March Hatch-Along Thread- Come Hatch With Us!!!!!

[chickydee64]

Welcome to BYC StarlinaStan.

Have you tried giving your chick Poly-Vi-Sol? They're infant vitamin drops... that might help... ???

X2 on the poly-vi-sol.be certain it is the one with NO IRON...................
I give a drop to all of them when I take them out of the incubator..........
You might try putting the drop on the side of the beak..............
Also, is it in with others that may cause it to have to compete for food and water.........
You may need to seperate it by putting it in some kind of container Maybe put a soft cloth in the bottom.can still use the heat but not get picked on.
I am sorry you are having a rough time with this little one...........
So good of you to try but be prepared that sometimes they have problems that we cannot see................
Good thoughts and vibes sent your way

 

[CamiLynn]

Omg!! Prime example of why you wait!! My quail were due to hatch yesterday and I read that I could float test them to see is still viable as long as the water is the same temp as the bator. So long story short, I only put three eggs on case I messed something up. Well one sunk all the way to the bottom and that meant it was dead right!? So, I decide to e-topsy to see and when I opened the egg, there was blood and yolk and when the chick came out on the plate...it opened its eyes!!!! I'm so mad at myself cause it could have lived if I wasn't so impatient!! It closed its eye back after a few second and died. :'( only good thing that came out of that is I now know they are still alive!! Ugh!! Lesson learned!!!

 

[StarlinaStan]

Welcome to BYC StarlinaStan.

Have you tried giving your chick Poly-Vi-Sol? They're infant vitamin drops... that might help... ???

Thank you for the reply. I don't know what Poly-Vi-Sol is or where I could find some.

 

[MayDayMel]

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Thank you for the reply. I don't know what Poly-Vi-Sol is or where I could find some.

it is an infant vitamin drop. Available in any pharmacy or general store usually.

 

[StarlinaStan]

Thanks for the help. I'll try to get some. There are two other chicks in with it but they don't bother it. I've been giving it water from a dropper and when I put food in its beak it swallows but it is not very active. Just really loud. Here is a picture of their box. The white one in the corner is the sick one. I'll be moving them into a bigger box when they get a little older


Here is a close up.

 

[chickydee64]

Just have a minute.
Congratulations to all with new chicks.......

My eggs are due Sunday......
Walked by the incubtor this evening and heard a chirp..
Told my DH.I must be losing it.I am hearing chirping and it's way to early.
Checked the humidity a little later.and sure enough.have a pip..............
Sooooo glad, thought for sure I was ready for the 28 day treatment program for hatching addiction

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Thanks for all of the wonderful pictures.................

 

[Jungleexplorer]

My little games. You just got to love these little guys!

 

[PugBug]

Here is a pic of the 7 chicks that hatched so far. 4/4 easter egger/brahma cross, and so far 3/4 barred rock/brahma cross (my son calls them barrock obrahma's. lol). Still have another egg in the bator. Still alive, but seems to be taking it's time.

Congrats Maah! Glad they did so well.... I don't have as good of news on mine- AGAIN! Out of 7 lemon cuckoo orp eggs only 1 ever pipped & hatched. tonight I candeled the rest of the eggs- all dead. I opened them up, most had internally pipped, then died before externally pip. This is really getting upsetting!!!

 

[PugBug]

Omg!! Prime example of why you wait!! My quail were due to hatch yesterday and I read that I could float test them to see is still viable as long as the water is the same temp as the bator. So long story short, I only put three eggs on case I messed something up. Well one sunk all the way to the bottom and that meant it was dead right!? So, I decide to e-topsy to see and when I opened the egg, there was blood and yolk and when the chick came out on the plate...it opened its eyes!!!! I'm so mad at myself cause it could have lived if I wasn't so impatient!! It closed its eye back after a few second and died. :'( only good thing that came out of that is I now know they are still alive!! Ugh!! Lesson learned!!!

Aww CamiLynn, so sorry! I've done the floats test when they've been late before a few times, but mine always were accurate on results...

 

[jhfamily5]

How to describe this hatch...semi-disasterous. On day 23 (with 17 eggs at lockdown) I finally had a pip around 2pm...then 2 more before I went to bed at 2am but no progress on any of them. I set up my camcorder positive that the little buggers would hatch while I was sleeping. No such luck. No progress at 10am day 24. Started to get a little nervous because they weren't turning at all. Just continuing to make the original pip a tiny bit wider. At 24 hrs post pip I opened the bator and used a flashlight to see inside the pip hole...the inner membrane was pretty dry despite 70% humidity and it couldn't turn so I opened the pip a little more and wet the membrane with some warm distilled water and then put them back in the bator and they ended up hatching on their own. While I was in there I candled the other eggs and found 6 dead. Eggotopsy showed that they were ALL SIX malpositions. Heads tucked firmly between their legs against their tummies. UGH...I could have intervened after all! Being day 24 and having those six malpositions I decided to pip the air cells of the remaining eggs and see what was up. Figured at 24 days it wasn't too awful early and just pipping the air cell shouldn't hurt. All remaining 8 eggs were malpositions too!!! I couldn't freakin' believe it. The odds of that are...I don't even know how ridiculous! The inner membranes were tight to the chicks too so I wet them to see the veins (which were tiny and drying up) and no beaks to be seen at all so I tore a tiny hole where there were no veins so that at the very least the rest wouldn't suffocate then I put them back in the bator for 4 hrs and rechecked. Four were dead and upon eggotopsy three were ready to have hatched but just couldn't due to heads between their legs and one had it's yolk sac wrapped around it's neck and it's head between it's legs so it couldn't absorb it. I decided I had been patient enough. I did assisted hatching on the remaining four and as of right now they are all still alive (one had a tiny bit of yolk left and is resting in a cup in the bator with a little bacitration ointment and is absorbing steadily), one was going strong and is in the brooder with the other three that hatched earlier and the other two are still in the bator resting and fluffing. One of them had its leg THROUGH the yolk sac yet had absorbed it all and the leftover junk was cinched around it's thigh...hoping when it is good and dry that it won't be deformed but it wasn't looking good. When I checked on the ones in the brooder later, one of the ones that hatched on it's own had a leg broken at the lowest joint and I could see bone (No clue how that happened to the poor baby-guessing "dog pile") so I had to cull and all remaining three have spraddle leg too despite having non-slip shelf liner in the bator and brooder. I have used vet wrap to bind the legs closer and they are getting around fine despite that. I am seriously having a WHAT THE CRAP hatch. The only thing I can guess is that when I stopped turing at day 15 per a couple BYC'ers advice, I jacked up the whole hatch. I stopped turning a couple of days early so that I could add some shipped CCL eggs that had terrible detached air cells and couldn't be turned. I moved the CCL's to my hatcher-bator when it was time for lockdown since it was finally free and then on day 18 cranked up the humidity in the Brinsea and lockdown was on. I was told it wouldn't hurt anything to stop turning a little early, especially since these were shipped eggs too. It's the only thing that makes any sense. My humidity and temp were spot on the whole time. The only variable was the turning. I am so mad at myself but I didn't know any better and it sounded like sound advice. I didn't want to risk giving valuable shipped eggs with detached air cells to a broody so I went with it. I am sharing all of this not only to vent my sorrow and frustration, but also so that nobody makes my same mistake. At this point, I have a paint silkie, paint split silkie (don't know if that is the name but a black with a little white on it that hatched out of a paint egg), a black silkie chick, two splash silkie chicks all from shipped eggs and also a splash silkie chick from my girls that I threw in at the start as a test egg. The three in the brooder have their legs bound to treat for spraddle leg and the other three are in the bator drying. Hoping and praying they all make it...