oops!!

[johnskoi]

and a big oops at that ... have/had 7 pea eggs due to hatch today and tomorrow ....checked on 'em early yesterday afternoon and left the cover off the bator -- didn't realize it til about 6 hours later ..

..

didn't check 'em at that point, just got the cover back on hoped for the best and decided to check 'em in the morning ... 3 ext pips this morning (from 3 that internally pipped yesterday)

, but i'm pretty sure i lost two that hadn't internally pipped yet and were due to hatch with these guys

... out of two more due to hatch tomorrow, i think i lost one .... feel like crap -- it's the second time i've done this in 3 years, but not THIS close to hatching last time .... (not that i need more peas at the moment, but it still sucks)

 

[new 2 pfowl]

Sorry about your pre-peababies

I probably shouldn't jump in here since I have 0% hatching experience, but from reading about incubator hatchers here, it seems that everyone has trouble hatching pea eggs even in perfect circumstances.
So please don't

!!
If you have three or four peachicks emerge, that's good news!

 

[casportpony]

I have found very cold chicken, pigeon, guinea and ducks eggs that were pipped or very close to pipping and have put them under hens or in a towel on a heating pad and had them hatch. Some hatch on their own, some need help and some don't make it. It might work with pea eggs, but I don't know.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Good luck!

 

[johnskoi]

thankses! .... 3 hatched yest and have 1 pipping this morning

-- 1 still iffy, gonna give it a few more days...

 

[johnskoi]

all 3 needed help ... superdry membranes from the cover being off,( had i intervened with the other 2 when the cover was first left off, i might've been able to help -- their beaks were pushing on the inner membrane, but were just short of breaking thru)

...LITTLE BY LITTLE...... HOUR BY HOUR i had to break away shell and play with moistening the membrane with bottled water, i try to tear off the outer memb and pull the inner memb over the shell to try and 'cauterize it' (from peahen46), if there's bleeding that won't stop by doing this, i keep quickstop nearby for those emergency situations .... i alwats try to have them do the final pushing...

 

[zazouse]

Run a sink full of warm to the touch water, dip the egg in the water a few times being careful not to get the head wet, in a few minutes the membrain should be moist enough to get it off the baby, peal the shell enough to let the chick free itself .
Make sure there are no breezes in the area like AC or fans.
Good luck !

 

[johnskoi]

zaz, i read your post in another thread and it gave me the confidence to use more water than i used to (iow, you helped me with these guys big time -- thank you

) -- my hands get the 'woopsy-dropsy' at times and i wouldn't be able to get their water wings on in time while they're still in the egg

... seriosly -- THANK YOU

 

[casportpony]

So happy for you! Any signs of life in the other two eggs?

 

[casportpony]

What type of incubator is this?