Shark snipers Wine dots NEW HATCHES and puppies 1/24/2011 update

[Nava]

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edited to show this guy off Solomon he likes his Yougurt

 

[klf73]

well, I have only sniped one but it seems it was a waste.... eggs aren't doing anything

2 looked like they may have started before they were shipped, 1 had a busted air cell, and the other 5 had big air cells (they were old).
on a side note I am panicking...I have almost 7 dozen eggs in the homemade bator(can fit 2 more dozen) and my brinsea eco 20 is full and I just realized I have 7 dozen eggs coming this week, the first eggs in the bator aren't due to hatch till Saturday!!!

 

[sonew123]

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Um yah! It's decided... you belong to our thread...welcome to hatchers anonomous...where we keep ordering and hatching with no room to spare!!! We spend lots o $ hatch out ..not much but love it and enable eachother to keep doing it!

 

[Nava]

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i can give you my address, so they can ship some of those eggs to me,now that you are a member , i can help you like that

 

[blessedchickenmama7]

Shoot, shoot, shoot, my pip from last night started zipping an hour ago. Now, my humidity is up to 70 and the chick struggled for a bit and has now stopped. He zipped 1/2 way and just quit. I want to reach in and get it because it seems like it's not breathing as deeply and I'm scared to wait, but I JUST got another pip. What to do?? I helped one out last month and it was Nat's black chick and it's thriving and doing well. But it was shrink wrapped. I think this bugger is too. How can humidity be at 70 and they get wrapped??? It happened only with the one last month, and the rest were fine.

 

[kelseygirl707]

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I am a Habitual helper, and if I have to open the bator, I just make sure to mist the eggs when I close it again, but still end up having issues which cause me to help more, it's a vicious cycle.

 

[blessedchickenmama7]

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I am a Habitual helper, and if I have to open the bator, I just make sure to mist the eggs when I close it again, but still end up having issues which cause me to help more, it's a vicious cycle.

I helped. It was totally wrapped. The baby is fine. I just added a sponge with warm water on it to get the humidity up, but you are right, now I probably messed up the one that just pipped... Sigh. Oh, well, I do have a beautiful baby sitting in it's egg and chirping at me. Still have 2 that haven't pipped.

 

[blessedchickenmama7]

One of these days I'm gonna learn. The chick that I helped is now out of the egg. He was ready, no blood or anything, except it has what looks like an ulcer on it's foot and it's feet are very deformed and swollen looking. I know folks say that usually if they can't hatch on their own there is a reason. And I do have the one perfect chick from last month from helping. Man, I had a cull last month. I don't think I can do it again. But this chick's feet look like they are curled under at the knee! (I know, chicks don't have knees. I'm just sayin'. It's bad.)

And this one would be from the set of SF/BSF eggs of which only 4 made it to lockdown and it is the only one hatched so far. And this would be the one breed I said I wanted to really work on.

Alright, whine over. I'll take pics and see if the more experienced folks think I can help it. What do you put on a sore on a new hatched chick??? I know I can try and splint it, but do I need to get it out of the bator in case whatever it is on it's foot is contagious??? I have other eggs in there as well that aren't due now.

 

[kelseygirl707]

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I usually have about a 50/50 chance DH will have to cull if I help, but we both agreed, that it's worth a try, if we can save a fuzzbutt. Kevin is my 6 week old Cuckoo Maran pullet who I had to help out, and actually did have a foot deformity, but by splinting it, and resplinting it every 24 hours, she is now happy and only pigeon toed, LOL. If they are going to die anyway, I would like to think I did everything I could to save it, and if it just can't be saved, DH puts them down as quickly as possible.

 

[blessedchickenmama7]

Thanks, Kelsey. I took it out because of the wound on it's foot. Looking at it up close, it appears to be an injury from rubbing the egg shell. I looked on the hatchability problem chart and it says if they push on the egg too long it can happen. Like I said, this baby struggled for a while. So it's probably from that. It doesn't look infected. But I didn't put it back. I have it in my shirt, which is ironic since I joked about that yesterday that if I had a singleton I'd have to carry it around in my bra. And here I sit. But the baby is quite content and warm, and in case it is something infectious it's not sliding around over my other eggs. I'll tell you one thing, though. There's no way I'm gonna be able to cull this baby if I can't fix it.

On the other hand, I have dinner plans in two hours with a ladies group from church, and I can't take the baby. I may put it in a box and put it back in the bator then.