Setting on Good Friday

Having horses I'm a big fan of stall dri and now I'm a big fan of Tek Trol for my chicken stuff. My first hatch stank after a couple days of hatching just a stinky sour smell...Your not "supposed" to wash hatching eggs so I didn't I had an excellent hatch. I've been reading so much about chickens on this site and others I ran across an article from Fred's Fine Fowl's or close to that about using Tek Trol and improving his hatch I go get my gallon of it that I use for other stuff besides chickens and right on the label are directions for cleaning hatching eggs hummm I think well maybe I might try some time with my eggs well my turkey eggs came and they were just filthy there was no way I'd put them in my incubator so I did the Tek Trol wash really had to dip them many times to get them clean. Well out of 7 eggs 3 were clears and 4 hatched then I get my Black Copper eggs and there was one broken and on some of the other eggs there was gunk so I washed those now they were damaged and the day after setting them I had weepers but from 17 I hatched 5 so far best of all my incubator didn't smell until today just a bit and today is the 5th day since they started hatching. So I've been Tek Troling all my eggs and if they are good eggs they hatch if not they don't stink. I'm very smitten with my turkeys too they are quite the characters already.


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Did the egg with the blood in the first picture hatch and live?

I was about to throw out the unhatched eggs when I heard peeping. It is a late set bantam that I really wanted. It was pipped since yesterday am and had not zipped all night. I pulled back some shell to help but it has blood now. It is still not doing well and not out yet. Any one have advise or encouragement or even just words of experience? I am just ready to be done and get this stinky incubator out of the house.
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Kimberly
 
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Did the egg with the blood in the first picture hatch and live?

I was about to throw out the unhatched eggs when I heard peeping. It is a late set bantam that I really wanted. It was pipped since yesterday am and had not zipped all night. I pulled back some shell to help but it has blood now. It is still not doing well and not out yet. Any one have advise or encouragement or even just words of experience? I am just ready to be done and get this stinky incubator out of the house.
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Kimberly

Yes it did hatch and is doin great!!! Wasn't piped....the other chickies in the bator knocked it around and cracked it open...was worried too. Lost 5 chicks at the end of hatch do to humidity going down...were dead in the egg and were "shrink wrapped"
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Hows your little Banty doing??? I'm pullin for you and sending out good luck ha ha!
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Thanks for the reply.
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It's still alive and getting stronger but dragging a piece of the shell around behind it. I am so glad I heard it. I have blow dryer ear and half the time my answer is "huh?"
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Kimberly
 
I have 9 more out from my second batch and tons of pips. On a sad not my good blk silkie Scarlet is not doing well we found her laying over on her side with a caked behind i dont know if she has a egg that will not come out she was fine yesterday now she cant even lift her head. i dont think she is going to make it I have her in a box in the house she will not eat or drink we soaked her behind in hot water and cleaned it up. But i dont know if its to late for her.
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Starry
 
Sorry to hear Starry!!! I've lost 5 in the past 2 months I believe to internal laying all 2 y old RIR...Hard thing to watch when they become "family"...I'm pullin for ya and your girl:(
 
Thanks so much it was hard to see . I have about 40 chicks that have hatched3 chicks piped and some what zipped and the other hatched chicks i guess sat on them and they died
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. So my death rate is 3 ziped and got suffercated 3 must have quite at day18 3 were clear but to dark for me to see and 3 never piped so total dead 9 and 3 clear and hatched 40 with 6 more due to hatch in the next day or 2. I have another bator full. Guess i better call the feed store tell them i have day olds LOL



Tc all Starry
 

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