March hatch along

[subhanalah]

Thanks. There are a couple I KNOW are gone, but isn't it funny how we still don't have the heart to give up on them? lol.

Don't give up! I know someone who went to throw away the hatch trash, and heard screaming from inside the tray.
If it were me, I'd be looking for internal pips, but I know that goes against the neo-sacred "lockdown" process.

 

[GR Chicks]

Day 21 was yesterday for most, except it was today for the six silkie eggs.

This is just hard.... for me its wondering what I did wrong.

 

[carcar80]

Hehe I've been candling.. I'm not a lockdown lord. There are only a few internal pips. There is one AM egg that, when I move it back and forth, I can see everything just flow around, looks like fuzzy edges like the rest but it's just really loose and dead looking.

 

[Kassaundra]

Quote: That is what I would do too. I am so used to shrink wrap and having to help the chicks out, I would make most "purest" hands off hatchers have a panic attack.

 

[Kassaundra]

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It is nature, even hens have chicks that don't hatch. Doesn't mean you did anything wrong.

 

[GR Chicks]

It is nature, even hens have chicks that don't hatch. Doesn't mean you did anything wrong.

How do I know if there are internal pips? I have helped before when necessary... how long should I wait? All advice welcome!

 

[carcar80]

Took another look. I'm not keeping up with which ones I'm candling because I'm trying to hurry and close bator back, but I know for sure I have one AM an one brahma internally pipped. The AM I can hear pecking a couple times. Here is a pic of the brahma. Lots of shadowy movement in that dip.

 

[Kassaundra]

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You candle them. If they have pipped internally you will see the beak in the air sac. Personally if they were moving yesterday and not today I would have already checked for internal pipping if I saw it I would chose one and open it at the airsac end carefully to see if it is shrink wrapped. I described how I do that earlier in this thread. If one is shrink wrapped they all are.

 

[carcar80]

Guys, something is wrong and I'm about done. Still NOTHING. No silkies have pipped internally. Two AMs and one (not so hot-looking) brahma appear to have, but have made zero progress past that. It makes me sick to think of helping, because I feel like failing at that will make me feel like I shouldn't have.

This sucks. I don't know what to do. I'm mostly sick that my first ever chicken hatch has left this taste in my mouth when I was SO!! Excited.

 

[sasimpson77]

Guys, something is wrong and I'm about done. Still NOTHING. No silkies have pipped internally. Two AMs and one (not so hot-looking) brahma appear to have, but have made zero progress past that. It makes me sick to think of helping, because I feel like failing at that will make me feel like I shouldn't have.

This sucks. I don't know what to do. I'm mostly sick that my first ever chicken hatch has left this taste in my mouth when I was SO!! Excited.

Don't get to bummed out I had a zero hatch my first hatch and then only 3 out of 42 for my second hatch and the same for my 3rd hatch. I have been told it gets easier. But I know it is not easy right now. I was glad I already had eggs set because I did feel like giving up. My 4th hatch is going into lockdown on thursday I am very helpful gonna change my lockdown method this time put them in cartons to hatch instead of laying them down. I did assisted hatches with mine and I did not have good luck I found that if I had to help them out then they did not have the strength to survive.