August Hatch-A-Long

[Doobly]

I need some advice with this egg. I KNOW I'm in lockdown but I had to open up and quickly pull this one away from the others. There's now a bit of a fishy smell in the bator. Is it gone? The ring seems to move round to the underside too. That particular egg had a misshapen air sac on arrival.

 

[Doobly]

Here's another shot. I've been watching it all day and I do think it's getting darker. One of the other eggs has just started responding to me, So it's a horrible decision but I'd love to have some advice on taking it out or not as I don't want to jeopardise the others.

 

[livhatcher]

Here's another shot. I've been watching it all day and I do think it's getting darker. One of the other eggs has just started responding to me, So it's a horrible decision but I'd love to have some advice on taking it out or not as I don't want to jeopardise the others.

On a chicken I'd say find the bad smell & remove immediately. If the entire mass of embryo is floating in the shell rather than moving or twitching, it's gone. You can also try tapping the shell to see if you get a response. I would get the bad one out so you don't jeopardize the rest of the hatch. Good luck & keep posting.

 

[Doobly]

I'll have to go in and double check I can narrow the smell down to one egg, it might not even be this One!

On a chicken I'd say find the bad smell & remove immediately. If the entire mass of embryo is floating in the shell rather than moving or twitching, it's gone. You can also try tapping the shell to see if you get a response. I would get the bad one out so you don't jeopardize the rest of the hatch. Good luck & keep posting.

I know I should perform an eggtopsy, especially with it being close to hatching but im not sure if I've got the stomach for it, especially with being pregnant myself at the moment! God, I hate these decisions but you are right... Thanks!

 

[Doobly]

On a chicken I'd say find the bad smell & remove immediately. If the entire mass of embryo is floating in the shell rather than moving or twitching, it's gone. You can also try tapping the shell to see if you get a response. I would get the bad one out so you don't jeopardize the rest of the hatch. Good luck & keep posting.

Well! Completely different to what I expected. The egg with the black ring smells fine, it was one of the quiet ones! Looks like it might have died a little while ago, it looks quite small. It's just that little black dot and it's floating. So, I'm going to play it by ear with the black ringed one I think? Keep it out of contact with the others but with just 2 days to go see if it pips?

 

[bockbockquack]

I candled my eggs yesterday, a new experience for me, and found one of the eggs was a "quitter." Two of the eggs were obviously viable with visible blood vessels. Some of the darker shelled eggs were hard to tell. I am just glad there are so many resources online to compare pictures to or I would have been totally lost.

 

[Doobly]

Well, it seems the third egg with the "blood ring" is a quitter. But with the other two so close to hatching I'm giving it a little longer. I mean I'm sure it's gone... But I'm just a sucker. Any whiff and it comes straight out but a few people have had luck with eggs showing that dark circle.

Anyway, progress on the pipping! We have two completely different thinkers here, one is carefully zipping without losing much shell, working slowly. The other has charged a big hole and now seems to be a bit puzzled on what to do next!

 

[Doobly]

Anyway, progress on the pipping! We have two completely different thinkers here, one is carefully zipping without losing much shell, working slowly. The other has charged a big hole and now seems to be a bit puzzled on what to do next!

 

[Doobly]

We have one healthy chocolate call! Now waiting on their sibling. This one was the industrious zipper, the one who has made a huge hole is still with us, but not currently progressing. A little concerned about the membrane looking dark but the humidity is about 86%

 

[darkbluespace]

I'm on day 26 with 4 developed Call eggs. Biting my hands off here, no significant movement or signs of pipping yet.

How are the eggs doing?

I had one early duckling hatch and waiting on two more, another one has internally pipped finally. I gonna give them to my broody duck. She is old so I don't want her to sit on eggs a full month.