Setting eggs today, 6-30-12...anyone else want to join in the fun???

[Kanga77510]

Congrats on all the recent hatches

I ended up with just one chick - but h/she is wonderful. Here is the latest photo:

aw, what a sweetie. Are you going to try and find it a friend?

 

[Stephanie739]

Congrats on all the recent hatches

I ended up with just one chick - but h/she is wonderful. Here is the latest photo:




Cute I'm sorry the others didn't make it. I hope you have better luck next time. What kind of incubator are you using? Were they shipped eggs?

 

[WyoChickenMamma]

I finally have a pip! And it was one of the eggs that had a detached air sac from the shipping!!!!!

Hopefully I will have a baby in the morning.

 

[WyoChickenMamma]

Well it is 10:25am and that chick is still working on it. It is doing an odd thing, instead of zipping it is like it is trying to make that pip area bigger. It has basically pipped three times in the same little area...not in a line. I can hear it chirping though and it is wobbling, so I am not going to help at this time. It pipped only 11 hours ago, so it still has a lot of time. Nothing from any of the others. Hope they pip and get on to hatching soon.

 

[Stephanie739]

Well it is 10:25am and that chick is still working on it. It is doing an odd thing, instead of zipping it is like it is trying to make that pip area bigger. It has basically pipped three times in the same little area...not in a line. I can hear it chirping though and it is wobbling, so I am not going to help at this time. It pipped only 11 hours ago, so it still has a lot of time. Nothing from any of the others. Hope they pip and get on to hatching soon.

This is what my leghorns did! The first two never did make it...the third (on the next hatch) was helped out of the shell by me. I think all three could have made it with better conditions. They (my leghorns) like to hatch last. Opening the incubator several times messed up the first two (pretty sure)

I hope you have your first healthy chick really soon!!

 

[WyoChickenMamma]

I wonder why they do that?? I had a few on a batch once that were basically breach, not sure how they managed that because in my brinsea incubators they spend the first 18 days upright and the cradle moves the whole incubator back and forth. But they got them selves piping on the small end. I had to help them, they were was no way they could move in a circle. this one has pipped in the right place. Wonder if having a detached air sac has anything to do with it? I this is the only one that had a detached sac that grew. If I quit seeing movement or cant' hear it chirp anymore later today I will try to help it out. I really hate opening the incubator though...we are in a very dry climate and probably only have 20-25% humidity in our house.

 

[Cats Cradle]

I wonder why they do that?? I had a few on a batch once that were basically breach, not sure how they managed that because in my brinsea incubators they spend the first 18 days upright and the cradle moves the whole incubator back and forth. But they got them selves piping on the small end. I had to help them, they were was no way they could move in a circle. this one has pipped in the right place. Wonder if having a detached air sac has anything to do with it? I this is the only one that had a detached sac that grew. If I quit seeing movement or cant' hear it chirp anymore later today I will try to help it out. I really hate opening the incubator though...we are in a very dry climate and probably only have 20-25% humidity in our house.

It could be that for some reason the chick is having trouble turning. I did a lot of reading about hatching the muscovies, and one of the reasons they have trouble hatching is because of not loosing enough weight during incubation. That causes them to be too big to move in the shell. The whole point of humidity during incubaton is to control the moisture loss of the egg. The lower your humidity, the greater the weight loss and also the reverse.

I know your Brinsea does a great job of controling the humidity, and in your dry climate you probably don't have to worry about accidentally having the humidity too high, so I think you're right that in this case it's probably related to the stress of shipping.

As far as your humidity for hatching goes, I once read of someone taking their whole incubator into the bathroom, running a hot shower to get the room plenty warm and humid, and then they felt safe opening the incubator! I've never tried it as it's quite humid here anyways, but it sounds like it would work!

 

[Cats Cradle]

Just thought everyone would want to know....


Smudgie is EATING!!!!!!!!!!

 

[walkswithdog]

GO SMUDGENATOR,:

 

[micayc]

I just set my first Citron Spangled Hamburgs!!!