August Hatch-A-Long!

[familypendragon]

We are on the same day.  I am trying to ignore the incubator and tend to all my babies instead.  I thought about locking mine down early due to them being shipped eggs.  I read somewhere (and can't remember where now) that you should for shipped eggs.  I haven't candled mine since day 8 (I think) and don't want to until lockdown.  I don't want to see if any others gave up :/

Yes I read that too https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/704328/diary-notes-air-cell-detatched-shipped-eggs

1. AIR CELL INFO for Incubation http://www.squidoo.com/mailed-shipped-fertilised-chickens-eggs-fertilized-hatching-chicken-egg A normal air cell in a freshly laid egg are dime sized up to quarter sized in a week-old or older egg, and fixed at the fat end and just looks like a line when candled.
From rough shipping it is possible to see detached, loose or rolling air sacs as seen in the picture. For those eggs, you need to change your hatch plan. They have to sit 24 hours always pointy end down, to see if the aircells will reattach, about half of them will in my experience. Either way, leave them in the egg carton for all 21 days of the hatch. Stop turning early at Day 16 not 18. It is possible to hatch chicks from eggs with detached air sacs when the cells never stabilized even after 24 hours, but were left upright for hatch. Make sure any turning is gentle, and no flatter than 45 degrees, more vertical is better! Disrupted, shattered or ruptured air sacs are seen when instead of one bubble on the side of the egg, there are more than one. Handling must be very rough in these situations and I believe can be enough to kill the embryo in the first place. These should have the same treatment as the detached air sac eggs, but don't re-candle after 24 hours, these won't reattach. Just having the air bubbles rising to the top of the eggs at the fat end while hatching the eggs vertically in trays gives any chicks that do grow chance to pip into the air cell. Likelihood of a chick hatching is lower than intact displaced air cell eggs, but worth a try if the eggs show no sign of spoilage or leaking.
2. Suggestions for Management of Damaged and Mal-positioned Egg Air Cells https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...t-of-damaged-and-mal-positioned-egg-air-cells "These eggs should then be set into the incubator in a vertical position and not turned for 36-48 hours, after that turning by tilting side to side at a 45 degree angle helps to keep the air at the top. Otherwise leave well alone and dont remove for weighing. During the second week the chorio-allantoic membrane (generously supplied with blood vessels) grows out from the chick to line the complete inner surface, including the air cell. Think of it as inflating a balloon within an already inflated balloon. The air cell is now resealed and from 15 days can be treated normally though gentle handling is needed."
3. http://skeffling.hubpages.com/hub/C...tting-the-most-chicks-from-your-hatching-eggs "For rolling, detached or disrupted air cells (so cells no longer at fat end of the egg but like a spirit level bubble on the long side), you’ll need to change your hatch plan. They need to sit 24 hours always pointy end down, to see if the cells will reattach. Leave them in the egg carton for all 21 days of the hatch. Stop turning early at Day 16 not 18. I have hatched chicks from eggs with detached air sacs where the cells never stabilized even after 24 hours, but were left upright for hatch. Make sure any turning is gentle, and 45% or more vertical

(NOTES: CHANGE of HATCH Plan DUE to EGG Cell Damage on most of the 12 SILKIE eggs. Settle 24 hours fat end up in Styro Egg Cartton with the bottoms cut out so that the eggs still get air circulation, heat and do not get condensation under them. Got it!)

 

[familypendragon]

No I haven't seem him move. But I have hope. And I'm keeping myself busy so I don't go crazy.

I have never had a single egg wiggle prior to actually zipping. I hear all about it, but I've never had it happen

 

[jnjmanning]

I have never had a single egg wiggle prior to actually zipping. I hear all about it, but I've never had it happen

When I hatch my own home grown eggs. I hand turn and hatch on their sides, those eggs rock and roll everywhere. Those I incubate in turners, I never see move!

 

[familypendragon]

When I hatch my own home grown eggs. I hand turn and hatch on their sides, those eggs rock and roll everywhere. Those I incubate in turners, I never see move!

With my home grown I incubated in turners and then hatched on sides in the hatcher - no wiggling

 

[familypendragon]

Hey, go take my poll https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/815329/poll-what-would-you-do

 

[ChickenFox]

So I had 9 eggs shipped from WA to MO and 7 went to lockdown and 6 hatched. Last one is very weak, gave it sav a chic, will know more if it is still alive by morning. The chick in the sling is out of the sling and standing with hobbles on. Moving around very good too! Fiesty little booger keeps pecking at the tape that makes its hobbles...lol But it is keeping up with the others. Of course it has a 12 hr jump on them since it hatched 1st. The last one hatched is my only 10 toed silkie. And it is the one I am most worried about.

Sending good vibes your way!

 

[sweetappleacres]

I have never had a single egg wiggle prior to actually zipping. I hear all about it, but I've never had it happen

I still have not seen him budge. I'm getting worried about him. The guy next to him, also coming out the same way is actively vocal and trying to make his way out, but he doesn't necessarily look upside down to me. 7/10 are cracking away at that shell. 3 aren't doing anything, including the one with a funky straight lined air cell.

 

[DeannaA]

Is that a stuffed toy in there with them? I thought I was the only one who did such silly things, LOL!

I bought one so if I have a single chick hatch it will have someone to sleep with.

right? especially when your in withdrawl! I have nothing due until the 19th!! I keep looking at the bators...don't know what I'll do this winter!

I make wine. I buy overripe fruit cheap at end of summer, freeze it (freezing helps break down the fruit) then when I don't have as much to do in the winter, I make more wine with it.

 

[sweetappleacres]

WHAT DO I DO WHAT DO I DO???? The hum dropped to 62% and I added water but too much... it's spiking to 87% and I've already taken out water in a small container by means of a stray attached to a syringe. IDK WHAT TO DO!!!

 

[DeannaA]

My first 2 hatchlings,1 month old, making a break for it.


This one is from my second hatch. It's the one with the long eyelashes. I have to keep smoothing them back. SHe is a week but her wings are so long. The other chick that was born the same day, everyone thought was a silkie, has tiny wing feathers and the feathers look like regular feathers. When do silkie feathers start fluffing up?