Who is with me?

[countrybum]

I would take enough of the air sac (or where ever the beak is) off to give easy access to wetting the membrane. I like WWD suggestion of the q-tip to wet the membrane and also use hot tap water. The reason I say remove more is because you want to allow moistening with drowning your chick. Then wrap and let the little one sit until tomorrow. But do check them and make sure their membrane has not dried out before you go to bed. I check mine every 3 to 4 hours and moisten.

You can do this. Think positive.

 

[chickie_mama]

The little black one is chirping and seems somewhat strong. His little legs are moving. The little grey one seems more weaker. He is just laying there.

They are both in their saran wrap sleeping bag. I've got plenty of humidity in there too. My bowl of sponges, and I misted the air with hot tap water just before I closed the bator back up.

I know I can do this!!!! I know I've got to take baby steps and not get in too big of a rush.

*Breathe Lori Breathe*

 

[chickie_mama]

Checked on the little babies this morning before I left the house.

They are both still alive & breathing. We will continue to play the waiting game.

 

[riqui1]

Okay, so let me make sure I understand this, as I should have done this last time...

If I don't hear them peeping on "hatch day" then it is "okay" for me to pip the shell myself? It is safe to break that outer membrane and if they are shrink-wrapped, to tear the inner membrane where the beak is? I understand the whole idea of wetting the membrane with hot water and a q-tip, but the whole pipping and tearing thing intimidates me. Can I hurt them doing this? Hopefully I won't need to do this, this time, but I would rather have the "book knowledge" before I end up getting the experience... When you guys wrap the eggs in saran wrap, are you covering the whole that you pipped for them?

While I hate to think that any chick and any person has to go through the stresses of doing this, it really helps me to understand how to handle things learning from the post you guys put up here. So, thank you for sharing.

CM, I hope your babies are doing well. It's good that you were able to get those 2 going!!

 

[chickie_mama]

When I wrapped my babies in saran wrap, I made it like a little sleeping bag with their heads sticking out. If you cover up the pipped hole, they could suffocate. CB and WWD are the experts on this procedure.

I know I should have pipped the eggs when I put them in the hatcher because I saw the long air sacs, but I was just hoping against hope that they would be able to make it out. I just feel so bad because I KNOW I had 5 strong little babies night before last.

Oh well... the only thing I can do now is to do the best I can with the 2 remaining babies.

 

[riqui1]

I didn't think that it sounded just right, to recover that hole. I just wanted to make sure.

So, CM, you broke the shell all the way down around them, to the point where their head was sticking out - not just a small hole at the end? That does explain the "sleeping bag" better for me...

Seriously, the whole idea of doing this just bugs me. I am so worried about doing something wrong or making a bad decision... Yuck.

 

[chickie_mama]

I just kept chipping away. As long as there was no blood, I figured I was good to go.

I could see that down inside there and that the grey one had not absorbed all the yolk last night. The black one was good. I was able to tell he just had a bit of an extended abdomen. This morning when I checked on them, the grey one had absorbed the yolk. So I am taking all of this as as good sign. I am going to have DH check on them during the day.

No, CB, I did not bring them to work with me. Although I probably should have.

 

[countrybum]

This morning my pipped peachick had made little to no progress. When I tapped the egg I heard nothing, so I waited an hour and tapped the egg again, stillnothing. I was devastated, she had came all this way and now nothing. CM, you know me, curiousity took over and off came the air sac end. (To help you both, I will take a picture). I tapped the little chick and nothing, so I tapped again and the little beak opened and took a breath.

I really thought the little one had deceased over night. She is due today the 16th and no later than the 18th, 16th being 28 days and the 18th being 30 days.

So I removed the shell after she took her breath and noticed there was no veining. So I got my hot tap water and piece of sponge and rolled the membrane down and she chirped, another

. So now I know if she completely makes it she is going to be a pied, which is white and blue.


By the way CM, sounds like you are doing a great job, just hang in there and now keep them in the brooder but do not raise humidity after they are out. They need the oxygen to gain their strength.

Here is a picture of her waiting to come out of the shell, she will have to do this part herself, wish I had a baby chick to throw inthere with her, you know, push her around a little and get her moving.

All the yellow is her white, so that tells me she is a pied and not going to have the India Blue look.

Now, if she would have had veining, I would have used WWD's idea of the sleeping bag with the saran wrap and I would have wrapped the end leaving her beak exposed. Not a complete body wrap, just the end of the egg. Then if baby is not out by the next day, peel a little more egg and hope the little one pushes out on its own. It is a slow process and sometimes works, sometimes it don't.

Here is my first baby peachick, you will be able to see the difference in the 2, even though the other is not out of the shell yet.

He does not have any yellow.

As for the experts, they would say, if the chick cannot get out on its own, it is not good flock.

By the way CM, I am just in shock you did not haul those little ones to work with you to keep an eye on them. I would never trust my DH with that task. They should be snuggled in your pockets, or under your desk. You could have wrapped them in heating pads and left the bator at home.

Congrats it does really sound like you are doing great. I wish I was a lot closer to help you.

 

[riqui1]

That peachick is sooo cute!! My husband sent me a listing from Craigslist of someone who was getting rid of peafowl eggs to hatch, but... I just don't know.

I thought that I would share these two pics, as I got a kick out of this. My sons wanted to know, when they heard that we were going to be hatching 3+ different types of birds, how we were going to be able to tell the eggs apart. I told them that, at the very least, the coloring would give them away. Well, it definitely does, but look at the size differences!! lol The guinea eggs are at the top, with the Araucana and the Amerauana eggs in the middle, followed by the silkies at the bottom. I thought that was pretty comical...

 

[countrybum]

Okay I have to ask, what is the O for? As for getting peafowl eggs, I would first ask how many adults they have. Only after they answer ask how many eggs they have available. If there are way more eggs than adults, I would be leary, because peafowl lay every other day and on top of that, mine may go a week before laying another egg.

Kind of like, the one laid an egg, after I thought she was finished laying, and I have not seen an egg since.

By the way, it looks to me like you can use another 20 or so eggs.