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

[ozexpat]

interesting, where was the rice stored? it may have already collected a bunch of moisture!

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That is why I had never bothered trying before. Its probably ok when your rice comes in sealed plastic bags. Ours is bought out of open drums with a scoop.

 

[kaybee123]

Please insert the crying smiley here and help me figure out what went wrong with this hatch!!!! I feel I should have 7 more chicks right now but I'm grateful for the four I have. . The hatch is over and I have 2 OEs and two legbars to show for it. One legbar is a white the other a cream. They are all still fluffing out.

I did an eggtopsy on all other eggs.

Two pipped internally, one upside down and yolk not fully absorbed. I had to cull. Another I checked when I heard it tonight. It was very wet around it's face and I tried to pull back the thick slimy inner lining but it was too drowned I think and died. So that's 2 of the 7. The other five I eggtopsied were fully formed, had not internally pipped and their yolk was not completely absorbed but most only had a little more than a pinky to go in absorbing. One I could see was crossbeaked so it probably couldn't have pipped or zipped.

Last night I didn't use a straw and just poured water into a hole and it leaked on the wiring some. My temp went down to 93 and then bounced around for 1 1/2 hours until I could get it steady at 101 again. Since that happened during critical absorbsion time is that what happened? . Me being an idiot!!!! This could have been such a great hatch. Please help me figure this out so it doesn't happen again. Maybe were the temps too low too? Why did some absorb and make it and others not? I set 23 eggs and got 4. The five were still fairly watery too. Sniff! Sniff! I have 15 out of 24 incubating in another bator and I'm on Day 12. I don't want this to happen again! Help!!!!

I got the " use a straw next time dummy!!!!!" part. Anything else I could do differently?

 

[ozexpat]

Please insert the crying smiley here and help me figure out what went wrong with this hatch!!!! I feel I should have 7 more chicks right now but I'm grateful for the four I have.

. The hatch is over and I have 2 OEs and two legbars to show for it. One legbar is a white the other a cream. They are all still fluffing out.

I did an eggtopsy on all other eggs.

Two pipped internally, one upside down and yolk not fully absorbed. I had to cull. Another I checked when I heard it tonight. It was very wet around it's face and I tried to pull back the thick slimy inner lining but it was too drowned I think and died. So that's 2 of the 7. The other five I eggtopsied were fully formed, had not internally pipped and their yolk was not completely absorbed but most only had a little more than a pinky to go in absorbing. One I could see was crossbeaked so it probably couldn't have pipped or zipped.

Last night I didn't use a straw and just poured water into a hole and it leaked on the wiring some. My temp went down to 93 and then bounced around for 1 1/2 hours until I could get it steady at 101 again. Since that happened during critical absorbsion time is that what happened?

. Me being an idiot!!!! This could have been such a great hatch. Please help me figure this out so it doesn't happen again. Maybe were the temps too low too? Why did some absorb and make it and others not? I set 23 eggs and got 4. The five were still fairly watery too. Sniff! Sniff! I have 15 out of 24 incubating in another bator and I'm on Day 12. I don't want this to happen again! Help!!!!

I got the " use a straw next time dummy!!!!!" part. Anything else I could do differently?

there is more too it than the straw,

two initial things come to mind.

temperatures and high humidity.

the only real way to exclude humidity issues is to weigh eggs - especially if they were shipped as air cell candling becomes unreliable.

once that is sorted, temps. what day did they start pipping?

 

[kaybee123]

there is more too it than the straw,

two initial things come to mind.

temperatures and high humidity.

the only real way to exclude humidity issues is to weigh eggs - especially if they were shipped as air cell candling becomes unreliable.

once that is sorted, temps. what day did they start pipping?

I set these eggs at 5 pm CST on June 26. So tonight at 5 pm is 21 days, right? All living chicks were born this morning by around 11 am. We have had a crazy amount of rain lately here in FL so humidity has run from 35-55% days 1-18. I upped humidity on day 19 and it has fluxed btw 66-84%.

Like I said, the temp dropped and bounced up twice during a 1 1/2 hour period last night between 93 and 104 before I got it stabilized. During day 1-18 it fluxed btw 99-102 but mostly stayed at 100.

I will start weighing with the eggs I have coming from Sally this week.

Thanks for trying to help me figure this out. All had the veining gone but they were still wet except two seemed dry as well.

 

[kaybee123]

Only one egg pipped last night. The others pipped this morning. All hatched this am.

 

[ozexpat]

I set these eggs at 5 pm CST on June 26. So tonight at 5 pm is 21 days, right? All living chicks were born this morning by around 11 am. We have had a crazy amount of rain lately here in FL so humidity has run from 35-55% days 1-18. I upped humidity on day 19 and it has fluxed btw 66-84%.

Like I said, the temp dropped and bounced up twice during a 1 1/2 hour period last night between 93 and 104 before I got it stabilized. During day 1-18 it fluxed btw 99-102 but mostly stayed at 100.

I will start weighing with the eggs I have coming from Sally this week.

Thanks for trying to help me figure this out. All had the veining gone but they were still wet except two seemed dry as well.

i hatch in similiar conditions. my bator today is at 48% with 5 pounds of rice in it, down from mid 50s. ambient humidity is 88

the drop in temp for 2 hours wont make much difference, the embryos are producing most of their own heat by then,

i dont up the humidity on day 18 anymore. i use the humidity from the pipping eggs to increase it on its own. I also lowered my temps to lengthen my 19 day hatches to give the embryos more time to dry out before they get the trigger to pip

with my hatches, they can be spread out but typically all eggs of a given breed from a single supplier pip within 6-8 hrs of each other.

good luck

 

[kaybee123]

i hatch in similiar conditions. my bator today is at 48% with 5 pounds of rice in it, down from mid 50s. ambient humidity is 88

the drop in temp for 2 hours wont make much difference, the embryos are producing most of their own heat by then,

i dont up the humidity on day 18 anymore. i use the humidity from the pipping eggs to increase it on its own. I also lowered my temps to lengthen my 19 day hatches to give the embryos more time to dry out before they get the trigger to pip

with my hatches, they can be spread out but typically all eggs of a given breed from a single supplier pip within 6-8 hrs of each other.

good luck

When you say you lower the temp, do you have it lower from day 1 or you lower it on a certain day? Also what is your normal temp and what is the lower temp you go to?

 

[ozexpat]

When you say you lower the temp, do you have it lower from day 1 or you lower it on a certain day? Also what is your normal temp and what is the lower temp you go to?

i dropped my thermostat from 38C to 37.3C (100.3 to 99.2F) for the whole hatch. My eggs were pipping at the beginning of day 19. I want to give them a chance to lose another gram or two of water to see if i can get a better hatch rate

 

[wescottwomen]

Candled the eggs last night and one was cracked the other went bad but the rest look ok

 

[mstricer]

Please insert the crying smiley here and help me figure out what went wrong with this hatch!!!! I feel I should have 7 more chicks right now but I'm grateful for the four I have. . The hatch is over and I have 2 OEs and two legbars to show for it. One legbar is a white the other a cream. They are all still fluffing out.

I did an eggtopsy on all other eggs.

Two pipped internally, one upside down and yolk not fully absorbed. I had to cull. Another I checked when I heard it tonight. It was very wet around it's face and I tried to pull back the thick slimy inner lining but it was too drowned I think and died. So that's 2 of the 7. The other five I eggtopsied were fully formed, had not internally pipped and their yolk was not completely absorbed but most only had a little more than a pinky to go in absorbing. One I could see was crossbeaked so it probably couldn't have pipped or zipped.

Last night I didn't use a straw and just poured water into a hole and it leaked on the wiring some. My temp went down to 93 and then bounced around for 1 1/2 hours until I could get it steady at 101 again. Since that happened during critical absorbsion time is that what happened? . Me being an idiot!!!! This could have been such a great hatch. Please help me figure this out so it doesn't happen again. Maybe were the temps too low too? Why did some absorb and make it and others not? I set 23 eggs and got 4. The five were still fairly watery too. Sniff! Sniff! I have 15 out of 24 incubating in another bator and I'm on Day 12. I don't want this to happen again! Help!!!!

I got the " use a straw next time dummy!!!!!" part. Anything else I could do differently?

What did you hat b that had a crossbeak if you don't mind me asking