i hope you get many more very soon!!!
MAY 2016 "Land of the Free Because of the brave!" Hatch-a-Long Hosted by, Mike & Sally
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Well, I'm happy with the chicks I managed to hatch... and yet I'm totally bummed at the same time. The last two batches yielded an average of 22% hatch rate. 13 chicks out of 60 eggs, with a price tag of $165, figures to $12.69 per chick. These chicks need to be killer birds when they grow up...
So sorry!
banannalee
In the Brooder
- Jun 17, 2015
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Help I need your help !!! I had a duckling hatch 2 days early it still has a marble size yolk sac attached and is still attached to shell...duckling is starting to wake up. Will it be able to absorb that yolk sac? Do you know how long? I am worried it looks healthy.
TIA!!
Anna
TIA!!
Anna
That's Cupcake, a welsh harlequin duckling that jumped the gun and tried to hatch before her yolk was absorbed at all. What I did was cut the corner off a Ziploc bag, push her back into her shell, wrapped a wet paper towel around the shell to provide moisture, and put the whole thing in the bag. I pulled her head through the corner of the bag, and voila! Everything stays moist, she can't pull away from the yolk too early, and the next day, she was good to go.
Is what you're seeing definitely yolk though or could it just be embryonic waste?
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Update on Sunny.
She started walking today! It was like a light switch turned on. Before she would just shuffle around back and forth to the food and then just sit all day. I've been giving her vitamins in her water and she eats eggs everyday as an extra treat. I am so glad I finally see some improvement! It's been a long few weeks!
Hey all update on my hatch-es lol
Okay well it's been a crazy week following a crazy emotional week last week too.
Ugh okay so the run down is as follows(Forgive me if there are repeats as I have forgotten what I've mentioned and haven't mentioned.)
Last week after discovering the week before, maybe longer I don't remember, that the fan wasn't working properly in our styrobator DH2B installed a spare computer fan from our coolerbator build while we collected eggs fertilized by our lf slw rooster, Twitch, that was taken by a predator.
We gathered and gathered and on the 20th put the oldest eggs then 10 days old into the styrobator with 27 other eggs that were staggered, having been set the 3rd and the 6th.
Some of you may remember the week before this last miraculously we hatched out three chicks from eggs devastated by our broken fan with temps being unsteady and reaching up to 113 and also getting low. None of the eggs lost enough moisture I don't think. Well two of the chicks hatched out okay and one hatched with wry neck(they were all late). We began treatment on the little wry necked chick and on its slthird day of life it began to show improvement. But that evening it died mysteriously seeming to have aspirated hours after being syringe fed. Upright with its neck straight and with no explanation for what caused it. It was in a padded container in the incubator for its safety. There was a fourth egg in the incubator that was nearly ready when it too died that night almost free from its egg. The other two chicks are healthy and thriving.
A week ago today, a teacher brought me the chicks that she hatched with her class from our eggs. They got 14 chicks out of 18 eggs
3 slw
3 EE
4 slw/black 50% English orp mixes
4 slw/buff orp mixes
Our eggs that were set on the 3rd hatched this week, I haven't looked through to see what all is what yet but 24 eggs went into lockdown 22 hatched and 2 were dead in shell. However we had to put down two chicks from this last week.
One hatched during the night and somehow managed to climb into our computer fan before I got up. The incubator was a gory mess and I was devastated, the silkie mix, shouldn't have been able to get into it. The wounds though seemed superficial and the chick seemed strong but we nearly 24 hours later found her seemingly comatose. We believe there may have been unknown internal damage. She had cuts on her head and neck, her left wing and her right foot. Her top beak was also damaged, and her right foot also had cuts. Our fan isn't run very fast being a 9 volt cord but she obviously was just too tender. Many of the injuries were just scrapes and pulled down. It was truly heartbreaking and we made the tough decision to humanely put her down. I had researched it when we first found her but we(my mother is a nurse and rushed over to help) decided given her original fight to give her a chance, of course we wouldn't have had we known something internal was involved. We decided to go with the vinegar and baking soda method and DH2B kicked the both of us out and gave her peace. This having been our first instant of having to do this, plainly, it sucked. I'm grateful DH2B did it though I know it was distasteful for him to do it. It was fast and peaceful.
We quickly wiped up the worst of the blood in the incubator and watched many more chicks hatch. That night we found there were two dead in shells and three more chicks just pipped. We went to bed.
I woke at 6 to a horrific scene. The incubator was once again covered in blood but much worse than the previous morning and there were two chicks out. I just about had a heart attack, had another little one gotten into the now completely covered and blocked off fan?! I pick up the chick nearest to the fan and looked it over. It looked really good if it's belly wasn't 100% sealed I couldn't imagine all that blood coming from that chick. The other chick still seemed to be sitting in the egg it hatched from and was soaking. I moved the first chick to the brooder(humidity was up to 70% with two wet chicks in there and barely fell when I grabbed it) and came back to check to see if the second was still attached to its egg. When I got back to pick the baby up there it was a yolk sac hanging out as the chick dragged it acrossed the bator. The yolk sac was clearly ruptured and then I know that the brownish red blood that coated the incubator had come from this chick. Judging by its egg shell it had ruptured the yolk before coming out of the egg. I couldn't believe this baby was alive. I placed it and it's yolk in warm wet paper towels in a container in the incubator to see if it could absorb the yolk. It didnt and at lunch time we took another look, the three of us together, we decided to cut the yolk free and try to save the chick. Only when we got all the lights on and readied all the equipment did we see hiding under the umbilical were intestines sticking out and the navel had closed cutting off circulation. The chick was not well and we made the hard choice again. That little baby also went quickly and peacefully.
We used a vacuum seal container to put the chicks down(with a smaller dish inside, however we flip flopped it the larger container was used for the vinegar mixture while the chick was dry in the other container aurounded by the mix) and it took maybe 10-20 seconds each time, I wasn't in the room but I spoke to DH2B and neither chick struggled or suffered just laid down and went to sleep.
I'm curious how everyone else culls chicks if needed.
All in all 20/24 into lockdown is pretty good but it was hard having to put those two down and we feel guilty about the fan in spite of having believe it was chick proof it is now double guarded and a third layer is yet to be added.
The three eggs set on the 6th are doing well, due today, and one EE is already out. There is another EE internally pipped and an ISA brown egg externally pipped.
The incubator also has quite a few eggs that we set on the 20th all seem to be doing well. Though many had to be carefully wiped clean of the egg yolk blood turned glue mixture.
We also set 104 eggs in the coolerbator this evening ranging from being layed today to being two weeks old. Most are 10 days or less.
Okay well it's been a crazy week following a crazy emotional week last week too.
Ugh okay so the run down is as follows(Forgive me if there are repeats as I have forgotten what I've mentioned and haven't mentioned.)
Last week after discovering the week before, maybe longer I don't remember, that the fan wasn't working properly in our styrobator DH2B installed a spare computer fan from our coolerbator build while we collected eggs fertilized by our lf slw rooster, Twitch, that was taken by a predator.
We gathered and gathered and on the 20th put the oldest eggs then 10 days old into the styrobator with 27 other eggs that were staggered, having been set the 3rd and the 6th.
Some of you may remember the week before this last miraculously we hatched out three chicks from eggs devastated by our broken fan with temps being unsteady and reaching up to 113 and also getting low. None of the eggs lost enough moisture I don't think. Well two of the chicks hatched out okay and one hatched with wry neck(they were all late). We began treatment on the little wry necked chick and on its slthird day of life it began to show improvement. But that evening it died mysteriously seeming to have aspirated hours after being syringe fed. Upright with its neck straight and with no explanation for what caused it. It was in a padded container in the incubator for its safety. There was a fourth egg in the incubator that was nearly ready when it too died that night almost free from its egg. The other two chicks are healthy and thriving.
A week ago today, a teacher brought me the chicks that she hatched with her class from our eggs. They got 14 chicks out of 18 eggs
3 slw
3 EE
4 slw/black 50% English orp mixes
4 slw/buff orp mixes
Our eggs that were set on the 3rd hatched this week, I haven't looked through to see what all is what yet but 24 eggs went into lockdown 22 hatched and 2 were dead in shell. However we had to put down two chicks from this last week.
One hatched during the night and somehow managed to climb into our computer fan before I got up. The incubator was a gory mess and I was devastated, the silkie mix, shouldn't have been able to get into it. The wounds though seemed superficial and the chick seemed strong but we nearly 24 hours later found her seemingly comatose. We believe there may have been unknown internal damage. She had cuts on her head and neck, her left wing and her right foot. Her top beak was also damaged, and her right foot also had cuts. Our fan isn't run very fast being a 9 volt cord but she obviously was just too tender. Many of the injuries were just scrapes and pulled down. It was truly heartbreaking and we made the tough decision to humanely put her down. I had researched it when we first found her but we(my mother is a nurse and rushed over to help) decided given her original fight to give her a chance, of course we wouldn't have had we known something internal was involved. We decided to go with the vinegar and baking soda method and DH2B kicked the both of us out and gave her peace. This having been our first instant of having to do this, plainly, it sucked. I'm grateful DH2B did it though I know it was distasteful for him to do it. It was fast and peaceful.
We quickly wiped up the worst of the blood in the incubator and watched many more chicks hatch. That night we found there were two dead in shells and three more chicks just pipped. We went to bed.
I woke at 6 to a horrific scene. The incubator was once again covered in blood but much worse than the previous morning and there were two chicks out. I just about had a heart attack, had another little one gotten into the now completely covered and blocked off fan?! I pick up the chick nearest to the fan and looked it over. It looked really good if it's belly wasn't 100% sealed I couldn't imagine all that blood coming from that chick. The other chick still seemed to be sitting in the egg it hatched from and was soaking. I moved the first chick to the brooder(humidity was up to 70% with two wet chicks in there and barely fell when I grabbed it) and came back to check to see if the second was still attached to its egg. When I got back to pick the baby up there it was a yolk sac hanging out as the chick dragged it acrossed the bator. The yolk sac was clearly ruptured and then I know that the brownish red blood that coated the incubator had come from this chick. Judging by its egg shell it had ruptured the yolk before coming out of the egg. I couldn't believe this baby was alive. I placed it and it's yolk in warm wet paper towels in a container in the incubator to see if it could absorb the yolk. It didnt and at lunch time we took another look, the three of us together, we decided to cut the yolk free and try to save the chick. Only when we got all the lights on and readied all the equipment did we see hiding under the umbilical were intestines sticking out and the navel had closed cutting off circulation. The chick was not well and we made the hard choice again. That little baby also went quickly and peacefully.
We used a vacuum seal container to put the chicks down(with a smaller dish inside, however we flip flopped it the larger container was used for the vinegar mixture while the chick was dry in the other container aurounded by the mix) and it took maybe 10-20 seconds each time, I wasn't in the room but I spoke to DH2B and neither chick struggled or suffered just laid down and went to sleep.
I'm curious how everyone else culls chicks if needed.
All in all 20/24 into lockdown is pretty good but it was hard having to put those two down and we feel guilty about the fan in spite of having believe it was chick proof it is now double guarded and a third layer is yet to be added.
The three eggs set on the 6th are doing well, due today, and one EE is already out. There is another EE internally pipped and an ISA brown egg externally pipped.
The incubator also has quite a few eggs that we set on the 20th all seem to be doing well. Though many had to be carefully wiped clean of the egg yolk blood turned glue mixture.
We also set 104 eggs in the coolerbator this evening ranging from being layed today to being two weeks old. Most are 10 days or less.
So sorry!
Beautiful bird!! @chickendreams24 So sorry!!!!Update on Sunny. She started walking today! It was like a light switch turned on. Before she would just shuffle around back and forth to the food and then just sit all day. I've been giving her vitamins in her water and she eats eggs everyday as an extra treat. I am so glad I finally see some improvement! It's been a long few weeks!
Thank you guys so very much for the support 
today seems brighter and the healthy little ones are a blessing
today seems brighter and the healthy little ones are a blessing
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Five pipped this morningFour Ameracauna/Barred Rock/Australorp mix, one Lavender Orpington.
Keep um in there yet! go babies!!!
oh shah I am sorry sweetie!Unforunatly both of the chicks passed
cuties!!!!!It's been a busy week and I've fallen behind trying to keep up with all my subscribed threads. Our broody EE hens hatched lots of adorable fluffy chicks. I'm not quite sure exactly how many but roughly 15 little black EE/ Marans mix chicks.
These two hens are sisters from the same hatch and same parents. They go broody and raise chicks together each year.
My silkie chicks have started hatching in the incubator. We have 2 little early birds that hatched this morning, day 20. 1 blue and 1 splash.
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