**UPDATE AND QUESTION**Out Of 36 Eggs!!!(PIC)

[TheFreundFlock]

I had 2 duds, 2 blood rings and 1 cracked eggs during weeks 1- 15 that I pulled on day 18 I had 16 that had stopped developing (but I was not sure) so I left them in on one shelf and 15 that I knew were good!

WELL then it happened! I got caught up in the humidity game, thinking my humidity was to high, really it was to low (TOSSED THE HYDROMETER after I took a sledge hammer to it!!

!)

I Stayed up to 4 am last night and may have save one!!! His/Her name is LONE STAR!!!

I have 3 eggs that a slowly, but never the less, still moving! I zipped the shell to give them a better fighting chance like I did with Lone Star, but I am not holding my breath!

I ordered chicks last night, don't think I will ever do eggs again. Very stressful and heartbreaking!

Here is a pic of my Lone Star!

It is a Black Australorp Chick! You can bet I will never let this one go!!!

 

[Kismet]

I understand your frustration and sadness completely. Out of 21 eggs, I have 11 that are going to make it. I am sure it is a humidity problem. When you look at the list of causes for "eggs that pipped but never hatched", it tells you: "humidity too high; humidity too low."

I fortunately took better notes this time around and will, if I can, come up with some kind of hypothesis as to which it was: too high or too low.

 

[TheFreundFlock]

When does the umbilical cord fall off? And is their anything I can do to help her get her energy back when she gets up? Besides food and water!

 

[TwistedRee]

I'm sorry for your heart break .. but what an amazing picture of Lone Star!!!

 

[TheFreundFlock]

Thank you!! I feel like a New Mom!! I keep running over to the bator if I don't hear her sing. She is always fine, but if you are a Mom you know what it is like the first time your baby is born! You can't sleep always checking on them!

Here is a pic of my son looking at the baby, (He is 21 months old):

Here is a pic of my daughter, (She is 4 years old):

 

[texasgal]

Just wanted to say **HI** ... from across the lake ... in Montgomery!


**waves**

 

[TheFreundFlock]

HI!!!

 

[TheFreundFlock]

Well I am getting a little worried about Lone Star, he/she is still laying down. I have not see her stand up yet.

Is that normal?

I put a warm cloth under her in the bator and a little thing of water (with marbles in it) and food in their. Her belly button still looks a little distended.

Is their anything I can to to help her?

Thanks, Just a nervous mommy!

 

[laputa]

I am in similar situation, except I am hatching quails. I set 24, and so far only 1 pipped, and I helped him out last night. All the rest are dead silent.

The only one I got has one eye can not open. After struggling on his side for a couple of hours, he was on his foot in the early morning, then able to drink and eat. Now he is still pretty weak, sleeps a lot, but I think he survived.

You know last night I was almost giving up, and how surprised I was 4am in the morning to see him standing in the bator.

What I did that I think might helped the chick when he was laying on his side having a hard time getting up, that you could also give it a try, was to use dry towel to from a circle, kind of like a nest shape, and placed the chick in the towel in the upright position, this way it saves the chick some energy kicking and trying to get up.

Good luck!

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

I dry incubate all my eggs and the humidity runs in the upper 20's all the time. If it gets below 25% I add a tiny bit of water. At the first pip I raise it to about 55% for the rest of the hatch.

Sometimes babies just don't make it and it's difficult to know why. There are so many reasons that chicks don't hatch.

I know it's hard, but do your best not to "help" them hatch. The only time to think about it is if it has been more than 24 hours after it has pipped.

Good luck...keep us posted.