March Hatch-A-Long

[Chicksnmind]

I’m on day 3 with most of mine and day 4 1/2 with 3 ( not sure which ones they got mixed) .

I was doing a dry hatch but my humidity got to 25% so I added a tiny amount to bump it up. I came back a hour later to find that it was at 60%. So I took all the eggs out and wiped the water up. While I put them back in I numbered them and candled them.

The tiny barnyard mixed with silkie egg is looking really good. This one came from my chickens. White egg so easy to see.

Next one is from my silkie girl.

Here is one I added from the fridge. looks like it won’t develop. I left it for now. It a brown egg.

Most of my eBay eggs look like this. I don’t know if it’s developing or not. They are brown eggs so harder to see.

I have two that look like this. Are these bad/ scrambled eggs?

Then I have one that is clearly more advanced so I think it’s one of the eBay eggs I took from my silkie after she abandoned the nest for 5 + hrs. It is at 4 1/2 days.

So from the 13 eBay eggs I have 4 that are very clear on developing the rest I can’t tell. Plus 2 from my own that are doing good.

I got the humidity back to 30% after I took all the water back out.

 

[AngieMaesChix]

With the brown eggs I found it easier to see from the side..but at day three it was very hard to see...could just faintly see beginnings of veins...I’m sure on day 7 it will be more apparent and easier to see...

 

[Chicksnmind]

Here is one that I did from the side. I will check again at day 7 to mark air cells if I can.

 

[julskinka]

I'm just following along, in anticipation of setting my own spring hatch next month. New incubator shows up this week! Good job on the chicks everyone.

 

[two j farm]

Were back in the bathroom, steamed up/warm,
I cleaned off the poo and membrane, looks like shes not fully absorbed
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The ball on the bottom looks like yolk, top is yellow, bottom is pink. The pile behind it's mostly poop, membrane, clear goo, but theres a light pink cord, it isnt attached to anything but I'm worried it's her intestines?? My common sense is asking why it would be intestine if it isnt connected to anything ??

I know I'm a little late on this. I had this happen before, I leave the chick in the incubator but I do place them in a small cup so they can't move around to give the yolk time to absorb. Hope everything works out.

 

[Nekopan]

My second chick is looking a bit better today! I took the tape off her feet and she seems to be using them almost normally. Now I just need her to eat.

 

[Tatuana]

Eggs Day 12 (I figured out when I set them!) I think the air bubble is HUGE for what it should normally be... And also, check out the wonky ways they're developing. The pencil marks on the top is the air cell. The pencil on the bottom is where the embryo hasn't developed yet.

Is the air bubble normal sized, wonky though they are? They seem very big to me. At least the air cell is stable now? I'm not hopeful for many babies.


Egg 1 is mostly normal.

I've no idea what Egg 2 is thinking. That's a very extreme swoop. The top pencil line is the air bubble. I'm guessing that's WAY too big?

Egg 5 is also being weird. Again, huge air bubble? I think the chick is trying to make Florida.

Here's the other side of Egg 5.

Egg 6 is mostly normal. Just a small swoop.

Egg 7 also has a swoop.

Egg 8 is being VERY weird. The bottom seems to cross into the top. I'm thinking the lighting was wrong, but still. Again, big air bubble.

Egg 9 looks like a witches hat.

 

[cppeace]

I had most of the drop-kicked shipped eggs that looked like you're describing for your air in the eggs. Like I said on mine I don't expect any hatches but am not 100% on that. Good luck to you though.

 

[Raptorchick]

My second chick is looking a bit better today! I took the tape off her feet and she seems to be using them almost normally. Now I just need her to eat.

Yay !! Very good news

I put a new diaper on my little one, shes eating and drinking, and pooping lol, all good things. And running around her brooder
My second pipper was hatching when I got home from work, and has the same problem, but not nearly as bad. So, I have them both in a small brooder, with vet wrap diapers that allow full movement and pooping but protects the yoke sacs. The brooder floor is heated, and they are under a heat plate, like a chick sleeping bag lol. These eggs were my own, is an absorbed yoke sac a malnourished/older chicken problem or incubation issues?
Updated pics, new baby and first baby. They're having cheeping conversations lol, oh my heart....

 

[Raptorchick]

This is 2 babies down, 2 to go no pips on the other two, but day 21 is tomorrow