May 2023 Hatch-a-long

[lilwanderer]

I don't think you need to panic about the air cells. I think there is a wide range of what can be normal. I've had hatches with huge variations in air cell sizes and in the amount of weight lost and they all hatched fine. I think a lot of the time they don't draw down until the last minute.

Internal pips on day 18 is also not that unusual. You'll get a few hatching on day 20. Exciting!

3 more have internally pipped lol, lots of early birds. 6 in total now.

 

[Hedgeland Farms]

Guys help me out...
What's going on....

I've had to help each one out thus far...

The membrane is getting stuck to their eyes and legs and feathers.

I am using some vitamin E oil on them to help (its what I have)

When they pip the outer pip or start to zip I can see just white...looks like a piece of paper....then under it is the membrane...some veins still active...but can only be seen if oil is applied.


I allow them to take their time, but when I try to moisten the membrane and help them be free...they end up coming out of the egg eventually.


I've got 3 out...
One out out...in brooder box...
2 inside incubator (one in a red solo bc it has just the tiniest bit of yolk left)...the other....drying out.


I have another external pip and I know it'll be the same thing.

Humidity is 65-70% and has been since lock down...


I am not sure what's going on...but I don't wanna keep helping them out of the shell.....its so nerve wracking!

 

[Dinoroar]

Guys help me out...
What's going on....

I've had to help each one out thus far...

The membrane is getting stuck to their eyes and legs and feathers.

I am using some vitamin E oil on them to help (its what I have)

When they pip the outer pip or start to zip I can see just white...looks like a piece of paper....then under it is the membrane...some veins still active...but can only be seen if oil is applied.


I allow them to take their time, but when I try to moisten the membrane and help them be free...they end up coming out of the egg eventually.


I've got 3 out...
One out out...in brooder box...
2 inside incubator (one in a red solo bc it has just the tiniest bit of yolk left)...the other....drying out.


I have another external pip and I know it'll be the same thing.

Humidity is 65-70% and has been since lock down...


I am not sure what's going on...but I don't wanna keep helping them out of the shell.....its so nerve wracking!

Maybe you could try bumping the humidity higher.

 

[Dinoroar]

Today is my birthday!

Happy birthday

 

[Canadian Wind]

Happy birthday @gimmie birdies !

 

[Hedgeland Farms]

Maybe you could try bumping the humidity higher.

I can do that!!! I wasn't sure if it was harmful

 

[junior67]

Guys help me out...
What's going on....

I've had to help each one out thus far...

The membrane is getting stuck to their eyes and legs and feathers.

I am using some vitamin E oil on them to help (its what I have)

When they pip the outer pip or start to zip I can see just white...looks like a piece of paper....then under it is the membrane...some veins still active...but can only be seen if oil is applied.


I allow them to take their time, but when I try to moisten the membrane and help them be free...they end up coming out of the egg eventually.


I've got 3 out...
One out out...in brooder box...
2 inside incubator (one in a red solo bc it has just the tiniest bit of yolk left)...the other....drying out.


I have another external pip and I know it'll be the same thing.

Humidity is 65-70% and has been since lock down...


I am not sure what's going on...but I don't wanna keep helping them out of the shell.....its so nerve wracking!

The white membrane under the shell is normal, then the other membrane with the veins that you see when you moisten it.

Why have you had to help them out? Are they taking longer than 24 hrs after pipping to start to zip? or taking more than an hour once they start zipping?

 

[Hedgeland Farms]

The white membrane under the shell is normal, then the other membrane with the veins that you see when you moisten it.

Why have you had to help them out? Are they taking longer than 24 hrs after pipping to start to zip? or taking more than an hour once they start zipping?

The first one this morning I could see after it started to zip it was pretty dried.

The very first one this morning died during the zip. When I took him out he was also dried, semi stuck.

Anyway I moistened the first live one and saw he still had some veins and stuck him back. He dried again which I don't understand...so I moistened again...but he was stuck on his eye and leg and feathers. This was an over and over again process. It was that way with the second and third live one as well.


I am leaving any others to theirselves and upped the humidity as suggested.

After basically watching the first one die at the zip i may have gotten nervous, but I assure you I am not rushing into anything.

 

[Dinoroar]

I can do that!!! I wasn't sure if it was harmful

It can get pretty high without bring a problem and if the membrane is sticking to them hopefully some extra moisture will help.

 

[Poodlemum]

Today is my birthday!

Happy birthday!!!