Who else is setting... I wanna see pics!

[Paganbird]

Well, the guy I got the eggs from knew I wanted blue/green egg layers. He said he would send me some from his araucana pen. (He keeps all his breeds separate.) So I assume the birdie-daddy is of blue/green heritage. I just don't understand why he sent a pink egg in the first place. If someone is paying money for my eggs, I'd send them only the best... secure the customer & all. That means blue/green eggs from blue/green egg layers - not pink eggs.

It does have a pea comb and huge muffs & beard. I'd like to see a pic of the tufted chicks.
As for helping the stuck pip...
how do you know it's shrink wrapped if it has only pipped? Usually, if there are no changes in humidity, a pip is too small of a hole to lose much moisture through. It's also too small to see the membrane through. Unless you have opened the pip hole, you shouldn't be able to tell if it's stuck or not.
The only shrink wrapped chicks I've had were:
A. I opened the LG to get a chick & my humidity plummeted. Shrink-wrapped a pipped chick.
B. I tried to "help" a pipped chick that I thought was shrink-wrapped & took it out into low humidity & consequently, I shrink-wrapped it.
C. I thought the hatch was over & took out the eggs. Opened them up & shrink-wrapped the one that was still alive.

 

[walkswithdog]

I can usually tell if a shell's too porous and the aircell gigantic(candling) - that that chick is going to be dry, no matter what I do humidity wise in that bator.

Shipped eggs often are drier and show it by candling/air cell size and position.

Still I do wait til a chick is past due date and has done what it will during the reasonable time frame.

I couldn't tell just by a pip that a chick was dried out unless the bugger knocked a pencil eraser or larger size hole out the side of the egg, couldn't get a light in to see by without that. Not even my tiny single led penlight would see into a pip.

But I've had a chick's first "pip" be a hole the size of filbert too. LOL, he was an over achiever.

 

[Grey Bird Farm]

So funny Pagan,
I just requested pink Ameraucana eggs on purpose from a blue pen so I could get the pink gene!!

To each his own I guess!

The pipped egg was a pink EE (see above) That pipped, started to kind of do a wierd zip and then stopped and didn't move for about 24 hrs. The hole that it was working on what about the size of a dime. You could see straight into the top of the egg dome and see the weird membrane down across the top of the chick's head with the beak sticking out. Of course, it's the one picture that I didn't take!!!! (out of about 100 hatching pics in the last week!)

Long story short, my husband (the interferer) removed the top of the shell, pulled back the membrane and put the whole thing back in the bator. Didn't lose much humidity at all (never went below 60) and the chick made it the rest of the way out, everything was absorbed and it's dragging it's weird little cord around.

I personally wouldn't mess with a hatching chick... period. I'm not that lucky!

I'll go take a pic of the double tufted chick. brb.

 

[pbjmaker]

Am definately down to 9 eggs. Was candling one last time and oddly one of the chicks doesn't fill the shell at all yet. It is alive and moving though. Maybe I will have a microchick - I could name it IBM or something.

 

[Grey Bird Farm]

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[emvickrey]

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I have ben trying to identify a hen since she was a pullet but nobody seems to know. Well 3 days ago she laid an egg. It looks pink to me. I wish I could put a pic of it on here but my camera quit working. But I can put a pic of the hen.

 

[2txmedics]

walkswithdog, can you explain why you say eggs shipped are drier and it shows in the air cell and where its at?...how do you tell it, or read an egg???

How big should the air cell be near hatch time?

 

[Paganbird]

Well, now... those wierd pippers, the ones that don't seem to have a clue how to get out, I would have probably done the same thing.

Right now I'm massaging a cortunix. It somehow managed to wedge itself between the wall and the feeder for, oh... who knows how many hours!
I wasn't sure it was going to make it. I thought: broken wing, dislocated hip, at least. Nope, just stiff for laying in the same position for hours. It's also bald on one side from rubbing its head. Looked squished flat... like a steam-roller went through the brooder!
So I fed it water, one drop at a time and have been "getting the blood flowing" again. After 40 minutes of massage, it's finally starting to struggle a little.
We're doing better now.
*sigh*

 

[Grey Bird Farm]

Okay here is Mr. Tufts

And the whole lot of chicks minus the two in the bator drying off. (3 quail are in there)

 

[Grey Bird Farm]

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Oh gee!! The things the little chicks can get in to! So glad to hear that it's on the mend!