Simulated Natural Nest Incubation~Experiment #1 So it begins....

[fisherlady]

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[Tomtommom]

On day 22 here and no signs of anything...how long do you all normally wait over hatch due date before you scratch the hatch?

24 days.. then I perform eggtopsy carefully.

X2

The latest i heard of was day 35 so theres always hope

35 days, for a chicken egg? Woah.

Ladies and gentlemen

..... we have a pip.

Egg # 6 has decided to be first out this morning and is cheeping(heh heh...get it?

chipping/cheeping...oh, never mind...it was funny in my own mind

) her way through the shell.

Oh that's awesome!

my low experience has seen 12 hours be normal and when they stop half way through the zip process for four hours they are stuck. The last one I helped was stuck for 24 hours with no progress on a half zip
this information is a must read:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/step-by-step-guide-to-assisted-hatching

Well, now I know what I screwed up on mine. I had eggs pipped for 1-2 days... no wonder they died. D'oh! I kept the membrane moist, but clearly they weren't going to make it out. Ofcourse, one hadn't absorbed the yolk.. so I guess it would've died either way. One looked perfect though, so pretty... legs were just tangled all weird like. Looked like the egg was much too small for the chick.

I hope to get into hatching.. I did enjoy my one time experience.

Yep...will leave in the nest until dry and hopping around.... and then straight to the outside brooder under the heating pad brooder setup(I've had it on for the past several days, heating the brooder materials under it). Just like for a real broody situation. Babies don't get babied here...they get heat, a clean and dry place to be and food/water. They don't get their beaks dipped in water or food...they will find it in their own time. They will get placed directly under the heating pad brooder and monitored the first day, on and off, and then, once they have learned how to access heat, food and water, they are fed twice a day, checked on each night that everyone made it under the heat and no one got stuck in weird places away from the cold.

We'll see how healthy these FF chicks turn out to be....

I find non-babied animals (and kids!) to be so much more resilient.

Excited to see what sort of resuls these fuzzballs give you as they grow.

 

[Beekissed]

The other eggs are cheeping but not yet pipped! This little one was zipping upside down, so I turned her so that the beak was uppermost....hope that was alright? Or should her head be down a little for more power pushing?

 

[knightie]

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Now they need a candling app. Combine the flashlight app with something that shows you pictures of what the egg is supposed to look like, much like those pregnancy calendars.
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There is (okay last time I looked it didn't have a candler feature, but it tells and shows what happens everyday inside the egg. It's a free app (at least on iPhone) called ihatch chickens.

 

[Beekissed]

Turned her a little on her side instead but still can see the beak pushing out and peeping, so all's good.

Just had a funny feeling...here I am frying eggs in the kitchen while I'm hatching some in the bedroom. It's a funny ol' life, isn't it?

The eggs are delish.....

 

[Cowpoke]

Great Job Bee! God has Blessed this miracle. Congrats! Pics will be cool. Eggciting!

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

That's SO exciting!!!!! SO exciting!!!!!!!!!

 

[Tumbleweed Farm]

I share your excitement Bee--way to go. You be the guru we like to follow!
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[Beekissed]

Oh, don't say that!!! You know that old saying, "When the blind lead the blind, they both fall in the pit."? That's me....blindly going into the world of incubation....

The more I learn, the more I realize I know a grand total of nothing about chickens! True story.

 

[aart]

Turned her a little on her side instead but still can see the beak pushing out and peeping, so all's good.

Just had a funny feeling...here I am frying eggs in the kitchen while I'm hatching some in the bedroom. It's a funny ol' life, isn't it?

The eggs are delish.....

I've found position doesn't really matter, amazingly. I've tried to reposition only to have it roll back...then just left it alone and it got out fine.

For sure!!