March 2017! Hatch with us!

[HenLeia]

So I lost track of time and forgot to lockdown! So this is day 20 and I just took out the turn tray and bumped up the humidity. I candled a couple and they didn't look like they had lost too much volume. Is there anything I should do extra?

 

[yeye5]

Eggtopsy day.... gotta figure out what went wrong...worst hatch rate I have ever had.
But in the midst of the "Ugh" part, there is some good news. 6 sweet little Swedish Flowers have made an arrival, along with 1 blue and 1 black Silverudd's Blues (was hoping for a splash too, to complete their spectrum), and 4 CLs (3 male, only 1 female).

I trust you'll let us know results...when you're ready.
Hooray for the hatchers! In what had to be challenging circumstances--for one reason or another--these little peeps did it. Congrats to you and them.
Pics, plz, again when you can.

 

[yeye5]

Ok I'm a little bumpuzzled I know I might have compromised my hatch of eggs bringing in my Dutch eggs from the cold. But it's now day 21 and no signs as of yet only sign was day before yesterday I had an egg wiggle but that's it nothing since I have kept the temp as close as I could and the humidity I have kept between 65and 70 even with the others hatching my first group started hatching on day 19 and went from there no difference in methods except the bantam eggs any suggestions? And no I'll let them die in there till latest Wednesday or Thursday so they have a chance I have other eggs on the way

Anything yet?
Is it possible that the dutch eggs temperature cooled the bator just enough to add a day or so on to this hatch? Or maybe that in combination with the brief humidity drop? I'm thinking of you and them!

 

[yeye5]

Yes, iti Scissor beak. The top beak is straight, but the bottom is a straight beak, but it's at a right angle to the top beak. When they open and close the bottom beak no longer even touches the top beak. I'll try to get a photo today.


I'm so very sorry! I hope you find answers with the eggtopsies. Were these all shipped eggs? Sometimes the PO does more damage than we can tell before hatch day.

I also took a few pics of Wavy. He's such a cutie. His top and bottom do meet just fine. But both top and bottom curve to my right, his left.

I have a zillion pics and a handfull of videos from today.
I did get 2 more GLWs and 2 Welsummers. I changed the brooder-mom-box for a much much larger tucker tub, placed the 4 newbies in it for her and moved one box for the other into the right space, added the 7 chicks then Mima. I told her she's not practicing her math/counting skills but that there are 4 new ones and I got them just for her! She clucked her thank yous.

Someone (sorry I forgot who it was) posted a very good description of how to get the pics off the phone/camera and directly loaded here.
IF that someone or any other someone could plz restate the method it would save me lots of tedium, not only right now with today's new pics (truth=I can't look enough at the pics but another truth is that I'm techno-remedial and I like to learn new ways and especially to dither with it less) I'd be very grateful!
We have 2 new GLW: MaryAnn (a jumping point from the GLW named Ginger) and Bette. We also have 2 new Welsommers, Hazel and Mabel.
Cuteness abounds!!!

 

[yeye5]

Again, I'm so sorry about the poor hatch, but isn't it awesome when you find one that says "don't take me!!!". I hope you get your splash.
A fellow chicken hatcher near me hatched some Silverudd Blues 2 weeks before I did. I don't know for sure if it is typical to the breed, but ours were very susceptible to Coccidiosis. She lost 4 of hers when they they were about 8 weeks. She never fed medicated feed, but I did. Around 9 weeks old I mixed in the first bag of non medicated feed I lost 3 - I had 5 that were sick, but 2 made it after giving them Corrid. None of my other chicks got sick. Neither did any of hers.

Other than the Cocci - they are beautiful STRONG chicks. The boys developed combs VERY, very early. That has stayed true. The first combs that developed are all boys. They are the most curious of all the chicks I have in that pen. They push their way past me, when I open the coop door. They have lots of personality.

Are you saying they can get cocci in the shell? or that it accounts for early loss of life after hatching? Thanks.

 

[yeye5]

So I figured out what is wrong. One just has the clenched fist. But the other ones have the achilles hock joint thing out of place. I have tried to pop it back into place, and I can move it to where it's supposed to be but once I let the leg go, it goes back. This is very sad and frustrating. I have tried to make little casts for the two that have this, they are not happy about it, but hopefully it holds the legs in place and can fix it.

I type on a laptop, pics are on the phone. I could try posting pics then in a next post type what they are. Phone's charging, I'll try this later though. Thank you!

 

[generaldsherman]

Nope, lost the two weak ones. Hope the last two are opposite genders...

 

[orrpeople]

Nope, lost the two weak ones. Hope the last two are opposite genders...

Dang. (My word for the day it seems, or as my dad used to say -because he'd catch heck from Mom if he cursed - "Dag nabbit!")
I am so sorry to hear that.

Yesterday, I had one push itself out of the shell and then just die - no warning, nothing. This was a new one for me

 

[orrpeople]

Are you saying they can get cocci in the shell? or that it accounts for early loss of life after hatching? Thanks.

I don't think so. I believe it's related to contact, generally, with poop. some birds just have weaker immune systems than others. I give all my shipped egg chicks medicated feed for at least a week, plus a probiotic for digestive help. Thanks for the heads up @Jessimom on the Silverudd's Blues, I will keep my eyes open for any signs.

 

[orrpeople]

I type on a laptop, pics are on the phone. I could try posting pics then in a next post type what they are. Phone's charging, I'll try this later though. Thank you!

I email myself pics from my phone constantly, because I use a little Kindle Fire as my computer and it has only a "selfie facing" camera. Lame.