Who is with me?

[riqui1]

Oh! I didn't realize that flour and cornstarch would stop bleeding, although it does make sense (I had heard of dirt, as I was raised out in the country to some degree too! lol)! I thought you were trying to dry him off with it. lol Now the spiderwebs...that is definitely new to me!! What a wild idea!!

Actually, I was also brought up around "mechanics" too, who would smear clean grease in a cut and then just "black tape" the wound!! lol

That is great that he is coming along!! I wish you the best of luck!!

 

[walkswithdog]

Well, he's still going and I have the yolk sack tied off and I cleaned his face - he did not like that... he SAID so.

Doesn't like the draft when I take him out of his sleeping bag - who can blame him... He's not going to do fluffy baby... not without a LOT of work...

 

[chickie_mama]

Come on Baby Stomp!

WWD, I've really got my fingers crossed for little Stomp! Hope he pulls through!!!!

 

[chickie_mama]

I opened all the eggs tonight. Everything was dead. I lost everything.

I just sat downstairs and cried. I know they are just poultry. But I felt like they were my own babies.

All were shrink wrapped. So.... I guess my humidity was not high enough.

This almost makes me not want to hatch anything else. It is just one huge heartache after another!!!!! Gets really expensive too!!!!!

Got word from DH's employer..... they are having to take ANOTHER 10% pay cut. This makes 30% he has lost just this year. I do thank God that DH still has a job, but it is very stressful to all of us.

I know there is a reason for everything. I truly do believe that. But sometimes it is just so darn hard to see past the current situation!!!!!

And now with nothing hatching.... kinda sending me into a mini depression. ::sigh::

 

[walkswithdog]

Hugs Lori, I've had back to back bad hatches like that, it's a bummer. When I reallyyyyyyyyyyy want something to hatch now, due to cost or project genetics I am an AGGRESSIVE interventionist. If they PEEP and pip, and then it doesn't progress you can bet your sweet bippy I start taking a careful but thorough hand in things.

I lost most of two hatches because I listened too well to the people who said don't interfere, it's not natural. Well, it's not natural to ship or artificially incubate and things go wrong even when we think they're okay. Know what - now I start paying attention the moment they're due and I INTERFERE my A!! off. And ya know what? Instead of losing them all, I can salvage most of those that would just be stuck and die.

I have seen what happens under BROODIES. You know what? Broodies and NATURE make mistakes.

As evidence - the survival of STOMP! He was all but crushed to death and left to die, today he's peeping and bopping around my bator.

Make sure you get your calendar days correct, your set up as good as it gets, and then interfere all ya like as long as you're patient, careful and progress in tiny bits you can actually MAKE a failed hatch produce.

I do begin to believe my friend who said late June and July hatches suck, broody or incubator but incubation more. Add shipped eggs to that and I begin to believe him.

Now with our own eggs I rarely ever have to do a thing, they're not shipped and the bator works properly.

Shipping is a problem - always going to be, some more, some less. I've had 100% hatches of shipped eggs but where I DO see a problem, I don't just quietly roll over and die inside. I try.

You will get it going in the right direction, it will work for you. I'm really sorry about hubs job. That sucks, I swear some places think you should work for the priviledge of working after a point.

Hang in there, it gets better.

 

[chickie_mama]

Thanks WWD!!!! I needed that!

I still have the turkey eggs in the bator. They are still doing their thing.

I am watching my humidity more closely with the turkeys since they're the only ones left.

Here's to the turklettes

 

[riqui1]

Now I am worried about my humidity. I tried looking it up, but the only thing that I was able to find (couldn't spend too much time looking though, as it was during a busy part of the week!) talked of a dry hatch (?) and NOT getting the humidity too high at any point. So what should I be at, humidity wise? I am at day 19, so I should still be able to make some adjustments, right?

I am very sorry that you lost everything, chickie_mama.

I am also sorry about your husband's work. I can relate to the financial part of it, as I do daycare and for every parent that loses work or just moves to save money to get to work, I lose income. I am making about $300 less per week this year than I was at this time last year. It stinks!! But we'll both make it. You really don't have a choice but TO make it...in one way or another. I always try to remember that everything eventually works out...even if we don't always like the way that it works out. You just deal with it as it comes at you and try not to let it stress you out too badly.

 

[riqui1]

I just found the answer to my question about the humidity. I was looking "too hard" before and completely looked right over it. I do need to adjust my humidity, as what I just read says 70-80% and mine was running at about 62%. I had already filled the water channels, so I just slipped in a warm, wet sponge. I hope that will help!

 

[countrybum]

Chickiemama, as WWD stated, intervention is sometimes a good thing. I have saved many a chick and this round all that I have had to help are doing great. You just have to take your time and go slow when helping. My shrink wrapped, I just peel off the air sac end and then wet the membrane every 2 to 3 hours and eventually the baby pops out. If not, after there is no veining, I roll the membrane down to the bottomof the shell and then eventually baby gets out.

Chickie mama, as soon as I have more peafowl eggs I will be shipping you some. I will add a cold pack to keep them from getting to hot.

Riqui, the egg with the large air sac is shrink wrapped, I have seen it many times, so you really have to watch that one and help if needed. You have us to help you when the time comes, but give him until the due date. If he is not out, you either let him die or try to help.

WWD, it sounds like Stomp is coming along just fine. Good thing you found him when you did.

As for me, I have babies hatching left and right, so far so good, even though a few I have had to intervene.

 

[riqui1]

Oh great! We already know that he is shrink wrapped by that? Ugh... So, can you explain to me what this shrink wrapping is? Is it caused by something that I did? How will I be helping him? I may as well get as much information as I can now, to relieve some of the nervousness! As today is day 19, do I just jump right in on Sunday (day 21) or do I let it go until Monday?

What stinks is that I didn't plan anything well and HAD plans to be away from home on Sunday and Monday... lol I guess that is going to change!