September Hatch-A-Long!

[familypendragon]

Holy cow!! I just did the craziest assist ever. I have one lonely olive egger in the hatcher (Day 21). It got unplugged and the temp read 89.2 so I took it out real quick, saw no movement and opened the top. Nothing but butt and leg. But it was still alive. I put water on the membrane and spotted an eye. It was head between thighs sort of sideways and upside down. I found a place with no major veining and made an artificial internal pip where I thought the beak might be hiding. All I saw was leg and wing. I peeled shell and wet the membrane with coconut oil and found the beak was pointing down between the thighs at THE major vein center. I went back to the top and cut between and around all the tiny veins to avoid them and opened the top enough that I could use tweezers to reach down and pull its beak up to the fresh air. Now its back in the hatcher to hopefully survive against all odds. Not even a cup of coffee yet, LOL! There was only one teeny tiny drop of blood with all that cutting so I am hopeful.

 

[sonderah]

Looks like #1 found itself a snuggle buddy!!!

 

[callieisspooky]

Awesome assist! You really know what you're doing! Good luck to baby.

I have only two eggs that survived from a dozen shipped, and both eggs are visibly wiggling around with 4 days to go. On candling, one is still swimming around with plenty of room, while the other looks totally huge and barely able to move with a tiny air cell. :/ I'm nervous, this is my first attempted hatch (bronze breasted turkeys which will be pets). Using a Brinsea mini advance.

 

[Heidisgran]

ok so hubby just finished explaining just how low the temps were when he found them... one bator was 86....hacher was down to 92 and 89... so what are my chances??? i dont think it was for very long. i candled an egg thats on about day 7 and still had movement...

the first 10 days are difficult for embryos, that being said I don't believe that temp drop will be an issue, at the most it will prolong you hatch date.

 

[Heidisgran]

Awesome assist! You really know what you're doing! Good luck to baby.

I have only two eggs that survived from a dozen shipped, and both eggs are visibly wiggling around with 4 days to go. On candling, one is still swimming around with plenty of room, while the other looks totally huge and barely able to move with a tiny air cell. :/ I'm nervous, this is my first attempted hatch (bronze breasted turkeys which will be pets). Using a Brinsea mini advance.

I have heritage red turkeys incubating! my first time with turkeys...if all goes well sometime around the 19th

 

[familypendragon]

I am getting WAY more practice assisting than I would like. But here is my crazy assist from this morning.

Holy cow!! I just did the craziest assist ever. I have one lonely olive egger in the hatcher (Day 21). It got unplugged and the temp read 89.2 so I took it out real quick, saw no movement and opened the top. Nothing but butt and leg. But it was still alive. I put water on the membrane and spotted an eye. It was head between thighs sort of sideways and upside down. I found a place with no major veining and made an artificial internal pip where I thought the beak might be hiding. All I saw was leg and wing. I peeled shell and wet the membrane with coconut oil and found the beak was pointing down between the thighs at THE major vein center. I went back to the top and cut between and around all the tiny veins to avoid them and opened the top enough that I could use tweezers to reach down and pull its beak up to the fresh air. Now its back in the hatcher to hopefully survive against all odds. Not even a cup of coffee yet, LOL! There was only one teeny tiny drop of blood with all that cutting so I am hopeful.

 

[Heidisgran]

Holy cow!! I just did the craziest assist ever. I have one lonely olive egger in the hatcher (Day 21). It got unplugged and the temp read 89.2 so I took it out real quick, saw no movement and opened the top. Nothing but butt and leg. But it was still alive. I put water on the membrane and spotted an eye. It was head between thighs sort of sideways and upside down. I found a place with no major veining and made an artificial internal pip where I thought the beak might be hiding. All I saw was leg and wing. I peeled shell and wet the membrane with coconut oil and found the beak was pointing down between the thighs at THE major vein center. I went back to the top and cut between and around all the tiny veins to avoid them and opened the top enough that I could use tweezers to reach down and pull its beak up to the fresh air. Now its back in the hatcher to hopefully survive against all odds. Not even a cup of coffee yet, LOL!

There was only one teeny tiny drop of blood with all that cutting so I am hopeful.

you sure have the issues with positioning!! crossing fingers for baby

 

[Heidisgran]

DAY 7..WOOHOOOOO..that was the longest week ever. Now..to candle or not to candle. I want to so bad but my eggs are medium brown and ive read (in this thread of course!) that day 8,9,10 would be better. I just dont know if i can hold out another 2-3 days.

Any day 7s out there??? Please join in and help this impatient obsessed 1st time hatcher get through the next 2 weeks!

All my eggs are my own. Black Copper Marans roo with SLW, Wellies, GLW, Buff Orp, Australorp, BR, Cuckoo Marans, RIR, and a Red sex link

go ahead you won't hurt anything! but don't be surprised if you don't see much...when in doubt put it back in the bator!

 

[jklyles1]

I candled. Looks like we have 7 moving babies!!! 4 clear and 1 questionable. I didnt see clear air cells tho. I just dont know what im looking for i guess. I think 2 had good size air cells for day 7. I circled them with pencil so i can see if they get bigger.



This is the weird looking one. All the others have a straighter line. this one is very bumpy

 

[Heidisgran]

Does this chick look ok? Not the best pic sorry. First time doing this and am a major stress bucket right now

not only does it look okay when it starts making it's hole that big it's getting ready to zip!! let us know