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

[sumi]

The 10 eggs are on day 7 today, so I decided to candle the 5 in the incubator. I used the same light as I did with the other eggs. This time I could clearly see veins and the embryos in all 5 of them.

 

[ozexpat]

The 10 eggs are on day 7 today, so I decided to candle the 5 in the incubator. I used the same light as I did with the other eggs. This time I could clearly see veins and the embryos in all 5 of them.

Did you have less Castle on board?

 

[chicksooner]

Broody hatch day...hope they are not too offended when I sell half of their babies tomorrow.

 

[mikkles]

Hey guys! what's the name of that all black chicken that's super expensive again?? thanks!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Ayam Cemani

 

[rbaker0345]

I just wanted to say hi, its been awhile since I have been on this thread.

I have made a discovery about Sally's bacitracin thing and I think its important to share. I had an egg that I thought was dead, so I opened the air sac and took the top of the shell off to try to determine COD. The chick was still alive, but it was shrink wrapped, so I bacitracined it to see how far along it was and decided that I wouldn't pip the membrane, I would just leave it because it was just a mess of active vessels.

Apparently, bacitracin doesn't let the membrane breathe because the membrane became even more shrink wrapped and the chick was dead within 8 hrs. I have switched to pure aloe juice instead of bacitracin. It wets the membranes without drowning the chick like straight water and as an added advantage, aloe is a surfactant, so it will facilitate more gas exchange than just a dry membrane.

Aloe juice (not the gel which has an alcohol base) can be obtained from aloe leaves or from Wal-mart in the laxative aisle. You can also give your birds some aloe juice when they have coccidia, it is really good at soothing tummies.

 

[scooter16]

Nothing to do with incubating and hatching, but if anyone's interested, I finally got round to writing an article on odd eggs and egg quality issues and causes:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/common-egg-quality-problems

I could not find a good pic of "meat spots" anywhere on here and the pics on other sites are mostly copyright protected, so if any of you have one somewhere that I can use, please let me know?

So, are any of these strange eggs edible, or should they be tossed?? Lynn Marie

 

[cochins1088]

I just wanted to say hi, its been awhile since I have been on this thread.

I have made a discovery about Sally's bacitracin thing and I think its important to share. I had an egg that I thought was dead, so I opened the air sac and took the top of the shell off to try to determine COD. The chick was still alive, but it was shrink wrapped, so I bacitracined it to see how far along it was and decided that I wouldn't pip the membrane, I would just leave it because it was just a mess of active vessels.

Apparently, bacitracin doesn't let the membrane breathe because the membrane became even more shrink wrapped and the chick was dead within 8 hrs. I have switched to pure aloe juice instead of bacitracin. It wets the membranes without drowning the chick like straight water and as an added advantage, aloe is a surfactant, so it will facilitate more gas exchange than just a dry membrane.

Aloe juice (not the gel which has an alcohol base) can be obtained from aloe leaves or from Wal-mart in the laxative aisle. You can also give your birds some aloe juice when they have coccidia, it is really good at soothing tummies.

Was it the bacitracin ointment? I've always had great success with it. The ointment moistens the membranes very well.

 

[ozexpat]

If the chick has pipped then the bacitracin will not effect air exchange.

 

[sumi]

Quote: Most of these eggs are quite edible, though some can look quite unappetising, like the meat spots! If I know the the cause of the defect was a disease or drugs given to the hen I wouldn't eat them though.