Interesting.
The first batch - let's see...there were about 36 chicks I think. About a third of those were black or lav. split and then 3 were lav. The only chick that was nakey was the last lav to hatch and it came about 24 hrs after the first. Humidity around 47% most of the time as usual, (except for when we have thunderstorms - the humidity will sometimes go up but here on the coast I can't do much about that) and at hatch was about 60% until chicks started hatching. The first few hatched nice and clean and then they really started looking wet so I took the plug out. We had a really good hatch with that one.
sonew123 - I thought that he had stuck so I checked the shell and it didn't appear that he had stuck to it, but that was my first thought for sure. That's really good to hear that yours did eventually feather out. I was getting worried.
I'm thinking that you guys might be right on with the humidity issue though, sometime during development, but I don't know how to fix it. I am doing the usual %'s that I usually do, with the exception like I said of thunderstorms sort of making the hum. go up and we've had lots of rain and storms.
So far with this hatch there are 6 black/lav. split ams in there and at least 2 look a little bare. They were pretty wet when they hatched, but there again, we had storms all day yesterday and last night so it could have gone up overnight.
I think the lav from the first hatch looks smaller than the others, but it might just be because he has so little fluff. I'll try to get a pic of these guys.
Thanks for your help hinkjc. I would love to hear if you find out anything on the humidity issues.
Thanks!!
Kim
Oh, ps....year before last it was crooked toes, got that worked out. Last year it was crooked beaks - looks like we've overcome that this year. Now we're just bare!! Yikes!
