Candeling and hatching diary.

[pinusresinosa]

PIP on BOTTOM and I missed it!?? egg is HATCHING... wiggling!!

 

[jbher]

Well I'm not much of an article reading person, I'm more of the experiment person, and I have had my share of loose and deatchable air cells, I can tell you as soon as growth has started, I lay mine down, never borther them nor has it effected them in anyway. As they get older the loose air cell will stick.. I find that ducks do much better laying down.

As far as DEATACHABLE air cells, I have never had any luck trying to get growth in them. I think once it has broken threw and is moving around in that shell like bubbles, it's a lost cause, at least for me it is.

If someone else has the secret to hatch out a deatchable air cell, I would LOVE to know how to get them to grow. Loose air cells NOT a problem.

This makes me so nervous!! I am going to be incubating for the very first time for the Easter Hatch-a-long. I am getting shipped eggs that I am splitting with a friend who will incubating half at her house. My incubator (the IncuView Incubator) does not stand eggs up. Eggs lay in it and are turned while laying down. I am thinking what I will do is let the eggs rest upright (fat end up) in a styrofoam egg carton with bottoms cut out (to help with oxygen) and to leave them this way in the incubator for 3 days like that before I take them out to lay them down. Otherwise I'm just so nervous that with them laying down I will have air cell problems?!

 

[pinusresinosa]

Since this is going to be a loner, should I get it some friends?

Edit: It's not going to help me to sit and wait, I'm taking the girls and I to the feed store to get it some friends to get me out of the house.

 

[sasimpson77]

Since this is going to be a loner, should I get it some friends?

Edit: It's not going to help me to sit and wait, I'm taking the girls and I to the feed store to get it some friends to get me out of the house.

I think they do better with buddies

 

[sasimpson77]

This makes me so nervous!! I am going to be incubating for the very first time for the Easter Hatch-a-long. I am getting shipped eggs that I am splitting with a friend who will incubating half at her house. My incubator (the IncuView Incubator) does not stand eggs up. Eggs lay in it and are turned while laying down. I am thinking what I will do is let the eggs rest upright (fat end up) in a styrofoam egg carton with bottoms cut out (to help with oxygen) and to leave them this way in the incubator for 3 days like that before I take them out to lay them down. Otherwise I'm just so nervous that with them laying down I will have air cell problems?!

That is what I would do I set mine up right for 4 days when they have detached air cells and then I quit turning at 16 days. The air cells can heal I have about 8 left from a dozen that should be hatching tomorrow there aircells healed well and they seem fine.

 

[foxvalleyfarm]

That is what I would do I set mine up right for 4 days when they have detached air cells and then I quit turning at 16 days. The air cells can heal I have about 8 left from a dozen that should be hatching tomorrow there aircells healed well and they seem fine.

So you lay your loose and saddle air cell ones down?

 

[sasimpson77]

No my eggs sit fat end up and at this point I am trying to hatch them out in the cardboard cartons as I hate to see the chicks play kick ball with the unhatched eggs as they hatch. I have heard this is the best way to hatch out chicken eggs with detached aircells.

 

[CooperDooper]

My green egg in the incubator has a pip!!!!

 

[foxvalleyfarm]

No my eggs sit fat end up and at this point I am trying to hatch them out in the cardboard cartons as I hate to see the chicks play kick ball with the unhatched eggs as they hatch. I have heard this is the best way to hatch out chicken eggs with detached aircells.

Me too. Ok I think I'm gonna leave them they way they are.

My green egg in the incubator has a pip!!!!

Whoot! In praying for the same in 2 weeks

 

[jbher]

That is what I would do I set mine up right for 4 days when they have detached air cells and then I quit turning at 16 days. The air cells can heal I have about 8 left from a dozen that should be hatching tomorrow there aircells healed well and they seem fine.

So when you get shipped eggs do you put them in the incubator right away fat end up or let them rest 24 hours on the counter fat end up?