Mahonri's 2nd Annual BYC EASTER HATCH. Post pics of your chicks!

[gryeyes]

I am NOT caught up yet - marking my place. Been putting call ducklings outside full time, and <*blush*> hadda watch 'em, y'know?

Two of 7 eggs from Jeremy are now chicks.

Another wee chick in an Octagon20 is in the half shell, almost ready to bust out and go for a walk over all the other eggs. So my fear of NADA has been squashed.

 

[dsqard]

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[Granny Hoffman]

I'm in a dilemma I have 2 that I had to help out this morning, I have them in the recovery incubator but they have membrane dried like cement all over them. I have been giving them some padialite and they are acting better but I'm not sure what to do about the cemented membrane. I have tried the q-tip method and that hasn't done anything, should I give them a bath with just plain water and use a hair dryer to dry them. Help!

tia Judy

 

[NotAFarm]

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Yay!!

 

[Mahonri]

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Amen to that, but my Genesis wasn't holding temp ....I think I'll have to order a new heater/fan etc... from GQF

Whats GQF? Is this where you get your incubating supplies?

They make incubators including the Sportsman cabinet and the Genesis 1588 here's the link:

GQF

 

[NotAFarm]

Came in from mowing and checked the bator. Removed five chicks, another had fallen from the tray to the floor (I was going to just put the eggs on the floor to hatch but the cement floor in the garage is radiating such cold that the temps there weren't higher than 95 when the middle tray that they had spent the first 18 days was 99-100, will have to fix the back of the tray to prevent falls before my May set or put the cabinet up on a stand of some sort. Of course, it could be warmer by then and it wouldn't be an issue). Left a wet one, a half hatched one and a zipped one, along with a few pips and a few nothings.

So, 13 out in the brooder - 11 in various stages inside bator (only one egg is an Icelandic in there, so 7 Icelandics and 6 Javas in the brooder).

 

[dsqard]

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I would suggest waiting until they are stronger. If they are running around and seem OK then I think it would be OK to give them a bath and then blow dry them. I did this on one of my chicks from my first hatch. I thought the chick would wig out from the noise but it loved the blow drier. I just put it on low setting with a towel in my lap and blow dried the chick in my lap that way I could feel if the dryer was getting too warm.

 

[gryeyes]

Ignore my horrendous reflection in this shot, please.

And this is the wee chick in the Octagon with 23 other eggs.

 

[dsqard]

Adorable Linda!

What breed is the yellow chick?
Just did a recount on my lavs and realized that two of the splits hatched lav since CC sent six eggs marked lav and I have eight of them. The last egg marked lav just hatched. Hopefully it will encourage the other six split eggs to hatch. They are just sitting there for now. Interestingly, they are the bigger eggs that CC sent that have not pipped yet. Everything else has hatched.

 

[kimshimert]

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It can take a few hours and all chicks come out looking like that.

I started getting slimers last night. Too much humidity. Some dry crusty and take forever to fluff. Lost a bunch of chicks due to drowning.

My humidity is just below 80% is that way too high?