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

[Scrambles55]

Please ignore previous question. She passed on her own. I made her as comfy as I could. Put her on a soft baby blanket beside me on my bed and pet her. It seemed to calm her some. Thank you guys for all the help with her. Especially @Cynthia12 , who stayed up helping me multipule nights.

sorry

 

[PAchickenlover]

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!!

Sorry, I use scissors on a dried cord only. Sorry for the confusion. If it is still soft and has blood in it still then yes you need to use something to tie it off before cutting it.

 

[ShelbyCoral]

OMGOSH GUYS!!! MY GOOSE EGGS ARE HATCHING!!!! One came out this morning!! We have 9 Sebastopol geese! So happy!!! were naming the first born Easter.

 

[Scrambles55]

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.

 

[Happy Chooks]

So I FINALLY have a pip! Just one so far, but that's promising. They are actually due tomorrow cause I had to set them one day late. Told DH that if they hatch tomorrow, that will mean I finally did nearly everything right in this hatch. I usually have an early hatcher or two and a few stragglers. I'm hoping to have all 12 by Monday morning.

Yay, congrats!

I won a six month GFM yesterday and wondering how I redeem that?

You don't have to do anything, it's in the works.

YOUR PIP IS YOUR ... WINNER WINNER!!

Yeah, I could use some fluffy baby love. Went to let the ladies into the run today and found my sweet little Chipmunk on the floor of the coop dead. I'm not sure what happened, she was just a year old. Everyone else is perfectly fine. I'm wondering if there hadn't been some sort of commotion in the coop at some point and maybe she flew up and hit her head on the bottom of the nest boxes (they can walk underneath them) and broke her neck cause she was laying right near the nest boxes. Almost lost her last summer to my dog (she was just slightly quicker than the dog and managed to get away, leaving the dog with only her tail feathers). Her tail had finally almost grown all the way back in. I will miss her - sweet little Chippy. I could use some hatchlings for some fluff therapy now, if they would just hurry up and get hatched. And here's hoping that some of the eggs slated for hatch on the 30th (which are from Chippy and her sisters) will have her same coloring.

So sorry you lost her.

I have a pip that's been pipped since last night. Almost 24hrs. It did nothing until today. And today only one tiny bit more. It's looking dry. I'm not sure if I should do something or not. It's moving every now and then.

Then this one I think is shrink wrapped. Is there a video I can refer to on what to do??

I can see it's membrane snug up against it when I shine a light in the hole. Ahhhhhh :-(

The first one looks odd. At 24 hours like that, I don't think it will hatch on its own. The 2nd looks okay for now, but watch the membrane. Keep your humidity stable. How long has this chick been like this?

Here is the baby, please please tell me I can fix this. Its an Olive Egger if that helps. Its just kicking its legs like anything to get up too. If you roll it over, it sits for a min and then flips back over. Sorry for the messy incubator, but there was 29 chicks that hatched in the last 24 hours. HeHe

It has a squishy belly. Put it in a cup.

Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!!! e My broody accepted the chicks!!! For anyone not following, the chicks are 6 days old and I wasn't sure she would take them. Here's the story if you feel like reading on... I waited until 10:30pm, gathered up the chicks in a box, and took them out. They were quiet at first, but then when I opened the box, they got real loud. So mama hen wakes up and freaks out. But not like an "intruders" freak out, it was like "oh no my babies are out." She clucked at them softly but urgently as I shoved one after another under her. A few popped back out and she clucked at them. One she pecked a bit - not meanly, just mama-like. They were still all making a lot of noise, and she continued to cluck at them until all noises stopped. Then... then...this moment... one of the chicks came out from the side and she started clucking at it. But the chick went to her front and wandered about like it was lost, peeping away. She clucked more urgently. ...and the chick crawled under her chest. And I was like... (quietly of course) So, yeah. I'll get up before dawn to see how they do when they all wake up. But right now I couldn't be more pleased.

Yay!

So I gave it a quick bath and got all the slimy off, except for its head, I didn't want to dunk it, and it just sat there in the water like relief. Poor thing. I dried if off as good as I could really fast, and put it in a lined with paper towel coffee cup, and stuck it right under the brooder light. Its stopped crying, so I guess its happy for a moment. Hopefully its just the egg yolk belly. That would be amazing. But right now its in the cup. All the others in there are running up and trying to peek inside. Its hilarious.

Great job!

No, I will probably be up all night with the poor thing, I feel so bad for it. I will be checking on it. But right now its fast asleep. I think its worn out. Anyone know if Wheaten Ameraucana's are yellow and or yellow/blue chipmunks? Just about all my Ameraucana Blue Eggs came out yellow or yellow/blue. Just wondering, wasn't the color I expected. I thought they would all be brown chipmunks.

Sounds like maybe a blue wheaten?

 

[Happy Chooks]

Can you seperate her in some way until morning , you don't want her to rupture that sac...I had have 2 bad results tonight. I went to check it had been 4 hrs since I did..one pipped wrong end on the underside it was dead in the shell. .. another looked like it had a small egg sac and ripped it and bled out..luckily I hatch in baskets and they were in the same one I quickly moved eggs changed a paper towel liner..6 to go pretty sure 2 are quiter but they are ameracauna's so can't see through blue shells real well... a lot of factors come into play. Mine were shipped and fairly certain low quality...they are EE not ameracauna's and I am thinking they were old. Eggs to begin with which effects everything.

Agree. It sounds like it may have torn it's belly open.

can someone point me in the direction of how to humanely euthanize a chick at home?

I'm sorry you have to do this. I've found the best for the chick is sharp pruning shears. Dig a hole first, so you can drop it in the hol
e as soon as you are done. Unfortunately, there is no easy way for us.

 

[MontanaDolphin]

HELP NEEDED!!!

Ok, I need advice. The last of the silkie/polish eggs pipped yesterday morning. It tried to zip this morning, but seemed to have gotten stuck, as well as some light bleeding. I peeled some of the shell to take a look...to see if it needed assistance...and the membrane is rubbery?? I also see some skinny veins...not the thick ones, but like a hair. I've wrapped her in a wet paper towel with a hole cut out for her beak and put her back in the bator. She has been peeping non stop for the past hour and a half.

Should I leave her just like that? What's up with the rubbery membrane? I've never encountered that before.

 

[foxvalleyfarm]

14??

Try 19... Im afraid I've really messed them up...

 

[elliechooks]

Final count 6 out of 6 hatched - I love broodies!!

 

[Marthab1953]

Congrats to everybody's hatches so far!

I have 28 hatched so far and more pips, so will total it all up when I am done.

Happy Easter to Each and Everyone of you!