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

[sumi]

I'm not Sally, but I'd say if they were due today I'd wait a bit. Eggs sometimes hatch late, even under perfect conditions. Heck, I've had very late hatches under broody hens. If I have overdue eggs I usually tap them. Hold the egg against my ear and give it a few firm taps with my fingernail. If there is a live chick in there and it pipped internally, it will tell you ALL about it.

Fingers crossed!

 

[rbaker0345]

Well, I couldn't stand it anymore, I figured I would sacrifice two of them: One of the shipped ones and one of my own. They're both full of liquid, the chicks are practically swimming in fluid. The shipped chick is underformed, malpositioned and swimming in this milky, white liquid. The chick from my own egg is just simply sloshy. I'm not sure what to do. I'm thinking of keeping the humidity steady and upping the temp to see if that helps to dry the eggs out in the next day or two, maybe try and salvage one or two of them. Otherwise I'm pretty sure that I'm going to end up throwing away 20 completely formed, drowned chicks. Yay. This has been going on ever since we shut off the AC for the winter, I think that we're just too close to sea level and too humid for the styro bator to work properly. I probably need to just do a dry incubation and hatch during the winter.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I put some eggs into lockdown on Tuesday and I'm sitting around like an ex smoker with a nic fit trying not to rip them open and find out why they haven't hatched yet. They were due today but there isn't a single pip. This has never happened to me before and I literally have ajada over it.

What do I do Sally? Do I tear open the incubator and open one up or do I resist and wait and see. I know I should wait but its like the dark side of the force is telling me to break lockdown and open those babies up to see whats wrong, but what if there isn't anything wrong? Then I will have opened up eggs that aren't ready to hatch yet and I will have put them in danger of not surviving. But what if something is wrong and I'm sitting here not helping them! AAAArgh!

tues? it is tues????

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Well, I couldn't stand it anymore, I figured I would sacrifice two of them: One of the shipped ones and one of my own. They're both full of liquid, the chicks are practically swimming in fluid. The shipped chick is underformed, malpositioned and swimming in this milky, white liquid. The chick from my own egg is just simply sloshy. I'm not sure what to do. I'm thinking of keeping the humidity steady and upping the temp to see if that helps to dry the eggs out in the next day or two, maybe try and salvage one or two of them. Otherwise I'm pretty sure that I'm going to end up throwing away 20 completely formed, drowned chicks. Yay. This has been going on ever since we shut off the AC for the winter, I think that we're just too close to sea level and too humid for the styro bator to work properly. I probably need to just do a dry incubation and hatch during the winter.

Even I am running dry this season, its just all this wet weather, be it snow rain or whatever.

what have your air cells looked like? your thermo / hygro could gotten screwed up as well... I am sure you will figure it out I think it was a combo so I would re-calibrate thermo as well just to be sure, thats how I screwed up my last batch, well all my accurites went at the same time and then the new ones are all 1 degree too low

 

[ozexpat]

Well, I couldn't stand it anymore, I figured I would sacrifice two of them: One of the shipped ones and one of my own. They're both full of liquid, the chicks are practically swimming in fluid. The shipped chick is underformed, malpositioned and swimming in this milky, white liquid. The chick from my own egg is just simply sloshy. I'm not sure what to do. I'm thinking of keeping the humidity steady and upping the temp to see if that helps to dry the eggs out in the next day or two, maybe try and salvage one or two of them. Otherwise I'm pretty sure that I'm going to end up throwing away 20 completely formed, drowned chicks. Yay. This has been going on ever since we shut off the AC for the winter, I think that we're just too close to sea level and too humid for the styro bator to work properly. I probably need to just do a dry incubation and hatch during the winter.

I had similar symptoms for most of my eggs I would try and hatch 100 yards from the shoreline.

I have a small dehumidifier in the bator room that is just 5x10.

I can now keep the humidity at 40% in that room. Last hatch was 87%

Definitely go dry in your winter

 

[chicksooner]

Well, I couldn't stand it anymore, I figured I would sacrifice two of them: One of the shipped ones and one of my own. They're both full of liquid, the chicks are practically swimming in fluid. The shipped chick is underformed, malpositioned and swimming in this milky, white liquid. The chick from my own egg is just simply sloshy. I'm not sure what to do. I'm thinking of keeping the humidity steady and upping the temp to see if that helps to dry the eggs out in the next day or two, maybe try and salvage one or two of them. Otherwise I'm pretty sure that I'm going to end up throwing away 20 completely formed, drowned chicks. Yay. This has been going on ever since we shut off the AC for the winter, I think that we're just too close to sea level and too humid for the styro bator to work properly. I probably need to just do a dry incubation and hatch during the winter.

I have had to run dry as well. Even dry my air cells are too small. Fingers crossed something hatches for you.

 

[hillfloweranch]

YAY!!  those air cell marks I pray are from 7 days!! lol

Oh yes I was just lazy and didn't mark them again. Figure when i candle it's my reference point

 

[hillfloweranch]

Hey 3 babies all mutts! Hopefully good layers
Possible combinations:
2 yellow maybe NHR/del cross
1 dark BR/CM or CM/PWR

WE shall see

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Hey 3 babies all mutts! Hopefully good layers
Possible combinations:
2 yellow maybe NHR/del cross
1 dark BR/CM or CM/PWR

WE shall see

YAYYYYAYYYAYAA!!!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Lockdown! Big order of CCL and Brahma!! Wish us luck! Air cells on the Brahma Great, CCL on the small side but nothing like last two hatches!!!