Kids are hatching!!! 3 cute peachcicks :)

[NateinFL]

Any advice in the last and final stages of incubating eggs. One has just started to pip but the beak is not showing. I am so excited!!! This is going to be my first attempt at silver pieds...Thank you to Dalton Danforth for giving me this opportunity to incubate these eggs!

After 36 hours the first egg pipped, a pied

. Curled feet as I expected due to long hatch time. Another hatched overnight, silver pied white. Feet are okay but one eye seems smaller than the other....ugggh.

Please tell me if this is right...for the curled toes I am to give him 2 drops of Poly Vi-Sol. But before or after he eats. Should that be first thing in his system? Also, I know how to do the boots with tape, not worried about that unless they don't straighten out in 2 days.

Went and spent a small fortune at TSC. Dumor 24% chick starter, Ultra Kibble to mix in, dried mealworms, sav-a chick electrolytes (if needed) and a Baby Cake which was $7.99 and I probably will take back thought it was cheaper. Spent $8 on the vitamin drops at Wal-mart, should I wait to open it to see if he really needs them? That's a lot of money and I probably won't ever use them again.

2nd Situation: Two eggs still have not hatched. One has pipped. Other I can hear pipping away. I do not want them in there any longer than necessary, will gently hatch them out if they haven't already by afternoon using warm water method recently posted (either Kedreeva or Kuntrygirl shared that on a post). Am I right in doing that?

28 days would be tomorrow. I spoke to Rodney Michaels this morning and he said that it's 26 or 27, they have a chance of dying in the shell. Then again he does not like incubating at all he leaves it to his hens.

Will post pics ASAP. Wanna get his booties on first.

Frenchy-this is so exciting and I couldn't hold back, I have Bacardi and Coke in my glass right now. No way I can do this sober.

I am on my own here. Please leave advice, ANY advice! I will be checking frequently. Thanks everyone!!!

Nathan

 

[Mmmatt13]

Pics pics pics pics pics!

 

[frenchblackcopper]

LEAVE THEM ALONE,,,,once they pip it may be many hours before anymore progress is seen,,after 24hrs and no change,then it's time to help them,,get a chilled glass,,half fill with blackberry merlot,,inhale the bouquet,sip slowly and sit back and watch,,let nature do it's thing,,I hatched my first BSSP last night and my second BSSP and 1st Charcoal are warming up,,so I'm there too,,

 

[NateinFL]

LEAVE THEM ALONE,,,,once they pip it may be many hours before anymore progress is seen,,after 24hrs and no change,then it's time to help them,,get a chilled glass,,half fill with blackberry merlot,,inhale the bouquet,sip slowly and sit back and watch,,let nature do it's thing,,I hatched my first BSSP last night and my second BSSP and 1st Charcoal are warming up,,so I'm there too,,

My problem is I don't sip slowly!

That egg that kinda pipped last night has a few more cracks I can tell it is trying to break out but its still kinda early? Due to hatch Saturday others have not pipped. I DON"T want to screw this up so I'm going to leave the partially cracked egg in there until the morning and see what is there. It is pipping towards the middle of the egg, was expecting it to be more towards the air cell.

 

[frenchblackcopper]

The air cell will change and move down along one side of the egg as the chick starts absorbing the yolk,and manytimes it will pip in this new area which is sometimes close to the center of the egg where the new space is revealed.At 3am my BSSP was thru the air sack and plenty of movement,,,at noon today nothing,,and I still don't detect any movement no matter what position the egg is held in.So,,it's quitter.But my Charcoal has me ready to pop a cork,,it was thru the airsack this morning,,doing jumping jacks everytime I moved the egg,,,and tomorrow is day 28,,,so I still have hopes for this one,,but if you candle eggs much,you will start to notice the air sack will change closer to hatching time.

 

[NateinFL]

I put all the new developments back up in my first post...

 

[NateinFL]

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Made him some boots, very easy and I really think that's going to fix it. Does he still need the vitamins?

 

[kuntrygirl]

Frenchy-this is so exciting and I couldn't hold back, I have Bacardi and Coke in my glass right now.  No way I can do this sober.  

Nathan

Join the club.

Congrats!!! Can't wait to see pics.

 

[kuntrygirl]

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Made him some boots, very easy and I really think that's going to fix it.  Does he still need the vitamins?

TOO CUTE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He looks so cute in his boots. What did you use to make the boots? Is that First Aid tape or band aids. I had to do boots a few days agol I wonder if the curled toes are common in peachicks.

 

[NateinFL]

TOO CUTE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He looks so cute in his boots. What did you use to make the boots? Is that First Aid tape or band aids. I had to do boots a few days agol I wonder if the curled toes are common in peachicks.

According to Rodney Michaels, it is b/c of too high of an incubator temperature and doesn't really occur in naturally hatched chicks. I had mine between 99 and 100 and he said 98 hatches out the strongest chicks. Good to know for next time. The two other eggs I have picked up and they are chirping like crazy I want to rescue them SO bad. He and I agree that any deformities they might have are caused by the incubator. Sooo wish I had had a broody hen or peahen. Nothing like the real thing.

I did what Rodney has done, simply using masking tape. One on the bottom, one on the top. Just position the toes where they should be. Worked perfect for me. They are pecking at each other and have both shaken off their dander a few times they are very happy, but all they want to do is sleep lol. Tomorrow I will introduce them to food.

Now going to drive myself CRAZY over these two unhatched eggs. I can't let them die in the shell. Rodney says results typically aren't good when you have to help them.

He said to wait a few hours...that's too long!