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[Ravynscroft]

where did you hear that this an't no private club post where you like when you like. all are welcome well maybe not all but almost all. these guy love and live to help all who need it .the rest is just fun and games filling time .  anyway you can look into your eggs is good except a blow torch . good luck with your Incubation.

 

[BYC910]

I know, I know, I said goodnight already. But I got to thinking with as long as this thread has been going, and so many of us have stuck around, you guys all feel like family to me. I hate when I can't check in. You guys rock!

Maybe that last nightcap was a bit too strong.... Hahaha!

good night little sister.

 

[Ravynscroft]

@scflock you HAVE to read Oz's thread now...

 

[tgcanes]

Hello all. Need advice. Have a malposition pip and it's been the same for about 10 or so hours. According to the step by step guide : https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/step-by-step-guide-to-assisted-hatching - I am to wait about to 10-12 hours to begin the assist. I am still 2 hours away from starting Day 20.

Few questions:

1- I'm afraid of breaching the lockdown to begin the assist. If I remove the Malposition pipped egg quick enough (ie- 20 seconds or less) can I open the incubator without harming the other eggs?

2- according to the guide I am only to remove a piece of the shell (no larger than 1/4")and make a slit to the inner membrane to allow them to breathe...any other advice from some of you that have experience with assisting malposition ?

Thanks again for your help.

UPDATE- so far 4 healthy hatches......

 

[Ravynscroft]

Hello all. Need advice. Have a malposition pip and it's been the same for about 10 or so hours. According to the step by step guide : https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/step-by-step-guide-to-assisted-hatching - I am to wait about to 10-12 hours to begin the assist. I am still 2 hours away from starting Day 20.

Few questions:

1- I'm afraid of breaching the lockdown to begin the assist. If I remove the Malposition pipped egg quick enough (ie- 20 seconds or less) can I open the incubator without harming the other eggs?

2- according to the guide I am only to remove a piece of the shell (no larger than 1/4")and make a slit to the inner membrane to allow them to breathe...any other advice from some of you that have experience with assisting malposition ?

Thanks again for your help.

UPDATE- so far 4 healthy hatches......

Sounds like a good plan... if you have a spray bottle, do a quick mist in the bator with warm water as you close it... watch for veins and blood when taking off that piece, and try to get the edges of the membrane to stick to the outer part of shell to keep it from reclosing... kinda like holding a small flap open... good luck!

 

[AmyLynn2374]

sounds great hughesnet sucks but its the best thing can get takes forever to go between pages on here

Get a membership and see if that speeds things up. It did for me.

Just quit. Decide you don't want it and walk away. I went through the "I have to quit because..." thing a couple of times. After I ran out of excuses and found excuses to start again, I started again, but I was a sneak smoker...only at work. Then my DH came to work in the same office, so I quit except when I went out to lunch. That was stupid, so I started bumming them. That made me feel like a criminal, so I quit.

Now I can smoke if I want, not smoke if I don't want. I get a headache off of cigarettes now, especially menthol, so I smoke cigars with my dad when I visit him, or with a friend if out for drinks, and don't miss it the rest of the time.

Menthol is my norm.

I know, I know, I said goodnight already. But I got to thinking with as long as this thread has been going, and so many of us have stuck around, you guys all feel like family to me. I hate when I can't check in. You guys rock!

Maybe that last nightcap was a bit too strong.... Hahaha!

Hello all. Need advice. Have a malposition pip and it's been the same for about 10 or so hours. According to the step by step guide : https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/step-by-step-guide-to-assisted-hatching - I am to wait about to 10-12 hours to begin the assist. I am still 2 hours away from starting Day 20.

Few questions:

1- I'm afraid of breaching the lockdown to begin the assist. If I remove the Malposition pipped egg quick enough (ie- 20 seconds or less) can I open the incubator without harming the other eggs?

2- according to the guide I am only to remove a piece of the shell (no larger than 1/4")and make a slit to the inner membrane to allow them to breathe...any other advice from some of you that have experience with assisting malposition ?

Thanks again for your help.

UPDATE- so far 4 healthy hatches......

As long as you have your humidity up 70%+ opening the bator during a hatch should not bother the chicks as long as you don't leave the top off and you make sure the humidity comes back up after you open. At 10/12 hours I wouldn't do much more than that and check the position to see if it looks about right. After 18 hours I might consider starting an assist but if the veining is still significant I'd wait until 24 hours. My normal pippers average between 12-18 hours, so I wouldn't jump the gun quicker on a chick that in theory should take even longer.

 

[WalnutHill]

We bought our house in 1995. I was five months pregnant and we went out to eat. We had just finished remodeling our 50s ranch house, but we had a two bedroom house and a second child, a girl, on the way with a five year old boy in the other bedroom. I picked up the real estate magazine to browse, and found this photo:

We bought it the next day. Everything just fell into place, I truly believe it was meant to be. It was terribly abused and neglected, but we learned the skills to make it right over the next 7 years.



Our home of 20 years:





I love our home. It has been a great place to raise our family, we have three good dogs buried under the maple tree, and we have invested a great deal of sweat, blood and money into a sensitive renovation. We didn't restore it as we do like running water and electricity, but we didn't shortcut and skimp on what we worked on. All the damaged old siding was replaced with top quality western red cedar. I designed and built a garage that was in sync with the size and scale of the house. The cabinets were built from a tree harvested on the former farmland. We never dreamt we'd be here 20 years, nor stay until the house is so close to 200 years...now only 6 1/2 years away. We've been custodians, and helped to preserve the house so that it will outlast the surrounding subdivision.


The prospect:

It's only 115 years old so we won't see it reach 200. But it has 15 acres, a branch of the Flint River, rolling terrain, paved road, trees, and a wraparound porch. Room for more birds, though I will only keep enough layers for our own uses. Room for a horse. Room for my cars, my tools, and my accumulated "stuff". Dark skies to use our telescope. Outdated decor, but that's easy to fix. And buying would be financially moving downmarket, allowing DH to retire and take care of things, or to find a job he can do remotely even if it pays less, as we won't have a house payment any more. It lacks originality other than staircase and a built in cupboard and some trim. It's clad in vinyl siding (DH's first comments: it has vinyl windows and siding. I wonder if the wood siding looks good behind the vinyl?). It's only a few miles from my new beef supplier and our long time Christmas tree farm. It's only a mile and a half from a major freeway which will reduce my travel time considerably when I need to travel for work. It's 45 minutes closer to our place up north. And it's between two nice sized towns that offer all the services we could want, plus a city within 25 miles to cover anything else. It makes all the sense in the world. I hope it is what it looks to be...

 

[AmyLynn2374]

We bought our house in 1995. I was five months pregnant and we went out to eat. We had just finished remodeling our 50s ranch house, but we had a two bedroom house and a second child, a girl, on the way with a five year old boy in the other bedroom. I picked up the real estate magazine to browse, and found this photo:

We bought it the next day. Everything just fell into place, I truly believe it was meant to be. It was terribly abused and neglected, but we learned the skills to make it right over the next 7 years.



Our home of 20 years:

I love our home. It has been a great place to raise our family, we have three good dogs buried under the maple tree, and we have invested a great deal of sweat, blood and money into a sensitive renovation. We didn't restore it as we do like running water and electricity, but we didn't shortcut and skimp on what we worked on. All the damaged old siding was replaced with top quality western red cedar. I designed and built a garage that was in sync with the size and scale of the house. The cabinets were built from a tree harvested on the former farmland. We never dreamt we'd be here 20 years, nor stay until the house is so close to 200 years...now only 6 1/2 years away. We've been custodians, and helped to preserve the house so that it will outlast the surrounding subdivision.


The prospect:

It's only 115 years old so we won't see it reach 200. But it has 15 acres, a branch of the Flint River, rolling terrain, paved road, trees, and a wraparound porch. Room for more birds, though I will only keep enough layers for our own uses. Room for a horse. Room for my cars, my tools, and my accumulated "stuff". Dark skies to use our telescope. Outdated decor, but that's easy to fix. And buying would be financially moving downmarket, allowing DH to retire and take care of things, or to find a job he can do remotely even if it pays less, as we won't have a house payment any more. It lacks originality other than staircase and a built in cupboard and some trim. It's clad in vinyl siding (DH's first comments: it has vinyl windows and siding. I wonder if the wood siding looks good behind the vinyl?). It's only a few miles from my new beef supplier and our long time Christmas tree farm. It's only a mile and a half from a major freeway which will reduce my travel time considerably when I need to travel for work. It's 45 minutes closer to our place up north. And it's between two nice sized towns that offer all the services we could want, plus a city within 25 miles to cover anything else. It makes all the sense in the world. I hope it is what it looks to be...

I like it

 

[Ravynscroft]

I like it

x2

Can't Ovate again...

 

[tgcanes]

Update on the malposition: Ok here is how it looks after i took a piece of the shell off and made a small slit and peeled back a little of the inner membrane. It bled very very little after I did this but stopped bleeding within maybe 2-3 seconds. How does it look?