OMG!!! My first pip! Soooooo excited!! UPDATE... so upset!!

[BuckskinMama]

My Nankin eggs are starting to pip! YEA!!!!

 

[SilverStar]

Yeah!!! Good luck with it!!!

 

[SunshineSilkies]

If you are incubating, DO NOT OPEN THE BATOR!!!!!! LOL!! Found out from my last hatch to keep busy and don't open the bator to take chicks out. My last hatch were blue rock eggs from HALO. Had 15 in the bator. Left it alone.....15 hatched!!!!! It is a hard thing to do, but you will have a better hatch!!!

 

[BuckskinMama]

Problem is... I have other eggs on different hatch schedules... so I have to open it to turn them. That's the thing I've been so worried about this whole time.

Is it better not to turn the other eggs, or to risk opening the bator to turn them???

Dilemma!!!!

 

[BuckskinMama]

Hatched and out. But... it was the one dated 5/9. I've never done this before but this chick sure looks premature to me. Wasn't due to hatch until Saturday. What are the chances this little chick will make it? My daughter tells me to stop worrying, but my gut tells me he wasn't ready to come out.

 

[Suellyn]

Can you get creative & fashion something (coathanger, thin wooden skewer, whatever) that you can insert down thru the air vent holes to gently shuffle/turn the other eggs a bit?? Doesn't have to be a perfect "turn"...

I would be VERY afraid to open 'bator with pips... Seems to me that incomplete turns is the "lesser of two evils"... ???

Also the "older" eggs/pips need higher humidity, which may be challenging to the other/younger eggs.

 

[Suellyn]

oop, you posted update while I wrote that....

if he came out, he was probably READY to come out... does yolk sac look absorbed/gone???

if other pips, STILL would not open 'bator... chicks do just fine for 72 hours with no food/water; they live off the recently absorbed egg yolk.

PS: Why does he look "premature" to you? They are all generally wet/slimy & flopping around then going unconscious when first hatched...

 

[gumpsgirl]

If the yolk has been absorbed then the chick is just fine! Some chicks hatch early.

Congrats on your chicks hatching!

 

[fivelittlechicks]

congrats on the chick! I know how exciting it is!!

 

[BuckskinMama]

So that's what they are supposed to look like when they come out? He just looks so skinny and wet and wobbly! Then he'll collapse for awhile.

I have no idea if the yolk is completely absorbed. I don't know what anything is supposed to look like normally.

Please forgive my complete ignorance. I've just never done this before and I'm being a worry wart. My daughter is completely disgusted with me.

However, he is doing a find job of turning the eggs for me as he careens around the bator. So problem solved there!