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[WyoChickenMamma]

So I finally have a chick. My day 21 was Saturday and it was brutal...no pips nothing. Went to bed late late last night...still nothing. My husband and I were both up a few times in the night looking. He was up at 5am and still nothing. Then at 6:30 this morning we were woken up by the chirping of my first ever showgirl chick...screaming it's little head off. He had to have pipped and zipped in an hour and a half!!! I say HE, because I really wanted a roos to put with my NN girls.

So I still have 11 FBCM and 2 more silkie/showgirl eggs with nothing...not a single pip. I really hope more hatch don't leave this guy to be a loner.

 

[CJJenkins]

So I finally have a chick. My day 21 was Saturday and it was brutal...no pips nothing. Went to bed late late last night...still nothing. My husband and I were both up a few times in the night looking. He was up at 5am and still nothing. Then at 6:30 this morning we were woken up by the chirping of my first ever showgirl chick...screaming it's little head off. He had to have pipped and zipped in an hour and a half!!! I say HE, because I really wanted a roos to put with my NN girls.

So I still have 11 FBCM and 2 more silkie/showgirl eggs with nothing...not a single pip. I really hope more hatch don't leave this guy to be a loner.

Hope you have more, once they start they seem to move along pretty quickly, however sitting and watching them makes it seem really long....

Are they rocking? Any movement?

Will be looking forward to an update!
Power outage doesn't seem to have affected babies. I read where they can get pasty butt from temp fluxes in the brooder, but they all seem fine. The little runt that bad chicken mommy me tried to dehydrate to death

is so close now to the size of the other babies that I can barely tell which chick it is.

 

[WyoChickenMamma]

Hope you have more, once they start they seem to move along pretty quickly, however sitting and watching them makes it seem really long....

Are they rocking? Any movement?

Will be looking forward to an update!
Power outage doesn't seem to have affected babies. I read where they can get pasty butt from temp fluxes in the brooder, but they all seem fine. The little runt that bad chicken mommy me tried to dehydrate to death

is so close now to the size of the other babies that I can barely tell which chick it is

I was just sitting there watching that little one run around and I can't see pips or movement from any of the others. With my last batches it does seem like once one is out the chirping seems to spur others into action. So hopefully this will happen with this one too.

So glad to hear the little on is doing well.

 

[PAPACABOT]

hopefully more will come out, cause i know having only one little chick can create so much noise that it can wake you up. I have already found that out when I had moved some from the brooder to the coop, I had one that just wasnt ready and I kept him in there for a day or two more. He or she was highly noisier.

I did start a new batch with some more eggs , i have some austrolarp and polish alone with some silkie showgirl eggs that i had bought. With the silkie eggs, I have 3 or 4 that have detatched air cells. Whats the chances on them hatching ?

 

[WyoChickenMamma]

hopefully more will come out, cause i know having only one little chick can create so much noise that it can wake you up. I have already found that out when I had moved some from the brooder to the coop, I had one that just wasnt ready and I kept him in there for a day or two more. He or she was highly noisier.

I did start a new batch with some more eggs , i have some austrolarp and polish alone with some silkie showgirl eggs that i had bought. With the silkie eggs, I have 3 or 4 that have detatched air cells. Whats the chances on them hatching ?

I had 10 silkie/showgirl egg sent to me, and every one had a detached air sac. Of the 10, only three made it to lockdown. Of those three, I really only think 2 were developing normally. I was ready to pitch one of them on the last candling day, but my husband who is much more of an optimist than me encouraged me to put it in with the rest. So out of the 10 with air sac issues, so far I have one that is running around screaming.

I let them settle for nearly 24 hours and then I incubated them upright and I have them hatching in egg cartons to keep them upright and to keep the ones that hatch from playing soccer with the unhatched eggs. I had detached air sacks on my last batch of shipped eggs and I had 6/8 hatch. I did the same thing, upright incubation and hatching in the carton cup thingys.

Good luck with yours!!!!

 

[PAPACABOT]

When you candled later in the incubating period, did you see the aircell reattach or did it stay unattached. I got mine through ebay from a seller who had 100% feedback. We wanted more silkie chicks than what we havve now.

I guess I will have to wait the week to see what we get when I candle again.

 

[WyoChickenMamma]

It did seem like the ones that made it to lockdown had reattached, but were totally not the right shape...some kind of horse shoed up the side of the egg. It also seems like they grew faster than they normally would...but this could be because the eggs are coming from a way low elevation to my place which is nearly 6000 feet about sea level. The higher elevation does create its own set of challenges, one of which is a fast growing air sac.

I would go ahead and try to hatch them. The worst thing that can happen is that they don't hatch.

I still just have that one showgirl chick in the incubator, running around screaming. No other pips at all. I think within the hour it will be fluffed up enough that I can take it out and put it with my babies that hatched last Sunday. At least then it won't be alone. I think I will also try to candle a few of the ones still in there to see if there are any internal pips or death in the shell or whatever the case may be. Don't think I can see into the Marans though.

 

[Lyssa]

Yes, how did everything turn out. I am all crossed fingers, legs and arms for you!

I was almost ready to end the chick experiment today, then when I came home from some errands I have 2 chicks pipping! None of the others are doing anything, but that will give everyone another couple of days. Very exciting, these are the first chickens I have ever seen born.

 

[WyoChickenMamma]

Well I am pretty much at the end of day 22...It is 9:40pm here and still nothing else. This is sooo depressing. I have a lot money in that incubator and was hoping for more than one out of 14. And really it started out as 22. I am not throwing in the towel yet, but I don't think I will be up all night looking. It gets harder and harder to walk by there and not even see a wiggle.

 

[Lyssa]

I'm so sorry. This was my first incubator hatch and I got 2 of 11... So, I feel you. I think I need a humidity gauge, as I struggled with the humidity. I learned a ton about where to put my water (under the back vent) so its easy to fill. Also I think I need a better themomitor, as they all read different temps. The good news is, that even though my hen hatched her 2 chicks on Thurs, she seems to have accepted the 2 chicks that hatched yesterday. There seems to be a window in which she is still primed to have more chicks, and 3 days is in that window. Of course the real proff will be how things are tonight when I get home from work, and she is still liking the new chicks. But, so far so good. The chicks that hatched in the incubator were cheering constantly. As soon as I put them in with her, they were so quiet. She just calmed them right down. Not a peep from any of the four this morning, but the older 2 were scrambling all over her. She's happy as long as I leave her alone