JUNE - JULY HATCH-ALONG!!!!!!!

[BuckeyeFoodie]

Hmm, the link doesn't seem to be working for me. Another live hatch that I watched used Twitch and didn't seem to have any issues with that. I wonder if that would be an easier app for you to use?

New new link - https://www.pscp.tv/w/1vOGwqqkmnoxB

I never had issues before today, and I ran a 48 hour test!

 

[CluckNDoodle]

New new link - https://www.pscp.tv/w/1vOGwqqkmnoxB

I never had issues before today, and I ran a 48 hour test!

Weird! I'm sorry that it's giving you so much trouble today!

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

I think you may be pleasantly surprised! Think of all of tumbling around the other eggs do after the first chick hatches and starts kicking, lol.

Speaking of rolling around, the excitement in my incubators just got a little crazy! I was taking pictures of the first turkey hatching and I could hear little peeps from inside an egg, shouldn't be surprising but it wasn't coming from the other turkey eggs! The peeps were coming from my other incubator where the chicks are still in the turner! The chick that was developing before I set it was clearly farther along than I had realized because there was an external pip and it was just peeping along as it rolled in the incubator turner!
I acted probably without thinking much and I snagged that egg out of the turner and put it in with the turkeys and peacocks in one of the lockdown incubators. It would have made more sense if I had put it in the incubator with the quail since they aren't pipped yet but it's done now so fingers crossed!

OMG ! In a “misery loves company “ kind of way, I’m desperately reading stories of anyone else with incubation woes! I’m sure it will be fine! I hatched this crazy mix of species together last year, and the only inter species problem that I had was the ducks hatchijgneith guineas. The ducks were just SO HUGE next to those tiny Guinea babies, plus the ducks were just so clumsy and lumbering, that they trampled the guineas. No permanent harm, but I did need to separate them until the guineas got their feet under them...

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

New new link - https://www.pscp.tv/w/1vOGwqqkmnoxB

I never had issues before today, and I ran a 48 hour test!

Oh how exciting!! DD and I were watching when you picked up your AC chick - so adorable!!! I see you have another, but not AC?

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

I don't have any cute pictures yet but here is a reel of the first turkey hatching!
Hopefully opening the incubator when I did to put the pipped Olive Egger in doesn't cause any issues!

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Oh how cute is that little face!!!!

 

[CluckNDoodle]

OMG ! In a “misery loves company “ kind of way, I’m desperately reading stories of anyone else with incubation woes! I’m sure it will be fine! I hatched this crazy mix of species together last year, and the only inter species problem that I had was the ducks hatchijgneith guineas. The ducks were just SO HUGE next to those tiny Guinea babies, plus the ducks were just so clumsy and lumbering, that they trampled the guineas. No permanent harm, but I did need to separate them until the guineas got their feet under them...

I actually planned on hatching all of them separately, hence the 4 incubators running, but when my friend called with an SOS to please help because a dog killed her turkey hen and she wanted to see if any of her turkey eggs would hatch, I had to make some minor adjustments. I wasn't too worried about the Peacocks being a couple of days behind the Turkeys but I definitely wanted the 3 tiny quail in a separate incubator, so they have the big "Little Giant" all to themselves, lol.

Speaking of woes...this is what is currently happening in my incubator with the second turkey poult hatching...it clearly hit a decent sized blood vessel, I don't like the amount of blood I'm seeing, it rested for a bit but I do still see movement.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

I think you may be pleasantly surprised! Think of all of tumbling around the other eggs do after the first chick hatches and starts kicking, lol.

Speaking of rolling around, the excitement in my incubators just got a little crazy! I was taking pictures of the first turkey hatching and I could hear little peeps from inside an egg, shouldn't be surprising but it wasn't coming from the other turkey eggs! The peeps were coming from my other incubator where the chicks are still in the turner! The chick that was developing before I set it was clearly farther along than I had realized because there was an external pip and it was just peeping along as it rolled in the incubator turner!
I acted probably without thinking much and I snagged that egg out of the turner and put it in with the turkeys and peacocks in one of the lockdown incubators. It would have made more sense if I had put it in the incubator with the quail since they aren't pipped yet but it's done now so fingers crossed!

Two are pipped!!! One is in the set of eggs that were so dirty, with crusted on foul smelling funk, that we deliberated tossing altogether. I just couldn’t do it when I could see the baby fully developed and moving... So, I have a plan and would love input! The incubator is packed tight and there is foul funk everywhere. Plan is to watch keets as they hatch and when almost done zipping, to place in a box with paper towels on a heating pad to finish and dry off before putting into our pretty big and crazy brooder that we’ve rigged up. I wondered if I should dip their umbilicus in iodine, like you do for puppies? Anyone ever done that? An ascending omphalitis seems like a likely problem to me... I’m also giving them water with the high dose of Nutridrench. Probiotics in water maybe? I’m trying to think of everything I can do to prevent bacterial infection from all the foul gunk that they will be exposed to... I do have antibiotics (tetracycline) I could put in water, but I think I’d rather not go there unless the first round of guineas look like they are indeed dying from infection...

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

I actually planned on hatching all of them separately, hence the 4 incubators running, but when my friend called with an SOS to please help because a dog killed her turkey hen and she wanted to see if any of her turkey eggs would hatch, I had to make some minor adjustments. I wasn't too worried about the Peacocks being a couple of days behind the Turkeys but I definitely wanted the 3 tiny quail in a separate incubator, so they have the big "Little Giant" all to themselves, lol.

Speaking of woes...this is what is currently happening in my incubator with the second turkey poult hatching...it clearly hit a decent sized blood vessel, I don't like the amount of blood I'm seeing, it rested for a bit but I do still see movement.

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Oh no! One of my first set of keets pipped a vessel and I worried about it too. It seemed a little weak but is doing fine. I hope that your poult does well too!!! Whatever happened with those turkey eggs left in the car? Are they developing?

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Two are pipped!!! One is in the set of eggs that were so dirty, with crusted on foul smelling funk, that we deliberated tossing altogether. I just couldn’t do it when I could see the baby fully developed and moving... So, I have a plan and would love input! The incubator is packed tight and there is foul funk everywhere. Plan is to watch keets as they hatch and when almost done zipping, to place in a box with paper towels on a heating pad to finish and dry off before putting into our pretty big and crazy brooder that we’ve rigged up. I wondered if I should dip their umbilicus in iodine, like you do for puppies? Anyone ever done that? An ascending omphalitis seems like a likely problem to me... I’m also giving them water with the high dose of Nutridrench. Probiotics in water maybe? I’m trying to think of everything I can do to prevent bacterial infection from all the foul gunk that they will be exposed to... I do have antibiotics (tetracycline) I could put in water, but I think I’d rather not go there unless the first round of guineas look like they are indeed dying from infection...

I have only had personal experience using triple antibiotic ointment (without pain reliever) on the navels but I do know @LilyD used something else and I meant to add it to my first aid kit. @jolenesdad do you remember what it was?

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Oh no! One of my first set of keets pipped a vessel and I worried about it too. It seemed a little weak but is doing fine. I hope that your poult does well too!!! Whatever happened with those turkey eggs left in the car? Are they developing?

Thank you! So far so good on the pipped blood vessel baby.
I don't see anything in those eggs...zero development and I'm on day 6 so I'm not expecting anything but turkey eggs are thick so I'm going to wait a few more days to be sure.