Diary & Notes ~ Air Cell Detatched SHIPPED Chicken Eggs for incubation and hatching

[NestingHillsSC]

I had a bit of a mishap yesterday. The 30 eggs I have in are in a 30 egg cardboard flat. Sitting on a 1x2 for easy turning. Just have to tilt the carton to turn. Well I never set 30 eggs and they were to heavy. They looked like the St.Louis arch in there. So I have to pick them up and move them off center over the board. Well yesterday when I moved them the cardboard ripped and 4 fell on the wire. Hopefully when they fell they didn't bust any veins. So I got a 18 and a 1 dozen carton and was moving them to them when I picked up an egg and it broke.

What a mess. It got all over about 3 or 4 of my eggs. I wiped them off and put them back in. But on the good side, they were the same 3 or 4 that fell on the wire.

Well we will just have to see. Always something. Isn't it. So now 29 eggs.

I have watched the vid on making the cooler-bators a lot. Will make one sooner or later, looks pretty easy. But I think I will order a few of those plastic 30 egg cartons and use them next run. I hope there a bit more sturdy.

 

[EyesOnSunday]

eeeeek!!! Apparently chicks make me squeak like a little girl.

Any name suggestions?

 

[NestingHillsSC]

eeeeek!!! Apparently chicks make me squeak like a little girl.

Any name suggestions?

Sorry. Don't name my chickens really. Have too many. Very few get names. Plus when culling I do eat mine. Don't want to eat something I named. Too personal then.

 

[EyesOnSunday]

Sorry. Don't name my chickens really. Have too many. Very few get names. Plus when culling I do eat mine. Don't want to eat something I named. Too personal then.

That's understandable for you since you have many and do eat them. I personally have very few chickens and they are treated as pets so they all have names (mostly ridiculous names, but names none the less

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[NestingHillsSC]

 

[Knittycat]

Well, I was just reminded this morning that, even if the chick in the egg is alive, sometimes they just aren't meant to hatch.

I helped my oopsie egg a little bit. I pulled back the membrane and discovered that this chick was badly badly deformed. It hat no eyes or upper beak. Just the lower beak, it's tongue, and a weird looking beak nub. The poor thing is out of it's misery now, and my incubator is empty and off.

I took pictures...but I don't think I'll post them. It was a little disturbing.

 

[MommaBee]

Well, I was just reminded this morning that, even if the chick in the egg is alive, sometimes they just aren't meant to hatch.

I helped my oopsie egg a little bit. I pulled back the membrane and discovered that this chick was badly badly deformed. It hat no eyes or upper beak. Just the lower beak, it's tongue, and a weird looking beak nub. The poor thing is out of it's misery now, and my incubator is empty and off.

I took pictures...but I don't think I'll post them. It was a little disturbing.

I feel ya! I am so sorry! Nature knows what it is doing so much more than we do. That reminder is tough!

 

[MommaBee]

I had a bit of a mishap yesterday. The 30 eggs I have in are in a 30 egg cardboard flat. Sitting on a 1x2 for easy turning. Just have to tilt the carton to turn. Well I never set 30 eggs and they were to heavy. They looked like the St.Louis arch in there. So I have to pick them up and move them off center over the board. Well yesterday when I moved them the cardboard ripped and 4 fell on the wire. Hopefully when they fell they didn't bust any veins. So I got a 18 and a 1 dozen carton and was moving them to them when I picked up an egg and it broke.

What a mess. It got all over about 3 or 4 of my eggs. I wiped them off and put them back in. But on the good side, they were the same 3 or 4 that fell on the wire.

Well we will just have to see. Always something. Isn't it. So now 29 eggs.

I have watched the vid on making the cooler-bators a lot. Will make one sooner or later, looks pretty easy. But I think I will order a few of those plastic 30 egg cartons and use them next run. I hope there a bit more sturdy.

YIKES! Yes if it is not one thing it is another! And we had an egg hatch 2 weeks ago that was COVERED in yolk from shipping. It was the only one to survive the shipping and hatch. I like survivors, they make for neat stories.

 

[MommaBee]

are you kidding?

I am as ugly as an average chicken coop floor, no make that a duck coop.

My kid is straight up cute though and my mother is a great sport. She has been lurking here since I started my thread - its how she knows what I am up to.

I think that was hilarious! I loved that your Mom chimed in! My grandma who is 80 is on Instagram and Facebook so she can keep up with us, we love it.

And with a wife that beautiful I am doubting you look like a floor of a duck coop!

 

[MommaBee]

Aren't they wonderful? My roo is the most cuddly out of all of them. He lets me hold him like a baby and rub his belly.

Another question... whats the standard procedure with handling the chicks that are with the hens? I want to interact with them and socialize them but I don't want to cause any unnecessary trauma.

I think that is a totally legit question! I hope someone answered it. I am skimming over what I missed while I drink my coffee! Congrats by the way!

Is that hen and her babies apart from the other hens and roo? Someone who has had a broody can probably tell you more about that but I thought I read it was best to keep them apart so you do not have anyone picking or pecking on the babes.