Settin chicken eggs tonight! 8-4-11

[destin0709]

In both my chicken hatches I candled and listened before lockdown and I could hear tapping (like they were tapping on inner lining) but no peeping. One also looked to be threw lining already and I could hear peeping in that one and that was the one I saw wobbling first. (When they break threw lining you can see their shadow above the airspace) I don't think they peep until they break threw the inner lining and breath air. But I'm not positive. Also when my daughter peeped at them you could hear them peep back and wobble more once they had pips. Mine were not due til friday but hatched today and my last ones were 2 days early but I have read they can be later than their hatch date.

 

[destin0709]

My 3 cochin babies, the one I helped is the one sitting.

 

[KDailey]

Awwww Adorable!! I love cochins! I've got several bantam cochins that hatched.

I'm pretty sure the rest of my eggs aren't going to hatch. 16 hatched, 13 live babies, out of 38 eggs. I was hoping for better but for a first try I'd say it went ok. Yesterday was the due date for my eggs so the others hatched early. I'm thinking since the rest of them hatched early then these eggs should be hatching early too, or at least on time. There hasn't been a single wiggle, pip, peep or crack in any of these eggs so I have my doubts about them. I told the eggs when i left for work today that if they weren't hatched by the time I got home that they were doomed because the incubator was getting stinky and I had more eggs that need to go in. lol. Hopefully the threat works.

 

[MommaBugg]

OK! This morning I heard MAJOR chirping but saw no one pipped, so I sat down to wait, just as I sat down I heard a piece of shell hit the bottom of the bator! I looked in to see........ One of the last eggs I expected to pip, had pipped! It was an EE egg, so it had always been too dark to candle! It had a question mark on it! It was with the other eggs on the far side of the bator that werent making progress (so I thought) so I quickly pulled her over to the center of the bator to keep an eye on her.

She progressed rather quickly, had the top half off, but part of her wing and her butt(she couldnt kick the bottom off) seemed stuck. So I acted quick thinking since I had no way to monitor the humidity, that maybe she was indeed stuck. So I got my cup that I had washed and sterilized especially for this type of emergency, warm water and a q-tip. The rim of the egg was bloody and there was a blood drop on the bottom of the bator. I dabbed a little water around the edges of the egg. Almost as soon as I set her down in the bator and closed the lid, she kicked the bottom off.

Then I saw this:

Please tell me that its the umbilical cord and yolk sack! As I was loading the pic, the bottom gelatinus part fell off, but the red bloody thing that looks like a liver is still there. Thing is, the baby is like ALL over the place trying to stand up. How long before it has control over its head? It keeps chirping really loud and doing sommersaults trying to stand.. Is this normal?





UPDATE: The chick is able to sit on its haunches and hold its head up a little, though its still shakey. Still worried about the red globby liver thing in its vent though

 

[destin0709]

MommaBugg: One of my ducks from my last hatch was really puffy by where embellical cord came out with somewhat same thing hanging from belly (jelly looking blob). I didn't think it looked right either because I didn't see it on other ones. Someone on here told me prob just the yoke sac not completly absorbed and it will fall off and not to worry. But once it fell off the puffiness went down and the the baby was fine. A couple of my chickens and ducks also had blood spots on bottom of bator when they came out of egg, I think it's from where cord attaches at belly, not sure?? It didn't last long and wasn't alot, just like a dot here and there where their belly hit, but then it quit.

 

[MommaBugg]

can anyone tell me when the chick needs to eat and drink? How many days? I also need to know when I can take her out of the bator. She looks like the wire in the bottom of the bator is messing up her foot.

 

[MommaBugg]

OK here is our little Snickerdoodle. My daughter named her, and we call her Snickers for short

She is posing with her snuggly.. I think she may be part banty... Anyone know if that can cause any genetic problems? I know she came from an EE egg, but she seemed to fill out the whole egg..

She just seems so much tinier than I rememberd my EE babies being when I got them.. Plus she has that stumpy midgie looking body like a banty baby... Only time will tell I suppose.

 

[KDailey]

Oh how sweet! There are bantam EEs so maybe that's what you've got.

We threw out the rest of my eggs last night. Only one of them actually had a chick in it but I think it was dead.

We put more eggs in the incubator last night. I ordered eggs from several different people and figured I'd have just enough eggs to fill the incubator. Wrong!
-One order was supposed to be 12 but she sent 20!
-One order was supposed to be 8 but she sent 12!
-One order was supposed to be 12 but she sent 17!
-One order was supposed to be 6 and I got 6
-Then I had a few others I picked up but I have no clue what they are or if they'll even hatch.

Thank goodness I've got a neighbor that incubates and has chickens and all her incubators are empty. She took on a dozen and a half for me. I'll start another thread for those guys

 

[MommaBugg]

Quote:
No this little babe was hatched from my own flock. I have full size EE's and then I have bantys. the only banty roos I have are silver sebright and mille fleur duccle, so if she is part banty she would probably be sebright because she has no feathered legs. She just seems so tiny. She came from a normal sized egg, and she seemed kinda big when she hatched, and its odd but now she seems SMALLER since she fluffed out.... Id just like to know if the size difference in the genetics would cause problems with the offspring. I had no clue my bantys were trying with my full size hens until a week after I started incubating, and I saw with my own eyes a sebright mounting a BO and succeeding in the task... chickens................

 

[destin0709]

MommaBugg: Is that the baby with the belly thing and did it go away?