Putting eggs in the bator on July 25, does anyone wanna hatch along???

[Roxannemc]

  
My first chick that hatched.  How beautiful is she!

This is a darling photo of yourbaby ..all peachyhazy colored So nice!

 

[Roxannemc]

I dont know a thing about quail..but chicks i was told shouldnt go in more than 1day early.And its not the turning its the humidity being too high too early.. if they are like chick eggs and are the required temps the same for both at lockdown?Just asking as i dont know.but i dont think you would need to turn them on lockdown unless they are way different than chicks.

 

[cluckitall]

:< That is a shame. But you're right...I am steeling myself to do two eggtopsies here myself. I have given up on the two which have not moved in a couple days. The first little tiny one is going strong though (funny thing, I was not sure this one would hatch because it was such a tiny egg...and it ended up being the one that DID hatch)

Sometimes things are just out of our hands. Good energy for the rest of your babies.

Here is little no-name




I just took a look in the two remaining eggs...both quit. One had to have quit some time ago, the other probably around day 17 or so. :/

Oh gosh, she's cute! I can't believe how little she is!

Nothing happening here yet...

 

[cluckitall]

Thanks,

It was tough to begin with and I ended up examining them really well and I noticed the legs are different. Some have feathered legs, some have a kind of slate tint to their legs and some have a pinkish yellow legs. So I studied everyones legs and separated them in piles. I know from my hatch I had 5 White Ameraucanas, 2 Wheaton Marans and 3 coronation sussex that made it through hatch. So I looked for the feathers guys and there is two so those are Wheaton Marans. Then separated them by the color of their legs Slat or yellow pink. Turns out we had there was 5 with Slate ( White Ameraucana) and three with yellow pink. So since there was a remaining 3 with the yellow pink legs those had to be the Sussex.

It was crazy to begin with but, now that I now who everyone is I can tell when I look at them. The ones with the Slate legs are already starting to grow in their muffs.

Soooooooo cute!!!!!

LOL! That's a good way to go about it. I'm just hoping all mine on Monday are pretty obvious -- at least now I'll know what the speckled sussex looks like!

Little baby beard-muffs -- too cute!

 

[cluckitall]

No,

He is not okay. That is the one bad thing about being able to get them here alive. Sometimes there are bigger reasons why the hatch go wrong. Sometimes its just cause, they are to big and can't get positioned right and need help and other times its because, there is more wrong. The hatching went fine and I got him here. Turned out the reason he couldn't get to the air sac to pip is part of the membrane had wrapped around his little leg really tight. Unfortunately babies are really fragile and its easy for their legs to get messed up. I think the baby kept pulling to free its leg until it did some really bad damage. I freed his leg and he is alive and peeping but, can't seem to get up. It just lays on its side the whole time. I am giving it time because, I was hoping things would turn around for it and I have been feeding it sugar water. Honestly thought I don't see much hope, it can't spend its whole life laying on its side. The poor baby will starve to death.

I'm so sorry, dandydoodle. Not a lot of experience with eggs (okay, NO experience with eggs) but it's like a lot of other things -- it's hard to know when to try and help out and when to leave it alone. That's really rough.

 

[litljenarey]

Oh Dandydoodle! That poor chick. What are your options now? Do you think he can be nursed to health or not? That is one of my biggest fears. I don't know if I would be able to end it for a chick.


My baby hatch went before my chicks did. 8lbs, 15oz. 16in head. Arms wrapped around his head by the cord, twice. Medication didn't work so it was completely natural, 12 hour labor. I had to write it down because even *I* can't believe it. I get to go home in the morning and hopefully watch my chickies hatch. My husband placed bets on time and my dad has to do all the dishes for 2 weeks.

Wicked awesome day!

 

[cluckitall]

That's wonderful, litljenary! Although ouch ouch ouch!!! That's one big kid! Congratulations and here's hoping you get to see your "other" hatch, too!

 

[Chucklecluck]

Congrats on the deliver, hope you get to see your chicks hatch, would love to see pics of your new bundle of joy

 

[Chucklecluck]

You know I didn't even think of the humidity, the instruction that came with incubator had chicken wigs and quail eggs using the same humidity and temps just quail hatch two days later than chickens

 

[dandydoodle]

:< That is a shame. But you're right...I am steeling myself to do two eggtopsies here myself. I have given up on the two which have not moved in a couple days. The first little tiny one is going strong though (funny thing, I was not sure this one would hatch because it was such a tiny egg...and it ended up being the one that DID hatch)

Sometimes things are just out of our hands. Good energy for the rest of your babies.

Here is little no-name




I just took a look in the two remaining eggs...both quit. One had to have quit some time ago, the other probably around day 17 or so. :/

Well congrats on your one cute little baby!!!!!!! Yea sometimes it is just out of our hands. I had to do an eggtopsy on two of mine too, makes me sad they were fully grown but, they didn't make through the hatch.

Sorry about your two little ones.