May Hatch-a-Long!

[Cynthia12]

Thanks all for the help, this site is priceless and the people on it, it made it out with a bit of help

A little help .. great job!

 

[Cynthia12]

DH called with an update (cuz im at work. Blah)
We have 3 silkies and 2 ees hatched so far.. with more working on it!
I know 2 silkies are blue so far. The EE that I saw looked blackish... ill post pics tonight when I get home. I hope I get a variety of colors. Actually.. im just sooo excited to have healthy chickies at all. Yay for hatching.. I love it! Thanks for being so wonderfully helpful!

No problem, love helping when I am waiting on my own. I have two little cochin eggs in lock down starting today. Very small eggs tend to worry me. :/ At least I don't have to worry about high vaults on these. They should be able to turn around pretty easy..small egg, small baby right? We hope.

 

[Wishapup]

Update Day 21 Afternoon:

29 chicks hatched (2 with intervention due to dried membrane and malpositioning). The 30th chick, a Marans, has a large pip.

20 eggs not doing anything.

 

[czoellner]

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Good Pic of your Zip! I like that. I had to do that to one of mine last year and it worked very nicely. I used the generic triple antibiotic that I have on hand it seemed to work like a charm. I left only a tiny hole by his beak for breathing and let him do the rest. And after a couple hours, out he popped! He seemed weak at first but after a few hours he got his act together and started acting like all the other newly hatched ones. He was the only one that didn't cheep/cry incessantly when he first hatched, I was just coming to check when I saw him do it. Then he just laid there. No cheeping, no wiggling, he was completely tuckered out. But, now, he's a beautiful black roo with white fringe on his neck. Fairly even tempered and takes care of his girls appropriately. You wouldn't know he was a slow hatcher that needed extra help!

Yes, Thanks Viola! It's still not the amount of chicks I needed/wanted to hatch, but almost double what I was counting. Today is day 25 for them.... Guess they all took a longer nap in this cooler Missouri weather. Maybe just Maybe if the hatching vibes are good out there, when I get home, those 2 pips will be hatched and I'll have a couple more pips... Although I sure didn't see anything exciting last night when I candled the others... hmmmm

 

[chickenlisa]

Update Day 21 Afternoon:

29 chicks hatched (2 with intervention due to dried membrane and malpositioning). The 30th chick, a Marans, has a large pip.

20 eggs not doing anything.

1st pip in 1 of the 3 eggs as of this am. at 3 pm, it was more of a hole, with the beak poking out...I upped the humidity because it was down to 52%. How it decreased is beyond me because it has been pouring rain all day long!

Congrats on ALL those chicks hatching already!!! WOW!

 

[Wishapup]

1st pip in 1 of the 3 eggs as of this am. at 3 pm, it was more of a hole, with the beak poking out...I upped the humidity because it was down to 52%. How it decreased is beyond me because it has been pouring rain all day long!

Congrats on ALL those chicks hatching already!!! WOW!

Thanks! Good luck with your eggs!

I just wish I knew what was going on in my other eggs...I know, for example, that on Day 17 all 6 of my White Silkies were alive. But there at least 2 eggs labeled "WS" in the incubator still.

 

[Farmer Viola]

Good Pic of your Zip! I like that. I had to do that to one of mine last year and it worked very nicely. I used the generic triple antibiotic that I have on hand it seemed to work like a charm. I left only a tiny hole by his beak for breathing and let him do the rest. And after a couple hours, out he popped! He seemed weak at first but after a few hours he got his act together and started acting like all the other newly hatched ones. He was the only one that didn't cheep/cry incessantly when he first hatched, I was just coming to check when I saw him do it. Then he just laid there. No cheeping, no wiggling, he was completely tuckered out. But, now, he's a beautiful black roo with white fringe on his neck. Fairly even tempered and takes care of his girls appropriately. You wouldn't know he was a slow hatcher that needed extra help!

Yes, Thanks Viola! It's still not the amount of chicks I needed/wanted to hatch, but almost double what I was counting. Today is day 25 for them.... Guess they all took a longer nap in this cooler Missouri weather. Maybe just Maybe if the hatching vibes are good out there, when I get home, those 2 pips will be hatched and I'll have a couple more pips... Although I sure didn't see anything exciting last night when I candled the others... hmmmm

sending good vibes your way!

the anti-biotic ointment works so well, it soaks into the membrane and keeps it moist for a few more hours than water does, in my experience. that is awesome that he grew up into a healthy strong rooster

 

[Wishapup]

Well, my hatch is coming to an end on Day 21.

I had 2 hatch Day 19, 22 hatch Day 20, and 5 hatch today. The 30th chick is hatching right now but no other pips. The last pip (30th chick) was 6 hours ago.

21 eggs left with no cheeping or pips. I quickly candled 1 bantam egg -- couldn't see anything -- and 1 Silkie. The Silkie contained a fully formed baby, but didn't cheep when I tapped it or move. It looks like this Marans may be my last chick.

What didn't hatch: 3 Ameraucanas, 8 Marans, 10 bantam mixes and Silkies

 

[chickenlisa]

aghhhhhh

I just came back a bit ago from feeding all of my birds in this downpour today...and saw 3 of my newly hatched baby Mandarins dead on the wet pen floor. The Mama had moved them down to our converted old doghouse (yay freecycle!) and even though it has a ramp going into and out of it , and she and some babies were inside it nice and dry, those 3 must not have been able to get in. There is a 2" high edge to hop over into the main big part, and a 'window' (for the dog) next to the door that is 5" or so off the ground. The ramp goes up and over the 2" high step thru the doorway. I am so mad..

and to top it off, the chick who pipped this am, and hadn't made any progress by this afternoon other than making the pip into a hole, was dead a while ago.

I checked to see if the hole was now becoming a zip, and it's beak was still sticking out of the hole, but not moving. I tapped on the top and it still didn't move. I grabbed it out quickly and saw it was dead. It had wet stuff dripping down the side of the shell and in the bottom of the egg carton it was resting in. Sort of yellowish liquid. I am so bummed! Now I only have 2 chances to hatch a Silver Birchen Maran.

...I am striking out so badly today.

 

[ShadyHillFarm]

Loving all these pictures!! COngrats!!