Adventures in Incubating Shipped Eggs

[fur-mum]

@WVduckchick I love your mottled cochin! I wants one!!

 

[Cerise1924]

Can't. Lol! I plan to incubate turtle eggs, and I will need a those little guys!

Where do you get turtle eggs to incubate? Have you done that before?

 

[Cerise1924]

Hoping for a good hatch!

What eggs are you incubating?

 

[Morrigan]

I know this isn't a broody hatching thread, but we all love pics, right?
All taken today. Lots of new babies at my place, and still a few to go.
These are all seramas, still waiting on a few bantam cochins and a couple OEGBs.
Oh, i locked down my incubator eggs last night. See a little drawdown happening tonight.
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I actually assisted the black chick in the first pic. It pipped but momma had left it. I opened it, head was above wing. It wouldn't have made it. But it hatched and I returned it to her.

I love pictures of momma hens with their babies. Your hens are beautiful and the chicks are adorable.

My part-time broody teased me by sitting on the nest for a whole six hours before she gave up and went clucking around the yard. It's going to be a bummer to raise this group of chicks in the brooder. The hens don't know it yet, but it's going to be a bummer for them too, when I have to kick them out of the brooder attachment to their coop. They've taken over a shelf in brooder as their most favorite place to sleep at night. I'm actually dreading the squabbling that's going to go on as they have to sort out who sleeps where on the roosts in the main coop.

 

[TotallyShellyTurtle]

Where do you get turtle eggs to incubate? Have you done that before?

I have several mature box turtles who have been breeding for a few years.

Now that the male is mature, I think we will have some viable eggs to hatch soon!

 

[WVduckchick]

@WVduckchick I love your mottled cochin! I wants one!!

thank you. I have mottled cochins, but that pic is actually an exchequer serama! Her name is Carrie, she gets a little crazy sometimes lol!

Here's a little mottled cochin cockerel about 6 weeks old, I'm anxious to see how he grows out

I love pictures of momma hens with their babies. Your hens are beautiful and the chicks are adorable.

My part-time broody teased me by sitting on the nest for a whole six hours before she gave up and went clucking around the yard. It's going to be a bummer to raise this group of chicks in the brooder. The hens don't know it yet, but it's going to be a bummer for them too, when I have to kick them out of the brooder attachment to their coop. They've taken over a shelf in brooder as their most favorite place to sleep at night. I'm actually dreading the squabbling that's going to go on as they have to sort out who sleeps where on the roosts in the main coop.

I've given eggs from the incubator to broodies many times, so maybe before they hatch, you can give them back to her.

I have several mature box turtles who have been breeding for a few years.

Now that the male is mature, I think we will have some viable eggs to hatch soon!

Cool beans! Hope you get some good ones. Don't they take like 60 days to hatch??

 

[TotallyShellyTurtle]

Okay... is this a humidity problem or a shipped egg problem?


The chick is very happy in there (wiggle wiggle).

 

[Cerise1924]

Okay... is this a humidity problem or a shipped egg problem?


The chick is very happy in there (wiggle wiggle).

"Saddle Shaped" air cells are a shipped egg problem, from what I've read and from my own experience. That's one of the most extreme ones I've seen. The recommendations I've heard are to incubate upright. Since it's such a large air cell, keeping the humidity a bit higher can slow down the growth of the cell, which may also help.

Glad the chick is happy! I have hatched chicks from shipped eggs with saddle cells.

-Cerise

 

[WVduckchick]

Looks like an under developed CAM to me.

 

[TotallyShellyTurtle]

"Saddle Shaped" air cells are a shipped egg problem, from what I've read and from my own experience. That's one of the most extreme ones I've seen. The recommendations I've heard are to incubate upright. Since it's such a large air cell, keeping the humidity a bit higher can slow down the growth of the cell, which may also help.

Glad the chick is happy! I have hatched chicks from shipped eggs with saddle cells.

-Cerise

I have had it a little higher than most recommend. Not by much, though.

This egg has been upright since day 1 of incubation. Hoping this cutie hatches as I've fallen in love with his or her cute little feet during candling.