incubator and eggs ... daily update

[chicken slave]

but but they haven't moved at all can't help fretting they should start moving now they are supposed to be being born

Stop panicing!!!!!!!
Place your finger gently on the top of the egg being careful not to move it at all and you will feel tiny vibrations when they move. There is not alot of space left in there for them to do the highland fling.
When they have pipped you will see more movement on the eggs.
You need to raise the humidity a bit to help them hatch.

[Polly Fouracre]

Linda, find yourself a good book, go for a long walk or something. They will hatch when they are ready!!
One thing I beg of you and this will be the most difficult thing. DO NOT, HOWEVER TEMPTED, try to help them out of the egg. You will damage them. It is so difficult to watch them struggle and you feel you must just ease off a little of the shell and then a little more and if you go a tiny bit too far and tear the membrane even a little you will have a severely damaged baby!
I speak from my own sad and too hasty experience. Only if the membrane around the hole the chick has made is bone dry and shrunk can you "help" just a bit.
That said I'm sure your chicks will all hatch in copy-book fashion and all our waiting and anguish will be over.
Give those babies a kiss from me when they finally emerge!!xxxxx

[lynda66]

'a watched pot' hun, now calm down, could even be another day or two yet.

nooooooooo i'll have died of anticipation by then lol

[lynda66]

Stop panicing!!!!!!!
Place your finger gently on the top of the egg being careful not to move it at all and you will feel tiny vibrations when they move. There is not alot of space left in there for them to do the highland fling.
When they have pipped you will see more movement on the eggs.
You need to raise the humidity a bit to help them hatch.

they have loads of humidity ... big sponge can't feel anything though

Linda, find yourself a good book, go for a long walk or something. They will hatch when they are ready!!
One thing I beg of you and this will be the most difficult thing. DO NOT, HOWEVER TEMPTED, try to help them out of the egg. You will damage them. It is so difficult to watch them struggle and you feel you must just ease off a little of the shell and then a little more and if you go a tiny bit too far and tear the membrane even a little you will have a severely damaged baby!
I speak from my own sad and too hasty experience. Only if the membrane around the hole the chick has made is bone dry and shrunk can you "help" just a bit.
That said I'm sure your chicks will all hatch in copy-book fashion and all our waiting and anguish will be over.
Give those babies a kiss from me when they finally emerge!!xxxxx

i promise i won't help ... i just want to see something lol

[Finedon.Dandy]

Thinking of you Mummy Linda!!!Wont be long now!!!

[lynda66]

try telling the babies that ..... i think they like it in their eggs lol ........ still no sign of anything, no vibrators no cheeps still nothing

[BrideXIII]

i do hope you meant vibratIONS

[HayleyB]

Crikey you'll give yourself a nervous breakdown if you carry on like this all night, bet if you go make dinner there'll be one on its way. One of the foals I bred spent every half hour through the night checking and it was born between my checks. Watched pot and all that

[shirlthegirl43]

One of the foals I bred spent every half hour through the night checking and it was born between my checks. Watched pot and all that

Likewise here, all the goats we bred (horses too) managed to 'slip under the wire' even with baby monitors in the stables we missed almost every birth! We did get to see Deerhound and mini dachshund puppies born though - and despite the size difference of the mum's the puppies were very similar at birth.

Hope your chicks hatch successfully

[BrideXIII]

I am trying to figure out train times to manchester, just so that i can go and tie her down lol

[HayleyB]

I'm sure there's someone closer can get there with duck tape

[BrideXIII]

oh gods!! dont mention DUCK anything, you will just get her started

[HayleyB]

Nwack, nwack, agg agg nwack

[lynda66]

i do hope you meant vibratIONS

them too

[lynda66]

sons rung me 3 times today asking if anythings happening i've promised to text OH and my mum as soon as anything happens ......everyone is waiting and i'm definitely having a nervous breakdown

i've seen births of just about everything but this is actually much more stressful, cos they are sat in front of me ..... and so many things could go wrong, and i've never done eggs without a mummy before

been looking at duck eggs today lol