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

[SteveH]

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[dsqard]

Camera battery is charged up so I couldn't resist getting a few more shots of them

AWWWW sleepy chick

 

[SteveH]

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lov those lavs

 

[SteveH]

On the eggs that ran for 16+ days with the turner unplugged, I now have 4 pips on the 11 of 12 going to lockdown. Today at noon was 20 days, and 3 were pipped when I woke up this morning.

 

[SarahIrl]

Nice one SteveH,

dsqard - they are beautiful colours!

I got a very drawn out hatch going on, were due yesterday, last nigt I had two pips. This morning one chick, this evening, tree chicks and one more pip. It's going to take
F O R E V E R

 

[dsqard]

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Go chickies go!

 

[SteveH]

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[Rathbone]

Steve et al: You might (or might not) remember that I had set some eggs and had a huge temperature spike. I woke up at my usual 6 a.m., stumbled out to check the temperature and humidity and gasped. The thermometer goes to 120 and it was all the way up. I am sure that the internal temperature of the eggs was at least 110. I saw it, flipped the lid off and tried to cool them down but realized there was no way they were going to survive that. Then I remembered Steve had a thread going at the time called "will they hatch?". I decided to wait it out and see.
Basically almost all of the eggs were ruined. I had 46 eggs in there, and after waiting a week I checked for developement. 11 eggs appeared to be developing. So I threw out all of the eggs but the 11. Of those 11 I had 100% hatch. Yahoo right? I will tell you the bad news. Apparently eyes begin developing on day three of development because I have more than one chick with either no eyes whatsoever, or eyes that do not open, or one eye that is malformed. So yes, I am culling. I have decided to focus on the positive and I actually have some chicks that are either perfect or have a slightly wonky eyelid.
I chose not to take pictures. It is just sad and somehow seemed disrespectful to photograph them like that. In retrospect I am still glad I gave those eggs every chance possible. Has anyone else had anything like this happen?

 

[thebirdguy]

I have a baby turkey poult that I did not think was going to make it but after 2 days of eye droppering fructose water, he's actually improving!! He is in a coffee mug still as he is extremely wobbly but is getting stronger I think.. I just noticed he is attempting to preen.. so I'm very encouraged.. Here's the problem... he definitely isn't strong enough to put in with the others yet and really can't stay upright outside of the mug for long.. What can I give him besides the sugar water to help him get stronger? Any ideas? I'm afraid that the sugar water won't be enough to get him strong enough to eat on his own..

THANKS!!

 

[SteveH]

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I do remember, and thanks for sharing. I never knew such a thing could happen.