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

[jbher]

I had an egg that was quite badly cracked. Sealed it with candle wax, and it is developing well.

What prevents the wax from melting in the incubator??

 

[NestingHillsSC]

another thread to keep up with!! I will I like Fred!



ha ha ha!!! Tony did I mention I will soon be getting some HRIR eggies!!!

sorry no help here! I dont think at this point I will ever use anything but coolers

REALLY!! Nice. Who are you getting the eggs from??

 

[NestingHillsSC]

I put in 30 of the HRIR's in the bator. After day 7 candle had to throw out 5. 1 blood ring and 4 infertile. Tuesday will be day 14. So see how they are after that.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: shhhhh its a secret!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I put in 30 of the HRIR's in the bator. After day 7 candle had to throw out 5. 1 blood ring and 4 infertile. Tuesday will be day 14. So see how they are after that.

Quote: not enough heat is my guess? never did it, I chuck cracked ones

Oh and they were double boxed. both boxes had shredded newspaper for fill in and the eggs were wrapped in paper towels within egg cartons fat side up. I'm thinking this was a case of USPS being way too rough :-(

too bad! hoping you have a bunch that hatch though!

 

[lazy gardener]

Jbher: It doesn't get warm enough in the incubator to melt the wax. These eggs were mutt eggs from a friend.... (nice mutt eggs, I might add) so I had nothing to loose either way. However, if they were shipped eggs that I was paying for, you'd be sure that I'd set everything that came, as long as the membrane was intact. I'd also set every egg with a malformed air cell... basically everything except for a scrambled yolk. Some folks seal cracks with finger nail polish, and have good hatching results. One lady reported a hatch from an egg that she had dropped while candling it. They're resilient little buggers. Gotta love the opportunity to get so close and personal with the development of a new little life. This is only my second hatch (home made bator) and it's going great so far.

 

[subhanalah]

Jbher:  It doesn't get warm enough in the incubator to melt the wax.  These eggs were mutt eggs from a friend.... (nice mutt eggs, I might add) so I had nothing to loose either way.  However, if they were shipped eggs that I was paying for, you'd be sure that I'd set everything that came, as long as the membrane was intact.  I'd also set every egg with a malformed air cell... basically everything except for a scrambled yolk.  Some folks seal cracks with finger nail polish, and have good hatching results.  One lady reported a hatch from an egg that she had dropped while candling it.  They're resilient little buggers.  Gotta love the opportunity to get so close and personal with the development of a new little life.  This is only my second hatch (home made bator) and it's going great so far. 

That's great news LG.
I think I'm going to pop these in the incubator. If I leave, my husband can watch the incubator. Maybe hell even get hooked.

Several jhave loose PR rolling air cells. They have been sitting on my dresser for 24 hours, I was planning on putting them into the incubator today, how long should I wait before I start turning them?

 

[jbher]

That's great news LG.
I think I'm going to pop these in the incubator. If I leave, my husband can watch the incubator. Maybe hell even get hooked.

Several jhave loose PR rolling air cells. They have been sitting on my dresser for 24 hours, I was planning on putting them into the incubator today, how long should I wait before I start turning them?

I think I've read to not turn 3 days... but I swear I've seen people say 5 days too! Hmmm hopefully others will chime in that have experience...

 

[ozexpat]

There is a lot of confusion regarding when to start turning eggs.

There is a ton of research that states that the most critical time to turn the egg outs on day one and decreases with importance as the chick increases on size and mobility in the egg.

So this contradicts the byc mantra of not turning eggs but I am wondering how many malpositioned chicks are because of this.

I have never seen a rolling air cell hatch but I have heard many complaints of malpositioned chicks dead in shell.

My advice is get the eggs turning within ten hours

 

[Sally Sunshine]

There is a lot of confusion regarding when to start turning eggs.

There is a ton of research that states that the most critical time to turn the egg outs on day one and decreases with importance as the chick increases on size and mobility in the egg.

So this contradicts the byc mantra of not turning eggs but I am wondering how many malpositioned chicks are because of this.

I have never seen a rolling air cell hatch but I have heard many complaints of malpositioned chicks dead in shell.

My advice is get the eggs turning within ten hours

It would be great to have some back up on the hatchalong <hint>