Pea Eggs Scheduled to Hatch?

[bird]

Happy for your babies and you!

 

[Mmmatt13]

Just put the bator into lockdown. No touchey!

 

[zazouse]

 

[Lil Zoo]

Just put the bator into lockdown. No touchey!

I'm waiting with you. Did you candle before? Does it look promising? Pecky and Pokey need distant friends their age. Awe they are so cute. I think Pokey is going to make it. I couldn't find a way of separating the tub. Was afraid the cage they might get a draft so put Pokey back in the basket this morning Pokey had jumped out of basket. Pecky was still being mean but when he pecked Pokey, Pokey would peck his toes. Pokey has some blood on his wings. I hate to chance chilling him, by washing as yet. Pecky just won't leave it be. I threw some tiny green beans and tomato pieces in and they are both now pecking them.

These two birds are the little birds from He--. Pecky gets almost scalped. Pokey needs help out of egg, so so weak. Last night Pecky pulled a string out of a wash cloth I put in for a nest. He swallowed part of it with the rest was hanging out. I didn't know weather to cut it off or pull it out. Finally decided that it probably should come out. It pulled out with more resistance than I thought it would and he sure wasn't happy with me. I am getting very little sleep checking on these little peas to make sure they are still living all night.

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Lil Zoo,,had the same thing happen with a bssp peachick weeks ago,,decided to swallow a thread from the edge of a cloth towel I line their brooder box with.I opened the mouth to see if the string was around the chicks tongue (which it wasn't) but still couldn't pull it out.So I cut it as close as possible and watched it for a few days,,it evidently passed the thread okay.
Helping peachicks out of the shell in my opinion is a necessity at times.Some say if they aren't strong enuf to hatch on their own,they don't deserve to hatch,,I strongly disagree because what we are doing such as controlling the embryo's enviornment during embryonic growth and development,,we already have taken the natural perspective OUT of the equation already.
Once pipped,,I give them 24 hours,if no progress I intervene,another sign of trouble is if all other eggs put in the bator at the same time are all hatched and 1 still hasn't even pipped,chances are it's too weak to pip and zip on it's own.I lost a beautiful charcol pied peachick 4 days ago just because of this.All 11 eggs put in the same time was all out and dry,the charcoal had pipped but done nothing so I started to help paying attention to fresh blood on the inside membrane.I noticed some so waited,,and waited,,tried again and waited,,finally I chipped 1/2 the egg away but wasn't sure of the chick had resorbed all the yolk,so rather than be sorry,,I waited 2 more hours and during that time the chick died with 1/2 it's body fully open-exposed,,a few hard pushes from it's legs and it would have been out,,but it never had the strength to even do that so I know if I would have helped it completely out theres a great chance it would have been a complete babysitting job for several days with a good possibility of it dying anyway.It's amazing having 8 seperate color varieties this year that I know at hatchtime which chicks will pip and pop,,and which ones will need coddled along with help.
Mmmaddie13,,did you check with the airlines?

 

[Mmmatt13]

Haven't gotten around to it yet, been all over the place lately, I'll look into it now! Still gotta get that pen finished before the little guys outgrow their box, which is cutting it close.

 

[Mmmatt13]

Here's little Muppet showing off for mama the other day.



They LOVE to be up on the edge of the box, they're so silly.

 

[zazouse]

They are adorable, have they learned about dust bathing yet? i put a box with sand , peat moss and ashes in my baby pen and they love it they especily like it when it is in the sun and they can bake and dust. LOL

 

[Mmmatt13]

Not yet, still trying to finish up their home. We've had a bunch of setbacks but HOPEFULLY we'll get it finished up pretty soon here, they're outgrowing their box fast. Also we're still trying to figure out what to use in the flooring of the "coop," originally, we were thinking pea gravel to level the bottom, with a rubber stall mat, and then pine shavings on top, but we looked up the price of the size we need of stall mat, and it's waaaaaay too much. We don't want to do a wooden floor because the mice will get in it, and we don't want to do wire because this will be there "forever" home - no grow-outs - and I just don't like wire, bothers me for some reason. Right now I'm thinking just fine sand, scoopable.

 

[Lil Zoo]

Mmmaddie did your single chick hatch out ok. Missed a report?