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

[Doug Hodges]

P.S. We all wish Oz a safe fun trip and a happy 3rd!! birthday to his lovely little one !!! 

Thanks. Got all caught up in one post.

 

[bellah1]

Anyone have any advice about hatching wobbley air cell duck eggs? Tomorrow is lockdown and all I know is to hatch upright but are there extra issues I will have to deal with?

 

[BullChick]

Anyone have any advice about hatching wobbley air cell duck eggs? Tomorrow is lockdown and all I know is to hatch upright but are there extra issues I will have to deal with?

I don't know, but I really hope not!

 

[BullChick]

I just candled. I saw veining in one egg of 26. And that was one of my "barnyard mixes". I am hoping it is at least an EE. Of course, chances are good it will be. My Am is the head roo in that coop.
I pulled 2 definite blood rings. Both mine. I left a few that looked like they may have blood rings, but it could just be the way I was looking. I was trying to get through all the eggs as fast as I could. I was more worried about determining whether or not the air cells were reattached and the right size.
I hate to ask this question, but sloshing in the shell is a scrambled egg, isn't it?

BTW, I am only one week in, and most of the eggs are chocolate. Candling, as you know, is tricky.

 

[silver1313]

Anyone have any advice about hatching wobbley air cell duck eggs? Tomorrow is lockdown and all I know is to hatch upright but are there extra issues I will have to deal with?

mine did fine bellah ... i put them upright in the carton and went and looked and had babies the next morning ... just kept temp and humidity level and kept an eye on them just in case .. do have one assisted but i think its just cause its so big !!! not because it was upright or anything

 

[silver1313]

I just candled. I saw veining in one egg of 26. And that was one of my "barnyard mixes". I am hoping it is at least an EE. Of course, chances are good it will be. My Am is the head roo in that coop.
I pulled 2 definite blood rings. Both mine. I left a few that looked like they may have blood rings, but it could just be the way I was looking. I was trying to get through all the eggs as fast as I could. I was more worried about determining whether or not the air cells were reattached and the right size.
I hate to ask this question, but sloshing in the shell is a scrambled egg, isn't it?

BTW, I am only one week in, and most of the eggs are chocolate. Candling, as you know, is tricky.

is it sloshing or a rolling air cell ?

 

[bellah1]

mine did fine bellah ... i put them upright in the carton and went and looked and had babies the next morning ... just kept temp and humidity level and kept an eye on them just in case .. do have one assisted but i think its just cause its so big !!! not because it was upright or anything 

Thanks silver, that makes me feel so so much better!

 

[silver1313]

Quote: youare welcome bellah !! and we have missed you !!!!

 

[BullChick]

Quote:
They are/were rolling air cells. This one is sloshing.
Can a saddle air cell (which I had NOT seen one day one) look like sloshing? That is the only other explanation. It really looked like sloshing though.

 

[silver1313]

Quote:
They are/were rolling air cells. This one is sloshing.
Can a saddle air cell (which I had NOT seen one day one) look like sloshing? That is the only other explanation. It really looked like sloshing though.
hmm could be saddle shaped and rolling maybe ? if it were mine id give it a few more days and try to check again .. one i thought was scrambled actually hatched !!!