September Hatch-A-Long!

[familypendragon]

My humidity spiked to 86% and I can't get it down

If I'm worried I just open the bator for a sec. You can also slide some foil over part to lower humidity - its surface area not water qty that matters.

 

[jklyles1]

we just saw 2 eggs shaking! SOOOOOOOOOO EXCITING! 12 hours into lockdown.............

 

[Tara Black]

If I'm worried I just open the bator for a sec. You can also slide some foil over part to lower humidity - its surface area not water qty that matters.

I just slipped a bowl of dry rice in there to see if that will help absorb some of the moisture, if that doesn't help I will bust out the foil! Thanks for the great idea!

 

[Mamagigi]

32 eggs in lockdown yesterday. Tonight as I go to turn off the lights for bed, I hear cheep, cheep, cheep. I was doing my best not to pester them tonight, but the cheeping got me. Not a single pip that I can see yet. But it sounds like they are all talking to each other right now. Reminds me of a slumber party with lots of little girls whispering in bed when they're supposed to be resting. lol

Some of the quail we hatched earlier this week died when their owner picked them up. They were all put on a heating pad and the littlest ones couldn't get off it. I also bandaged a splayed leg chick but they didn't listen or read what I sent and took it off. Now it won't get up and there are questions asking why. Is it wrong that I'm considering not hatching anymore for them?

 

[Angie Poo]

32 eggs in lockdown yesterday.  Tonight as I go to turn off the lights for bed, I hear cheep, cheep, cheep.  I was doing my best not to pester them tonight, but the cheeping got me.  Not a single pip that I can see yet.  But it sounds like they are all talking to each other right now.  Reminds me of a slumber party with lots of little girls whispering in bed when they're supposed to be resting.  lol  

Some of the quail we hatched earlier this week died when their owner picked them up.  They were all put on a heating pad and the littlest ones couldn't get off it.    I also bandaged a splayed leg chick but they didn't listen or read what I sent and took it off.  Now it won't get up and there are questions asking why.  Is it wrong that I'm considering not hatching anymore for them?  

Congrats on your cheeping babies I love to listen to them and watch them wiggle around inside their shells.

No I do not think it is wrong for you not to hatch for them anymore. If they won't listen/read and try to learn or even care then they really shouldn't have the animals. The poor babies shouldn't have to suffer because of it.

I'm sorry your having to deal with that. That is one of my least favorite parts of breeding and raising animals.. Dealing with the people that don't seem to understand.

 

[familypendragon]

Oh wow, that was maybe the saddest and most disturbing chick hatching death I've ever dealt with

I candled the possible double yolker again trying to understand what i was seeing. It was like there was an air cell in both ends. I could see a beak in what looked like the extra air cell in the pointy end and the air cell was filling with what appeared to be blood while I watched. I didn't know what to do so I tried opening the right end in case there were 2 chicks and the one at the other end was ok. All I could see was yolk and a foot pushing on the membrane - there was already 2 tiny tears in the membrane - 1 leaking blood and one leaking yolk. I doubted anything was going to live through this but figured I'd try. I poked a tiny hole in the pointy end air cell and there was indeed an open chamber. I opened it some more to see what was going on and a chicks whole head had ripped through the membrane in that end and blood was trickling in filling the chamber. I didn't know what to do. I think the other twin had died because there was also rotting liquid yolk - like a dark gray green liquid leaking out of the membrane and the chick was swimming in it and gasping. There was nothing I could do except talk to her and pet her with the end of a q-tip trying to clear her nostrils and mouth of all the rotten fluid and blood. She just gasped a couple more times and died. Poor sweet baby. I will make double sure never to set an egg that big again just in case.

 

[chirpingcricket]

Good looking chickies, familypendragon !

 

[Good Omen Eggs]

hey all! sorry getting in so late in the game here, decided to hatch my own chicks this year and got up this morning to find a floppy black baby chick in my incubator! (named it Pippin) and when I got home from work I got a nice surprise from a little blond chick with a black spot on its back (named that one Spot.)

they are doing wonderful and enjoying each others company. As for me, I'm just checking up on them every hour or so. I guess I should get some sleep some time, however, there is 4 more eggs and one of them is twitching....

 

[Miss HennyPenny]

we just saw 2 eggs shaking! SOOOOOOOOOO EXCITING!  12 hours into lockdown.............

Wow really? I had no idea it started so early! Ooh I got butterflies!!!! e

 

[Miss HennyPenny]

Oh wow, that was maybe the saddest and most disturbing chick hatching death I've ever dealt with

I candled the possible double yolker again trying to understand what i was seeing. It was like there was an air cell in both ends. I could see a beak in what looked like the extra air cell in the pointy end and the air cell was filling with what appeared to be blood while I watched. I didn't know what to do so I tried opening the right end in case there were 2 chicks and the one at the other end was ok. All I could see was yolk and a foot pushing on the membrane - there was already 2 tiny tears in the membrane - 1 leaking blood and one leaking yolk. I doubted anything was going to live through this but figured I'd try. I poked a tiny hole in the pointy end air cell and there was indeed an open chamber. I opened it some more to see what was going on and a chicks whole head had ripped through the membrane in that end and blood was trickling in filling the chamber. I didn't know what to do. I think the other twin had died because there was also rotting liquid yolk - like a dark gray green liquid leaking out of the membrane and the chick was swimming in it and gasping. There was nothing I could do except talk to her and pet her with the end of a q-tip trying to clear her nostrils and mouth of all the rotten fluid and blood. She just gasped a couple more times and died. Poor sweet baby. I will make double sure never to set an egg that big again just in case.

Aw I'm sorry. Poor babies xx