Valentine's day hatch -a-long

[Faraday40]

Just got home from work - looked in the incubator - nothing, no zips, so I candled: One blood ring, two stopped progressing.
Got the coffee brewing & a chicken pot pie baking - I've got internal pips and they can't reach the shell-they've got big saddle shaped air cells. One is totally upside down, including the air cell? Air cell is on the bottom, the chick is upside down. Looks like I'm assisting the hatch - I've got a long night ahead of me....

how did it go?

 

[Hirad]

Looks like I'll be potentially getting more chicks, one of my hens is sleeping on a nest away from the coop. I believe she's an australorpe, she was supposed to be a jersey giant but she's not big enough.

 

[Faraday40]

Looks like I'll be potentially getting more chicks, one of my hens is sleeping on a nest away from the coop. I believe she's an australorpe, she was supposed to be a jersey giant but she's not big enough.

I might also be getting a broody. My bantam orp (Cookie) is turning into a 'Cookie Monster'! Since my V-day eggs weren't fertile, I set some new ones last week. If the hen goes full broody, she'll get to mother all the incubator chicks.


I really take advantage of the fact that chickens can't count! LOL.
(This was Cookie last May. She adopted all 21 LF orp chicks.)

 

[chonsey]

The upside down chick didn't make it. I got it out, but it just didn't breathe. Three silkie chicks also did not make it. Done with shipped eggs for a while. I am so upset....

My own giant brahma chick hatched out properly all by itself. I have two shipped eggs that were on the cooler side of the incubator progressing slower - still in. TSC won't have any chicks til next week.
I'll give them a few more days.

 

[chonsey]

how did it go?

I have two trying to hatch right now - one is upside down. Took part of the shell off of both of them and wrapped them in moist paper towels - have to go to work. They were already shrink wrapping. Sure hope they make it.

 

[coloradowildflower]

Hope so, too. Good luck.

 

[chonsey]

Got some friends for my lonely chick! A neighboring farm had a few leftovers, got a few 4 month old Jersey Giants, too! Lucky for me, their hatch rates were far above normal!