My eggs survived a power outage!

[cjexotic]

woohoo chickies a coming. Good luck

 

[CrazyOpossum]

One has pipped through! And it isn't even the one that I thought it would be. I thought the first was going to be the one rocking and rolling around last night!

Quick question...when I installed my fan, I didn't see many directions saying not to so I assumed the air flow was supposed to be hitting the eggs. It didn't even enter my mind that it would be flowing away from the eggs... Well I just read that that can shrink wrap the chicks and kill them! Should I do something about turning my fan upside down so the airflow is not hitting the chicks but the ceiling instead??

 

[cjexotic]

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I never installed one or even paid attention to how its installed in my two bators.

but here is 3 links (3 part instructions) to install a fan in a bator on youtube. Maybe this will tell ya.
the shrink wrap happens if the humidity is not up to 70-75% need to keep that up.

I do know the name of the fan is facing you.. at least mine is. But hopefully these videos will help.

cj

 

[CrazyOpossum]

Ok well maybe I did do it correctly. I am pretty sure the name is facing me when you open the top of the incubator. I am afraid to double check since I have a baby pipping.
Hopefully it was done right in the first place!
Thanks for the video clips that was a nice installation video!

 

[cjexotic]

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good luck keep us posted. cj

 

[CrazyOpossum]

Two died in their shells

one shrink wrapped and the other seemed to have got fluids up his nose and it bubbled. I tried to help him but it was too late he was already dead

Another pipped so hopefully things will go better for this one. I shall be standing by for him just in case though!
Hopefully everyone else will have smooth hatchings!!!

 

[CrazyOpossum]

To make up for the two that did not make it, I have one hatched and another pipped! These two are from my splash Silkie roo and black sizzle hen, I put them in the same time as the other silkie eggs. So hopefully they'll be nice frizzled silkies! Silkie chicks have to be the cutest baby chickens!

 

[cjexotic]

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So sorry to hear that. cj

 

[CrazyOpossum]

I have two hatched babies now! Both from my silkie pair so far. One I had to pull from the incubator as he somehow found his way in to the humidity tupperware dish...not sure how, it is way taller than he is.
And the second one just broke out ten minutes ago! This last baby came out all messy. Blood is getting on the other eggs and everything. Is he going to be okay being so bloody? Are the other eggs going to be ok with all the messy hatch stuff all over them?

I hear the other eggs peeping inside their shells so it hopefully shouldn't be too long for them to start pipping.
Some almost sound distressed in their shells, is this normal?

 

[cjexotic]

Some chicks bleed like that when they break away from the egg. Doe that chick seem to be ok as far as moving around?
The blood won't hurt the other eggs now. They are developed and ready to hatch.
What day is it today 21?
Not sure what you mean by distressed sound. Just watch them. Did the one that has all the blood did it hatch on its own or did you help it?
Many times if you help when you see the blood you stop taking the shell off and put them back in to bator for blood to slow down and stop.
Just keep watching them. If they pip and they are not progressing like you think you can help them.. but you only chick a little of the shell at a time. When
you break open the membrane stop and see if you are going to get blood. If you get just a little bit you can continue a little at a time. But if you get a lot then stop and put the chick back in the bator for the bleeding to slow down and stop. That bleeding is like the umbilical cord on a baby.