Chicks Dead in Egg

[sylviethecochin]

https://www.nutrenaworld.com/product/naturewise-feather-fixer-poultry-feed
I had my hens on this a few months before collecting eggs to incubate. Is it a decent choice?

Looks decent, though you'll note the guaranteed analysis ignores B(any sort) and K. B is water-soluble, so it is often left out of feeds that have oil. Riboflavin is the most common deficiency in layer feed.

It can be found in spinach, dandelions (I think?) and strawberries.

Honestly, I would just buy some vitamin B complex tablets and supplement. They're cheap. Make sure they're low-to-no iron.

EDT: nice protein content, though.

 

[venymae]

Actually, I did go to school for nutritional sciences!

Foods that are particularly rich in riboflavin include eggs, organ meats (kidneys and liver), lean meats, and milk. Green vegetables also contain riboflavin. Grains and cereals are fortified with riboflavin in the United States and many other countries (read labels for amounts). The largest dietary contributors of total riboflavin intake in U.S. men and women are milk and milk drinks, bread and bread products, mixed foods whose main ingredient is meat, ready-to-eat cereals, and mixed foods whose main ingredient is grain. The riboflavin in most foods is in the form of FAD, although the main form in eggs and milk is free riboflavin. Spinach, oatmeal, beef liver, plain live culture yogurt and eggs are all good options to feed your chickens. Just don't boil food to cook or else a lot of the riboflavin will be lost in the water (because of water solubility). But really it's a pretty cheap vitamin to buy, like $5 good luck!

 

[CHlCK3N]

Actually, I did go to school for nutritional sciences!

Foods that are particularly rich in riboflavin include eggs, organ meats (kidneys and liver), lean meats, and milk. Green vegetables also contain riboflavin. Grains and cereals are fortified with riboflavin in the United States and many other countries (read labels for amounts). The largest dietary contributors of total riboflavin intake in U.S. men and women are milk and milk drinks, bread and bread products, mixed foods whose main ingredient is meat, ready-to-eat cereals, and mixed foods whose main ingredient is grain. The riboflavin in most foods is in the form of FAD, although the main form in eggs and milk is free riboflavin. Spinach, oatmeal, beef liver, plain live culture yogurt and eggs are all good options to feed your chickens. Just don't boil food to cook or else a lot of the riboflavin will be lost in the water (because of water solubility). But really it's a pretty cheap vitamin to buy, like $5 good luck!

Haha, that's kinda funny. Trying to get riboflavin for eggs from eggs. Do I give raw eggs or cooked?

 

[venymae]

Scrambled, to prevent your chooks from thinking raw eggs are tasty and trying some of their own! And since you are feeding them to layers you can just scramble the shell in too. Added calcium is always nice! And fresh greens are extremely nutritionally dense for a lot of things, so if you have that option go for it (dandelion weeds are awesome like sylvie said). Honestly though, I'd also dissolve a tablet in their water a few weeks before collecting. Not all the time. It's a more guaranteed way to make sure your eggs will be top notch for hatching.

 

[CHlCK3N]

Scrambled, to prevent your chooks from thinking raw eggs are tasty and trying some of their own! And since you are feeding them to layers you can just scramble the shell in too. Added calcium is always nice! And fresh greens are extremely nutritionally dense for a lot of things, so if you have that option go for it (dandelion weeds are awesome like sylvie said). Honestly though, I'd also dissolve a tablet in their water a few weeks before collecting. Not all the time. It's a more guaranteed way to make sure your eggs will be top notch for hatching.

Awesome! My chickens get a little picky with their greens and weeds, but absolutely love scrambled eggs like their momma. Never thought about adding in the shells. Thank you so much! Definitely gonna get some tablets to put in the water for my next batch of eggs next year.

 

[BYC910]

Awesome! My chickens get a little picky with their greens and weeds, but absolutely love scrambled eggs like their momma. Never thought about adding in the shells. Thank you so much! Definitely gonna get some tablets to put in the water for my next batch of eggs next year.

What is your normal layer feed ?But lets talk incubator What type of incubator are you using ?

 

[Laodicia]

Im curious about your incubator too, and what humidity you had for lockdown. Ive only had the really thick white inner membrane on one chick before. it was a malpossition that died on day 22. I was having a really bad time with malpossitions in that batch but none of the others had that. I just assumed it must have been because the chick had died before i tried to help.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

In my previous attempt with hatching eggs, most of the eggs didn't make it. After smelling the eggs and making sure the chicks were dead, I cracked a few and looked at the little babies. They were fully developed, which is what I was confused about. Maybe I cracked them too soon? Was there not enough humidity? After that last question I realized something I didn't take note of. The membrane seemed dry and thick on some eggs. Must be not enough humidity! If so, how do I raise it? What else could be a factor?

Deficiencies in the diet of the breeder flock will adversely affect the chicks. There is also any number of other causes for weak chicks. One cause not linked to diet is inbreeding.
A full term chick that died in the egg is a chick that not only was to weak to hatch but also a chick that was more than likely to weak to live.

 

[Arya28]

Hello! I'm so sorry about your eggs. We just did a hatch of 30 eggs, and 5 of them successfully hatched. The ones that didn't hatch we opened on day 25 to see the same thing you did. I don't know if it will be of much help, but here is my thread on that, including what we did throughout incubation, and others' responses.

 

[CHlCK3N]

Deficiencies in the diet of the breeder flock will adversely affect the chicks. There is also any number of other causes for weak chicks. One cause not linked to diet is inbreeding.
A full term chick that died in the egg is a chick that not only was to weak to hatch but also a chick that was more than likely to weak to live.

Thanks for the info! I'm pretty sure there weren't any inbreeding, since I got the rooster with two other hens, who were BR and he was a RIR