May Hatch Thread--Fill up those bators n' broodies!

[melina90]

Update from here: All hedemora chicks are alive and spinning around in the brooder - a couple of them had me worried yesterday sleeping alot more than the others.

The orpington egg that was due today hatched and out came the biggest newlyhatched chick I have ever seen! It must have filled out the shell almost completely. It's just as big as the two day old buff-orp chick in the brooder!

Another buff-orp egg due tomorrow - I love hatch time

 

[el pollo rey]

[COLOR=800080]Just read about the quake. Hope all is okay. [/COLOR]

. All good just a few things here off the shelves down stairs all the coops and out buildings intact no real damage to speak of thank god

 

[melina90]

. All good just a few things here off the shelves down stairs all the coops and out buildings intact no real damage to speak of thank god

So glad you and yours (including the feathered ones) are okay!

 

[5 Acre Rooster]

Better late than never. Rooting for the little girl.

GO CHICKIE GO

 

[el pollo rey]

So glad you and yours  (including the feathered ones) are okay!

. Yea I'll tell you it's a heck of a way to be woke up My poor dogs were hysterical the birds were not to happy either they were making all kinds of rackett but all good after sun up , how about the oes any updates ?

 

[misschickenlittle]

Still nada from my Salmon Favs and Bantam Choc Orps. Guess i killed them. .

Moving on to the choc/mauve ams. Hatching Thursday. Then it's Junehatchaholics bound!

Hope everyone has had a wonderful Memorial day weekend!! Lots of chickees today already I see.

 

[misschickenlittle]

We took a little of the egg shell off and the membrane was very dry so did the paper towel thing and hopefully that will help it along as it did seem to be struggling. I thought the membrane was ok untill we took a bit of shell off and it is dry! I hope we are ok this time round????

Oes

 

That is so super eggciting!!!!!! Best of luck with her!!

 

[Keggen]

Happy news here! With my staggered hatch of Welsummers, EE's/misc and FBCM we're on day 24 for some and day 22 for others. So far we have 11 healthy Welsummer with 1 more trying to hatch, 7 FBCM with 3 more either pipped or trying to hatch, and then 3 others of the misc types.

Looks like 6 possible dead Welsummer that I haven't candled yet. Last night I started doing eggtopsys and had 3 advanced ones that had died. One was my olive egger which broke my heart. I think it must have died around day 17-19 based on how it looked..the baby was HUGE! And was not positioned right, so I think it was just too big maybe?

Then on my 4th eggtopsy I had an awful experience. I candled few times and did not see ouor hear anything so I opened the air cell. Still nothing. Opened it more down to the membrane area and just as I barely barely brushed it with my finger it started to bleed and showed movement.

I quick ran to get flour on it but used too much and made a mess. So I put it back in the bator for several hours and went to check on it. It was clearly dying based on the breathing movements and I felt awful. I was going to see about helping again but it died while I was trying to decide so I quickly started opening to see if I could do anything. The chick was very twisted into itself and would never have pipped. It also had what I can only assume was part or all of its brain outside of its head.

So this chick would never have made it. It eases me of my guilt just a tiny bit but I wonder what on earth happened that caused it to develop like that!

Any ideas? My incubating had gone without a hitch at all. I kind of wonder if it was the quality of the eggs. I purchased 2 batches from different people locally and all the Welsummers were from one guy. A lot of them were porous and I have a much lower hatch rate from them compared to the EE's from me, and the FBCM from this other lady.

 

[pickitfarm]

Glad to hear everything okay el pollo rey. I was checking and it looks like there has been alot of quake activity in around Panama the last few weeks. Scary to me. I am on the east coast an in the last 4 years we have had two minor quakes around Delaware where I am originally from. I was at work both times. The first we thought was caused by the trash truck dropping the trash bin and the next one we knew what it was. Things kept shaking. I can't imagine something so close though. I'll take a hurricane over a earthquake. I am more familiar with them.

 

[el pollo rey]

Happy news here! With my staggered hatch of Welsummers, EE's/misc and FBCM we're on day 24 for some and day 22 for others. So far we have 11 healthy Welsummer with 1 more trying to hatch, 7 FBCM with 3 more either pipped or trying to hatch, and then 3 others of the misc types.

Looks like 6 possible dead Welsummer that I haven't candled yet. Last night I started doing eggtopsys and had 3 advanced ones that had died. One was my olive egger which broke my heart. I think it must have died around day 17-19 based on how it looked..the baby was HUGE! And was not positioned right, so I think it was just too big maybe?

Then on my 4th eggtopsy I had an awful experience. I candled few times and did not see ouor hear anything so I opened the air cell. Still nothing. Opened it more down to the membrane area and just as I barely barely brushed it with my finger it started to bleed and showed movement.

I quick ran to get flour on it but used too much and made a mess. So I put it back in the bator for several hours and went to check on it. It was clearly dying based on the breathing movements and I felt awful. I was going to see about helping again but it died while I was trying to decide so I quickly started opening to see if I could do anything. The chick was very twisted into itself and would never have pipped. It also had what I can only assume was part or all of its brain outside of its head.

So this chick would never have made it. It eases me of my guilt just a tiny bit but I wonder what on earth happened that caused it to develop like that!

Any ideas? My incubating had gone without a hitch at all. I kind of wonder if it was the quality of the eggs. I purchased 2 batches from different people locally and all the Welsummers were from one guy. A lot of them were porous and I have a much lower hatch rate from them compared to the EE's from me, and the FBCM from this other lady.

Keep those shells crackin !