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

[Doug Hodges]

Doug any replies from Larry??

no

 

[Doug Hodges]

The sun is out shining bright and the humidity is 98% here. It's always real high in Arkansas. We have extremely hot humid summers here.

 

[dolfi]

The sun is out shining bright and the humidity is 98% here. It's always real high in Arkansas. We have extremely hot humid summers here.

funny i cant seem to be able to raise the humidity in my incubator from 33%.

can it be the thromometor because i added more bows than before it had never been so low with water in it

 

[Wax Myrtle]

Quote:Originally Posted by ozexpat /img/forum/go_quote.gif raining, tropics. 100% cloud cover with a ceiling of 1900 ft = humidity 84% 97% humidity is hot shower running bathroom humidity. i would be dripping
Gets that way here in South Carolina everyday. Actually at night is when the humidity goes up. By 5am the humidity most of the time during spring and summer is around 93%. You walk outside and your instantly wet. The humidity here sucks the life out of most my plants.

Forget the plants, the humidity here in the Pee Dee sucks the life out of ME.

 

[dolfi]

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last night:

Scooby is such an intelegent roo. Yesturday was all fun and games for him. I put the cages in a better place in my back yard and when it was his time to go in, He would escape!!! any little whole. too smart. than the catching him in a acer was the funny thing. so i waited till night and them he was all mine.


by the way can chicken see at night?
Got up this morning and the first thing i did was check on my chickens. last night was raining hard so i wanted to see if their new location flooded like the old.

i was happy to see that it is a good draining one.



this morning
Bu:t guess whos out of the cage. Mr scooby!!! he managed to get out again.

he is just too smart. I have his tonight thought

 

[Sally Sunshine]

just lock down my 4 shipped eggs and 5 of my own. they all look good except that the air cell on the shipped are waivy and three of my own 5 are not moving but it is very dark in there, and they dont smell so i left them in there.

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hope to get them all hatched for my birthday.

oh yay!! both my older sons bdays are this week and next! I wish you luck! and a GREAT BIRTHDAY!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: yup

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: 3D my friend! I know your enjoying your summer and time off! don't worry about us we will be here when you need us! Have fun and enjoy your time!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Help! I had one late hatcher that I assisted . . . there was very little blood so I got the shell off but left half the outer andcinner membrane on. It kicked out and it's belly isn't quite closed. It's not bleeding out but probably needs another couple of hours to close. I put a warm damp paper towel around it and closed the lid back up. It's chirping away. Anything else I should do? I hope it makes it for the other little chick's sake. Having a partner would be better. <3. Praying for my little one!!!!

if she is strong she should be ok, do you have an update? try electrolytes to give her a boost when she is able.

this is a paste from what I just told someone I do on another thread....

there are several recipes for electrolytes in the Hatching 101 article, also my main concern is infection of the navel, I use veterycyn umbilical gel spray, its expensive but well worth having on hand. This protects against infection as well as dries the yolk and the umbilicus stump. I would love to see an image of the yolk if you can, its always better to help with images, plus I love to see new hatched chicks period! If you don't have veterycyn to speed up drying and prevent infection, swab some diluted tamed iodine onto a raw umbilicus or unretracted yolk sac as the Hagen Avicultural Research Institute suggests . Be it in the brooder or hatcher, what is most important is the most clean environment you can provide until its umbilicus is proper. And I wouldn't worry about it being alone for now, the more it gets active be it upset at being alone or not, it is managing its metabolism and helping the retraction/absorption process along. Good Luck with your new little one!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

After my first incubator experience that completely failed I was considering selling the bator & quitting. I started reading about hatching eggs and found out some bantam eggs are tough to hatch & shipped eggs suck (figured that out lol) mine were both lol not so good for a first timer. Since then my kids discovered ducks & are in love. I started looking around for hatching eggs locally but had no luck. I decided to give shipped eggs one last shot and ordered some duck eggs from eBay. I'm on day 4 and couldn't wait anymore so I candled them expecting to find a bator full of scrambled eggs, to my surprise at least half have visible veins & development. I'm so excited! I know it's not the best hatch rate but since my first batch was a complete fail I'm happy. So far so good :-D

what breed?