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

[kysilkies]

Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Suellyn]

skinny wet & wobbly sounds perfect... he/she will get his "sea legs" eventually... But you can still expect absolute sleeping COLLAPSES for a while... Here's a picture of a PERFECTLY HEALTHY Serama chick (About 24 hrs old, so IS dry & fluffy) ASLEEP, not DEAD... (Scared the HECK outta me, tho!!!!):

Here's what she looked like fresh outta the egg

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And here's what she looks like NOW (with her best friend, my DD Sami!):

 

[BuckskinMama]

Aaaawwwww!!! Your DD and your hen are both lovely. GREAT pictures!!! The ones of the chick sleeping are hilarious!

Yes, that is exactly what he looked like. He's starting to look a little better and seems to be doing fine. whew!

Now the trick will be to keep the dogs at bay. Every time they hear him cheep they absolutely nuts. Great.

 

[BuckskinMama]

Update: Came home today to find dog in laundry room, bator lid off and dead chick on floor. That darn lab is going end up killing all my chickens!! I am soooooo upset.

The bator temp had gotten down to about 90. Chances are the rest of the eggs are ruined.

 

[Goose and Fig]

Oh- sorry about the chick. Don't give up on the rest of the hatch!

 

[astylishgirl]

I am so sorry. How sad.

 

[dun chick]

I'm so sorry. This actually happened to me a couple months ago when I was hatching and was at work. Dog ate chicks hatching, dd was supposed to be watching and was not, anyways find a better way to keep the dogs away, incubator out of reach, and it will happen. By the way mine was a chocolate lab, something about labs with birds I guess.

 

[TimG]

Last spring when I hatched eggs, the first arrived on day 19 and all that hatched had done so within 24 hours of the first.

I opened the incubator more than I should have, it had no window and I just could not refrain from peeking. I only cracked the cover and I made an effort to make sure the humidity stayed up and the temperature didn't fluctuate too much.

Incubating for more than one hatch date in the same incubator is a bit tricky, isn't it? The humidity is supposed to be higher during the last few days than during the rest of the incubation.

 

[BuckskinMama]

Thanks for the condolences.

Yes, more than one hatch date is tricky and definitely something I won't be repeating. Talk about a pain and making me a nervous wreck. Ugh.

I haven't given up on the hatch. Replaced the lid and put a fresh warm wet washcloth in with the eggs. We'll see what happens.