WHAT DO WE DO?QUICK please !!**UPDATE:PICS!**

[poultryrox11]

lol, i'll keep quiet.

 

[TNBarnQueen]

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How funny....I did the same towel thing and it worked great. You have to make SURE that you can get the towel around your arm a little too. One thing to be VERY careful of...if it is a styrofoam type with the hear ring around the top. I burn the dickens out of my hands. The chicks kept playing hide and seek when I would try to get hold of one.

Mine hatched on day 20...they where hatching 2 & 3 at a time! So out of 21 eggs 15 hatched that night. On day 21 nothing happened except for one pip and a small zip. If I had had any that where zipped largely I would not have done the towel thing until it hatched. BUT....since things had slowed down so much I took the chicks out. One was pecking on the eggs too!

I had 2 more hatch that night and was left with 5 that have not done anything. Now almost day 24 I opened 3. All where formed well but one's intestines was inside it's tummy. The other 2 looked fine. I still have 2 in the bator. I am confused why these chicks did not hatch. There was not a lot of liquid in them and they had absorbed the yolk. This was my first time and ended up with 76% hatch rate but it is still an awful feeling when some don't make it.

Good Luck!

 

[anaiyuk]

You will lose the treasure of this experience if you worry too much It is all a learning experiece and even though I have cried when I've lost chicks it meant that I had become more experienced and I rarely lose a chick that makes it to the end of the incubation process now! The other chicks panting is a sign that it is too hot in there! I would crack the incubator and turn up the heat enough to where the ventilation will keep it at five degrees lower then it has been. If you have any problems with pipping then let me know! Also, when it has been too wet or too dry not all is lost! The chicks may be exausted and unable to hatch themselves. I've heard alot of people say that you shouldn't help a chick and that it had something wrong with it but that has only been true once in my experience! Alot of deformities come from the screen in the bottom of the incubator that is meant for you to put them on when you stop turning. i have always made my own incubator and had great hatch rates and no deformities until I did a batch in a friends store bought incubator and found an alarming amount of deformities! After finding out she had the same problem I did some reseach and then we tested my theory. We incubated the same kind of eggs, put them in on the same day, and stopped turning at the same time. She had also taken out the metal tray. I used my homemade incubator and she used her store bought one. we both had a 7 out of 8 hatch without deformities! If it has been about 8-10 hours after the first signs of breaking through the shell without any sort of progress they probably need help.

 

[poultryrox11]

VERY good advice, thnx. Hopefully, the rest of the chicks will do okay!

 

[NYRIR]

Update...we had to cull one chick that had not absorbed the yolk,and had intestines hanging out as well

BUT the other 20 healthy ones are ADORABLE!

 

[anaiyuk]

Yaaaay!!!!