The 4th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long

[ronott1]

Quote: Poly vol si or any baby drops without Iron. It only takes a drop on the beak to revive them usually. Remember though, without Iron.

Quote: I get an incubator thermometer and put it under the light. I make that spot 95 degrees for the first week. It is ok for the rest of the brooder to be lower in temp. They will move in and out of the heat.

 

[chirpingcricket]

Happy hatching day to everyone!

There are still those who are waiting, watching, praying and working fervently to assist/revive chickies along the way.

You are all doing the best you can. Hang in there!

Meanwhile, know that there are many who are standing by to cheer you onwards!

 

[chickenpooplady]

well just stepped out of a quick shower and now the RIR is star gazing again was able to perk him up again and then my only white silkie is pretty well dead. His body is completely limp and I'm trying to get it to drink something but no luck. I'm worried now what might be going on here, this same silkie was fine before I went into the shower completely. I dont know what I'm doing wrong

This is completely devastating and I'm considering never hatching again!

This silkie is completely unresponsive, just moving its tongue, beak wide open and body is completely limp.

Congrats to all the winners! I am glued to the incubator. Does 99 degrees and 50% humidity sound ok? I was planning on raising the humidity to 60% when I get my first pip but it sounds like a lot of people have their humidity at 60% already.

 

[Maah]

well just stepped out of a quick shower and now the RIR is star gazing again was able to perk him up again and then my only white silkie is pretty well dead. His body is completely limp and I'm trying to get it to drink something but no luck. I'm worried now what might be going on here, this same silkie was fine before I went into the shower completely. I dont know what I'm doing wrong

This is completely devastating and I'm considering never hatching again!

This silkie is completely unresponsive, just moving its tongue, beak wide open and body is completely limp.

 

[gryeyes]

Noahsmom, Sparkle is a newish addidtion to my flock. A family in the East Bay area posted the need to rehome a year old silkie hen which had been bullied and picked at so much by their flock and another who tried to integrate her into theirs with the same result. I responded because I had a special needs, thrice rescued from being picked upon, WCB Polish rooster in the house. I guess I passed the test, because they gave her to me. We met in Sacramento for the exchange.

I bought a diaper for her because I wasn't going to put her into my flock after she'd suffered feather picking twice, already.

Sparkle resumed laying within a few days, then went broody in the brooder bin I set up for her safe haven in my second bedroom used as my office, plus incubator room & chick nursery last year. I tucked some of my flock eggs under her. (Her eggs weren't fertile; no rooster access.) She hatched four chicks and did not take them out of the brooder bin for two weeks. So, she's been in the house seven weeks, but only the first two of those weeks were "free access" to the whole house. She mostly stayed in the office, which has been a chick brooding room before. Every day the weather was nice, she would go outside to be a regular chicken in the garden, but her coop is the whole house.

She has, and will have, access outside onto the deck and into the fenced garden right off that deck. Sparkle just isn't a flock chicken.

Chicken diapers are a fantastic solution to the problem most folks have with the concept of a House Chicken. Had she not gone broody, she would have worn it daily.

 

[ImpulsiveFarmer]

Quote: I normally try to get the humidity at least in the 60's if not higher. I hatched out my staggered hatch in the mid 60's and I didn't have any problems. 50 is too low IMO and I've had trouble with the membrane sticking to the chicks when the humidity is below 60%.

 

[rarebear]

Poly-Vi-Sol... Infant Vitamin drops - Without Iron. If you can't find them, just ask your pharmacy counter person. Our local pharmacy didn't have any, so I asked, and they ordered some in for me for the next day.



This is what I received...

Thanks a million! I am off to the store.

 

[chickenpooplady]

I normally try to get the humidity at least in the 60's if not higher. I hatched out my staggered hatch in the mid 60's and I didn't have any problems. 50 is too low IMO and I've had trouble with the membrane sticking to the chicks when the humidity is below 60%.

Ok, I will raise it. Thank you!

 

[Cynthia12]

The power company had to shut off my power for an hour today!

Thankfully I heat with wood, so I placed the bator next to the wood stove and managed to keep it in the mid 90's.

Now that the power is back on I'm in lockdown. All but one of the eggs "feels" right, here is to hoping they hatch.

Bet you do great!

 

[RedIII]

This is one of the Bates line RIR's from Ron Fogel:

Beautiful baby!

Still have some catching up to do, so sorry if I'm missing someone. Lost my remaining Icee chick this morning. I'm guessing failure to thrive. Sigh.....I've got a lot of work to do to clean up my stock and the viability of their eggs, it seems.

Hope everyone's well this fine, sunny day!