September Hatch-A-Long!

[Heidisgran]

Quote: the person I know is that much too....next year I will be breeding lavender frizzle silkies

 

[Heidisgran]

2 of my 3 week old silkies keep charging eachother. Does that mean their establishing the pecking order? Is it a sign that they are roosters establishing dominance?

isn't that cute? they are playing...I love it when they do that...and they have stare offs!!! so darn sweet

 

[Heidisgran]

my eggs have all pipped. there are beaks and combs sticking out of the eggs.

it has been this way for 12 hours.... how much longer !!!!!!! doing something?

there talking to each other. and breathing. but not moving. and definitely not going fast enough --lol

my yolkster died he peirced his yolk sac this morning.
my other early bird is dry in some spots. she doesnt walk much and cant hold her head up for long. but she has pooped. and she picks at the other eggs.

should she be moved? bc she was early should i be worried yet, that she is so slow? i have been giving her water, with honey and water with sugar.

I'm sorry about your baby that passed....if one is hatched with its yolk again isolate it in something like a coffee cup stuffed with a damp wash rag....tthry to wrap it so it can't get out until the yolk is absorbed!
12 hours is not too long...they just needed fresh air....then they spend time absorbing yolk and blood...rest up then zip....

 

[Heidisgran]

my eggs have all pipped. there are beaks and combs sticking out of the eggs.

it has been this way for 12 hours.... how much longer !!!!!!! doing something?

there talking to each other. and breathing. but not moving. and definitely not going fast enough --lol

my yolkster died he peirced his yolk sac this morning.
my other early bird is dry in some spots. she doesnt walk much and cant hold her head up for long. but she has pooped. and she picks at the other eggs.

should she be moved? bc she was early should i be worried yet, that she is so slow? i have been giving her water, with honey and water with sugar.

it's not unusual for them to be really tired....did this baby zip on it's own? usually they are a little weaker if they're helped

 

[Heidisgran]

i just literally had two hatch in about 5 minutes
the one is trying to walk and i think his foot is curled.. the other one is walking around. there sleeping near each other.

3 out , 3 still in.

congrats...hope you got to watch...it's amazing

 

[sweetappleacres]

the person I know is that much too....next year I will be breeding lavender frizzle silkies

How awesome. I may buy 1 or 2 from you.

 

[sweetappleacres]

isn't that cute? they are playing...I love it when they do that...and they have stare offs!!! so darn sweet

Oh the stare offs are hilarious!

 

[Sueg4332]

I'm sorry!
I'm far from an expert (on hatch #6), but I use candling to learn and always put my eggs back in the bator, just in case!
(My first hatch one looked like a dud I opened it up more than half way through and the chick came out heart still beating, but obviously too young to live. I felt like a chicken abortionist and since then always leave them in!!!)

Also, I know mail order eggs can be risky, but my personal experience is I've only done one local hatch-- bought eggs from a BYC'er (36) and went and picked them up locally. Did everything as normal and ONE hatched! My worst mail order hatch was 1 out of 4 and my best was 17 out of 18 when the auction I won was 12+.
If you have to do mail order eggs (which I live in town, no roosters), just look into them. Read the feedback reviews, ask for them to be shipped on a Monday, look for sellers fairly close to you (I'm in NC and will only order Fl-Pa on east coast and La to Oh in midwest area). I've seen eggs I really wanted from Oregon and California but figured they wouldn't make it. Also have them sit upright (little side down) for 24 hours at room temp before putting them in your incubator so they can settle.

Not saying you didn't do this, just sharing my ebay experience. It's super risky. Side note-- I am obsessed with Ayam Cemani's which are a super hard breed to get in the US right now. Someone on another thread bought a dozen hatching eggs for $1400 (whcih is the going rate) and his hatched out and aren't even the pure breed, don't look anything like it!!!! So ebay can be super risky!!!

I have had good and bad hatching from shipped eggs. I am in California and have had eggs From. Ohio , wisconsin, Mass. Penn. Wish I could spell....hatched very well. I've had eggs from California that turn out real good and real bad. I went and pick up eggs right here in town All were duds. I think that was the heat wave we had. And my house is hot....
Shipped eggs are so fun but a crap shoot, I think I have averaged 50% chicks on shipped eggs. and a whole lot of fun....I find certain breeds are harder to hatch than others. I have problems getting my own Black copper marans to hatch. and allot of the eggs are not fertile.
My wheaten marans hatch but aren't real hardy.(very dark egg.) Now the cream legbars have been a challege for me. Shipped eggs got a good hatch the last group of eggs I had shipped.
My own EE's splash blue wheaten crossed on my own EEs have been a challege the fertility has been off this year. Almost all hatch that are fertile. the chick are blue. But probably 70 % roosters. the pullets seen to be weaker then the cockles.
Have some beautifu Ees coming up....
Done hatching for awhile been hatching since March Last hatch 9-2-13 9 brown leghorns 6 Blue EEs.
Now I am going to watch them grow. AND building other pen. LOL ADDICTED happy hatching

 

[AandAranch]

So sad. I lost a chick. It was almost halfway zipped and was doing great but it just couldn't get through the membrane. If i had noticed that earlier i would have help it. First time i ever lost a chick. and its even worse bc it was fully developed and ready to come out. I'm kicking myself right now.

 

[naightengale]

ok so culled 3 more after candling tonight in prep for lock down tomorrow morning....2 were no gos and 1 was about a day 10to14 quitter.. i dont know what went wrong..temp drop maybe?? one of my heat bulbs blew at one point and my temps dropped to 91.
also it seems about half of my sept9th hatch looks underdevolpoed there is still lots of light in there but i can see them moving so there not dead just behind.. should i hold them back from lock down for a few days?? or just give them alot longer??

the ones i sat monday are looking good (7 of 8 have eyes) (one of the no gos was this batch) and the ones i sat aug 26th are all looking good