The 5th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[Sally Sunshine]

May I join the hatch-along if I don't have eggs to hatch? My first flock of chickens are only 8 weeks old I bought from My Pet Chicken. I want to enter contest #12.

Contest #12

Celebrity Look alike Contest!
5th Annual 2014 Easter Hatch-a-long!
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Thank you!
Avis P.

of course you may join on the thread here! Even so the celeb contest IS in fact open TO ALL BYC members!! Welcome to BYC Avis!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I just put 25 chicks into a brooder!!! I dont think I have ever had so many hatch so fast! like EVER! faster than my button quail hatched out!!
I had water dripping from the lid in the cooler! had to move them and wipe the condensation off!! holy wetness batman!

 

[MightyDucksVT]

Be thankful for all the feathery friends that have come into your life...Which reminds me have any of you hugged your chickens lately?

 

[chiqita]

I am quite sad to note that today, my third emu chick was found dead in his little brooder for no real apparent reason. his neck had been curling funny the night before, but he was super totally healthy right after the hatch. Anyways, I little sad today about that. :/ You just put so much work into the egg for it to hatch, always checking the temp, you turn it 3 times a day by hand for 50 days...and then it dies.

Hugs. That has to suck.

The O2 can help but it is flammable. Read some of the papers on high level incubation. If I am remembering this right you go over 25% O2 and your risk going BOOOOMM!!! Don't work with pure oxygen unless you have medical grade equipment that can monitor you levels.

I will check more. Im sure that stuff is not pure o2 its commercial they get sued for exploding 16 year olds. Any articles to recomend? And ty!

 

[LooseyGoosey]

RSL babies! Day 20 and two little ones are already out with about 9 more pipping (out of 25)!!! My first go in the hoverbator! I call it hoverbator because I've
been hovering over it all morning

It seems like everyone else is hatchtarded today as well so I'm glad I'm not alone!

 

[Teacherchick18]

If your sure its over hour and a half....
if its zipping that long of a zip line its stuck, typically 5 minutes to an hour for final zip, I have seen longer, but my guess is it may have its head on the wrong side of the wing.
Just check the membranes before you take the top off, but it looks like veins receded. if you have others in the bator not hatched take this one out and wipe side of bator with warm wet rag to get instant boost of humidity in the bator, work quickly and investigate.

Ok so I took the little guy out (who had definitely been in a zip for 2 hours at least) and the membrane was hard as rock on his little back. I peeled little by little and was able to get his head free. His head was under his wing so I am thinking that was how it was supposed to be but I am no expert! Anyway as soon as he was free he started moving all around and cheeping up a storm. I put him back to let him warm up, but that part of the shell is glued solid to his back. How can I free him from the shell safely? Just with a warm moist rag? Thanks!

 

[LooseyGoosey]

Soooo.... he got on top of the other eggs, fell onto his back, cheeped twice.... and fell asleep. Yikes.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: you will have to break pcs of the shell off him and then yes, use warm wet papertowel and get him all cleaned up, if he needs it you can run warm water and gently wash him with dawn dish soap, do NOT get in his NARES! (nostrils) its the quickest way to get them clean, keep them warm and then dry off with a papertowl or clean washrag and put him back in the bator to fluf up.

 

[bantambury]

Be thankful for all the feathery friends that have come into your life...Which reminds me have any of you hugged your chickens lately?

I SAW THIS ON FACEBOOK TODAY AND IT MADE ME CRY!!!!!!

do you know whose video this is?

 

[JDchicks]

I have an early pip, RIR/Lt.Brahma cross.

Has anyone crossed these two before?