Opening eggs

[aalbury]

I don't know what's normal! I've never had chicks this young before! They're not like what I'm used to. wobbly sometimes?

I'll try to get a pic - he usually wakes up as I'm trying to position the camera in there.

I thought he was out of my australorp, but he's apparently out of my daughter's white easter egger judging from the poofs. She is the only one who lays pinkish brown eggs that could be mistaken for the australorp in that coop. The roo is a barred rock..

He was the first one and flopped around like a fish for ever. He runs around like mad, eats, drinks, poops, and then stops. You'll see his head start to slowly lower....sometimes he jerks it back up as if a child falling asleep in class....
There were 5, the second one died after it pipped out & was very weak.
# 3 never hatched
#4 is the one in the foreground with no ear tufts and is definitely out of the black australorp
and the 5th is that poor one I've been stressing over all day.

 

[aalbury]

He will also lay down on his/her side and stretch a leg out behind him as if he's an adult taking a dust bath. I also never saw that before. I kept thinking he was dead.

 

[Chicken Chat]

Sounds like normal chick behavoir, he's just "sunning". Your babies are adorable. I wish you luck on the one still in the shell.

 

[lady and her girls]

well hows it going. now I am stressed!

 

[aalbury]

Thanks! I am having a hard time doing anything other than watching them!

Good on them behaving normal....I already have one pullet named Psycho Chick...

That Texas Ag article had exactly what I needed on what to do with #3. Open it up and what to check for, etc. And the charts...printing those up.

 

[aalbury]

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Well, he looks like he's struggling! He's pushed around a bit apparently and gotten a little more free: (edited to say I'll try to swap it with a better pic. The light is bad now. I have to bring the horses in, but will be back with hopefully better pics using a lamp or something)

 

[duckluck]

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I would look at it this way: if you do lose him, he at least served a greater purpose by giving you teaching and a learning experience. If you had just tossed the egg, then no matter what the putcome would have been you would not have seen or learned anything except maybe how to make a basket into the garbage can by tossing the egg.

This knowledge you gain now might help later on with more eggs, and you are coming to know your instruments better.

My .02...nothing ventured, nothing gained.

 

[aalbury]

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I would look at it this way: if you do lose him, he at least served a greater purpose by giving you teaching and a learning experience. If you had just tossed the egg, then no matter what the putcome would have been you would not have seen or learned anything except maybe how to make a basket into the garbage can by tossing the egg.

This knowledge you gain now might help later on with more eggs, and you are coming to know your instruments better.

My .02...nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Logical reasoning - right up my alley! Several rules are being established assuredly here....

OK, I put a warm wet paper towel over the exposed membrane, I am thinking I should stop opening the bator.

 

[lady and her girls]

He could be resting, its hard work mommy!
Can you imagine having a beak and tapping through a wall?
patience

 

[aalbury]

He is pushing so hard at the sides that he shakes a little and I can see him pushing the side and straining his head back. I am tempted to remove him from the egg carton.