Just filled my incubator! due to hatch 5/1 anyone want to join me?

[gobblygoo]

This is my first hatch! I've got 5 heritage turkeys eggs due the 3rd and they are already peeping and egg rolling! Plus I've got 4 turkey hens sitting of 30 something eggs, so we shall see.

 

[basteph1977]

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wow you have some will power!! especially now that we have a pip its hard not to sit and stare at the eggcam!
even if i cant see the pip... lol

 

[ShortCircuitRanch2332]

ill try that ill just check temp and leave the eggs alone maybe tommorow ill have a pip or a chick lol

 

[Chicken-Rage]

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Man that's what I want next some heritage turkeys.............uggg.............good luck on your hatch.

 

[TK Poultry]

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There you go.. I'm just going about the daily stuff

 

[ShortCircuitRanch2332]

ahh me as well and id never hook a web cam to mine i have a hard enough time not standing there watching it LOL id never leave it alone if i could see it anywhere I was

 

[Avalon1984]

I hope everybody is having a great hatch so far. Mine has been rather traumatizing so far. I had one chick out of 14 hatch on Saturday and 6 pips. So far so good. Temperature and humidity was fine when I went to bed but I just couldn't sleep all night. So finally I got up at 5 to check on the critters and to my horror I saw that the incubator was unplugged!!! The darn cats got it in the middle of the night! My little hatchling inside wasn't moving no more and all chirping was gone. When I checked the temperature it was at 75 degrees. With the high humidity it made it horribly cold in there. I already assumed that I had lost my entire batch but when I saw the little guy move a bit I grabbed him real quick and literally kept breathing warm air on him. Soon he began to move and chirp a bit. As soon as I saw that I ran to the microwave, boiled water and stuck it into the (now) plugged in incubator while I tended the poor chick. I had just put him next to a hair dryer when I heard the chirping return from the incubator. Temp was now up to 80 and rising but all pips where shrink wrapped. I believe it may have been the cold since the humidity was at 90% when I grabbed the little guy. The poor things just couldn't get out. I decided I had to interfere, so I turned on the shower and grabbed the first egg. I gently pulled off the outer egg shell and slowly worked my way into the white membrane. The poor chick inside felt ice cold even though the egg shell was warm. Slowly and gently I helped it out and left the bottom part of the egg intact so that it would still be connected to the yolk if needed. I then put it together with my hatchling to warm up under the hair dryer. Ran outside to the barn, got a heat lamp and water bucket and created a makeshift brooder/ chick ICU. I then proceeded to do the same with 8 more chicks

but the last one was bleeding pretty bad so I figured he/ she would die but I put it with the others anyway. So by now I had all chicks that had pipped the day before or throughout the night safe. The 4 remaining eggs in the incubator were not pipped yet and made no noise. I am afraid they may have perished. All day long I kept a close eye on my chicks and my little runt and so far everybody is doing great, eating, drinking, pooping and sleeping. I am amazed that my emergency chick C- section worked and so far so good. It is unbelievable to me how those little chicks survived even though they were in their most vulnerable stage when this happened. I thought about selling those chicks but after hatching them myself under a hot shower I think I will keep them.

I will post some pictures of the survivors tomorrow. Am too tired tonight. I hope everybody else was spared of an accident like that. Kitties now get put away at night

 

[ShortCircuitRanch2332]

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OMG! I woulda freaked on the cats I'm so glad you could save them I'm hoping mine are ok I still have nothing and it's 6 pm on day 20
Haha a bucket as an icu I'll have to
Remember that one lol

 

[Avalon1984]

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OMG! I woulda freaked on the cats I'm so glad you could save them I'm hoping mine are ok I still have nothing and it's 6 pm on day 20
Haha a bucket as an icu I'll have to
Remember that one lol

Thanks Short Circuit. You'd be amazed how resourceful you get when it is about saving a chicks life. I just couldn't give up. Mine usually don't hatch till day 21 so maybe yours won't either. I hope all will be well. I need to go and check on my little patients again now. I also realized that I am terribly allergic to new chick dander. But that won't stop me from hugging them

 

[OHhappychicks]

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What a shock to wake up too!! but so glad everything worked out for the good!!!

can't wait to see pics!