Little Giant Incubation Experiment - Day 21 - Hatch Day!

[rossfam06]

So two of my BCM eggs have hatched! I however missed it because I was in class. My husband calls me to tell me that I need to hurry home the chicks are hatching. I was great! They wait for me to be gone. So I missed the whole process. However I one more that pipped this morning that has nit done anything else so..........I'm watching now. I still see movement through the pip hole on the membrane.

 

[mswendeu]

So two of my BCM eggs have hatched! I however missed it because I was in class. My husband calls me to tell me that I need to hurry home the chicks are hatching. I was great! They wait for me to be gone. So I missed the whole process. However I one more that pipped this morning that has nit done anything else so..........I'm watching now. I still see movement through the pip hole on the membrane.

Yay congrats

 

[WVduckchick]

So two of my BCM eggs have hatched! I however missed it because I was in class. My husband calls me to tell me that I need to hurry home the chicks are hatching. I was great! They wait for me to be gone. So I missed the whole process. However I one more that pipped this morning that has nit done anything else so..........I'm watching now. I still see movement through the pip hole on the membrane.

Woohoo keep us posted!

 

[cluckcluckgirl]

How did you know that the chick needed help? How long did you wait before helping out? What day was she on?.... Just curious...

He/she was really moving a lot when I made a pip for her on day 23. It was covered in a little bit of blood, which then dried and he/she had a hard time poking the rest of the way out. I had also lost 6 others, so I figured that I'll play by what I feel with this one. It was about a day after I made the pip that I helped it hatch. Her/his yolk sack was all absorbed and the breathing was going very good. Now he/she is out and doing well. It's trying to walk, but that's a little stumbly now.

 

[rossfam06]

He/she was really moving a lot when I made a pip for her on day 23. It was covered in a little bit of blood, which then dried and he/she had a hard time poking the rest of the way out. I had also lost 6 others, so I figured that I'll play by what I feel with this one. It was about a day after I made the pip that I helped it hatch. Her/his yolk sack was all absorbed and the breathing was going very good. Now he/she is out and doing well. It's trying to walk, but that's a little stumbly now. 

Yea! I'm happy fluff is doing well.

 

[fiset94]

He/she was really moving a lot when I made a pip for her on day 23. It was covered in a little bit of blood, which then dried and he/she had a hard time poking the rest of the way out. I had also lost 6 others, so I figured that I'll play by what I feel with this one. It was about a day after I made the pip that I helped it hatch. Her/his yolk sack was all absorbed and the breathing was going very good. Now he/she is out and doing well. It's trying to walk, but that's a little stumbly now.

did you have low temps in the bator for the delayed hatch? I am at day 20 today and nada from my silke and aracuana egg... but sigh. I shouldn't be surprised... as this has been the trend for me.... I am going to wait (as usual) for day 22- and do a float /flashlight test.

I just don't get it.... they Get to lockdown...then None want to come out! Not one out of 30 has even made an internal pip! The only slight maybe I had is when I cracked open the top of one from a previous batch ,that was late, and made a small hole where the beak was.... it made a chirp... then died 12 hours later.

Happy for your success with baby chick!!! Good job helping it out!

 

[WVduckchick]

did you have low temps in the bator for the delayed hatch? I am at day 20 today and nada from my silke and aracuana egg... but sigh. I shouldn't be surprised... as this has been the trend for me.... I am going to wait (as usual) for day 22- and do a float /flashlight test.

I just don't get it.... they Get to lockdown...then None want to come out! Not one out of 30 has even made an internal pip! The only slight maybe I had is when I cracked open the top of one from a previous batch ,that was late, and made a small hole where the beak was.... it made a chirp... then died 12 hours later.

Happy for your success with baby chick!!! Good job helping it out!

You are gonna get some!! I just know it! Don't lose hope! How do your air cells look?

One other thing you might try... weigh your eggs before setting them on a small scale that reads grams. Then weigh them on day 7 & 14. Overall weight loss should be 13-14% of the egg weight. To not get overly scientific, a decent guideline for chickens is 5% the first week, and by day 14, they should have lost around 10%. (All birds lose around that amount, but the percentages per week vary depending on how many days they take to hatch) I think this is a good way to make sure they are losing the right amount of moisture and growing at the proper rate. Just a thought.

 

[cluckcluckgirl]

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Thank you.

 

[cluckcluckgirl]

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I have the still air model and I kept it steady at 101.5. I hope your eggs turn out good and start to want to come out. The only thing I can think of since every other variable was kept normal, was our very high elevation. I asked a scientist that I know and she said that incubation is not her specialty, but since water takes more heat to boil at high elevations, maybe incubation will too. I'm going to do some research about this with my next incubations. I've also read some other BYC users having trouble hatching at high elevations, even with their own eggs (like I used). That was the way mine were. I was very weary about helping this one out because I didn't know if she/he had absorbed the yolk sack yet, but something just told me to help it. Please keep us posted on your hatch, and I hope all goes well. One thing that I noticed, however, is my only chick that made it was in an egg that was a day behind the others in the incubator, so it went into lockdown on day 17.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Quote: That makes since that if water takes more heat to boil at higher elevations (I know NOTTA about higher elevations), that maybe the recommended temps for incubation should be higher. I'll have to see what I can find as well.