Who is with me?

[Gunswayne]

AAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! I had to go out of town for work last night and MY BABIES ARE HATCHING WITHOUT ME!!!!!! I took the ducks out last night before I hit the road. I heard one peep but had no pips.
My wonderful wife has kept me updated all day via text messages.
So far I have five little chicks out with one well on the way! Dang I wish I was home! All the fun will be over before I can get there. Sorry no pics till tomorrow evening.

 

[EricShane]

Im afraid my humidity is a little high...

 

[chickie_mama]

Quote:
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

I WANT PIPS AND PEEPS!

A watched egg never pips!

 

[countrybum]

Well my humidity is at 79 and my temp is at 101.


I have pips pips pips, along with 2 Jersey Giant and 1 Blue Andalusian and many of mine.

Will let you all know what tomorrow brings me. Now I am just waiting and hoping I do not have to help anyone due to shrink wrapping, or hoping everyone makes due to the HUGE air sac.

By the way, I had 1 peafowl egg this morning and 1 this evening. Meaning; my 2 peahens are now laying eggs.

Here is one of the sites I use.

http://www.ianrpubs.unl.edu/epublic/pages/publicationD.jsp?publicationId=62

 

[PrinceFarm]

Wow, I just went in to check the temp/ humidity levels. The room was real dark and I shined the flashlight in there and guess what happened..........


Peep........................... Peep......................................

I wasnt expecting them for a couple more days. I wonder how long it is after they peep until they break out and start running all over the place. I guess we shall see.

 

[countrybum]

Well I was not expecting mine until tomorrow, but I had to due emergency c-sections on the eggs.

Due to the HUGE air sacs, I pulled one of my own eggs that pipped and candled it, then I tapped it and heard a loud peeping inside. That was at 9am. Well I took it out and tapped it at 5pm and the peeping was real faint, so I knew if I did not do something fast all my chicks would be deceased in the morning.

Upon cracking the end with the air sac, my fear was confirmed. My baby chick was shrink wrapped in the membrane and the membrane was very dry. So far I found 4 fully formed chicks from my eggs deceased, 3 Andalusians and 2 Jersey Giants. I just wanted to cry.

Poor little guys suffocated. I have 9 that I did the egg c-section on.

You are probably wondering what is an egg c-section?

1) candled egg
2) broke open the end with the air sac
3) removed shell at air sac end and outer layer
4) soaked and folded 1/2 of a paper towel
5) wrapped paper towel around membrane on baby leaving beak area open and placed back in side incubator
6) wet fresh towel every hour to hour and a half, rewrapping baby

I pray this works.

Come on babies

the sad thing is, ones that were peeping loudly were barely making any sound when I got to them.

But my hopes for their survival are still high, they are breathing good and seem to be hanging in there.

I guess I will know soon what survives and what doesn't. So far they seem to be doing good.

This is going to be an all nighter since I am so worried about my 1/2 suffocated babies and I am really curious as to what the 2 JG's are, Blue, Black or Splash. So far all I can tell is one is darker and one is light.

 

[chickie_mama]

I am so sorry you had another shrink wrap incident!

Here's hoping your remaining chickies will soon join the big world.

This morning when I got up.... I had 1 pip and 1 more that hadn't quite yet made it all the way through the shell yet.

Go Mystery Chickies Go

 

[countrybum]

Well this time was due to me. The first time, my eggs were fine but the ship chicks were this way, which is how I learned what the large air sac was.

Well 7 chicks were out this morning and doing good.

The dark JG is 1/2 out and not looking well.
The Blue Andalusian is out, but I cannot tell which one it is. So I will be posting pic's to see if anyone can help me pick him/her out.
The light colored JG is out, but I am not to sure about him/her everyone else is up and it keeps falling over, but

fingers crossed that he/she pulls through.

Then I have one baby chirping, but not moving. The paper towel dried over night (when I finally feel asleep) and the membrane dried around him/her. I removed the shell and really think she/he should have been in there a couple more days. It has a mushy head. But so far the 7 rescues were worth the loss and hopefully little dark JG pulls through. I already know if I had not intervened I would have none, since I have been through this before.

I am not adding any more eggs (taking the ones I do have left to my friend) until I can figure out where the water loss is coming from. I think having a towel under my incubator worked like a wick and the styrofoam is just staying soft and allowing the water to seep out.

Will know by the end of the day about the last 2 and the light JG and will post pics soon.

 

[chickie_mama]

Someone else mentioned the same thing in another thread. They had placed a cotton towel under their bator and it acted like a wick and sucked out all the water.

We're waiting to see pics of the little guys!!!!

 

[EricShane]

Heres my First baby!!! Im soooo happy

Its Black? and White? strange... I wasnt expecting that at all! 4 toes on each foot, and orange legs! So im excited!

I have about 5 pipped and one more is starting to zip