Adventures in Incubating Shipped Eggs

[Morrigan]

So I am going to set these shipped eggs tomorrow. 18 Bielefelder were the shipped eggs and the other eggs are the assorted eggs I got from a lady locally. We are going to do a little comparison. I'm crossing my fingers!

I love side-by-side experiments. Please let us know how it goes.

 

[chantels1]

So this happened....

Chick internally pipped yesterday. No change by 11 this morning, so I made a safety hole. No change by 5pm, so I made a bigger hole. Saw veins so let rest.by 830 no change, but somehow 8nner membrane was trying to chick, so I had to soak it off carefully. That's when I saw it's feet up by its head, and knew it couldn't hatch on its own. Slowly helped it out. It has a HUGE vault. 3 of the 4 have needed assistance. . I candled some of the other eggs and they are all dead. Some of them had picked internally, which means they were probably malpositioned too. I swear it's from incubating in the cartons I hate it, but with detached air cells there's not much choice. Next time I think I will take the ones with good are cells at lockdown and lay them on their sides. Several that were detached when they arrived did reattach and we're fine at lockdown. I feel I would have had a better hatch if they've been laid on their sides.

26 eggs total from 2 breeders. 5 hatched. 3 assisted.

 

[chantels1]

My luck. . These were supposed to be from pure black pens . This chick does not appear to be black... What do you think? Hard to tell till it fluffs up, but it's looking partridge to me.

 

[Morrigan]

So this happened....

Chick internally pipped yesterday. No change by 11 this morning, so I made a safety hole. No change by 5pm, so I made a bigger hole. Saw veins so let rest.by 830 no change, but somehow 8nner membrane was trying to chick, so I had to soak it off carefully. That's when I saw it's feet up by its head, and knew it couldn't hatch on its own. Slowly helped it out. It has a HUGE vault. 3 of the 4 have needed assistance. . I candled some of the other eggs and they are all dead. Some of them had picked internally, which means they were probably malpositioned too. I swear it's from incubating in the cartons I hate it, but with detached air cells there's not much choice. Next time I think I will take the ones with good are cells at lockdown and lay them on their sides. Several that were detached when they arrived did reattach and we're fine at lockdown. I feel I would have had a better hatch if they've been laid on their sides.

26 eggs total from 2 breeders. 5 hatched. 3 assisted.

Very nice work getting those malpositioned ones to hatch. Sorry about the other losses. When the air cells get messed up in shipping, it makes for a tough hatch.

 

[chantels1]

It's a little Partridge.

 

[Kiki]

So this happened....

Chick internally pipped yesterday. No change by 11 this morning, so I made a safety hole. No change by 5pm, so I made a bigger hole. Saw veins so let rest.by 830 no change, but somehow 8nner membrane was trying to chick, so I had to soak it off carefully. That's when I saw it's feet up by its head, and knew it couldn't hatch on its own. Slowly helped it out. It has a HUGE vault. 3 of the 4 have needed assistance. . I candled some of the other eggs and they are all dead. Some of them had picked internally, which means they were probably malpositioned too. I swear it's from incubating in the cartons I hate it, but with detached air cells there's not much choice. Next time I think I will take the ones with good are cells at lockdown and lay them on their sides. Several that were detached when they arrived did reattach and we're fine at lockdown. I feel I would have had a better hatch if they've been laid on their sides.

26 eggs total from 2 breeders. 5 hatched. 3 assisted.

 

[Kiki]

It's a little Partridge.

I'm sorry.

 

[Knighstar679]

I will be getting my second set of shipped eggs on Wednesday. I am excited as i lost my first set of eggs ever to incubator mishap. I will be getting 8 Welsh Harliquin duck eggs which will be shipped. So i am hoping for a better outcome on the second ones where i don't end up cooking my eggs in the first few days without realizing it.

 

[Morrigan]

Welsh Harlequin ducklings! How cool. I hope your hatch goes well.

 

[Rebel58]

This has been one of the most interesting and informative threads. Since my first shipped hatch of peafowl was only 25% successful I went a different route. I was fortunate to win an eBay auction for 4 eggs from a fella only 65 miles from me. I drove up this morning and he gave me the grand tour of his peacock sanctuary. Impressive and gave me so many ideas for additions to my own. He even gave me 2 extra eggs and had them each marked from which pen they came. He says he doesn't begin to sell until he confirm fertility. Showed me his incubators and his latest hatched chicks. So with a safe and secure journey home they will rest overnight and go in the incubator tomorrow. I have another batch from N.J. due to go into lockdown Wednesday and hopefully a good hatch Saturday. I'm a happy broody hen today!!