Shrink wraped

[casportpony]

Last night was hell, lol. Have some pictures of chicks that were shrink-wrapped and couldn't reach the shell. I'll post those when I'm on a real machine and not this stupid iPad, lol.


-Kathy

That is exactly how I felt after my hatch, this year it is not coming easy. I'm almost scared to think about our shipped eggs hatching.

Day 23! Anxiety? You bet, lol. Just weighed your eggs and they're at 11-13% loss, so maybe we'll be okay? The best looking one air cell wise, a w/w, is at 11%.

-Kathy

 

[DylansMom]

Day 23! Anxiety? You bet, lol. Just weighed your eggs and they're at 11-13% loss, so maybe we'll be okay? The best looking one air cell wise, a w/w, is at 11%.

-Kathy

 

[BYC-user-174785]

The first eggs to hatch were doing great until this morning. A big shell covered a smaller br egg that was zipped and the nice peachick suffocated and died... But I am most worried about a charcoal egg that has shrink wrapped. I made a hole on big end to see whats going on. It hasn't even internally pipped and seems weak. A part of the membrane was nicked and blood came out... I have no idea what to do. Would high humidity help if I put it with my duck eggs?

 

[DylansMom]

The first eggs to hatch were doing great until this morning. A big shell covered a smaller br egg that was zipped and the nice peachick suffocated and died... But I am most worried about a charcoal egg that has shrink wrapped. I made a hole on big end to see whats going on. It hasn't even internally pipped and seems weak. A part of the membrane was nicked and blood came out... I have no idea what to do. Would high humidity help if I put it with my duck eggs?

I would wet the inner membrane with clean water and a Q-tip. Then take a paper towel and make it wet as well, wring out excess and cover your hole with it loosely, this usually keep the inner membrane pretty moist, you may have to redo it several time, but it may buy him some time to make that inner pip. Tough hatches going on this year !
I candled a couple eggs that are due to hatch Wed. and 1 looks really strange, very big air space, too big, never saw one like it on an unshipped egg. Lots of movement so the chick is alive, but this is a bigger air space than I see on hatch day, I'm wondering if this will be like Zaz's egg that shrink wrapped with no exposure to outside air?

 

[BYC-user-174785]

I think it died already. I moved it into incubator from broody with high humidity just in case. I can try the paper towel thing as well. Thanks.

 

[birdeo]

The first eggs to hatch were doing great until this morning. A big shell covered a smaller br egg that was zipped and the nice peachick suffocated and died... But I am most worried about a charcoal egg that has shrink wrapped. I made a hole on big end to see whats going on. It hasn't even internally pipped and seems weak. A part of the membrane was nicked and blood came out... I have no idea what to do. Would high humidity help if I put it with my duck eggs?

I am assuming that by zipped you mean the chick had made the external pip , if so...how would it have suffocated ?
Maybe I don't understand "a big shell covered a smaller br egg means " ?
Even the smallest amount of blood is a LOT to a tiny chick still working on hatching and the results are usually not good.
However, IF that happens again you can try and stop it asap with blood stop or a styptic pencil.

Really it's just not a good idea to try and help until day 26- 27 , as a rule.
Once the internal pip has been made the chick has enough air to last in that egg for 3 days max and it needs to be left alone in that shell for as long as it can be so it can get it's work done internalizing the yolk sac, etc.
Many won't help at all saying that a chick that's not strong enough to do it all on their own is not worth trying to save with but that's hard to adhere to in some cases for sure, like in cases of malposistioned chicks.

Shrink wrapped chicks are the result of too low humidity , it would help to raise it.
I run my eggs at 60 % the entire time until I put them in the hatcher
after they've made the internal pip... usually on day 24-25 .
I then raise the humidity to 65-70% and never have problems with shrink wrapped chicks.

 

[casportpony]

Quote: I lost two this way... They make their initial pip, start to zip just fine, but mine continued turning and not breaking the shell and suffocated. when I went to assist their beaks were about 1/2" from their last pip though the shell. Make sense?

-Kathy

 

[msheets]

So is it not a good idea to dry hatch pea eggs? I dry hatch my chicken eggs, but right now I have pea & turkey eggs. I usually add water the last 3 days...is it different with pea eggs?

 

[casportpony]

So is it not a good idea to dry hatch pea eggs? I dry hatch my chicken eggs, but right now I have pea & turkey eggs. I usually add water the last 3 days...is it different with pea eggs?

I think it all depends on where you live, temp and humidity in the room your bator is in and what bator you have. Last year I had my humidity set at 47% and lost four because they didn't lose enough water.

-Kathy

Disclaimer- I am a complete novice at incubating eggs!

 

[mandyok]

Well I did the float test on an egg that is a week past due they floated all the same, took them out to crack them open one was bad second had a full live chick in it gasping for air. I could just cry. I just sat out there in tears. Why did it float if it was good? I am never doing the float test again. Ugh I am so mad at myself. That baby was a week late, I know my temp is dead on I have three different temp humidity gauges. I just don't understand what went wrong. Although the electric did go out two different times for three hours, but I wouldn't think that would put them that far behind. Any ideas?