The 6th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[Mama Bay]

i see nothing, hear nothing....im starting to get worried. one hydrometer says 60, another 75.
today is day 19...but i still have 2 days

Me too! Keep thinking I hear peeps but it's just my rowdy chicks in the next room lol.

 

[chickadoodles]

lilbritches1066
My new babies are here! Their layer mom is a sex link and dad is one of three roosters but I am pretty sure it is the Delaware. The other roosters are silkies and these babies only have 4 toes. The yellow one is Freddie and the black one is Jaysin! They were laid on Friday the 13th so I had to give them appropriate names! LOL The mom who hatched and will be raising them is a silkie named Elvis (or Woody is you listen to the children) and she has been wonderful!

Congratulations they are very cute!

 

[JekkaLynn]

So Friday is the dry I set the eggs and so this Tuesday night I stopped turning them but didn't raise the humidity. Last night after asking advice I raise it to between 60-70. I woke up at about 11 pm to incessant cheeping. I figured a chick in the brooder es stuck so I went to check and realized it was coming from the bator! One of my Marans had hatched and a Americana was pipped! This morning the Americana was out but still wet and another was pipped. Another Marans had also pipped. A few hours later it is out too and another Marans has pipped. So much for the Marans hatching late!

 

[Junibutt]

Internal pips can only be seen by candling.

Many people trace the developing air sac with a pencil, while candling it. Also, it helps to set the egg with the lowest dip in the air cell pointing up.

An internal pip is a sign the chick is getting ready: when you candle at lockdown, you can sometimes see the tip of the beak inside the air sac part of the egg.

Thanks lol. I did trace mine I thought it was a term I hadn't heard. I need coffee! I guess I would've noticed if any of mine had internal pips?

Hi @Mama Bay "air sac drawn" means that the chick has pulled the air sac down to one side and its no longer round. Its not a small pull, you can really see the difference. That happens a day or so before the hatch. After that the chick makes a hole in the air sac to breathe and that is called an internal pip. You can see internal pips on candling if the chick is moving.

 

[Junibutt]

Me too! Keep thinking I hear peeps but it's just my rowdy chicks in the next room lol.

some chicks are just quieter than others. Don't worry!

 

[chicken pickin]

So Friday is the dry I set the eggs and so this Tuesday night I stopped turning them but didn't raise the humidity. Last night after asking advice I raise it to between 60-70. I woke up at about 11 pm to incessant cheeping. I figured a chick in the brooder es stuck so I went to check and realized it was coming from the bator! One of my Marans had hatched and a Americana was pipped! This morning the Americana was out but still wet and another was pipped. Another Marans had also pipped. A few hours later it is out too and another Marans has pipped. So much for the Marans hatching late!

Congrats on all the chicks!!!

 

[draye]

I'm now up to eleven that's hatched.

@bamadude: you havr 1 grand chick so far. white crested with feathered legs.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Congrats! and good luck with the rest of the hatch!

Thank you. I have 3 out now and I lost count of the pippers....lol

 

[Mama Bay]

Hi @Mama Bay
 "air sac drawn" means that the chick has pulled the air sac down to one side and its no longer round. Its not a small pull, you can really see the difference. That happens a day or so before the hatch. After that the chick makes a hole in the air sac to breathe and that is called an internal pip. You can see internal pips on candling if the chick is moving.

Ok so it was a new to me term! I did see a couple like that on the shipped ages you gave me but I thought it was further saddling! I candled them while in cartons because I was terrified I would drop one so I could've easily missed internal pips...

 

[Mama Bay]

some chicks are just quieter than others. Don't worry!

I'm just worried after hearing all the horror stories... I have 25 in there and 1 was questionable and 1 with a hairline crack that I put candle wax on. But 24 active. They seem to hate the light lol.