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

[ShelbyCoral]

My chick Cant walk on her feet... Does she have sprayed legs?

 

[ShelbyCoral]

She wont open the one eye in the picture btw I think it dried shut...

 

[ShelbyCoral]

Splayed i mean

 

[chicken pickin]

My chick Cant walk on her feet... Does she have sprayed legs?

Did you hatch her with the auto turner still in the incubator? if so was it still on? If it was it could have caught one of her legs.

Also the humidity looks to high you should never see condensation on the windows.

 

[ShelbyCoral]

Oh okay, how to I stop the Humidity? I only did that cause she was having a hard time with hatching... She kept drying up and sticking to her egg... We dont have another incubator so we had to make due with this. She is the only one to hatch out of 3 and there are other due next week still in there

 

[angelobutter]

We just put our first geese eggs in our own incubator. How do we do it? xD We put water on them (sprayed)

sorry i forgot to reply- I am totally new to hatching geese, what i gleaned from the internet :

day 1 - 5 - normal incubation (99.5 f, 45% humidity, turning every couple of hours)
day 6-14 - open the incubator and mist the eggs and allow to cool for 5 minutes, gradually upping that to 10 minutes
day 14- 24- open the incubator and mist the eggs and allow to cool for 15 minutes.
day 25- stop turning put eggs in lockdown (no turning, don't open the incubator, 99.5 f, 65% humidity)

I admit however I have so many eggs hatching/turning/pipping/etc that I got pretty lazy and many days they were just turned and not cooled or misted. It seemed to be ok, I candled frequently (which probably helped since they were cooled during that time) and monitored moisture loss and they hatched fine. the first baby needed slight assistance, the membrane got brown so i carefully peeled back the brown membrane and put it back in the incubator and the next morning both goslings were hatched.

I have 3 more goose eggs in lockdown that just pipped this morning and many more not due to hatch for a while so we will see if "lazy hatching" works or if i just got lucky.

 

[ShelbyCoral]

Thank you everyone for helping me. But sadly, since I took her out of the bator to get away from the humity. She died. She couldn't handle the brooder pen I had yet.

 

[onlygirloutof6]

Just because the baby's feet don't look right, give them time to dry. Mother nature will let you know. All feet problems seem too be on wet chicks!? Give them a chance!

 

[Cynthia12]

So this is the hen I lost to coyotes and we still haven't found her feathers...

MIA! We haven't gotten a coyote either...

You young lady, are adorable! And, I can see why you would be pretty sad about losing such a beautiful hen. She has a very sweet face, you can only tell that she feels loved.
Sorry about your baby chick. I am hatcing silkies right now, and I really get scared right about now..one is out, one is zipping, and a lot of pips that have stayed the same for quite a while.
Your little chick...who knows. It happens. Did you get your humidity down a bit? You don't want condensation on the windows. How many do you have left to hatch? Hoping they make it!!

 

[SilkieSensation]

I have polish/silkies hatching! And crested easter eggers (Polish/cream legbar).