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

[loveourbirds]

Quote: as you well know, you never quit learning - ive read and experimented for a while now, and im still learning on every hatch.

 

[ozexpat]

as you well know, you never quit learning - ive read and experimented for a while now, and im still learning on every hatch.

indeed

Last week we also set a doz eggs under a broody who graciously accepted them.

Things are coming along rather well.

 

[Doug Hodges]

Here is Mighty Mouse the only survivor from my shipped Welsummer eggs.

That's a cutie

 

[lizanne]

im with you on not having it done to my flock, heck do the math; i have at least 60 roosters.

but for the person who lives in the city and wants to breed, it could be a good thing. i cant imagine trying to raise chickens inside the city limits, i tried that life for a few months. i guess i just dont understand why when one person mows their yard, why the rest of the neighbors have to mow theirs too. i like living where if i want to pee off my back porch, no one other than my DW will say (or see) a thing. ( i realize that came out wrong, just couldnt figure out how to word it)

edited to add:
sorry i didnt realize that was 2003 when that happened. i guess that would explain why i hadn't heard about it.

I live in the suburbs, and in my area I can't have roosters (I can't really have chickens either). The city code says you need a lot over 10,000 square feet to have any livestock, and mine is about 90 sq feet short. I currently have a rooster that I put in the garage at night. We bring him out around 9 in the morning.

I love having him, but if he's going to cause an issue and make it so I can't have any chickens he'll have to go.

 

[scooter16]

I have hatchlings!!

more mutt eggs in the phils. some easter eggers, leghorn/rir/polish crosses. 12 chicks out with some more pipping and zipping

I have probably missed your story on California vs the Philipines. What exactly are you doing between the two sites? I have been reading all your comments and am just curious how it all plays out. I enjoy your comments and expertise. Lynn (Scooter16)

 

[ozexpat]

I have probably missed your story on California vs the Philipines. What exactly are you doing between the two sites? I have been reading all your comments and am just curious how it all plays out. I enjoy your comments and expertise. Lynn (Scooter16)

The whole crazy story is laid out in my ever expanding thread linked in my signature but as a few line synopsis.

Last Christmas I decided to take just a few eggs to my beach house in the Philippines to hatch. Then I fell victim to chicken math.

I have 150+ birds, a 500 egg capacity megabator and a 300 egg hatcher. My hatch rates suck so I just try with hundreds of eggs at a time. I now have quail chuckar chickens turkey guinea fowl and ducks. The January hatch are producing eggs and off spring.

I live in an apartment in socal where I have hatched scores of chicks in various experiments to better hatching overseas with shipped eggs in high humidity.

Next year I want to give away 100 hens with roos in a backyard chicken sustainability "mission" so we are hatching every mutt egg we can from the imported eggs.

We are also adopting 2 kids in the Phils - Mrs Oz is staying with the kids and I fly over every 8 weeks or so.

 

[familypendragon]

OK, I want my pros to hold my hand and walk me through this one

HERE are my precious Blue Breda shipped eggs. They arrived at my house at 7:20 AM with none broken and have set big end up in an open bottom egg carton for about 15 hours. I was not crazy about the packing job (which I shared with the seller). It was the same as my Barred Rock which so far appear to have only 3 of 14 developing :/ Each egg was carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and paper towel, but they were floating loose in cut newspaper and I guess due to weight distribution they pretty much all had settled with the big end (air cell) down inside the box. I just candled the 18 eggs (appreciate the many extras!) and of the 18 there are three with no air cell that I can detect so don't know if it is scrambled or ?? 6 have detached air cells that form large saddles - some all the way down to the other end of the egg. 1 has a completely rolling air cell. And 8 appear to be pretty good from the looks of it. So what do I do with them? Do I set them all and see what happens by day 10 - or am I asking for another disastrous hatch if I set any but the 8 good looking ones. Step by step - advise me please.

 

[lizanne]

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OK, I want my pros to hold my hand and walk me through this one

HERE are my precious Blue Breda shipped eggs. They arrived at my house at 7:20 AM with none broken and have set big end up in an open bottom egg carton for about 15 hours. I was not crazy about the packing job (which I shared with the seller). It was the same as my Barred Rock which so far appear to have only 3 of 14 developing :/ Each egg was carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and paper towel, but they were floating loose in cut newspaper and I guess due to weight distribution they pretty much all had settled with the big end (air cell) down inside the box. I just candled the 18 eggs (appreciate the many extras!) and of the 18 there are three with no air cell that I can detect so don't know if it is scrambled or ?? 6 have detached air cells that form large saddles - some all the way down to the other end of the egg. 1 has a completely rolling air cell. And 8 appear to be pretty good from the looks of it. So what do I do with them? Do I set them all and see what happens by day 10 - or am I asking for another disastrous hatch if I set any but the 8 good looking ones. Step by step - advise me please.

Those air cells look pretty big already. I would go ahead and set them all, but don't turn them for a couple days. Some times the air cells will heal and reattach. Good luck!!

 

[mikkles]

OK, I want my pros to hold my hand and walk me through this one

HERE are my precious Blue Breda shipped eggs. They arrived at my house at 7:20 AM with none broken and have set big end up in an open bottom egg carton for about 15 hours. I was not crazy about the packing job (which I shared with the seller). It was the same as my Barred Rock which so far appear to have only 3 of 14 developing :/ Each egg was carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and paper towel, but they were floating loose in cut newspaper and I guess due to weight distribution they pretty much all had settled with the big end (air cell) down inside the box. I just candled the 18 eggs (appreciate the many extras!) and of the 18 there are three with no air cell that I can detect so don't know if it is scrambled or ?? 6 have detached air cells that form large saddles - some all the way down to the other end of the egg. 1 has a completely rolling air cell. And 8 appear to be pretty good from the looks of it. So what do I do with them? Do I set them all and see what happens by day 10 - or am I asking for another disastrous hatch if I set any but the 8 good looking ones. Step by step - advise me please.

I'm no expert but I'd set them all! it definitely won't hatch if you don't... and may surprise you if you do!

 

[familypendragon]

True enough