Latest day, chick hatch

[waw]

will the water test where you stick in some water and completley sumerge it and see if it moves or will that just kill it from drowning

 

[cmom]

I Normally Give Eggs A Full 24 Hrs Overdue Before Float Testing. It Works On All Bird Eggs- Period! Takes Very Little Equipment Or Time To Do And Is Easy To Perform. It Should Be Noted All Eggs Warrant Close Inspection Prior To Float Testing--- Any Pips In The Shell? Do Not Float Test! If The Shell Is Broken, Pipped Or Cracked In Any Way Water May Enter And Drown The Chick Inside.


Start With A Bowl Of Sufficient Depth To Allow The Eggs Your Testing To Float Freely Or Sink. Add 100 Degree Water To The Needed Level And Allow It To Settle( Quit Swirling And Calm Down)

Once Settled Take The Egg Or Eggs To Be Tested And Gently Lower Them Into The Water With As Little Disturbance As Possible. You May Need To Wait A Few Minutes For The Water To Settle Again After Adding Egg/ Eggs. Then Just Watch....

Eggs Are Judged By Observation With Results As Follows:

1. Sinker= Dud, Never Developed

2. High Floater (like A Fishing Bobber Without Weights) Say 45% Or More Of The Egg Above The Water Line= Dud, No Development Or Fetal Demise, Likely Rupture Of Internal Membranes Causing The Egg To Dehydrate.

3. Low Floater= Viable Egg, Development Full Term

4. Low Floater Rockin And Rollin! This Is The Live Embryo Moving Inside The Egg= Definate Viable Egg!

Once Test Results Complete Take Viable Eggs And Gently Pat Dry And Replace In Hatcher. Duds Are Best Discarded At This Time.

 

[gladangel]

This is my first hatch and I started out with 29 eggs, 1 was clear when candled and so far 15 have hatched between days 20 & 21, I have had to help a couple out. I had 2 that zipped, but didn't make it out so I helped the last one and the stomach was soft, and a little bloody, I don't know if it will make it, it is week and the other chicks are pecking at it. Should I remove it? or let it see if it can get stronger by itself? There are about 8 eggs left un hatched and un pipped. When I checked I cant hear anything, but one egg sounded like water inside so I trashed it. The humidity is very low and the chicks have all dried good. The shells on these eggs seem very thick. Can someone advise? Thanks.

 

[Ole rooster]

Even young chicks will kill the weakest. The wife brought a weak RIR chick home from school some years ago for that very reason. The class had incubated the eggs. I put it up and raised it. She grew up to be a perfect hen. I really didn't know she was a hen till I found eggs all over the back yard. So her name went from Fred to Freida.

 

[pek]

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i did that and i got 4 only it was only peeping not rocking