Ready Set Hatch! Set 3/17 Hatch 4/7 - ready now! Hatch-Along

[City Chicken]

I did an assisted hatch at 4 am this morning. I went to the bathroom and cranked the shower on and made the water hot as it could be. Once it was nice and moist in there, I got gloves tweezers and took the egg to the bathroom and zipped around the egg with a small pair of scissors pulled the end off, and looked at the chick, he starred at me, we had a moment, I stuck the end of the egg back on him and put him back in the incubator and told him to do the rest. There was a little blood, but it hatched and hour later, and chick #1 and this one are now snuggled in the corner sleeping

Had he already pipped?

 

[hokankai]

My hatch is complete! Frodo had a severe underbite and didn't hatch, but that's ok because I have 32 beautiful babies who will be vaccinated and going to their homes in a few days ^_^

Final tally:

53 eggs set
4 clears
4 blood rings
1 early quitter
9 late quitters (a few malpositions (caused by egg shape, aircell position, and chance), pipped through blood vessel, failed to zip, beak deformity, and unknown)
1 that will probably need to be culled due to skull deformity
1 healthy fully assisted baby!

I'll be doing a photoshoot of the babies later today but here are a few more from yesterday.

A male and female Euskal Oiloa (male on left)







And the final eggshell photo of all the eggs that hatched in the order they hatched

 

[Moni]

I have a pip. Yay!! I was getting worried :0)

 

[Dylon]

Yes. He had pipped 27 hours earlier. He was at the wrong end of the egg

 

[ladyrsanti]

I just checked on that wrong-end pip and it was no longer moving so I broke open the egg a bit to see what happened. First off, it was dead. Secondly, it looks like it broke the yolk and a blood vessel as well during the pip. Blood and yolk were pooled everywhere. Don't think I could have saved it if I tried. But I have 11 of 19 eggs hatched and that's not too bad. That makes 22 with the first hatch, enough for us and then some. Anyone want some chickens?

 

[Dylon]

Anyone want some chickens?  

Haha!!!

 

[Moni]

First baby is out of shell and strong. Its nestled under mama drying. Its yellow with little black on it.

 

[willsussex]

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I had to help the second Marans out.  It was shrink wrapped pretty badly but seems to be doing well.  Still, it was scary.  One more hatched last night and the remaining two are pipped.  They are all a little darker than I thought but will wait to get them out of the bator to get another picture.  I have one Coronation Sussex pipped and I'm NOT opening that bator again and jeopardize that hatch.
[/quote when I hatched my hens I had a baby chicken that had her shell stuck on he back so she had the nick name turtle but she had completely dried out (feathers) but we left her in there so the shell would come of in her own time and it did they look so cute

 

[willsussex]

I just checked on that wrong-end pip and it was no longer moving so I broke open the egg a bit to see what happened.  First off, it was dead.  Secondly, it looks like it broke the yolk and a blood vessel as well during the pip.  Blood and yolk were pooled everywhere.  Don't think I could have saved it if I tried.  But I have 11 of 19 eggs hatched and that's not too bad.  That makes 22 with the first hatch, enough for us and then some.  Anyone want some chickens?  

Hi hi read that if you have a baby chicken who has hatched and if then hen leaves it to die or the incubator stops pour hot water in to the bucket and hold the chicken in there and move its feet do eat for 20 mins oh and what country are you all from because I'm an Aussie

 

[willsussex]

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Hi hi read that if you have a baby chicken who has hatched and if then hen leaves it to die or the incubator stops pour hot water in to the bucket and hold the chicken in there and move its feet do eat for 20 mins oh and what country are you all from because I'm an Aussie back to the chook it's got a 70 percent chance of living