The 7th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-A-Long!

[deserteggs22]

@mlm mike

I total hatch was.....

14/18

 

[IHeartPoultry]

So out of 7 serama eggs and 15 supermarket eggs... I had only ONE natural hatch. I had to assist (as in open the entire egg and slide the barely alive embryo out) THREE chicks. And as for the other eggs... all of the supermarket ones were not fertile. One of the serama eggs was bad from day one. and the TWO other serama eggs that went to lockdown had the lethal gene

The amazing story about the tough hatch one of my chicks had:
One chick that had to be assisted was a breach chick that could not even pip. She wasn't peeping when we tapped. We pipped the air cell and saw movement! There was no beak. I checked how to assist a malposition on BYC and attempted to distinguish which malposition she was. We weren't sure but we started slowly picking away the shell and leaving the membrane. This was extremely stressful! Lets just say... blood stop was our friend. We worked through the night, off and on so the veins could recede as we worked. Half way through the tiring night I noticed something. There was a bubble. A bubble under the membrane. Why does a bubble matter? Because the chick is breathing out. She wasn't getting air in through her nose. She was getting air through the shell and trying to start breathing when there was no air. We think we were chipping off so many pieces of shell she could no longer breath through the shell. We quickly popped the bubble and opened up the membrane so she could breath. Did I mention this is STRESSFUL?! After a long night we had made some progress and were able to pull her head out of the egg so she could breath easily. We noticed that she was in one of the most fatal malpositions! Her head was also misshapen. Once her head was out, and she was breathing steadily we let her rest like that for a while. By morning we started working to get her body out of the shell. It wasn't too long before she was out. But once she was out, that wasn't the end of the whole ordeal. She had a very, very think umbilical cord with many major veins running through it. It was about the size around as a pencil, possibly bigger. Again, I searched on BYC, however, nothing promising came up. We were once again afraid for her life. We let her sit for about 14 hours. We noticed that it was going down in size and the veins weren't so scary-looking! We waited patiently until 9pm when we cut the umbilical cord (that was now about as big around as three hairs) so she could start doing normal-chickie-activities. There was no blood when we cut it. Oh and to add the cherry on top of all of her problems- she was sticky too. Her wing was glued down to her head and the other was glued to her body. We wet her and got most of the stickiness off. She started drinking about an hour later. We made her a chick food, water, and sugar mixture, which she liked quite a bit! All through last night we would get up every three hours to feed her. This morning she was able to sit upright all by herself so we decided to put food and water in her ICU incubator. She has been drinking and eating by herself sense. She had her first poo and was getting very fluffy by noon. She has gotten much, much better sense even this morning! By afternoon she was walking pretty well and was almost 100% fluffy. As I'm writing this she is a very healthy little chick that can run, eat, drink, sleep, and (her favorite) poo! We are extremely optimistic about her future! She's not completely out of the woods yet, but she sure is close!

I just wanted to share that story with you all to inspire you to help out your chicks, even the ones that you swear will never survive! Life is really an amazing thing!


TOTAL LIVE CHICKS= 4

Photos coming soon!

 

[OneMountainAcres]

I'm curious, does anyone know how the emu hatch went? I may have missed it if it was discussed.

 

[Happy Chooks]

I want to add my thanks for all the helpful information on BYC. I don't post often, but I'm reading and searching out answers every day. I also have a chick with wry neck and thanks to information on here I treated it, and it's doing great!

So glad it helped!

Awww, that's sweet Cynthia.

THANK YOU KELLY!!!!!

Back at ya!

I'm curious, does anyone know how the emu hatch went? I may have missed it if it was discussed.

I haven't seen an update yet. I'm curious as well.

 

[RattleCan]

I'm curious, does anyone know how the emu hatch went? I may have missed it if it was discussed.

Seconding this, it's very possible I missed it as I skimmed many pages and skipped a couple others. Once eggs started hatching, posting went through the roof and I couldn't keep track of everyone! But I love seeing emus and I'd love to know how that hatch went.

 

[ppetsch]

Yes I had one dead in the shell it looked very dry I had a lot of trouble with keeping the humidity up but the temp was very accurate

 

[rzirkle]

I only had 16 Iowa blues hatch, but that's better than zero I suppose. They're beautiful chicks and are lots of fun to watch.

 

[mlm Mike]

We're not done yet, but before people start disappearing from this thread, I wanted to say thank you.


First, Thank You to all of the members that donated prizes for the contests! They make the hatch-a-long so much more fun!


And Secondly, a HUGE thank you to Sally, Mike and Ron for helping me run the Easter Hatch-a-long. There is NO WAY I could do this myself! (nor would I want to

) They are wonderful helpers!

Thank You Kelly!

Thank you Cynthia, that is very kind of you!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

So out of 7 serama eggs and 15 supermarket eggs... I had only ONE natural hatch. I had to assist (as in open the entire egg and slide the barely alive embryo out) THREE chicks. And as for the other eggs... all of the supermarket ones were not fertile. One of the serama eggs was bad from day one. and the TWO other serama eggs that went to lockdown had the lethal gene

The amazing story about the tough hatch one of my chicks had:
One chick that had to be assisted was a breach chick that could not even pip. She wasn't peeping when we tapped. We pipped the air cell and saw movement! There was no beak. I checked how to assist a malposition on BYC and attempted to distinguish which malposition she was. We weren't sure but we started slowly picking away the shell and leaving the membrane. This was extremely stressful! Lets just say... blood stop was our friend. We worked through the night, off and on so the veins could recede as we worked. Half way through the tiring night I noticed something. There was a bubble. A bubble under the membrane. Why does a bubble matter? Because the chick is breathing out. She wasn't getting air in through her nose. She was getting air through the shell and trying to start breathing when there was no air. We think we were chipping off so many pieces of shell she could no longer breath through the shell. We quickly popped the bubble and opened up the membrane so she could breath. Did I mention this is STRESSFUL?! After a long night we had made some progress and were able to pull her head out of the egg so she could breath easily. We noticed that she was in one of the most fatal malpositions! Her head was also misshapen. Once her head was out, and she was breathing steadily we let her rest like that for a while. By morning we started working to get her body out of the shell. It wasn't too long before she was out. But once she was out, that wasn't the end of the whole ordeal. She had a very, very think umbilical cord with many major veins running through it. It was about the size around as a pencil, possibly bigger. Again, I searched on BYC, however, nothing promising came up. We were once again afraid for her life. We let her sit for about 14 hours. We noticed that it was going down in size and the veins weren't so scary-looking! We waited patiently until 9pm when we cut the umbilical cord (that was now about as big around as three hairs) so she could start doing normal-chickie-activities. There was no blood when we cut it. Oh and to add the cherry on top of all of her problems- she was sticky too. Her wing was glued down to her head and the other was glued to her body. We wet her and got most of the stickiness off. She started drinking about an hour later. We made her a chick food, water, and sugar mixture, which she liked quite a bit! All through last night we would get up every three hours to feed her. This morning she was able to sit upright all by herself so we decided to put food and water in her ICU incubator. She has been drinking and eating by herself sense. She had her first poo and was getting very fluffy by noon. She has gotten much, much better sense even this morning! By afternoon she was walking pretty well and was almost 100% fluffy. As I'm writing this she is a very healthy little chick that can run, eat, drink, sleep, and (her favorite) poo! We are extremely optimistic about her future! She's not completely out of the woods yet, but she sure is close!

I just wanted to share that story with you all to inspire you to help out your chicks, even the ones that you swear will never survive! Life is really an amazing thing!


TOTAL LIVE CHICKS= 4

Photos coming soon!

oh I pray she makes it for you!!!

 

[Saris]

So out of 7 serama eggs and 15 supermarket eggs... I had only ONE natural hatch. I had to assist (as in open the entire egg and slide the barely alive embryo out) THREE chicks. And as for the other eggs... all of the supermarket ones were not fertile. One of the serama eggs was bad from day one. and the TWO other serama eggs that went to lockdown had the lethal gene

The amazing story about the tough hatch one of my chicks had:
One chick that had to be assisted was a breach chick that could not even pip. She wasn't peeping when we tapped. We pipped the air cell and saw movement! There was no beak. I checked how to assist a malposition on BYC and attempted to distinguish which malposition she was. We weren't sure but we started slowly picking away the shell and leaving the membrane. This was extremely stressful! Lets just say... blood stop was our friend. We worked through the night, off and on so the veins could recede as we worked. Half way through the tiring night I noticed something. There was a bubble. A bubble under the membrane. Why does a bubble matter? Because the chick is breathing out. She wasn't getting air in through her nose. She was getting air through the shell and trying to start breathing when there was no air. We think we were chipping off so many pieces of shell she could no longer breath through the shell. We quickly popped the bubble and opened up the membrane so she could breath. Did I mention this is STRESSFUL?! After a long night we had made some progress and were able to pull her head out of the egg so she could breath easily. We noticed that she was in one of the most fatal malpositions! Her head was also misshapen. Once her head was out, and she was breathing steadily we let her rest like that for a while. By morning we started working to get her body out of the shell. It wasn't too long before she was out. But once she was out, that wasn't the end of the whole ordeal. She had a very, very think umbilical cord with many major veins running through it. It was about the size around as a pencil, possibly bigger. Again, I searched on BYC, however, nothing promising came up. We were once again afraid for her life. We let her sit for about 14 hours. We noticed that it was going down in size and the veins weren't so scary-looking! We waited patiently until 9pm when we cut the umbilical cord (that was now about as big around as three hairs) so she could start doing normal-chickie-activities. There was no blood when we cut it. Oh and to add the cherry on top of all of her problems- she was sticky too. Her wing was glued down to her head and the other was glued to her body. We wet her and got most of the stickiness off. She started drinking about an hour later. We made her a chick food, water, and sugar mixture, which she liked quite a bit! All through last night we would get up every three hours to feed her. This morning she was able to sit upright all by herself so we decided to put food and water in her ICU incubator. She has been drinking and eating by herself sense. She had her first poo and was getting very fluffy by noon. She has gotten much, much better sense even this morning! By afternoon she was walking pretty well and was almost 100% fluffy. As I'm writing this she is a very healthy little chick that can run, eat, drink, sleep, and (her favorite) poo! We are extremely optimistic about her future! She's not completely out of the woods yet, but she sure is close!

I just wanted to share that story with you all to inspire you to help out your chicks, even the ones that you swear will never survive! Life is really an amazing thing!


TOTAL LIVE CHICKS= 4

Photos coming soon!

That's amazing! I saved a little Ayam Cemani (the only one I ordered) by doing a little reverse mouth to mouth when It started gagging while zipping! Poor little thing, it's running wround the bator now, it's so tiny!

Here it is next to a bantam phoenix who is "younger" than it by a few minutes.