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

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: I have a Fav!!! just one and all those toes too!!! CUTENESS!!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Hello everyone, I hope you are all well.

Tomorrow will be day 18 for my wonky celled eggs, and despite them, it looks like 8 out of 12 will make it to lockdown. I cannot see any movement in the eggs, but the silkie eggs look full to bursting, so they are still growing. I can just see fullness in the maran eggs. I will take them out of the carton tomorrow and lie them all close together. The humidity is running at 60% plus, which I will keep it at.

What should I do with the polish eggs that are a week behind? (slow posting ebay seller) I have kept them in the higher humidity as they have been losing to much weight, thank you for the advice cochin! I can try and devise something to tilt them to and fro during lockdown, or I can put them into my very unreliable home made incubator. Which do you wonderful people think will be best?

if the old bator don't hold temps then keep them in this bator. Just don't up humidity until you see the first external pips. don't turn them, they will be fine the important turning period is the first 10 days. I think the wacky temps would be worse than anything plus you said your cells are large anyways right?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

The first of my staggered hatch has been successful! I had a hatch about 8 days ago, and one finish yesterday. Only set three and all 3 hatched. I have 3 more chicks due for lockdown... Um... On the 6th and so far they look good. Then unless something awesome comes around I am done for a while.

I managed to get a RIR baby. Daddy is either polish guy or Australorp so not pure but it is a beautiful copper color right now.

YAY!!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

OK bare with me here!!! Now I don't think the hen is egg bound. I soaked her in warm water 20 mins. Didn't do anything. Then I put on a rubber glove and put baby oil around her butt and in her butt. Yea boy. Never had a finger in a chicken butt before.

When I pulled it out she pooped yellow and chucks of green poo. NOW thinking about this, I been feeding them green grass that I have been pulling from the garden! They don't have grit, one because they eat crumbles , well fermented crumbles now and 2 it's so rocky I figured they could get enough small rocks. But maybe not!!! Could that be it. Seems more likely to me. Because I still couldn't feel an egg even with my finger up both her wholes, should say tubes. That just sounds bad, sorry.

I put her in separate cage with electrolyte's in her water and feed. She IS drinking. Maybe I just had to unplug her??? Maybe???

I don't know what to say or to laugh or cry!

 

[Toast n Jelly]

OK bare with me here!!! Now I don't think the hen is egg bound. I soaked her in warm water 20 mins. Didn't do anything. Then I put on a rubber glove and put baby oil around her butt and in her butt. Yea boy. Never had a finger in a chicken butt before.

When I pulled it out she pooped yellow and chucks of green poo. NOW thinking about this, I been feeding them green grass that I have been pulling from the garden! They don't have grit, one because they eat crumbles , well fermented crumbles now and 2 it's so rocky I figured they could get enough small rocks. But maybe not!!! Could that be it. Seems more likely to me. Because I still couldn't feel an egg even with my finger up both her wholes, should say tubes. That just sounds bad, sorry.

I put her in separate cage with electrolyte's in her water and feed. She IS drinking. Maybe I just had to unplug her??? Maybe???

 

[Toast n Jelly]

WOW I better get reading!!!

This was my bator early this AM, looks like I was very wrong, everyone made a break for it over night!
all out!
3 Brahma 1 Serama and 6 CCL but WHY IS ONE YELLOW???????????????????????????

I NEED HELP FIGURING this one out please>?>>> NEVERMIND!!! HER BIRDS CARRY THE RECESIVE WHITE GENE!!! HOW AWESOME IS THAT!! IT WILL BE A PURE WHITE LEGBAR THAT LAYS A BLUE EGG!! HNEY DANCE!

I hope that you're not selling those CCLs, Males, females? Beautiful blue eggs

 

[cochins1088]

Hello everyone, I hope you are all well.

Tomorrow will be day 18 for my wonky celled eggs, and despite them, it looks like 8 out of 12 will make it to lockdown. I cannot see any movement in the eggs, but the silkie eggs look full to bursting, so they are still growing. I can just see fullness in the maran eggs. I will take them out of the carton tomorrow and lie them all close together. The humidity is running at 60% plus, which I will keep it at.

What should I do with the polish eggs that are a week behind? (slow posting ebay seller) I have kept them in the higher humidity as they have been losing to much weight, thank you for the advice cochin! I can try and devise something to tilt them to and fro during lockdown, or I can put them into my very unreliable home made incubator. Which do you wonderful people think will be best?

I would try to separate the 2 batches with a piece of chicken wire or something so that the hatching chicks don't bother the other eggs.

Keep the humidity at 60% plus.

You can turn the polish eggs by hand until you see an external pip. Once you see an external pip, don't open the incubator. The polish eggs will be fine if you don't turn them for a day. If you're worried, and your incubator is able to gain back humidity fairly quickly, then you can turn the polish eggs as normal throughout the lockdown of your hatching eggs.

 

[lizanne]

OK bare with me here!!! Now I don't think the hen is egg bound. I soaked her in warm water 20 mins. Didn't do anything. Then I put on a rubber glove and put baby oil around her butt and in her butt. Yea boy. Never had a finger in a chicken butt before.

When I pulled it out she pooped yellow and chucks of green poo. NOW thinking about this, I been feeding them green grass that I have been pulling from the garden! They don't have grit, one because they eat crumbles , well fermented crumbles now and 2 it's so rocky I figured they could get enough small rocks. But maybe not!!! Could that be it. Seems more likely to me. Because I still couldn't feel an egg even with my finger up both her wholes, should say tubes. That just sounds bad, sorry.

I put her in separate cage with electrolyte's in her water and feed. She IS drinking. Maybe I just had to unplug her??? Maybe???

Ok, I'm dying over here...

. I hope she feels better, but that is so darn funny. I've never had any part of me inside a chicken (well a live one), but I would guess I you can't feel and egg and she doesn't seem to be straining to pass one, she's not egg bound. I saw a you-tube video of an egg bound hen, and you could definitely tell she was trying to pass an egg. Does she seem better now?

 

[gracie02]

well the sun is out. I am needing to clean wet sand out of coops and start all over. Stink and flies are bad. So yay me.

Thinking of you, so sorry.

 

[chirpingcricket]

Ok, I'm dying over here...

. I hope she feels better, but that is so darn funny. I've never had any part of me inside a chicken (well a live one), but I would guess I you can't feel and egg and she doesn't seem to be straining to pass one, she's not egg bound. I saw a you-tube video of an egg bound hen, and you could definitely tell she was trying to pass an egg. Does she seem better now?

Tony, thank goodness.