Silkie thread!

[bantambury]

Her belly is opened

. I may have jumped the gun on incubating. Apparently eggs gotten to cold can develop but at hatch have problems regardless of ideal incubation. The warm up here in Alaska gave me hope for hatching I know some of the eggs were gathered warm so I will keep trying.

awe! im sorry.

 

[Suzierd]

Her belly is opened . I may have jumped the gun on incubating. Apparently eggs gotten to cold can develop but at hatch have problems regardless of ideal incubation. The warm up here in Alaska gave me hope for hatching I know some of the eggs were gathered warm so I will keep trying.

 

[388chick]

Her belly is opened . I may have jumped the gun on incubating. Apparently eggs gotten to cold can develop but at hatch have problems regardless of ideal incubation. The warm up here in Alaska gave me hope for hatching I know some of the eggs were gathered warm so I will keep trying.

Oh poor little one!! sending you a big hug!! That stinks!! I know you're not supposed to count your chickens before they hatch...but I also know it's so hard not to get excited and look forward to new little nuggies! I am so sorry!!

 

[RockerHen]

Her belly is opened . I may have jumped the gun on incubating. Apparently eggs gotten to cold can develop but at hatch have problems regardless of ideal incubation. The warm up here in Alaska gave me hope for hatching I know some of the eggs were gathered warm so I will keep trying.

I've had the same thing happen, chick got stuck in the egg for a long time, mother hen left the nest with the rest of the chicks and the baby couldn't hatch. I helped it out, but the baby lost a lot of blood because some of the blood vessels were still attached and the umbilical area was still a big gaping hole still dripping a bit with yolk. He had been in the egg so long that his down was dried stiff. I gently washed him off with some soapy water, especially his umbilical area, and used a heat lamp to warm him back up, and fed him some leftover hummingbird sugar water I had. His umbilical area gradually shrunk and closed up, and he fluffed out. I continued to give him sugar water periodically over the next few hours, and he even regained enough strength tor rejoin his mother and siblings. I fed him more sugar water over the next few days, and by than you couldn't tell him apart from the rest. Granted, he was probably just an exceptionally strong chick with a will to survive, but it was just an example of how the little ones who seem hopeless can make it. The thing that eventually killed him was a bobcat, he was about 3 months when it ambushed him amd his siblings. This particular chick was an olive egger, though, I know silkies can be more fragile.

 

[laseterlass]

I candled and opened the late eggs collected the same cold day. Chicks perished all had stages of hernia. There its something to be said for cold eggs I guess. Live and learn.

 

[388chick]

I candled and opened the late eggs collected the same cold day. Chicks perished all had stages of hernia. There its something to be said for cold eggs I guess. Live and learn.

Interesting to know!! What a bummer!!

 

[K Epp]

Is there a such color as a Porcelain Splash? I know its not standard, but that's the best way I can describe my girl.

Her in front of a Porcelain d'Uccle. They are the same color.

 

[Suzierd]

I candled and opened the late eggs collected the same cold day. Chicks perished all had stages of hernia. There its something to be said for cold eggs I guess. Live and learn.

By colder eggs do you mean they were in the frig?

 

[laseterlass]

No. Alaska has warmed as you all froze. I took the opportunity to collect and incubate eggs. The first ones collected had gotten to cold.

 

[Suzierd]

No. Alaska has warmed as you all froze. I took the opportunity to collect and incubate eggs. The first ones collected had gotten to cold.

Oh, ok. Sorry their having such a hard time.