

[FortCluck]

can i join? and are broody mamas allowed?
a week ago my hen went broody and her eggs are 1 week old today. I candled them and they all look great!
this is her first time and I gave her 3 eggs to start with this year.
she is a silver laced Wyandotte and is 1 year old.

it’s crazy because I have 2 Wyandottes in my flock (one silver and one black) and they have both gone broody!
i also have a BO but she hasn’t gone broody (really feisty on the nest)

I’ll post some pictures tomorrow or the next day!

I have 4 broodies right now. Broodies are always welcome!!

 

[Offshoreorca]

I need some help/ advice. I just checked my eggs in the incubator like I do every time I am heading into a hatch. Well what looked like a non-pipped egg turned out to be a pipped egg but backwards. That in itself wouldn’t be so bad except the whole external pip was covered in this yellowish crust. It appeared to be covering the bulk of the beak.
View attachment 2192198
this is the majority of the piece I pulled off.
The chick inside is taking shallow breaths that
are super hard to tell they are even happening.

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This is the opening I created in clearing the crush and crud away from the beak.

I think this chick is also malpositioned as I can see the wing when I candle in the egg. As well as the membrane is pulled away from the shell inside on over half the egg, and of course this chick seems to have jabbed through outside of it.

how worried should I be about what I am seeing? I don’t plan on messing with it till morning that way it gets another 8 to 9hours of resting now that it can for sure get air. Any advice for me?

In all the eggs I have hatched I have never had anything like this, but granted they have mainly been duck eggs.

Sometime malpositioned chicks rupture the yolk sac, much like they can rupture blood vessels. If this is why you're seeing the sticky yellow stuff, it would be a poor prognosis as chicks that rupture the yolk often die. It's really important you don't rush it out and keep it in as sterile an environment as possible to prevent infection if this is the case. It could be something else, and I haven't personally had an experience like yours to know other possibilities. Wishing all the best for the little chick!

 

[FortCluck]

I am getting so nervous for these broodies to hatch their chicks. Should be any day now. I cannot wait to pick up my polish and sultans today. I will post pics later of them.

Hope everyone has a great day

 

[jolenesdad]

I need some help/ advice. I just checked my eggs in the incubator like I do every time I am heading into a hatch. Well what looked like a non-pipped egg turned out to be a pipped egg but backwards. That in itself wouldn’t be so bad except the whole external pip was covered in this yellowish crust. It appeared to be covering the bulk of the beak.
View attachment 2192198
this is the majority of the piece I pulled off.
The chick inside is taking shallow breaths that
are super hard to tell they are even happening.

View attachment 2192199
This is the opening I created in clearing the crush and crud away from the beak.

I think this chick is also malpositioned as I can see the wing when I candle in the egg. As well as the membrane is pulled away from the shell inside on over half the egg, and of course this chick seems to have jabbed through outside of it.

how worried should I be about what I am seeing? I don’t plan on messing with it till morning that way it gets another 8 to 9hours of resting now that it can for sure get air. Any advice for me?

In all the eggs I have hatched I have never had anything like this, but granted they have mainly been duck eggs.

It looks to me like you have a sticky chick. It’s malpositioned because it is stuck.

you will need to monitor and assist this chick is my assumption. Start at the air cell end. That’s where you can open it up to get access to the membrane to put oil on and see the veins. You can’t do much until the veins are receding.

at this point it all remains the same. Watch the membrane and once the veins are receding slowly help the baby out.

 

[jolenesdad]

It looks to me like you have a sticky chick. It’s malpositioned because it is stuck.

you will need to monitor and assist this chick is my assumption. Start at the air cell end. That’s where you can open it up to get access to the membrane to put oil on and see the veins. You can’t do much until the veins are receding.

at this point it all remains the same. Watch the membrane and once the veins are receding slowly help the baby out.

I forgot to mention that I would personally put this egg in a cup or something and not allow it to be soccer balled around. Additional fluid inside the egg is not good when the egg has pipped and gets rolled to where the pip is on the bottom of tbe egg. The fluid can flow out the pip and drown the chick.