Set eggs 5-12 Looking for hatching buddies

[gabrielle1976]

aww how cute . thanks for the pictures , so you only have one egg left?? if its been pipped with no progress for more then 24 hours you can chipp a little shell away and check on the membrain to make shure he isnt stuck in there if you feel like its been to long are the vents openso they can get oxagen?

 

[turkeyguy1]

I put in 15 wild eastern, 6 black spanish and 6 Royal Palm turkey eggs around that time so Im here.

 

[Nursiedeer]

Only one left to get out of the bator. It is having so much trouble getting stood up. It's my Aussie egg. I think my other Aussie and one Leghorn died in the shell. They appear to be fully developed chicks. The Aussie was beating the shell yesterday. WE could hear it! But today nothing and still no pip. The Aussie that did make it is so tiny and may have a bad toe. The eggs were terribly small and had very hard shells... (sad face)
Will post pic as soon as my Aussie is out of the bator!! WE have 6/8!!

 

[baconskatiedid]

I had the vents open for the hatched ones and was worried about losing to much humidity. Before I opened I had a pair of tweezers ready and pulled away some of the membrane of the one I was afraid was dead. My suspicions about humidity I think were rite. It was pretty rubbery, so I tweezed a little more at the hole the other was poking it's beak out of. It was such a tiny hole to start with. I only made enough for it to get its beak out. Didn't know if I was doing wrong or not, but I thought It couldn't hurt. It's membrane had been looking pretty dry to me. Had a hole in the shell big as maybe a magic marker or a bit larger, with the slightest pin hole in the membrane.It immediately stuck its beak out and has been like that for quite awhile now. It's little beak is still"chirping" silently, so it's alive!!!!!

No other signs of the other 3, I was sure of, and the 3, I had questioned, when I candled.
Just feel helpless for that little beak!

It has been piped since around noon yesterday?

 

[baconskatiedid]

Post pics!

Looks like I will be ready for that June hatch for sure!!

 

[Nursiedeer]

I took a q tip and some warm water and wet my Aussie eggs membrane. I chipped it a bit of a bigger hole but left the membrane and wet it with the q-tip and a couple hours later it made it out!

 

[baconskatiedid]

Thanks Nursiedeer, I am going to do that rite now

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[JakeBremer]

I just went into lock-down this morning, day 19. And i got my first pip. Is that okay?

 

[akashia26]

I have done the same thing with some of ours that were in the other bator that seemed to be drying out. Took a injector suringe with some really warm water and dripped on the egg and put a few drops right on the membrane. that seemed to have done the trick so we did not have to do much else. We have a homemade styrofome bator we just poked a hole over were the egg was sitting and done it that way so we did not have to open it up. The bator that had the thermostat in it I have had no such problem. It's also a homemade one but it also has a fan in it. I made some major changes to the design and all with it. I spent around $40-$50 on it most of that was the thermostat and shipping of it. hope this helps a little. I suppose if you have vent holes you could use them to drip the water on them. We had to do it several times till it hatched. About once every hour or so. Every time we checked if the membrane looked like a layer of white powder we would put the water on it. but just a few drops

 

[CinnamonQueen12]

I just went into lock-down this morning, day 19. And i got my first pip. Is that okay?

Yes, pipping on day 19 is ok, it just means that the temperature in your bator was a little too high. Usually they pip on day 20 and are out of the egg by day 21. You may have had perfect temp, but this little guy pipped early for some unknown reason (although its not all that uncommon to see pipping a day early or late). He may be in that egg up until day 21, but if it takes him/her too long, i would suggest chipping a little bit of the egg away from the hole he/she has made after 24+ hours of nothing. The last egg that hatched for me, i had to help. He had pipped early in the day on sunday, and all of the others that had pipped after him/her had hatched ages ago, while he/she hadn't made any progress. So i reached in and used my thumbnail to chip away shell from the small hole he/she had made. Minutes later, he started chipping away at that shell like it was nobody's buisness(did i spell that right?) He/she had hatched within the hour. Sometimes they just need that little bit of encouragement and they can take it from there. Of course, this little wooly worm(its an ameraucana chick that looks like a wooly worm!! I need to put up pics!!) hatched with crooked toes on both feet. Might be my fault...

but i didn't help it out of the shell, i just chipped some away, so i doubt it, but.......Whatever, he/she is gonna be fine! We taped her/his feet to an old playing card that we cut up before he even finished drying off. And i read some of the posts about people reaching in to grab newly hatched chicks out of the bator...I always do that. My incubator is homemade, and the wire mesh that i use for the grate where the eggs sit has some sharp barbs on the sides that didnt fold under as nicely as i wanted them to. So when one chick put his/her head in between two sharp barbs, (open bator, throw lid to the ground, grab chick, gently place in brooder, rush to bator, find lid, close lid...WHEW!!!!) Besides, i noticed that the hatched chicks tend to kick the pipping eggs around quite a bit, and if i were a chick stuck with my head under my wing trying to get out of my cramped prison, well, i wouldn't like it very much if all of a sudden i started rolling all over the place!!! So as long as you make it quick, opening the bator for one second to grab a chick wont hurt your other eggs! I speak from experience!!!

Anyway......YAY BABIES!!! CHICKIES FOR EVERYBODY!!! YAY!!!!!!!

(That smilely over there <--- That red one is my mom after about three seconds of me(the blue one) jumping up and down in utter joy after the first several babies hatched. In her defence, i guess it was pretty annoying......) Anyone else have a family member get tired of your total chick-obsession on hatching day?