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

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: It's forced air. Both thermometers said 99-100. The humidity was dry for the first 18 days then between 60 and 77 when the first hatched. I have a qfg digital hydrometer. I don't know what happened. The chicks that hatched are big and healthy. I forgot to mention that 15 were shipped eggs. I let them set for 3 days, all had nice air cells and growing well.
Mich you did dry hatch? meaning what? You need to use humidity to reach the necessary weight loss in the egg, too dry and they cant turn, too wet and they drown. Dry hatch doesn't imply no water in the bator, it means you use it as a tool to keep weight loss on target, sometimes you need more sometimes less depending on your room conditions etc. Do you think your chicks were stuck? It sounds to me like you ran dry dry and lossed too much. also did you weigh them throughout? (I don't but some do)

 

[annabell254]

6th and 7th! well keep them in a cool spot and set them all at the same time Saturday!! I wouldn't jeopardies any of them, heck your right on track! no eggs will be over 7 days old!

SATERDAY!!!!!!!!!! I dont know if I can wait that long! I think I can hold off till tonight.... and I am using ALL of my will power

.... but hamburgs normally hatch out a day early for me anyways, right alonside by bantams... so they should be right on if they are added within 24 hours to these eggs

I swear it wasn't my fault......pogmobum started it with that huge scary smiley....

Where DID that scarry smile come from..... I am looking for a pacing smily, and a smiley that has to sit on its hands

I need thoses all the time now that I am hatching!

 

[Gardeningmama]

The story of 2 frozen eggs abandoned by momma hen
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LOOK WHAT WAS STARING AT ME FROM THE BATOR!
WHERE DID THAT COME FROM!!!! I FORGOT I put one of Black Betty rejects was put in with the others at lockdown!


gardeningmama these are what your gonna be hatching!

Floppy and Huntchback Frozen egg chickies Update.....

Floppy hasn't flopped since about 2 pm today YAY!! I will take the foot pad off tomorrow and see if toes stay straight. Eating drinking and being a great chick.

Hunchback is fine, but should be named crooked neck as the neck isn't drooped she moves it fine when she wants to but she always goes back to that tuck side position. weird.
I hold her and make her look the otherway and she does it fine and even will fall asleep in my hands like so.


CAPTION THIS!

#1) Thank You for reposting all of this! I wanted to know the whole story and am so faaarrr behind on post's!! Sally, you are patient & amazing. You're really like a chick doula you know??

#2) I might hatch a yeti???? YAY!!! I might hatch a yeti, I might hatch a yeti.......

Absolutely adorable, I CAN'T WAIT!!

 

[mstricer]

No lower then 26, no higher then 35. The ones that were stuck, were ones that were hatching after I thought they were done. The extra cup of water was dryed up. Only one started shrink wrapping and i think it was because i opened it i tried the mister thing, but I think i did it incorrectly. Two of them had a litttle to much fluid in the bottom of the egg shell. I keep wondering if it is because I put that liner on the wire. I always have better hatches when i dont cover it. But I worry about them getting their feet cut on edges. Maybe if i tape the edges with duct tape, they wont get cut and humidity can flow better. What do yo guys think.

 

[annabell254]

We have a pip! (silkie) let the hatching begin....
ummmm perhaps late this eve or tomorrow!

pips are teasers ya know, How could they be so cruel!
Act like they are coming out and then rest in there like like like.... CHICKENS!
I est. 24 hrs from 7am and hope I have a surprise before then!
I saw the pip first 7am so I don't know when it pipped exactly. WAIT WAIT WAIT

STRAIGHT JACKET PLEASE!
and pass the popcorn & nonpareils

We ALSO need a strait jacket smiley!!!!!!!!!!

Always be prepared for surprises... I had a chick pip, zip and hatch in a matter of minutes once! It was day 25 though, so I guess she had plenty time beforehand to prepare for her hasty exit.

How a chick arrives fashionsbly last...........Wait.....wait.........wait..........is everyone else out........wait.........wait............NOW! NOW! NOW! HURRY! PIP! PIP! ZIP! ZIP! ...and OUT OF THERE!!!!!!

GREAT!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE IT

He looks wet for sure, too much humidity or low temps I would say, also can easily compromise chicks at the end with any shut off air, use other methods to control humidity, sponges, cups with lids with tiny holes in the etc. ventilation could also be a factor in this, I cant say anything for sure but I have read an awful lot on ventilation as you can see from that section in the article. I am so sorry this happened to you

Hummmmmmmmmmmmm...where is the link to ventalation?????

 

[Gardeningmama]

Quote: It's forced air. Both thermometers said 99-100. The humidity was dry for the first 18 days then between 60 and 77 when the first hatched. I have a qfg digital hydrometer. I don't know what happened. The chicks that hatched are big and healthy. I forgot to mention that 15 were shipped eggs. I let them set for 3 days, all had nice air cells and growing well.
Mich you did dry hatch? meaning what? You need to use humidity to reach the necessary weight loss in the egg, too dry and they cant turn, too wet and they drown. Dry hatch doesn't imply no water in the bator, it means you use it as a tool to keep weight loss on target, sometimes you need more sometimes less depending on your room conditions etc. Do you think your chicks were stuck? It sounds to me like you ran dry dry and lossed too much. also did you weigh them throughout? (I don't but some do)

I don't mean to jump in here, but this just happened to me. This past hatch was horrible, very much staggered, and umpteen glued chicks, and a few total losses. I have never used a turner before, and always had wonderful hatches, but this time I had so many detached air cells it seemed to make more sense to put all of the eggs in a turner. Once I did, I had no room for water containers, and the wells underneath the turner would dry out, so I would let them be for a couple of days as it was so hard to fill them with the turner in place. Often throughout my Acurites read 16% humidity(I'm pretty sure that's the lowest reading possible on an Acurite). When I finally pulled out the turner for lockdown, the aircells were completely messed up. The rest is history. Your hatch sounds too much like mine, and I'm betting on humidity issues.

 

[annabell254]

humidity messed me up on this hatch (was my first but mine was too high.. and I did not know weigh them or even know how the air cell should look.... most ckicks had NO air cell! ALL chicks needed assisting... all assisted chicks made it

 

[TMNfarm]

None of my chicks had that much fluid In The egg with them...
So none of those pipped or you didn't see movement? They don't look like they were ready to hatch yet. Once mine pipped and started to unzip there wasn't anything fluidy in there with them...it was like shell and chick and nothing else. How far along were the eggs? Is it possible that your temps might have been a little low slowing down their development?

This was day 22, but the one that hatched, pipped the day after lockdown and hatched on day 20. Same with my Easter hatch. The only chick to hatch actually hatched out on day 19, so I was thinking my temps were too high.

This hatch, the one that did live pipped and had made no progress 24 hours later. She was trying hard to zip, but didn't seem to be able to move. I feared she may be sticky, so jacked the humidity up. I ended up trying to help her out by chipping along the shell as if I was zipping for her with a probe through the vent holes, then she was able to get herself out of the egg. There was no excess moisture with her. Everything looked normal. I did think there was a bit much fluid in the egg, but the air cell didn't seem to have any. One of the others was a bit drier than her, but two others were pretty wet as well... Did I drown them by jacking up my humidity at the end??

 

[Mianna]

Sooo, the first chick is running around like mad, the egg on the upper right is making a lot of progress, the chick in the upper left egg just started pecking again, and the lower left one is just sort of sitting there. Is the pip on the lower left egg even big enough to let the chick breathe?

 

[chicksooner]

ugggg..... wondering....

I got a notice that occasionally State Farm Insurance comes to inspect property's for homeowners, they will be here anytime in the next 90 days.

How will my coops and chicken play in this "visit" suggestions anyone run into this?

We have had state farm for 13 years and have never had that notice. I would call your agent and ask about that.