Serama Hatch-A-Long!!

[darkbluespace]

Sorry I'm late with pictures! This is one of the Serama chicks

do y'all think it may be a frizzle?

So sweet... those do look like frizzled feathers coming in!

 

[mommaduck2014]

Well I am completely heartbroken. Somehow the thermostat fluctuated to 107 degrees and I believe I cooked my remaining serama egg and the 13 barnyard mixed eggs that I used as fillers. I candled the serama egg and I saw no movement. I am devastated.

 

[darkbluespace]

Well I am completely heartbroken. Somehow the thermostat fluctuated to 107 degrees and I believe I cooked my remaining serama egg and the 13 barnyard mixed eggs that I used as fillers. I candled the serama egg and I saw no movement. I am devastated.

Oh no! How long was it that high? I ask because I have had temp spikes to 106 that did not kill my eggs. The eggs heat up much more slowly than the incubator so it is possible they survived. This close to hatch it is hard to see movement. I do hope they are okay.

 

[mommaduck2014]

They might be then. Maybe I'm just worrying to much. It wasn't for more than two hours. I caught it fairly quick. I guess time will tell...

 

[darkbluespace]

They might be then. Maybe I'm just worrying to much. It wasn't for more than two hours. I caught it fairly quick. I guess time will tell...

I try to remember to lower the temp a little at lockdown because the extra moisture makes it go up.

 

[mommaduck2014]

That's a good thing to remember. Well I left the eggs alone, I didn't do anything rash like throw them all away. So we will see tomorrow.

 

[mightymax]

Oh no, mommaduck2014...!!!

When I first read your post, I could literally feel your devastation and sense of loss. But after positive words of encouragement from darkbluespace, I'm feeling a lot more optimistic about how the outcome of your last little serama egg will turn out !!! It never ceases to amaze me what chickens can pull through! You said it best yourself, mommaduck2014, that last serama egg of yours, she's a real survivor! And I've candled a few silkie eggs in my time that I thought were all but lost, only to have them
hatch out properly by themselves about 12 hours after I was certain that the embryo inside had died because I couldn't see any movement...at all !!! Just leave it be and let it rest. Sometimes I think that's what they're doing in there right before they hatch...resting up before the big breakout, therefore you wouldn't see movement sometimes hours prior to hatch either way so let's take the rosier outlook now while we can and give her one more day !!!

All body parts are crossed!

-kim-

 

[mommaduck2014]

OMG I had fallen asleep on the sofa. Got up to get in bed and heard a high pitch peep spun around ran towards the incubator and low and behold the 3rd serama egg that I thought died days ago is HATCHING!!! I almost peed my pants!

 

[darkbluespace]

OMG I had fallen asleep on the sofa. Got up to get in bed and heard a high pitch peep spun around ran towards the incubator and low and behold the 3rd serama egg that I thought died days ago is HATCHING!!! I almost peed my pants!

Are you kidding!!!!!!!!!! Well that is an amazing little miracle and good news for all the eggs!!! I try to try to be as optimisic as possible and I'm glad I wasn't wrong. Congratulations!!! You are a Serama mama!!

 

[darkbluespace]

I have a few eggs in lockdown too, but since these pullet eggs (and shipped eggs) have been giving me such a hard time, I am trying not to think about it. I do hope to hatch Sparkle roo a friend before he is an old man! He has been totally quiet today so it is nice to have a break. He usually starts cheeping as soon as I am ready for bed so I snuggle him for a while and read him a bedtime story (just kidding) and then put him to bed.

I set some more eggs today for the Valentine's hatch-a-long, so I have almost 30 Serama eggs in the bator, some due every week. They look good so I should get some chicks! I had an ad up for some Serama pairs I wanted to sell, I sold a pair today, and someone else wants 10 chicks for their granddaughter. I sure hope I can deliver! My little hen is sitting on 7 developing eggs so that should help. I probably will have a chick explosion soon!

I have also been waiting for my duck eggs to be fertile and I cracked one open today that I think is, so I put a dozen in the bator. We'll see, I know they are trying to mate but I honestly wasn't sure if they were really making it happen. It takes a while to figure it out I guess.

I hope I will have room for my Silkie eggs arrive, I think I am going to get that replacement batch this week.