Oh no! Help?

[kuchchicks]

Yay! I just candled Sat and had same. C'mon chickies!!!!!

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Today is Day 7 (I think!) and I candled about five of my dozen eggs. All eggs have veining! I am so excited!!!



I know the quality is pretty bad, I was taking the pic with my cell in the dark. But veins!

That's awesome! Did you set them last Monday? You're doing this one at home, right?

 

[ChickieTeacher]

That's awesome! Did you set them last Monday? You're doing this one at home, right?

I set them Tuesday morning. I thought the first day was day 1. I could be wrong, though, I'm a newbie!

These are set in my classroom. These are the eggs that got to 115 within the first hour of setting them.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I set them Tuesday morning. I thought the first day was day 1. I could be wrong, though, I'm a newbie!

These are set in my classroom. These are the eggs that got to 115 within the first hour of setting them.

If you set them Tues morning, today is day 6. You don't start your count until they have 24 hours of incubation. (Some people will argue that if you set them before noon you can count the day you set as day one, but that is illogical because they still do not have 24 hours worth of incubation so they should not be counted as a day.) Generally, if you set them at 9am on Tuesday morning then day one would start 9am Wednesdady morning with day 2 beginning 9am Thursday morning and so on. I equivalate it with a baby being born. The baby is not a day until it hits 24 hours. Then it is 1 day old until it hits 48 hours at which time it becomes 2 days old. Same thing for incubation. Only it is the embryo that you are counting. The embryo doesn;t become one day until 24 hours, if that makes sense.

Ahhh yes, the temp spike. (I am active on way too many threads...lol) So it is extra special that you are seeing growth...YAY!!!

 

[ChickieTeacher]

I candled this morning as a demonstration for the students. I'm not too sure they made it, many of the eggs look like they have a blood ring. I only have a cell phone to take photos with. What do you think? Still possibly viable or is it gone?

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I candled this morning as a demonstration for the students. I'm not too sure they made it, many of the eggs look like they have a blood ring. I only have a cell phone to take photos with. What do you think? Still possibly viable or is it gone?

I don't see a blood ring. Are you candleing from the bottom of the egg? I can't tell from the pic, but it looks like you are candling from the bottom, in which case, you won't see much. If you candle down into the egg from the air cell you should have a much more clear picture plus be able to check the air cell for proper growth. If that is the air cell end, then pardon my ramblings.

 

[ChickieTeacher]

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That was from the air cell, but I think it may have just been too dark in the room. I candled another in a dark closet and I could see the little guy swimming around in there. I guess I'm just a nervous mama.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Quote: LOL. It' not hard being an over nervous mama! That's great. Glad you were able to see some movement.

 

[ChickieTeacher]

HATCHED!!!!

We've got two baby chicks but it's a day early. A third is zipping now.

One of the chicks seems to have the shell stuck to his bottom. I'm worried that because he came out too early he hasn't absorbed his yolk yet and is still attached. When do I help him/should I help him?

 

[AmyLynn2374]

HATCHED!!!!

We've got two baby chicks but it's a day early. A third is zipping now.

One of the chicks seems to have the shell stuck to his bottom. I'm worried that because he came out too early he hasn't absorbed his yolk yet and is still attached. When do I help him/should I help him?

My little one that had unabsorbed yolk last hatch I ended up wetting a paper towel putting it in the bottom of a coffee mug and popping the little guy/girl in there and placing the mug in the brooder. (Just make sure if you do this you offer water periodically.) I tried putting the mug back in the incubator and even though it fit it was right under the heating elements and that bugger kept trying to get out and I was afraid it would burn himself. Took most of the day but it finished absorbing the yolk (without rupturing it, bad thing if it gets ruptured) and by evening it had a small dried up ball (I believe it was membrane left at the "navel") That eventually came off a couple days later. I can't even tell which chick it was now (one of the spitzhaubens and I have 11...lol).