Heartbreak............and triumph. {GRAPHIC PICTURE WARNING}

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Originally Posted by GoldSheep

@raghaim
Wait until they pip. Treating infections with saline, feeling terrible about yourself because you killed life and if you'd waited it could have been better, is not something I recommend.

I'm on day 57 and I will wait for them to pip. I'll wait til day 69 if I have to. I'm sure they can do it on their own. They did last year.

BTW, thanks for this thread. Keeps me stronger on the idea of not cutting until one of them pokes their head out.

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i mean whats wrong with the pied..... i cut my clutch on days 54 and they alive.... now they already eat 5 times.... i wonder what makes the difference....

this thread's pied eggs already at 64 days... and it still not strong enough to live???

from what i read... the difference is the incubator temp..... is incubator temp makes that huge causes ??/

thanks

Sorry for the loss of the first 2 hatchlings. I too have never had twisted cords with hatchlings (thank god) and hope that I never do. I'm not saying I'm perfect/better because this has never happened to me. I'm just very lucky so far.

As for your clutch, at least you had a happy ending. Everyone likes a happy ending:D

Raghaim,

Yes it was the lower temperatures that slowed development. Most breeders, including myself, incubate around 88/89. However, earlier in the incubation process, I had a very high temp spike. The incubator reached 120 before I caught it. It caused birth defects in some of my earlier clutches. So, when I got it working again, I kept the temps lower. This greatly slowed the development of my last two clutches.

My last clutch is still in the egg, but the first didn't pip until day 67.

So far I have only lost the pied from this clutch. The little runt boy finally shed out his egg skin two days ago, and he's eaten twice with assistance.

Gale

So sorry for your loss. I am very glad you managed to keep at least one pied baby. :(

I'm sure mykee knew he would get flamed after posting it, reminds me vaguely of willomn haha.

Besides that, Gale, very sorry to hear your first pied clutch had a few upsets. Best part of it is you learned valuable lessons and have educated many people on ways to prevent those upsets.

Thank you very much for sharing your story and that 2nd pied that emerged is killer! best of luck with future clutches