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

[Sally Sunshine]

My hatch is done. 5 total.

Thank you again Sally

 

[JackieandChicks]

I've been fighting the humidity then I discovered my syrofoam incubator has a leak in the bottom. My OEs are fine and this is day 22 for the other three Marans, so I'm not sure if they are going to hatch or not (I did candle and two seemed okay yet but not sure). We'll see on those. I'm glad I interfered as I'm sure she would never have come out by herself.

 

[Arielle]

Back at 'ya and to everyone!

cannot find the link to dyed eggs contest. here are real dyed eggs. the kids had a ball. it kept there attention for around 2 hours. They colored and recolored eggs over and over. This made my Easter. Hadn't colored colors since my kids were small.
This was a party for to jeep members , my daughter and jeep meet and Mexican dinner. great dinner.

You just made my day!!!! The gLoriously bright colors put a smile on my face!!

Happy Easter

 

[jbher]

NEVER CUT a cord with a sharp object, always pinch those veins or it will bleed out,  always blunt,  When I deliver pups I either grab the hemostats or dental floss,  I have no luck with dental floss on chicks it tends to just cut through all that stuff.  

I use my nails and pinch the cord x2 with nails and then carefully pull in both directions and have no bleeding, BUT AGAIN, I SERIOUSLY CANT JUDGE WHAT YOU HAVE HANGING IN THE IMAGES, sorry!  

Okay I'm going to take it out carefully and wrap in warm washcloth then try and take a picture. It's my last chick so hopefully I can get it all better :-( thank u!!

 

[DCchicken]

So far nothing. Out of 32 eggs set, none have hatched, including both shipped and ones from my own backyard. Thanks Brinsea for your crappy incubators. I have never ever had a zero hatch before.

My Brinsea incubators are going to become full of shotgun shells later this afternoon. It is time to open my wallet and buy a real incubator like the Sportsman.

 

[JDchicks]

 

[Arielle]

Happy Easter!!!

I have one chick connected to the membrane via the cord. It hadn't fully absorbed the yolk last night and it had a little bulge. I wrapped it with it's shell and put it in a cup overnight. This morning it's out and alone in the bator. The cord is drying but the membrane part is still mushy and I'm very worried it's going to pull off and bleed because it tries to walk and gets caught up on it. How can I safely detach or cut it? I tried to search and can't find much. My computer fried this weekend so I'm stuck with looking on my phone. Help please! :-(

You can also put a light screen over the top of cup to keep chick in place until a solution presents itself. Chicks looks very healthy otherwise! Sorry your computer fried-- glad you have your phone!!

HATCH COMPLETE FOR ME

started with 32 eggs
18 eggs were to go into lockdown, last min I pulled on that that was showing too much light in the egg.

So 17 eggs went into lockdown
and ALL 17 eggs hatched!!!

6 Black Copper Marans and
11 Sexlinks

You go Girl!!!!

For those that had many pips at wrong end of egg:

Did you manually turn or was this happening with auto turners too?

My hatch was bad this year and I had many malpositioned chicks. I've manually turned for years now but after this am seriously considering getting a turner and was looking for info from those that had same thing happening.

Reading through during hatch it seemed there was many at wrong end. Who knows, maybe something to do with the blood moon for all I know.

I only hand turn-- and rarely had upside down chicks. Granted I have only JUSt started hatching for THIS year . . . maybe something diferent this year going on.

I wonder if how eggs are stored plays a part.

Lookig forward to seeing more reponses to this interesting question.

Thank you Sally Sunshine and BYC - I had to assist my marans - she pipped early yesterday morning, then could not get the shell away. I reached in a got off the little piece after 8 hours. She started zipping after that but 12 hours or so later only made 1/4 headway. Last night 9ish I zipped the shell for her because her foot was sticking out of the hole! You can see how she was in the first photo. An hour later she could not push out (my theory is that she could not use that foot/leg to push) so I got the rest of the shell off and some membrane. (Second and third photos). At that point I remembered to take pictures! After another hour of pushing she could not get out and she was getting sticky, so I cracked some more shell, put her back in the incubator, and she pushed herself the rest of the way out. (No photo of that, it happened quickly after I put her back in the incubator). I still had to remove the glued-on sticky membrane. I let her rest overnight in the incubator, and this morning was happy to see she is still alive! I think I'll have to wash her but I really wanted to let her recover her strength - she really fought hard to get out and I'm glad I had those articles to read from this group when to help her but not too much help!

Beautiful!

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NEVER CUT a cord with a sharp object, always pinch those veins or it will bleed out, always blunt, When I deliver pups I either grab the hemostats or dental floss, I have no luck with dental floss on chicks it tends to just cut through all that stuff.

I use my nails and pinch the cord x2 with nails and then carefully pull in both directions and have no bleeding, BUT AGAIN, I SERIOUSLY CANT JUDGE WHAT YOU HAVE HANGING IN THE IMAGES, sorry!
GREAT POINT!!!!

THere is a better healing and clotting reaction when the cord tissue is scraped to cut it rather than a clean cut with a scissor. THen hold as in pinch as it clots. I've done lambs and foals the same way.

 

[MightyDucksVT]

So far nothing. Out of 32 eggs set, none have hatched, including both shipped and ones from my own backyard. Thanks Brinsea for your crappy incubators. I have never ever had a zero hatch before.

My Brinsea incubators are going to become full of shotgun shells later this afternoon. It is time to open my wallet and buy a real incubator like the Sportsman.

Don't kill it yet! You never know there is still some time.

 

[Arielle]

So far nothing. Out of 32 eggs set, none have hatched, including both shipped and ones from my own backyard. Thanks Brinsea for your crappy incubators. I have never ever had a zero hatch before.

My Brinsea incubators are going to become full of shotgun shells later this afternoon. It is time to open my wallet and buy a real incubator like the Sportsman.

Sorry the eggs have not pipped-- might be early yet. A slightly low temp will increase the time to hatch.

I have an LG-- everyone said it was crappy-- it was really about how to work with it and find what works. I hope you will take this as a challenge and set some more eggs, perhaps just from your own flock ( not shipped) and perfect your budding skills.

Before you fill it full of shot-- sent it my way!! DH will have a fit-- but I promised not more setting eggs after May 1st-- he forgot tosay no more incubators before May 1st though! lol

 

[starlingdaly]

So far nothing. Out of 32 eggs set, none have hatched, including both shipped and ones from my own backyard. Thanks Brinsea for your crappy incubators. I have never ever had a zero hatch before.

My Brinsea incubators are going to become full of shotgun shells later this afternoon. It is time to open my wallet and buy a real incubator like the Sportsman.

Where are you located? I could take your incubators off your hands.
Also, did you candle? What day are you on? If this is day 21 I would wait another couple of days before giving up!