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

[Sally Sunshine]

My problem chickie died, made no progress absorbing the sack. I think there may have been issues with the sack but who knows. It had been wrapped around her leg with her leg over her head so who knows.

oh crud!!! awwww

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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.

Go BERNIE!! so pretty!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

 

[scooter16]

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!

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.

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.

Ahhh...sounds very interesting. Thanks for the update in a nutshell. LMS (scooter16)

 

[familypendragon]

The one with green liquid bubbling from it's mouth, was it still in the shell when this happened? And was it green, or could it have been yellow? When a chick ruptures its yolk sac, often times you will see a yellow liquid foam from its mouth. It really freaked me out the first time I saw it.

It was olive green and clear with clear bubbles :/

 

[familypendragon]

I truly hope that you get this all figured out.

Did you try contacting the seller yet?

The seller responded. He is NPIP, has no history of illnesses and has just had a good hatch of his own. So its a mystery I hope the epidemiologist gets back to me and we can test with out it costing a fortune.

 

[Doug Hodges]

Finally saw some sun today. My chickens sure enjoyed it.

 

[familypendragon]

I just had a brahma hatch last week that didn't absorb all and she is fine now it slowly over a week went down ALOT it just a tiny dark thing now. I used vetericin umbilical gel

Just so you don't have to try to catch up - every.single.chick dropped dead. All 9 either died partially or fully hatched. There was panting, clear green foam from one's mouth, white diarrhea with one, the one with the unabsorbed yolk for 3 days, and the only one that hatched with only minor help wouldn't drink, eat, or lay down - just chirped all night, all the next day and then dropped dead

 

[chicksooner]

Finally saw some sun today. My chickens sure enjoyed it.

We had sun too. Coop clean out from flooding again and DH tried to get the mowing done.

 

[ozexpat]

The seller responded. He is NPIP, has no history of illnesses and has just had a good hatch of his own. So its a mystery

I hope the epidemiologist gets back to me and we can test with out it costing a fortune.

this is very good news from being ground zero for a pullorum outbreak.

having set in excess of 50 shipments of USPS delivered eggs, I am not surprised at failure to thrive at any stage in the embryonic stage and as your chicks were assisted, you may have "out of shell" experiences that I may not ever see as I do minimal assisting. I cull fairly quickly for deformities as neonatal intensive care is not my thing. In saying that, individually, there have been numerous people here who have had all the experiences you have had in this hatch.

The reality of it all is shipped eggs suck.

I have one major hatch of shipped eggs to go. I would not have even done this one except for the fact that I had a 100% failure of Australorps in the past and they are the number one chicken on my original list. To try and ensure success I am taking 72 Australorp eggs with me - 24 local, 24 from northern Cal and 24 that will come from half way across the country. The rest of the breeds of eggs I take are a bonus.

Todays hatch of 78% on locally laid pullet eggs tells me that we are doing things right and caused the anguish that I go through with these blasted eggs to surface. I have my guineas, I have my rhode island reds, I have my barred rocks, I have my lavender orps, I have my easter eggers, I have my RLB wyandottes - all I really need are those Australorps!!

Of course, along the way chicken math took over and I ended up with lemon cuckoo orps, buff orps, bbs orps, marans, breda, andalusians, sebrights, naked necks, chukar, coturnix and turkey.