My First Hatching Experience!!!

[Veer67]

Updates:
The one egg is doing wonderfully so far! Fingers crossed!!!
I picked up my babies today!!! Here they are

My guess is I have 1 male and three females do to how they stand and what they do when I flip them over on their backs!
Here is Izzy (Isabella)
Silkied Serama (2 weeks)

Usually stands like a female and didn't kick at all when flipped stood like this about to peck my finger
Here is Penelope
Old English Game Bantam (1 day old)

Always acts like a female
Maggie
Serama (can't tell if silkied or regular)(2 days)

Always acts like a female
Here's Otis
Old English Game Bantam (1 week)

Always acts like male but didn't stand up because it was to slippery
I love these little buggers so much!!!

They are adorable.
Oh, and flipping chicks on their backs to determine genders is also an old wives tale which has been proven not to work. I find that most people can tell the gender of their seramas at 4 weeks of age, they develop quickly!

 

[terryrcarter]

I have a question I too am hatching my first eggs. Today I started hearing one of them chirping inside the egg. Is that normal? 8 hours later it us still inside but has opened up a little so that I can see it. Help if you can.

 

[DoubleMM]

How many days of setting has it been?

 

[terryrcarter]

I put them all in 18 days ago. But some are older than the others.i think all together the oldest should be 25 days old.

 

[terryrcarter]

Oh wow my chirping chic has hatched. One down 5 to go.

 

[chickieluver26]

Can some one please help me, it's day 18 and the only egg I have left under my broody seems to have pipped. It looks like a pip not just a crack it's a perfect circle with hairline cracks. When I candled I found it and the chick didn't seem to move at all. Could it just be resting after pipping, I really hope so, or is it dead ? Please help!

 

[bobbi-j]

You need to leave it alone. Messing with them does more harm than good.

 

[Veer67]

Can some one please help me, it's day 18 and the only egg I have left under my broody seems to have pipped. It looks like a pip not just a crack it's a perfect circle with hairline cracks. When I candled I found it and the chick didn't seem to move at all. Could it just be resting after pipping, I really hope so, or is it dead ? Please help!

Has the chick made any progress? If not, I would leave it for now. Here's a link n assisted hatching if you ever need it: https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/step-by-step-guide-to-assisted-hatching , also quoted from the article:
"A chick is troubled if it's pipped but hasn't started unzipping AFTER 18-24 hours, or if the bit of exposed membrane around the pipping hole is starting to turn tan and dry."

 

[terryrcarter]

Yes. I left them alone and the next morning all six had hatched. I have them in a brooder now. They are eating and drinking good. Thanks

 

[chickieluver26]

Well it ended up not making it