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

[hillfloweranch]

you gotta just love white eggs for candling

i taught myself on trader joes fertile eggs

yup...green ones were hard to see...dark marans VERY difficult! so I'm loving the clear pics of the white eggs...I could see them moving around

 

[NestingHillsSC]

Omgeez. I had 17 eggs make it to lockdown. Today I came home seriously disappointed I had to be gone this afternoon.... 15 chicks and TWO zipping now. All hatched!!! Holy chicks! And all I wanted was 2! I'll post a pic in a bit. I have 16 dark birds and one golden nugget.

That is a great feeling. Out of 22 I had 18. So we both had a great day yesterday!!

 

[NestingHillsSC]

Check the last 4 eggs that didn't hatch yesterday. Don't think any of these are going to make it. One I think is shrinked wrapped. Almost the whole egg is air cell at an angle. One looks like it was knocked around too much. Maybe drowned. Sort of floating in there. The other 2 all full but nothing going on.

One of the chicks that hatched last night has a blood ball on it's butt. Not to sure what to think of it.

 

[Sparkypatriot15]

Hey guys! For my art final, I'm doing a series of drawings of embryonic development on blown out goose eggs. I plan to draw embryos at 0 days, 5 days, 10 days, 15 days, and 20 days. Here's my first one, it's of a 15 day old embryo. I understand that it may not be accurate, so please critique the embryo if you can. I tried to make the fluff look more wet, but it didn't work out. 15 day old embryo with yolk sac drawn onto a blown goose egg.

O.O Teach me oh great master

I candled tonight...3 out of 12 possibly 4 from ventura auction eggs. and 5 out of 12 from Nevada eggs!! sooooo EGGcited!! keeping for more ferts...will check again in few days...day 7 for first round (ventura) & day 3 for 2nd (nevada) ventura egg day 7 Nevada egg day 3

Argh your making me wanna hatch chicks even more!!!!! LOL

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote:

<screaming> help me

ok .. eggs are here ..were packed good and careful but still had several casualities

i believe there were 8 that are not broken ... got them set up to sit for at least 24 hours... wiped them all off the best i could .... yep prob the only shipped eggs i ever try ....

This little dude was assisted hatch Monday. It had a full yolk sac. The first pic was yesterday evening. The second and third pic is just a few minutes ago. Notice my wife isn't wearing gloves anymore. Lol. She's doing great.

this made me chuckle! ha ha ha I though u were kidding!

I picked up my eggs this morning from the post office and what a great packing job.
Here are some pics. They're Wheaton Ameraucanas and she packed 6 extra for me.

pretty eggs I head Wheaton are a lighter blue sorta green color! now I can see that! so pretty!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: Sally hatches in another incubator. I guess you could call it the hatcherbator.
lol no its call the "shittystyrohatcher" bawahhhahahhaaaaa

Quote: they only grow in there, and I do NOT suggest it, its a pain to turn and move everything around.
I was gifted turkey n duck eggs and they sorta threw me all off, THERE IS 17 of them and they are all viable!

I just sold most of my chickens and the coop. Mom and babies are going tomorrow and only the 3 youngsters are staying behind. Our landlord's taking them.

This bit was not easy

When I saw the coop on the trailer I couldn't help thinking of that day we bought our first hens and had to put them in the bathroom, because the coop was due to be delivered the next day only, but I couldn't wait another week for my chickens. And then the courier phoned to say he's on his way with the coop. It was crazy, but so exiting... looking at the chickens at market and choosing hens to buy and then bringing them home. Getting the coop delivered that afternoon and scrubbing chicken poop off the bathroom floor. DH thought I should've waited, but I just wanted chickens again. It was so nice to have chickens again.

well here it is! that is just weird! I swear it wasn't here when I was typing honest!!

Quote: Okay! I get up in the morning, and put on a coat. Twenty minutes later I go out with vegetables, and sweat in a pair of shorts.
I turned off the heat lamp (finally!!) for the 7 -week-olds last night, and candled the eggs. I checked a BCM, and could only kinda trace the air cell. I candled an EE, and was able to see the veining. The temp is still going between 100-102.
Aren't Marans hard to hatch? I thought you guys (in PA Unite) were talking about it a while back.
I am skipping the stuff from the last few days I didn't read. Anything I should know?
I have done 5 dozen at dif times and had excellent hatches. I think they believe, as most do, add water to the wells and let them do their thing. only a few understand humidity and how to use it. I tried explaining numerous times if you don't remember, so I just respond to HELP Pm from them.

Quote: DONT do it!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: Ditto that, uggg sometimes it looses stuff when I do long quotes!

I haven't been on here in a few days, and just wanted to update all of you that were giving me advice on my first time hatchings eggs. Just to catch everyone up I'm hatching duck, turkey, chicken, and guinea eggs together using the dry hatch method. I am on day six right now with the duck, turkey,and guinea eggs and will be adding the chicken eggs tomorrow. So far everything seems to be going great, all eggs that I've candled so far seem to be showing progress, except for the guinea eggs which are to thick shelled to see much yet. The duck eggs are doing awesome, I can see really good veining in all eggs so far. The turkey eggs are too speckled and dark to see any veins but the air cells are right on track. My broody hen is also still sitting on the eggs I gave her. Hopefully everything keeps going good. I'm trying to not get my hopes up considering I still have three weeks to go. I originally only expected a couple eggs out of each breed to hatch at best, since this is my first time incubating eggs and I'm using shipped eggs, but now after all the progress the eggs are showing I'm beginning to hope for an even higher hatch rate. Thank you to everyone who gave me advice on getting started!

Sounds AWESOME Cody! I am so glad you figured out ahead of time what you need to do! awesome!! I cant wait for all your hatches!

 

[NestingHillsSC]

Here is a pic of that one chick. Hopefully you can see what I mean.

 

[NestingHillsSC]

Here is a pic of that one chick. Hopefully you can see what I mean.

If this one doesn't get better by the end of the day may have to cull it. Just a big ball of bloody mess!

 

[sumi]

Hi guys, I'm having some computer problems. My laptop's charger packed up and I'm nowhere near a supplier (I'm on a Mac), so I'm going to have to hang on until Tuesday when we're in Cape Town and buy one from the store there. I'm borrowing a friend's charger now, but she's going to need it back tomorrow... So I'm not going to be on much over the next few days and if I am it will be on DH's iPad, which is NOT user-friendly, not to me anyway. So I'm not going to be very talkative! LOL It takes me forever to string a sentence together on that thing. But I will pop in now and then and update, if I can.