The Great Tolbunt Polish Hatch!! - Babies!!!

[KellyHM]

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LOL, I guess I could do that. Or someone on here could bid against me (but not too high of course!).

 

[Illia]

Today is day 15, and cull day. . . I went from 21 eggs (not all Tolbunt) to 8 eggs. I now have 5 Tolbunts left.

So, remember that egg I kept candling that eventually went weird looking and died? Well, here's how it looked when it got cracked open. . .

I knew something was up with it - The whole time I wondered why the dead chick wasn't moving around at all, not even just plain floating in there. . . Well here's why. The fetus was literally stuck and perhaps even sort of burnt to the inside of the egg shell. When I opened the egg, everything poured out an odd creamy thick yellow color, with a lot of white "chunks" in it. Then, the embryo stayed inside - It was all stuck to the little fetus, which was stuck to the shell, so I peeled it away. The embryo eventually gave away, simply just a crisped skin, and I had to actually chip the fetus off the egg.

It was brown, crusty, and looked kinda burnt or something. . . Really weird.

In the end my skillet of eggs looked like this - Most of the darker yolks in there are from my own Polish, and the really white, icky looking ones on the right are a couple Tolbunts. The already broken up and smeared yolks are from my Easter Egger. . . Hers are always liquefied at this age.

LOCKDOWN is in 2 DAYS!!!

 

[klf73]

I am not so sure if the fetus was burnt? I have noticed with some quitters they will settle to one side(and stay there), maybe it is more like rigor mortis? Unless you have had a temp spike.... I have had it with quitters that were bigger and I don't have temp spikes since I went digital. Just an idea....


eta-- oh, and good luck with your hatch

 

[dak]

 

[Illia]

No temp spike. I hear that one thing that causes a fetus to stick is the egg not being turned. . . But all my eggs are always turned. I have an automatic turner for that.

Anyway, LOCKDOWN is in just a couple hours!!!

I'll post pics and results as to who all is going into lockdown. . . .

 

[Lolita]

 

[Illia]

I put them into lockdown, candled them just a moment later (because I forgot to earlier) and guess what I found?? A DEAD FETUS!!!

It died the same day, it seems, as my other one, and for the same reason - It stuck to the eggshell and went brown.

What in the world is going on?

Anyway, I'm now down to 4 chicks waiting to hatch. (plus the Polish crosses in there, which there are 3)

COME'ON CHICKS!!!!!

sorry no pics - Camera is not responding well today.

 

[Sparkelrose]

Come on babies!!!!

 

[calicokat]

How many days from lockdown, till more news?? I want to see these sweet babies ('course, not as badly as YOU want to see them I'm sure!)

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

I'll be watching Illia. Hoping hoping hoping they all hatch. Due on Mothers day. What could be more perfect.

My husband always calls me Mama hen since I spend so much time caring for my eggs and hatching chickies!