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Sally Sunshine said:
all plugs are open. the humidity I raised because the membrains r white n dry
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this is the stage that gives me more gray hairs !

I have assisted soooo many chicks because of just this situation,,,, good luck Sally,,, I've used warm water and Qtips to wet the membrane...several applications until it absorbs the water well and break away alot of shell so they don't have to work so hard,,,, just be careful,,, don't tear membrane with blood veins,,,, STOP as soon as you see ANY blood if you go tearing at the membrane
 
Ray from PA said:
this is the stage that gives me more gray hairs !

I have assisted soooo many chicks because of just this situation,,,, good luck Sally,,, I've used warm water and Qtips to wet the membrane...several applications until it absorbs the water well and break away alot of shell so they don't have to work so hard,,,, just be careful,,, don't tear membrane with blood veins,,,, STOP as soon as you see ANY blood if you go tearing at the membrane
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AND,,, it's a good idea NOT to rush things,,, do a little at a time,,, they can stay in the egg for hours as long as they can get air !

You may not get alot of sleep,,,, although you don't have too many to work on

BEST OF LUCK TO YOU !!!
 
Ray from PA said:
Quote: I have already lost most of the red to gray! I just finished dabbing again, I have been going down every hour and just dabbing, this last time I saw some feet on two of them and the other one is really locked in good so I dabbed it again when I finished the others. They started to chirp and move heads alot so I am assuming they are looking better ??????????? The one that hatched is running all over them, I assume normal? Thanks for the support, this is freakin nerve wracking, but I didnt even know if I could do a staggered this way! So these hatching are your BCM babies!! The black ones have yellow under their chins!!! I hope they make it they look awesome!!!
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Black Copper Marans chicks are black with yellow,,, it's cool the way they change as they grow. They actually get a couple white feathers that go away later.


If it's a help,,, I have even removed an entire ring of shell so all the chick had to do it tear through the membranes.

I have even gone as far as PARTIALLY tearing away the white outer membrane and leaving the clear one with the veins, I DON'T tear at the inner clear membrane or any membrane that shows blood veins until the veins disappear....,,, I try to get their head out so they can push out of the shell the rest of the way..

I have a hatch in the bator now,,, I hope I don't have to go through all this again.!
 
Sally Sunshine said:
I have already lost most of the red to gray! I just finished dabbing again, I have been going down every hour and just dabbing, this last time I saw some feet on two of them and the other one is really locked in good so I dabbed it again when I finished the others. They started to chirp and move heads alot so I am assuming they are looking better ??????????? The one that hatched is running all over them, I assume normal? Thanks for the support, this is freakin nerve wracking, but I didnt even know if I could do a staggered this way! So these hatching are your BCM babies!! The black ones have yellow under their chins!!! I hope they make it they look awesome!!!
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i have had to help chicks also i agree it is nerve wracking ive helped so many though i feel better since i no exactly what to do and not do well maybe not exactly but im good enough to save little chickies i had to help these little button quails and some of these guineas and d'uccles
























 
4 almost FLUFFY BUTTS ~ 2 black and 2 Yellow peeps! I took the one out in the middle of the night to brooder next to the bator so they could still hear her chirping and roudyness

I HELPED them!! I did I did!!!!

IT was very slowwwwwww and it took until 3 am until I just had to hit the sack! One thing I noticed reading up and watching those saved articles and videos is that you have to be SLOW because they need to absorbe the yolk sack and stuff and that in itself takes hours.

I will check the other two eggs when I remove these guy later this afternoon, I assume, one is the one that didnt look like a quitter but I wasnt sure and left it....

THANK GOD I saved all those links ahead of time and could just go to the summary of our other thread to Hatching 101 article and make my game plan!

If I would have left them all as links in my fav bar it would have been chaos trying to figure out where the stuff was!! Thanks BYC!!

Say Hi to Spot!




Say Hello to Cha Cha (yellow), Chadwick (bigger black), and Chirp!!
 

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