Mahonri's 2nd Annual NYDHatch, watching them grow...

[kathyinmo]

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I'll be here! See ya when you get back! have fun!

 

[goochgirl]

still nothing... no sound, no movement. I really want a chick tonight

 

[duckyfromoz]

Well its New Years day here In Australia... 11 am in the morning actually.

I have 5 little silkie chicks...but they were hatched even before midnight here- and they were set in USA time. Oh well..there is still the ducks..I have 3 pipped..one still to go. One is unzipping but very slowly...maybe I might get one out in the early hours of NYD.

 

[Sumatra503]

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She will be fine....just give her a few days, it'll go down on its own. I had a mushy chick once that looked like that. He made great stew 5 months later

Is that what this is?

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I've had this happen to a couple a chicks and on one adult bird. On the adult bird it was a protrusion of the crop through the muscle beneath the skin. That may be the case for this chick. Sometimes the crop can tear away when it is overly full and loop around the shoulder. This was on a Cornish Cross, so I'm certain it was over eating.

 

[Hens and Roos]

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You might have a good chance yet-maybe they are holding out till closer to midnight!

We're at about 6 hours as well and so far 10 chicks are hatched, 11th egg is working on zipping out, 12 th egg has a good sized pip, eggs 13 and 14 nothing happening yet.

 

[ParadisePoultry]

I've had my grandkids and my 80 year old mother here all week, I have been unable to get on the computer. However, as of a minute ago, I have absolutely nothing going on in my bator. 6 eggs went into lockdown out of 24. 4 BBS Silkies left and 2 of my own eggs-mutts probably. I guess they are all just slowpokes. I candled them all this morning and saw movement in all the eggs.

Just have to wait and see. They are in a Brinsea Octopus 20 advance. No humidity pump, but it's holding steady at 65%. I've got gauze in the bottom wicking into the water wells. I'm so jealous of all you guys that have chicks and pipping already. I have 8 Silkie chicks in the brooder in the basement that hatched on Thanksgiving, but I am hankering for some new babies.

 

[Sumatra503]

I have a pip. Hopefully a fairly slow one, though.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I just took my 3 hatched chicks out and stuck them in the brooder in the basement. The first that hatched, about 12 hours ago, was becoming insane and eating piped shell membranes and pecking hatching chicks. She's much calmer in the brooder.

 

[Hurley]

Nothing, nothing, nothing. Harrumph.


Post 5500 is coming up soon. 1st hatch after post 5500 gets a copy of Storey's Illustrated Guide to Poultry Breeds. Who's it going to be?

 

[Mahonri]

Two pips on the brinsa... a halo brown egg surprise and another Icelandic... but this is one of the TWO BIG Icelandic eggs. Think it will be a black one? Nothing else is pipping in the brinsea.