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[CackleJoy]

OOOPS.

I MAY have a problem.

Remember the tetris eggs that got bleach steamed?



I ended up setting 63 eggs.

Tilted the incubator using Ken Follet's Pillars of the Earth (big enough book?) 3 or 4 x a day.

Was planning to take out the duds as several of these are fertility checks. Last time I took out 20 eggs so figured this time would be that way too.

Guess how many duds.

3
yup. 3 whole duds. Now what? Do I keep just tilting the incubator? I have 5 that need double checked in a week because they look iffy. Might be blood rings in 2 of them but they are darker and hard to see in.

Tips on this? Kind of a funny chicken math problem!

If a girl sets 5 dozen eggs in the incubator and there is only room for 2 dozen, how many chicks will hatch? 83. 83 chicks will hatch! Is that the right answer? Should I show my work? I'm pretty sure that's how chicken math works

 

[Audio51]

Uh oh. one of my eggs has a small crack across the aircell (the crack is in the shell) and there is a black mass/shadow in the aircell. the chick is alive and moving.but whats wrong with the aircell

Nikki....how far along are th egg? If it is due to hatch the chick has probably pushed up into the eggcell. I think that's called and "Internal Pip"

 

[ronott1]

OOOPS.

I MAY have a problem.

Remember the tetris eggs that got bleach steamed?



I ended up setting 63 eggs.

Tilted the incubator using Ken Follet's Pillars of the Earth (big enough book?) 3 or 4 x a day.

Was planning to take out the duds as several of these are fertility checks. Last time I took out 20 eggs so figured this time would be that way too.

Guess how many duds.

3
yup. 3 whole duds. Now what? Do I keep just tilting the incubator? I have 5 that need double checked in a week because they look iffy. Might be blood rings in 2 of them but they are darker and hard to see in.

Tips on this? Kind of a funny chicken math problem!

If a girl sets 5 dozen eggs in the incubator and there is only room for 2 dozen, how many chicks will hatch? 83. 83 chicks will hatch! Is that the right answer? Should I show my work? I'm pretty sure that's how chicken math works

Congratulations!

Keep turning the whole thing.

You are going to have a lot of fun with setting up for hatching too.

 

[EZFarms]

Its only 8 days old sp i dont think thats the case.
the chick doesnt seem to be bothered. its moving in thr egg and doing good but im concerned about damage to the aircell

 

[ronott1]

Uh oh. one of my eggs has a small crack across the aircell (the crack is in the shell) and there is a black mass/shadow in the aircell. the chick is alive and moving.but whats wrong with the aircell

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They are at 7 days or so?

Seal up the crack with finger nail polish and watch the egg if it is early in the incubation process. There may be bacteria in the egg. If so, the chick will die and the egg will spoil.

 

[EZFarms]

If it is bacteria im seeing is there anyway of saving the chick?
How would it of cracked?

 

[ronott1]

If it is bacteria im seeing is there anyway of saving the chick?
How would it of cracked?

The crack may have been there already. Bacteria gets it through the crack.

You can only let it go and see what happens.

 

[CackleJoy]

Congratulations!

Keep turning the whole thing.

You are going to have a lot of fun with setting up for hatching too.

The couple that might be blood rings - is that a bacteria that will spread to the other eggs? Am I better to remove iffy ones now or is it okay to wait a couple days?

And yes, hatching will be interesting. No selling day old chicks. Going to have to let them feather in so I can properly ID the type. Too many to isolate kinds.

 

[CackleJoy]

Sorry, one more question.
Day 9 we will be gone all night and day. My Dad is bringing my son over in the AM to tilt the bator. it will only get tilted a new direction 1x in 24hrs. Should I be sending the bator over to a friends house for bator sitting?
We had planned to be using the turner by now.

 

[EZFarms]

Hmm :/ i hope its not bacteria. the crack only looks like its in the shell amd npt the membrane. what else could cause the shadow inside of the air cell?