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

[ozexpat]

When is your next chicken run? It must be soon if you're already receiving eggs.

wednesday

I am just heading out for a 250 mile southern egg run to pick upkahki cambell duck, creme legbars, swedish flower hens and banty rocks.

Tuesday I do another run north

 

[chickadoodles]

I Just had a chick hatch that still has it's navel cord attached to a little egg shell. Do I leave it alone or cut it off?

 

[cochins1088]

wednesday

I am just heading out for a 250 mile southern egg run to pick upkahki cambell duck, creme legbars, swedish flower hens and banty rocks.

Tuesday I do another run north

Awesome!

 

[cochins1088]

I Just had a chick hatch that still has it's navel cord attached to a little egg shell. Do I leave it alone or cut it off?

In situations like these, I usually tie the cord close the navel with thread dipped in iodine and then cut the cord. This helps prevents the navel/cord from bleeding.

Then again, it doesn't look like there are any blood vessels.

I wouldn't just leave it because it could caught on something.

 

[chickadoodles]

In situations like these, I usually tie the cord close the navel with thread dipped in iodine and then cut the cord. This helps prevents the navel/cord from bleeding.

Then again, it doesn't look like there are any blood vessels.

I wouldn't just leave it because it could caught on something.

Thank you chchins! I did fall off!

 

[ozexpat]

Awesome! 

100 miles in. 25 khaki Campbell duck eggs 14 bantam barred rocks 10 Swedish flowers so far. Crème legbars to go.

The adventure continues!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Day(well night really) 6 & I see veining in all but 2/12 eggs YAY!! Maybe ill actually get some lttle fluffballs this time YAY

 

[ozexpat]

Day(well night really) 6 & I see veining in all but 2/12 eggs YAY!! Maybe ill actually get some lttle fluffballs this time YAY

Fingers crossed

 

[kodster]

sorry to disappoint you Oz....

They advised me not to sign up for anymore than 20 credits. Something about not wanting students to over load themselves.

That's what I was doing when I was in college for the first time... 18-20 credits per semester, part-time job of 20+ hours a week (to help pay for my gas and personal stuff... this was in the mid-'70s, so gas wasn't such a huge chunk of the budget), and 40+ hours working a volunteer at the local police department as an Explorer Cadet. All my parents saw of me was to eat and sleep... no wonder, after the first year of college, they booted me out of the house... I was also supposed to help with housework but was never around to do it. I was an Administration of Justice major at the time. Life throws you curves, you learn to adapt and move on.

 

[grannychicken54]

Hi I have a question that I thought someone on this thread could answer can you tell how old a egg is by the air cell. The ones from my chickens are small like dime.size and then I got some that the air cells are larger like quarter or larger, does that mean they are old? Thanks for any info on this