~*Third Annual Cinco de Mayo Turkey Hatch-Athon*~ all poultry welcome!

[jbenson]

2 of my 7 Cinco de Mayo HAL babies hatched. I had one going into lockdown I wasn't sure on, but I locked it down anyway. I just candled the eggs that have not yet pipped to look for movement or veining. No movement at all. There are two that I think drowned today on day 21 and two that I think quit during lockdown. I'm going to leave them overnight just in case. I've been doing staggered hatches and incubation all in the same 'bator with a good deal of success this spring, but not this hatch. I have been running without additional moisture during the non-hatching periods (about 30%) to try to offset the higher humidity for 3 days during lockdown. So far it seems to have worked, except something appears to have gone wrong with this batch, just not sure what. 2 is better than none. Not that I don't already have 16 chicks in the brooders. And more going into lockdown tomorrow.

 

[winteree]

Hey, look what my daughter in law hatched out yesterday!!!!

Noah Alexander 8 pounds 11 1/4 oz... 22 1/4 inches long!

lol's so cute

 

[winteree]

Add a turkey yo my final count. I took the unhatched eggs and put them in the incubator. I couldn't see in them when I candled. I really figures they were dead, but left them in. Nice surprise.

cool

 

[winteree]

To those of whom who hatch shipped duck eggs..how long do they set after getting them 24 hours like chicken eggs?

 

[HEChicken]

Congratulations AmericanMom!!!

 

[winteree]

Well bummer i just got an email saying that meyers can't process my refund so i'm going to call tomarro and see what happened hopefully if they can't give me my money back they can give me new egg's or else that was $40 down the drain

 

[foxvalleyfarm]

To those of whom who hatch shipped duck eggs..how long do they set after getting them 24 hours like chicken eggs?

I let then sit for 24 hours

 

[Manningjw]

Well, all 8 of the chicks I have with my broody hen are going strong.









A friend of mine is planning to adopt some of my chicks out of my brooder for his broody hen - should we set up a separate area for herself and the chicks or will the broody be sufficient for protecting the little ones from the other hen that is in the coop with her and the chicks?

 

[GerbilsOnToast]

Update on the remaining eggs... My wrong-end pipper is still alive, but was getting pretty weak (been 28 hours), so I opened things up to explore the situation. It appears he/she pipped into a vein and the yolk a bit and has not absorbed all of the yolk yet. Had clotted blood on its' head. It's on a wet paper towel in a prep bowl in the bator. I started eggtopsies on the ones that had pipped internally & stopped; one was malpositioned; head down over tummy, yolk absorbed but dead. Another I could find no abnormality, but died before getting through the shell... suffocation, perhaps? Third one was not internally pipped, but shrink-wrapped, only slightly alive. Unfortunately, the yolk is not absorbed and I ruptured a vein opening the membrane just before I realized it was alive... It still is, and the bleeding stopped; so it, too, is in a prep bowl in the incubator. The final one I'm pretty sure is dead - but I've had all I can take for tonight and haven't monkeyed with it.
I don't really expect the ones in bowls to make it, but I have to give them the chance. If they die, I have a 68% hatch rate on this set, which bites, but NOTHING like the Easter HAL did!

 

[JennaLynn122]

poor baby sorry for you loss i hate it when stuff like that happens

Its okay. It happens. I did have another in the same situation that did make it. Bouncing around the broodrr like a ping pong ball now.

Hey, look what my daughter in law hatched out yesterday!!!! Noah Alexander 8 pounds 11 1/4 oz... 22 1/4 inches long!

awwwww.... Hatch news: 18 out so far, 2 more zipping, 3 more pips that I can see. We have had 3 losses so far. 1 of the 18 out is in a cup, hatched with the yolk not quite absorbed. And Another in the incubator REALLY wants out. Its chirpping very loudly and pecking at the side.