World Egg Day Hatchalong!(October 12, 2012 is World Egg Day!)

[GVChickenMan]

As promised, fuzzy butt shots


Pullet

Pullet


Pullet (left), Roo (right)

I hope everyone's hatches are going well.

 

[aussie pete]

congrates

 

[cluck-cluck]

Your fuzzy butts are adorable!

 

[cochins1088]

Please Help!

For once I'm stuck, I haven't had in incubator problem for a quite a few hatches now so I guess it was bound to happen. So I have my two that have hatched, one that I believe died around day 19 in the egg and one more that is still alive in it's egg. It was driving me nuts that the little guy was moving (just a little) but hand't internally pipped yet when his siblings had completely hatched 2 days ago. So I figured something had ot be wrong. I carefully removed the top of the eggs and the membrane around him was white and rubbery. He was definately shrink wrapped though he had never even internally pipped let alone externally. So I went to the bathroom and put a few drop of warm water on the membrane and the membrane went right back to it's clear state with blood vessels and I could see the little guy. He looks like he's trying to breathe so I want to help him internally pip and take his beak out before he sufocates but he still hasn't turned off his outer blood vessels, they are very active and I accidently bummped one while removing the shell and it began to bleed. There are quite a few blood vessels around where his beak is and I don't want to break them. So I don't know what to do. I've got the little guy without the top half of his shell in a newly moist membrane but he may not be ready to hatch, on the other side, he need to internally (or externally since I removed the shell) so that he can breathe. Ohh yikes what do I do, I really need this little guy...

 

[cochins1088]

membrane is already going cloudly, I'm in one heck of a situation. I need to moitsten it again, but if this continues I will have to moisten it every 5 minutes. Because everytime I get the egg out to moisten the membrane, I let my valuable humidity out.

 

[cochins1088]

never mind, he literally stopped moving one minute ago so I freaked out and quickly went al the way and hatched him. His yolk sac was completely absorbed and everything but he was dead when I found him. If I would have done that just one minute sooner, he might have made it. I feel sick.... He was also upside down, his head was at the pointy end of the egg...

 

[GVChickenMan]

Sorry to hear that Cochins. Poor little guy.

I feel for you. If it was me I would now try to focus now on the two that you brought into the world and not think too hard about the two that didn't make it.

 

[cochins1088]

I have his little body in the incubator still, praying for a miracle but I know that he's gone. He's just looks so perfect. Fully formed, yolk sac absorbed and everything, like I said, if I were to do it 2 minutes sooner while he was still alive, he may have made it... I don't know why I can't get over this guy.. It's not like it's the first time I've lost a chick, I've lost lots of chicks over the years, but just two minutes sooner and I could have had him, I can't get over it. If I were to have woken up a little bit earlier this morning, maybe it would have gone better...

I do love my two other chicks though, they are adorable and average out to $27.50 a piece, hahaha.

 

[cluck-cluck]

Aw, so sorry Cochins, that's the hard part, you can't know what it is you should do I lost one yesterday, one of only two surviving Serama chicks, and I really wanted them to be born. I don't know what went wrong, just didn't make it. So far at least, the second one is still alive, I can hear it!

 

[cochins1088]

GCChickenMan - What did breed did you hatch? They sure are adorable.