Redwing Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 Thats quite a good hatch rate then isn't it? I think I counted 16 eggs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules. Posted April 19, 2009 Author Share Posted April 19, 2009 We originally set 22 eggs, & removed 2 at day 18 as they clearly weren't developing. Out of the remaining 20 eggs 12 eggs have hatched so far, with 11 viable chicks. We have another egg pipped, so we might get to 12 chicks, giving a 60% hatch success rate. I'm leaving the incy switched on until Wednesday morning just in case there are any late developers. Although the hatch has been realy exciting, its also been quite stressful- I spent all day yesterday scrunched up in front of the incy, which BTW is on a low table=bad back Note to self if I ever do this again to put incy on computer desk at a more user-friendly height I was also up between 1.30am & 3.30am today to watch 2 chicks hatch, both of which at the time looked ok. It was such a shock to come downstairs this morning to a blood bath in the incy. We didn't take the decision lightly to cull the poorly chick, & it was upsetting to do so. I don't know what was wrong with it, it was lay on its back with a long protrusion from its tum/bottom which was bloody, & it was covered in blood, as were the two other chicks in the incy with it which had also hatched overnight. I sent hubby out to do the deed, I couldn't. I cleaned the incy as best as I could with some water & cotton wool, & the only way to clean up the chicks was to give them a soak in a warm bath, then gently towel them dry & put them back in the incy. They are still in the incy, & the 7 chicks in the brooder are doing well, eating, drinking & pooing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feemcg Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 Shame about the sick chick......I had one hatch with part of the yolk sac and intestine outside, just looked like a big bleeding blob (it just hasn't been absorbed internally in time for the chick hatching). I got a damp swab, popped the intestines into the abdominal opening and kept pressure on till it stopped bleeding. I put it back in the incy and kept checking the 'wound' to make sure it was drying up and the chick was fine. I keep my incy running into the 2nd day after the bulk of them hatch. I hold any unhatched ones up to my ear and if the chick is alive inside you can here either a squelching noise as it moves around or a tapping (I've had tapping chicks that haven't hatched though ). That is a good hatch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules. Posted April 19, 2009 Author Share Posted April 19, 2009 I wish I had known that, maybe the chick could have been saved? That's where my inexperience comes in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feemcg Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 Don't beat yourself up about it, it worked that time for me, not to say it would work again. I was just telling you in case it happens again, might be worth trying. It's happened to me a second time but the 'protrusion' wasn't as big......but that time it was my fault as it was a chick that had been pipped for 2 days and not making any progress so I gradually chipped away at the shell to help it.....it was fine....and a boy (I've helped 3 or 4 chicks out and they've all been boys!). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiblick Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 Jules don't feel badly about not doing more for the other chick, think of it more as natural selection at work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules. Posted April 19, 2009 Author Share Posted April 19, 2009 We now have 12 chicks with one more pipped Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scramble Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 Welcome to the World ickle chickkies! aw more pic please x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules. Posted April 20, 2009 Author Share Posted April 20, 2009 piccys!! 12 chicks in the brooder our largest chick compared with an egg 'Nacho' our largest chick in portrait And him at an hour old! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooks Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 awww cute chicks!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 They are soooooo cute . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falkor Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 TOO CUTE!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poachedegg Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 They look so tiny....and very cute! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Very cute Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickvic Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Very sweet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooks Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 I think we should all be allowed a chick cuddle! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules. Posted April 20, 2009 Author Share Posted April 20, 2009 thanks for posting the photos, alihodg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 oh arent they real Easter chicks..great pics ..ooooooh Congratulations been following their hatching..thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tidygirlsuk Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Congrats, they are sooooooo cute. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mostin Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 It has been really interesting reading this thread. Can't believe it as it happened . Thanks for taking the time to post all the photos and video, they are so cute to watch . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roo4006 Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 congratulations they are so cute Thanks for sharing them with us Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules. Posted April 22, 2009 Author Share Posted April 22, 2009 Thank you for all the lovely coments about my new "children" as they are now known This story may make you smile- on Sunday ( which was the 2nd hatching day, day 22 after the eggs were set) at church we had a special service we have never held before. All last week we had a Holiday Special club running for primary aged children, called " The Time Lord Returns," & on Sunday it was the prizegiving, & we decided to hold it in church instead of at the school on the Friday, & so we had quite a few children from the club come along, & their familes, who wouldn't normally come to our church. On that day I was greeting people at the door with my friend R, & we were registering the children as they came in, & giving them their holiday club name badges to wear. I stayed on the door 20 minutes into the service in case of any late comers, & then sneaked into church through the side door into what we call "the wing". I sat next to R, & in front of her husband, P ( who is a church Elder). He leaned over to ask me how many children we had now, & me thinking he meant how many children had come into church told him the answer, to which he replied, "I mean the feathered kind!" P has a good excuse for asking me that question, as he is R's husband, & the father of my friend B who has shared this hatch with me, & is coming along to the Northern Dispatch course on Saturday. My children are off to live at B's house today, so I'm packing everything up & shipping them out They'll be fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mostin Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Awwwwwww, give them a wave good bye from me . We'll see some of them again in september though won't we? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules. Posted April 23, 2009 Author Share Posted April 23, 2009 Earlier now, Mostin, as Poachedegg is very kindly lending me her to keep them in until they are grown up. I should get my 4 back at the end of May now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mostin Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 cool , you'll be able to watch them grow up . How exciting . i am very . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
