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

[Peep-Chicken]

may be a partridge color, they look line my easter eggers and my partridge cochin bantams any furry leggs 

Thanks!

 

[Lemsr2]

What should I do if I can no longer see the air cell in one of my egg (day 22) and there are no pips? Wait? Help? This is a dark colored egg, but I have been able to see air cell in past candles.

EDIT: As an avid eater of these chicken eggs, I can attest that the dark colored shells are very tough and take quite a wack to crack.

You might try putting the egg up to your ear and listen for any tapping noise. It would be very faint, so you have to be in a quiet place and listen really hard. They may be trying to break out. If you don't hear anything, chances are they are not going to survive long enough to break the shell or may have died in the shell. If you think that either one may be the case, you can very carefully tap through the air cell area to crack the shell and open it to see if the chick is alive. If it is, do an assisted hatch and if it's not too weak, it may yet live.

 

[Junibutt]

HELP NEEDED!

One of my past due eggs Day 23 just started a minute ago is oozing froth. I am presuming its dead but I am too afraid to open the bator and touch it. Lest it explodes! Any chance it may be alive?

I don't want to candle it. Would a zip-lock withstand the explosion if I place it in to candle?

I better do a float test on the remaining 4 and dispose them quickly.

 

[chippysmom327]

HELP NEEDED!

One of my past due eggs Day 23 just started a minute ago is oozing froth. I am presuming its dead but I am too afraid to open the bator and touch it. Lest it explodes! Any chance it may be alive?

I don't want to candle it. Would a zip-lock withstand the explosion if I place it in to candle?

I better do a float test on the remaining 4 and dispose them quickly.

If it exploded, that means that there was so much bacteria inside that the gas built up and it exploded. Nothing would be alive inside. Take your others out and candle if there aren't any pips. If there are pips, then.... try to section off the part of the bator where the egg exploded and make sure to get the chicks out as soon as they hatch.

 

[chickiebaby1]

So I started with 88 eggs and I had 44 hatched, so 50%, which I was actually happy with. I had one of my incubators quit on me mid way through so I ended up having to stack all the eggs from one bator into the other one. When I candled on day 18 for lockdown I was afraid the ones on the bottom were not as developed as well as they should have been. I still have 10 eggs in the bator but I don't think anything is going on with them. I actually have to clean it out tomorrow because I have another hatch going into lockdown tomorrow night.

@bamadude , I have to say the 9300 is a great hatcher!! Not so much on the incubating part but it hatched almost all of my eggs for this hatch a long, the temps stayed where I wanted them to and the humidity did great. The only thing I didn't like was the windows constantly started fogging up once the chicks started hatching, and I had taken almost all of the water out before the hatch because it started getting high. I think next time I will keep a paper towel in the well to soak up the moister the chicks put off after they hatch.

My test hatch with the 9300 did not go so well. I ended up with 8 chicks out of 42 eggs. I might give it another try sometime but for now it's my hatcher. I have better luck keeping my temps and humidity in my still airs. That is what I used for this hatch a long and I feel it went well.
Of course nothing beats a broody hen, which I finally have, but it was too late for this hatch a long. Can't wait for the Cinco De Mayo hatch a long. I'm already planning my eggs.........

 

[venymae]

well

You might try putting the egg up to your ear and listen for any tapping noise. It would be very faint, so you have to be in a quiet place and listen really hard. They may be trying to break out. If you don't hear anything, chances are they are not going to survive long enough to break the shell or may have died in the shell. If you think that either one may be the case, you can very carefully tap through the air cell area to crack the shell and open it to see if the chick is alive. If it is, do an assisted hatch and if it's not too weak, it may yet live.

I think I am too nervous to do a complete assisted hatch right now. I took a file and filed a little hole in the shell on the air cell end then put a tiny hole in the membrane and stuck the egg back in the incubator. At least I know s/he can get air now.

Hopefully I'm not doing anything harmful. Do you think that will be ok?

 

[coop410silkies]

What should I do if I can no longer see the air cell in one of my eggs (day 22) and there are no pips? Wait? Help?

venymay, I am not an expert, and I have not incubated many hatches, but I can tell you that 5 of the 10 that ended up hatching for me this HAL, hatched late on day 22, and they didn't pip before this day. Another 4 pipped and hatched today, day 23, and the tenth chick is just now hatching, never saw a pip (and I HAVE been looking, believe me). I am NOT a meddler, but if I thought I could improve the chicks' chances of hatching, I might check them (are any chirping?) and then follow advice. Oddly enough, I can NEVER hear chirping because I am deaf, but if I think about it at lockdown, I can put the amplifier section of my PocketTalker into the bator and listen for chirps through the earphones dangling outside. That's pretty fun, and it takes some of the mystery out of whether I got any wannabe hatchers in there or not. I wish this could be more helpful. You will get help from this forum.

 

[Mama Bay]

That's an awesome first time hatch rate!!!

I was worried I'd get none the whole time and bought 12 chicks! Now I have 32 lol!!!

 

[Junibutt]

If it exploded, that means that there was so much bacteria inside that the gas built up and it exploded. Nothing would be alive inside. Take your others out and candle if there aren't any pips. If there are pips, then.... try to section off the part of the bator where the egg exploded and make sure to get the chicks out as soon as they hatch.

Its oozing froth, has not exploded yet. I better bring myself up to picking it up and throwing out.

 

[coop410silkies]

I was worried I'd get none the whole time and bought 12 chicks! Now I have 32 lol!!!

Now THAT is funny! What are you going to do with 32 chicks, over 70% which will probably be roosters?