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

[familypendragon]

Eggs are in! I took the turner out and moved the barred tocks into an egg carton too so I can keep turning them by hand. Won't touch the Bredas for a few days.

 

[ozexpat]

It looks like we will end up with 13 from 18 on this weeks locally laid eggs.

I am very pleased with a 72%

If we set 20 eggs each week we would end up with 750 chickens in a year

 

[sumi]

It looks like we will end up with 13 from 18 on this weeks locally laid eggs.

I am very pleased with a 72%

If we set 20 eggs each week we would end up with 750 chickens in a year

Getting there, Oz!

 

[chicksooner]

Eggs are in! I took the turner out and moved the barred tocks into an egg carton too so I can keep turning them by hand. Won't touch the Bredas for a few days.

good luck. If it were me I would start a very gentle turning on day 2. Turning to me is most important the first week. The little embryos get stuck pretty quickly. Hand turn gently by just moving it slightly from one side to another. Just enough that it is not sitting in the same spot for days. The eggs that you could not see the cell hopefully were the freshest and in a couple days you will be able to see it. The eggs with the rolling cell don't turn or move for a couple days.

 

[ozexpat]

i posted new pics in my thread last night but here are some highlights

the chicks that hatched mid june





Guineas, or Bengala as they are known locally





Chickens at 2 weeks



Chukar



8 week old quail


the new row house coop - 5 rooms 6 x 6 with 6 x 18 runs including the area under the coop.

 

[familypendragon]

i posted new pics in my thread last night but here are some highlights the chicks that hatched mid june Guineas, or Bengala as they are known locally Chickens at 2 weeks Chukar 8 week old quail the new row house coop - 5 rooms 6 x 6 with 6 x 18 runs including the area under the coop.

Great pics - wanna come build a row house for me??? LOL!

 

[ozexpat]

Great pics - wanna come build a row house for me???

LOL!

Alas I am just the developer - Bernie is the foreman.

 

[familypendragon]

Was reading the air cell parts of the first page and then I followed the links to this: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/39604/some-causes-of-early-chick-mortality, and now I am having google disease. Where you are sure your suffering from whatever horrible thing you find on Dr Google. The chicks from this batch of Welsummer hatched eggs all died but one. The ones that hatched and died all had labored breathing, chirping and death. The one had green liquid bubbling out of its mouth. The last one to die with the yolk sack that would never absorb had white poop come out right before she started gasping and died. So now I am freaking myself out. :/ And the lone survivor doesn't look well to me now. Won't eat, won't drink and chirps non stop, sleep standing up and wakes every few seconds. Gah!

b) Pullorum

It is an acute infectious and fatal bacterial disease of chicks characterized by ruffled feather, white diarrhea, labor breathing, chirping and death.

 

[familypendragon]

Gah! No!

Pullorum Disease

Pullorum disease, previously known as Bacillary White Diarrhoea, in poultry is caused by Salmonella Pullorum. It is an acute systemic disease of young chickens and poults.

Salmonella Pullorum

Pullorum disease is spread from infected parent birds via the egg to the chick. Infected chicks spread the disease laterally in the hatchery.

Reports of clinical disease in avian species other than chickens, turkeys and pheasants are rare.

Clinical signs of Pullorum Disease

Usually seen in chicks younger than 3 weeks old.
First indication is an excessive number of dead-in-shell chicks and deaths shortly after hatching.
Clinical signs variable and non-specific.
White diarrhoea, with pasting of the vent is often a feature.
Treatment and control

Antibiotic treatment not recommended as birds may become carriers.
Control is usually by testing and the removal of infected birds.

 

[ozexpat]

Gah! No!

First of all dont freak - most of what you described can be caused by many things including humidity, delayed hatching caused by low temps.


Contact the supplier - see if he/she has chicks dropping dead but I highly doubt it.


Your lone chick sounds like it is suffering from anxiety of being alone. Get it a friend