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

[ozexpat]

you will get much more info leaving it here. sally's thread is the best place for advice on this stuff.

I dont put eggs into lockdown until I hear chirping from the eggs - meaning internal pipping has commenced. Sometimes I will even have a chick or two externally pip. This allows us to not have to camp over the bator for two days. It also allows me to get as much moisture out of the egg as possible before the hatch. My incubation room runs a dehumidifier to keep the small room at 45% humidity. I hatch in a seperate room at ambient humidity - 70-90%. The bator is at 55% humidity without trying. I dont add water. The first pippers up the humidity to around 70%

I would follow this strategy and not turn your waterfowl during the chicken hatch. Then clean out all the chicken mess and go back to dry incubating till 1st duck pip.

 

[foxvalleyfarm]

you will get much more info leaving it here. sally's thread is the best place for advice on this stuff.

I dont put eggs into lockdown until I hear chirping from the eggs - meaning internal pipping has commenced. Sometimes I will even have a chick or two externally pip. This allows us to not have to camp over the bator for two days. It also allows me to get as much moisture out of the egg as possible before the hatch. My incubation room runs a dehumidifier to keep the small room at 45% humidity. I hatch in a seperate room at ambient humidity - 70-90%. The bator is at 55% humidity without trying. I dont add water. The first pippers up the humidity to around 70%

I would follow this strategy and not turn your waterfowl during the chicken hatch. Then clean out all the chicken mess and go back to dry incubating till 1st duck pip.

If I have the space for two rooms I would, but I only have my living room and am honestly now sure how stable the humidity stays in there. It's won't hurt the fowl to not turn them? I also think the seller of the chicken and goose eggs is sending me replacements for the MANY broken ones, so I will have to put them in causing more stagger. ugg...I'm about ready to pull out my hair and call it quits.

Anyways so you're suggesting I don't add any water til I hear chirping and then I add enough to up the humidity to about 55% and then leave it all closed til I'm sure the chicks are done and remove them and let the humidity drop back down til the next pip and up it some again?

 

[ozexpat]

If I have the space for two rooms I would, but I only have my living room and am honestly now sure how stable the humidity stays in there. It's won't hurt the fowl to not turn them? I also think the seller of the chicken and goose eggs is sending me replacements for the MANY broken ones, so I will have to put them in causing more stagger. ugg...I'm about ready to pull out my hair and call it quits.

Anyways so you're suggesting I don't add any water til I hear chirping and then I add enough to up the humidity to about 55% and then leave it all closed til I'm sure the chicks are done and remove them and let the humidity drop back down til the next pip and up it some again?

thats what i am suggesting.

turning eggs is critical in first week - 10 days as the chick is so small it gets pinned and then attached to the side of the egg by the yolk. later on, skipping a turn is more forgiving. most malpositioned chicks ar hatch time come from failure to turn enough early

it can be done. we are here to help

if the seller can hold of shipping for three weeks you may find it easier.

 

[foxvalleyfarm]

thats what i am suggesting.

turning eggs is critical in first week - 10 days as the chick is so small it gets pinned and then attached to the side of the egg by the yolk. later on, skipping a turn is more forgiving. most malpositioned chicks ar hatch time come from failure to turn enough early

it can be done. we are here to help

if the seller can hold of shipping for three weeks you may find it easier.

Alrighty well I've starting the tilting so I'm hoping I'm good. I will try to shift them from one side to the other atleast 3 times a day. I'm glad this site isn't like most animal sites where most people jump all over(in a bad way) people that need help.

The seller can't hold off so I'll put them in and hope for the best, and atleast they are sending duck and goose eggs so the chicks will hatch with these ducks and goose and then the ducks and goose. I also have a natural nest test going with eggs in it and some of those are developing, which had surprised me, but I think my humidity may be a bit high and I have no idea how to lower it.

Oh since no one has answered me elsewhere I'll ask you. As the air cells reattach should I take them out of the egg cartons and lay them flat, or should I leave them all the way til hatching? I think I read somewhere that the baby will find up around like day 10 so changing it after that can cause problems.

 

[ozexpat]

Alrighty well I've starting the tilting so I'm hoping I'm good. I will try to shift them from one side to the other atleast 3 times a day. I'm glad this site isn't like most animal sites where most people jump all over(in a bad way) people that need help.

The seller can't hold off so I'll put them in and hope for the best, and atleast they are sending duck and goose eggs so the chicks will hatch with these ducks and goose and then the ducks and goose. I also have a natural nest test going with eggs in it and some of those are developing, which had surprised me, but I think my humidity may be a bit high and I have no idea how to lower it.

Oh since no one has answered me elsewhere I'll ask you. As the air cells reattach should I take them out of the egg cartons and lay them flat, or should I leave them all the way til hatching? I think I read somewhere that the baby will find up around like day 10 so changing it after that can cause problems.

i would continue in the cartons.

this is a very friendly thread. normally its full of clever people - they must be all out partying today lol

get all the water out and dry the bator.

it will get crazy in 18 days but should have a decent hatch if the eggs are viable

 

[foxvalleyfarm]

i would continue in the cartons.

this is a very friendly thread. normally its full of clever people - they must be all out partying today lol

get all the water out and dry the bator.

it will get crazy in 18 days but should have a decent hatch if the eggs are viable

Hehe must be. If I didn't have eggs at home and needed to be in town all day I'd be home partying.

How do I get the water out and dry it with eggs in it? (Unless I put them in my box incubator for a bit...hum...do I have the space in there? I doubt it...)

Ha It'll get crazy midweek when the other eggs go in. I'm gonna loose all my hair seeing as how I should(assuming 21 and 28 day incubations) be hatching chicks on the 27th, then ducks, goose, and chicks on the 3rd, then a goose and ducks on the 10th. (Well my box babies should hatch on the 22nd) Yeah...I'm gonna go crazy. Oh and I may be being given eggs tomorrow....so yeah....

 

[ozexpat]

Hehe must be. If I didn't have eggs at home and needed to be in town all day I'd be home partying.

How do I get the water out and dry it with eggs in it? (Unless I put them in my box incubator for a bit...hum...do I have the space in there? I doubt it...)

Ha It'll get crazy midweek when the other eggs go in. I'm gonna loose all my hair seeing as how I should(assuming 21 and 28 day incubations) be hatching chicks on the 27th, then ducks, goose, and chicks on the 3rd, then a goose and ducks on the 10th. (Well my box babies should hatch on the 22nd) Yeah...I'm gonna go crazy. Oh and I may be being given eggs tomorrow....so yeah....

the eggs will be fine off heat for 10 mins or so.

drain it, dry it with paper towels and pop eggs back in.

you need a second bator

 

[chicksooner]

Hehe must be. If I didn't have eggs at home and needed to be in town all day I'd be home partying.

How do I get the water out and dry it with eggs in it? (Unless I put them in my box incubator for a bit...hum...do I have the space in there? I doubt it...)

Ha It'll get crazy midweek when the other eggs go in. I'm gonna loose all my hair seeing as how I should(assuming 21 and 28 day incubations) be hatching chicks on the 27th, then ducks, goose, and chicks on the 3rd, then a goose and ducks on the 10th. (Well my box babies should hatch on the 22nd) Yeah...I'm gonna go crazy. Oh and I may be being given eggs tomorrow....so yeah....

Between what you already had planned and what Oz has said I think you have a good plan. I would also dry as much water out as possible until you get a hygro and start candling and checking air cells. Keeping in egg cartons is a good idea since you are going to have such a crazy hatch. Turning early is really important. Twist up a paper towel and stuff an end thru the wire and let it wick up water for you. After that the heat will dry it out pretty quick. Good luck and keep us updated.

 

[foxvalleyfarm]

the eggs will be fine off heat for 10 mins or so.

drain it, dry it with paper towels and pop eggs back in.

you need a second bator

If I had the money and my husband would let me I would, but I don't so I can't. But I do remember as a kid us kids couldn't help always adding new eggs to the 1 bator of all kinds btw(chicken, duck, goose turkey, guinea, quail, even 2 blue jays once) and twe had about an 85% hatch rate. We just had to label each egg with the date and then roll on. So I know it can be done, but I may be bald by the end (especially since I work long odd shifts and my hub and mother in law don't like or really want to help...

 

[ozexpat]

If I had the money and my husband would let me I would, but I don't so I can't. But I do remember as a kid us kids couldn't help always adding new eggs to the 1 bator of all kinds btw(chicken, duck, goose turkey, guinea, quail, even 2 blue jays once) and twe had about an 85% hatch rate. We just had to label each egg with the date and then roll on. So I know it can be done, but I may be bald by the end (especially since I work long odd shifts and my hub and mother in law don't like or really want to help...

just remind them when you have eggs for the kitchen