Mahonri's 3rd Annual, BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[Sueg4332]

my OEs hatch great hybred vigor I guess !!!!!!! My marans are hard to hatch for me. Doing better this time.....But I have learned not to hatch in the same bator I can't tell them apart. I'LL HAVE TO GROW SOME UP OR SELL EITHER OR. Love my olive eggers

I am amazed at how well these are hatching. This is better than the Marans and Dorking eggs from local breeders. One pipped egg is pushing at the pip, so I hope it will zip soon. The other has a 1/4 inch hole and I think I see the chick moving inside it. It looks dark in there so I don't think there is shrink wrap going on. This one pipped in the night, so it's probably been sitting for 8 hours so I am not too worried about it. Of the two left without pips, one was probably a quitter at lockdown. The other looked big an dark inside, so I still hope it makes it too.

 

[SarahIrl]

I'm a well seasoned hatcher and I even wrote an incubation handbook for people to take into schools for the kids if they run a hatch in the classroom, I actually know what I'm doing. The one dead almost out chick was all bloated and puffy, way too much water in it's tissues. Humidity was right, I used my bomb-proof incubator that could hatch rocks. I'm just real disappointed.

So to cheer myslef up i just set 9 ducks and 13 geese in my other bator while I test run the best one for the next week or two before setting again. Might just pull the whole thing apaprt and give it a good clean too. Usually I give them a good stripping down at the end of the season, but no harm in doing it again after such a disaster.

I'd love to join the new year hatch, but there's no way in blazes I'll have eggs at that time of year. Production stops here at around late September so I'm out for that one. I don't believe in forcing my hens to lay under artificial lights as I feel if they need to stop, so be it.

 

[ChestnutRidge]

Please help if you can.

Okay. Here's my little chick that was in a cup. I've been feeding him baby parrot food all day, and because he was getting his eye picked in the brooder, he's been in my shirt for most of the afternoon.

It's helped because it's been easy to feed him and see what's going on.

So, he's getting much more vigorous but still can't stand. One leg seems fine but the other is messed up. Now that it's been awhile, one of his hock joints looks contused. It is swollen or malformed and larger than the other. When I feel it, the thigh bone connects to the center of the joint and the shin bone leaves from the center too, so the joint is in place. I can move the joint in a full range of motion and he can move it some. But he doesn't stand.

Please advise. I'm afraid I am getting attached and I'd really like to see him get better.



Look at the joint on the left-hand side of the photograph. That's the leg not working.

 

[debs_flock]

I have four Icelandic eggs that no matter how much I press my nose to the incubator, I can't tell if there are any pip marks. There is so much stinking chick fluff all over the surface of the eggs from ealier hatchers, it ALL looks like tiny cracks.

Deb

 

[emvickrey]

I;m using an LG and a Hovobator for hatching. I used 2 lg's and the hovobator for incubation. All was going good till the humidity got way up there from all the open shells. I think the rest have succomed to the high humidity. But that don't explain the other bator that the humidity didn't get over 60%. Maybe it's just meant to be.

I have 40 quail eggs still in the bator I set last week and i'll sent about half that sunday. It's time to get those quail for sales. They go like hot cakes around here. With one pen put of production that really hurts. It'll be probably a month before I get fertile eggs out of that one. I put a nearly old enough roo in so hopefully after they've gotten used to him he'll be ready for breeding.

 

[ChestnutRidge]

Here's a better picture. I took his hobble off and turned on more lights.

 

[ragerkid2]

I had my first pip at 9pm last night, now I have 3 chicks out - all Australorps. And one more pip at noon today. My temps are hovering at 98* and the humidity is way high. Did I kill the rest?

My Silkies haven't so much as wiggled and I thought they looked better at lock down than the Australorps.
At what point do I throw in the towel?

What is your humidity? I wouldn't worry. I had a splash maran that before lockdown when I was candling it was moving like crazy. Lockdown started. That thing didn't move one inch. I was sure it was dead. Wouldn't you know it just pipped. Don't give up!

 

[Arielle]

Ohmygoodness! Ohmygoodness!!

None of the eggs have pipped - externally - but I have just heard at least two different and VERY annoyed sounding chicks peeping from inside their shells in the incubators!!!

It is officially the moment of time beginning the Nose Prints On The Incubator Windows marathon!!!

Quote:
I wash in warm water to remove goo.

Well my hatch is done. I had a good look throught he lid of the incubator to see shell on the rack - yay! My one last remaining live egg! Had a look at the egg - no pip. Huh? Shoved in my egg manouvering knitting needle to roll the egg slightly - pipped at the wrong end. Stick fast, completely shrink wrapped. Oops. Removed egg, moistened membrane, put back egg. Seemed fine. Checked again half hour later, chick dead. On eggtopsy was unabsorbed yolk and had pipped through a blood vessel, always a risk when chick is upside down. So, that's me all done and dusted, incubator off, grand total of 0 out of 24.

This has NEVER happened to me before.

Sorry.

I'm a well seasoned hatcher and I even wrote an incubation handbook for people to take into schools for the kids if they run a hatch in the classroom, I actually know what I'm doing. The one dead almost out chick was all bloated and puffy, way too much water in it's tissues. Humidity was right, I used my bomb-proof incubator that could hatch rocks. I'm just real disappointed.

So to cheer myslef up i just set 9 ducks and 13 geese in my other bator while I test run the best one for the next week or two before setting again. Might just pull the whole thing apaprt and give it a good clean too. Usually I give them a good stripping down at the end of the season, but no harm in doing it again after such a disaster.

I'd love to join the new year hatch, but there's no way in blazes I'll have eggs at that time of year. Production stops here at around late September so I'm out for that one. I don't believe in forcing my hens to lay under artificial lights as I feel if they need to stop, so be it.

That's the spirit!!!!

Please help if you can.



Look at the joint on the left-hand side of the photograph. That's the leg not working.

THese are the ones that pull at our hearts . . . . .

 

[ChestnutRidge]

Now that I am trying again, I can't really move it too much. It seems to be at a bit of a funny angle. I'm worrying now that it might be out of joint, or broken, or I don't know.

 

[ChestnutRidge]

Quote: I'm wondering if it's a lost cause.