30% is exactly what I'm running with no water right now. At lockdown you just fill both wells and drape a paper towel across them, let it sink in, and wick the water all over the floor under the tray. That should put you at 65-67% with the vent fully open. In the winter I have to close the vent halfway. That's when the pump will be useful
That's exactly what made me blue. You get emotionally attached to the ones you try so hard with. I assisted several in my first few hatches. I'm full on blue now. I haven't even candled the eggs I have in right nowWell, this makes me feel pretty bad for #13.
#13 was my assisted hatch. I thought it needed an AH due to shrinkwrap b/c of the faulty humidity gauge. Ended up it was a fairly moderate splay leg. He could walk, but was really off balance. We did our best with the bandaids, closing the gap a little every day. Separated him with one other chick to keep him company and checked his progress daily. He was very loud and woke me cheeping multiple times a night. Just wanted attention, I guess, he was warm, and fed and watered when I would check on him. He was precious, but the gap between his legs seemed to be getting wider each day when we changed the bandaids out. We continued to lessen the gap a little every day and he got around just okay with it on, but when we would take it off, he could barely stand. Yesterday afternoon, we found him face down in the feed. :/ He was gone.
I even cut small holes in glad ware type lids to prevent him from drowning in the feed, but it didn't work. I feel just awful still.
Anyhow, that's why I have been thinking blue lately. Makes me feel selfish, but we really did all we could possibly do and he still didn't make it.
Well, this makes me feel pretty bad for #13.
#13 was my assisted hatch. I thought it needed an AH due to shrinkwrap b/c of the faulty humidity gauge. Ended up it was a fairly moderate splay leg. He could walk, but was really off balance. We did our best with the bandaids, closing the gap a little every day. Separated him with one other chick to keep him company and checked his progress daily. He was very loud and woke me cheeping multiple times a night. Just wanted attention, I guess, he was warm, and fed and watered when I would check on him. He was precious, but the gap between his legs seemed to be getting wider each day when we changed the bandaids out. We continued to lessen the gap a little every day and he got around just okay with it on, but when we would take it off, he could barely stand. Yesterday afternoon, we found him face down in the feed. :/ He was gone.
I even cut small holes in glad ware type lids to prevent him from drowning in the feed, but it didn't work. I feel just awful still.
Anyhow, that's why I have been thinking blue lately. Makes me feel selfish, but we really did all we could possibly do and he still didn't make it.
Don't beat yourself up over it. It could have just as easily gone the other way. We never know if the assisted hatch will turn out well, or not so well. Between Amy and myself, I think we'd both tell you that our assists have had a very high success rate with a positive outcome: not being able to identify the AH chicks in a brood line up several days after the hatch. Will Amy and I run into assists with negative outcomes? Of course we will. But in the mean time, we have more pullets in our coops giving us eggs than we otherwise would have. I think the part of the AH decision and the discussion that needs to be had is: At what point after an AH do you determine that it's time to euthanize the chick, and is it more ethical to euthanize at some point than waiting for the chick to eventually die? And... I can see, and completely support the blue stance of non-intervention. Go Blue, but... I'll stay Red!!!Well, this makes me feel pretty bad for #13.
#13 was my assisted hatch. I thought it needed an AH due to shrinkwrap b/c of the faulty humidity gauge. Ended up it was a fairly moderate splay leg. He could walk, but was really off balance. We did our best with the bandaids, closing the gap a little every day. Separated him with one other chick to keep him company and checked his progress daily. He was very loud and woke me cheeping multiple times a night. Just wanted attention, I guess, he was warm, and fed and watered when I would check on him. He was precious, but the gap between his legs seemed to be getting wider each day when we changed the bandaids out. We continued to lessen the gap a little every day and he got around just okay with it on, but when we would take it off, he could barely stand. Yesterday afternoon, we found him face down in the feed.He was gone.
I even cut small holes in glad ware type lids to prevent him from drowning in the feed, but it didn't work. I feel just awful still.
Anyhow, that's why I have been thinking blue lately. Makes me feel selfish, but we really did all we could possibly do and he still didn't make it.
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