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

[Doug Hodges]

Quote: Ill look into that. I use my Amazon card a lot and use my rewards points a lot too.

 

[TweetyNPetey]

I'm back!
Wow, it's been so long since I've seen you all! It's been months!
There's so much I have to tell you all, I just don't know if I can fit it all into one post!

 

[TweetyNPetey]

It's gonna take me DAYS, WEEKS to catch up on all these posts, wow. I was gone longer than I thought.
I DID see pics of Doug's wife. Is the baby due soon?

 

[Doug Hodges]

It's gonna take me DAYS, WEEKS to catch up on all these posts, wow. I was gone longer than I thought.
I DID see pics of Doug's wife. Is the baby due soon?

Oct 11

 

[TweetyNPetey]

Oct 11

That's great! Congrats! Boy or girl?

 

[familypendragon]

Thanks!

We got these eggs from a friend of a friend's boyfriend's mom who lives in the next town over and had to be talked into parting with them. We paid quite a lot of money for them and we don't know exactly what breed they are, but I don't care about that. I just hope they hatch o.k. after all the hassle trying to find some eggs. The next 4 days are going to be loooong ones! I really hope the plastered chick will be o.k. 

Oh my goodness

 

[familypendragon]

I thought I shared my crazy assisted hatching story from today but I guess I didn't - I think I am becoming the Assist Queen - not a title I relish either :/ Have the incukits installed and working with them today.

So here is today's saga:

Holy cow!! I just did the craziest assist ever. I have one lonely olive egger in the hatcher (Day 21). It got unplugged and the temp read 89.2 so I took it out real quick, saw no movement and opened the top. Nothing but butt or leg. But it was still alive. I put water on the membrane and spotted an eye. It was head between thighs sort of sideways and upside down. I found a place with no major veining and made an artificial internal pip where I thought the beak might be hiding. All I saw was leg and wing. I peeled shell and wet the membrane with coconut oil and found the beak was pointing down between the thighs at THE major vein center. I went back to the top and cut between and around all the tiny veins to avoid them and opened the top enough that I could use tweezers to reach down and pull its beak up to the fresh air. Now its back in the hatcher to hopefully survive against all odds. Not even a cup of coffee yet, LOL! There was only one teeny tiny drop of blood with all that cutting so I am hopeful.

I am getting WAY more practice assisting than I would like. But here is my crazy assist from this morning.

This is the chick I've been assisting all day. Her name is Treasure and I think she is going to make it. She just kicked her foot out a second ago and when I took the picture she cussed me out for the flash and waved her wing at me. I have a feeling she will decide to get out of the little bit of membrane and shell that is left pretty soon because she is talking up a storm now. I named her Treasure because the odds of finding her buried in her shell still alive with her head between her thighs, feet over her head and beak in the small end pointed directly at the vein mass... well its about like finding buried treasure

She has both feet out now and was just scratching her head with her toes and then nibbled her toes. She is chirping like crazy. I just wet the membrane again and peeled some that was stuck to back and over the shell under her.

 

[ozexpat]

I thought I shared my crazy assisted hatching story from today but I guess I didn't - I think I am becoming the Assist Queen - not a title I relish either

Have the incukits installed and working with them today.

So here is today's saga:


She has both feet out now and was just scratching her head with her toes and then nibbled her toes. She is chirping like crazy. I just wet the membrane again and peeled some that was stuck to back and over the shell under her.

Any reason why you did not just initially plug the batter back in? Chicks will generally survive power outages on the last day

The only assisting I do is drill a hole in the top of 50% of shipped eggs on day 19. I am waiting for a better p value before I decide if there is significant data to recommend it.

I know my temps so if my chicks aren't out by the middle of day 21, they died along the way.

 

[familypendragon]

Any reason why you did not just initially plug the batter back in? Chicks will generally survive power outages on the last day

The only assisting I do is drill a hole in the top of 50% of shipped eggs on day 19. I am waiting for a better p value before I decide if there is significant data to recommend it.

I know my temps so if my chicks aren't out by the middle of day 21, they died along the way. 

I plugged it in, but I candled too because it felt really cold. There was no movement, no internal pip so I was actually intending doing an eggtopsy since it was day 21. Surprise - still alive and all fubar in there. LOL!

 

[familypendragon]

And here she is - she popped herself out and there was a tiny drop of blood on her navel but she is good now. All yolk and blood were absorbed. She is currently curled up sleeping in my hand on my chest. I have a feeling this one will be a pet just like Ripley my one eyed pullet who will sit in my lap and get pet for as long as I'll let her, LOL! She survived our dog and cat attacking her at 2 weeks old - thus the name Ripley - she is tough