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

[Vindi]

Two little BLRW chicks....

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Just an FYI...
My hughsnet has been sporadic of late, not sure what the problem is, but I do know I am paying a fortune for something thats not being provided!

Today was day 17 of 63 of the 70 eggs set for the Easter HAL,
I candled and moved them all into a coolerbator for hatching because I needed to set for orders in the cabinet.

My pulls were the 6 CCLxPolish still not fertile, and one brahma bloodring pulled at some point. I am very happy that all the brahma were fertile and going strong, praying the fermented feed is doing its deed in helping with a healthy flock!)



Remaining in the cabinet cooler are my HRIR eggs, some Ducks



And all these (TEAL) coloring.... went into the cabinet coolerbator after the others went out..... and its almost two full trays, note my serama rig lol






YES I DO HAVE TWO COOLERS JUST WAITING FOR ME TO BUILD THEM, its too nice outside to mess with them! ha ha ha


Going back to read some of this now

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote:
Yup, it's a perfectly healthy silver laced bantam.

It just wanted to take a more creative approach to hatching.

This cracked me up again when I seen it!

Sally Have you seen these?
http://www.eggcartons.com/Plastic-Incubator-Liner-for-Little-Giant-Incubator-p/lgl.htm

as disposable as the bators themselves <giggles>

Two little BLRW chicks....

YAY!!!! congrats!

you have a long way to go to get these eggs where you want them

you need them at around 12% on day 18 if you go into lockdown then. upping humidity will shut down evaporation.

please dont weigh again at day 16. the less handling the better.



In this situation we are dealing with eggs that are at risk of being too wet on day 18 to survive. They need every chance they can to evaporate off moisture.

When assessing risk versus benefit for actuins that veer from the norm, it would be better to have three shrink wrapped chicks rather than three dead in shell, swollen chicks.

Ok, so need to get them 5% more loss by day 18. I have an extra day, I set mine a day later than Jbher, so I was at day 13 when I weighed. I keep thinking she and I are on the same day. Everything is dry and I'm trying to get humidity down. I won't weigh again, but am concerned about not knowing where they're at.

Temps have been holding nicely. Should I open the bator once or twice a day to let off humidity?

you have removed all water right? you have a fan model?

 

[Bhmathews]

Yes, all the wells are dry. And it's a fan model.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Yes, all the wells are dry. And it's a fan model.

I dont think opening the bator is an issue, but I never had to attempt reducing like oz. I wouldnt think its a big deal. if your dry! heck what if you were hand turning lol


I may need to do something for these duck eggs I have in the cabinet cooler running dry air cells are from the size of a dime to a quarter all over the place!

 

[jbher]

@Sally Sunshine , wondering - I thought I recall reading that you stop turning your eggs on day 17, instead of 18? Is there a reason for earlier stopping of turning? Tuesday is day 17 for me so that's why I'm curious

 

[Caitlin_VT]

I have a question - I had a majority of a shipped egg group have really bad saddle-shaped air cells (of the half that even developed...) I only hatched one chick, and that one I had to externally pip & hatch out

. I looked at some of the others, and the chicks were not able to position due to the size and shape of the air cell. Was there more I could have done to help? I have been, overall, having near 100% hatch rate with eggs that make it into lockdown. This was very disappointing!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

@Sally Sunshine , wondering - I thought I recall reading that you stop turning your eggs on day 17, instead of 18? Is there a reason for earlier stopping of turning? Tuesday is day 17 for me so that's why I'm curious

after day 16 they dont need turned anymore, my reason is that I move them out of the cabinet cooler and into a reg cooler at day 17 so I dont have accidental chicks hatching in the cabinet.

So I mark day 16 air cells and put them in, BUT I DONT RAISE HUMIDITY UNLESS AIR CELL MERITS IT OOOOORRRRR UNTIL I SEE INTERNALs and drop down into position then I up it.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I have a question - I had a majority of a shipped egg group have really bad saddle-shaped air cells (of the half that even developed...) I only hatched one chick, and that one I had to externally pip & hatch out

. I looked at some of the others, and the chicks were not able to position due to the size and shape of the air cell. Was there more I could have done to help? I have been, overall, having near 100% hatch rate with eggs that make it into lockdown. This was very disappointing!

so sad! this is a big issue with saddle, the chick has no room to turn, you need to do your best to judge these chicks and if you want to intervien, you better understand chick anatomy. I have alot of stuff in the 101 article as well as the assist article, links to study anatomy and such. You can save them with assistance. I have about 10 CCL that I had shipped that also have this issue and I am not sure how it will go with hatching the end of the week only think you can do is be prepared and watch them. Use the good eggs as a guide for the bad, thats why its always good to add local eggs into the mix as well.

 

[NestingHillsSC]

. @NestingHillsSC how did yours finish up? I cant remember if u posted or not!


I had three eggs left, one hatched and two sat there for two more days alive, I attempted to open them up but I culled them, big weak chicks not sure what was going on in them! I had two the last time as well, I did the spot check in the cabinet and found temps still decent all around, just weird!!

I BLAME IT ON THE HEN!!! yea the hen did it!!

17 hatched. The last 6 I had to throw out.