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

[R2elk]

Off topic since these are not from shipped eggs. I had 60 eggs hatch over the last couple of days. Among them were some eggs from a White-laced Red Cornish/Light Brahma cross mated with a Swedish Flower Hen Rooster. She is a wonderful layer who laid an egg each and every day for 39 days straight until she went broody 4 days ago.

I am not very observant and just noticed when viewing the photo that she did pass on her feathered legs which she got from her Light Brahma parentage.

Cornish/Brahma/SFH

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Off topic since these are not from shipped eggs. I had 60 eggs hatch over the last couple of days. Among them were some eggs from a White-laced Red Cornish/Light Brahma cross mated with a Swedish Flower Hen Rooster. She is a wonderful layer who laid an egg each and every day for 39 days straight until she went broody 4 days ago.

I am not very observant and just noticed when viewing the photo that she did pass on her feathered legs which she got from her Light Brahma parentage.

Cornish/Brahma/SFH

How cute!!! and do you think anything is off topic here? ha ha ha

look at the spots on that chick! What are you guessing they will look like?

I like the darkest red chick the best! what wonderful colors she has!

Can these be feather sexed or color sexed or anything?
Sounds like a fantastic hatch! congrats!

 

[Bhmathews]

I took a reading light apart so I could check air cells without opening the bator. The air cells have come a long ways in the last 4 days. The marks were the air cells last night when I took the eggs out of the turner. When we see an internal pip we'll bump the humidity a bit. Right now I'm trying to give the eggs a little more time to lose a little more weight.

 

[R2elk]

How cute!!! and do you think anything is off topic here? ha ha ha

look at the spots on that chick! What are you guessing they will look like?

I like the darkest red chick the best! what wonderful colors she has!

Can these be feather sexed or color sexed or anything?
Sounds like a fantastic hatch! congrats!

The white chick has only 3 black spots and you have a better guess than me what any of them will end up looking like. The hen will be a year old this summer. I kept her because of all the cornish/brahma crosses that I hatched, she is the only one that turned out to be orange. Her size is probably halfway between a cornish and a brahma. She did retain the nice broad breast of the cornish. These are the first eggs of hers that I hatched and they came out in all sorts of colors. Some look like they may get her orange color and others look different. The one in the shot with the dark red chick intrigues me since its neck feathers are really puffed out and dense making it seem like it has a muffler on. Where did those genes come from?

I never have been able to understand feather sexing so have not tried it on any of my chicks. I can pretty well pick out the SFH roosters and the crested SFH chicks at 2 weeks old. There is even one of the Welsummer/SFH cross chicks that looks chocolate colored and has so much a bigger comb than any of the other chicks that I am saying it is a rooster.

Back on topic, I do have shipped eggs in the incubator but they aren't due until probably starting Monday of next week. They are guinea eggs.

 

[subhanalah]

is it fan forced?

yes, it is fan forced.

 

[jbher]

I have a pip!! I have a pip!!! Eeeeeeeek!!!! "She's" chirping too!

I don't know why it pipped so high? This one had a perfect air cell. And it drew down lower than my last pencil line too.

Totally won't be sleeping. Bator is in my bedroom and I just hear it chirping away. Lol my poor husband.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I have a pip!! I have a pip!!! Eeeeeeeek!!!! "She's" chirping too!

I don't know why it pipped so high? This one had a perfect air cell. And it drew down lower than my last pencil line too.

Totally won't be sleeping. Bator is in my bedroom and I just hear it chirping away. Lol my poor husband.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I took a reading light apart so I could check air cells without opening the bator. The air cells have come a long ways in the last 4 days. The marks were the air cells last night when I took the eggs out of the turner. When we see an internal pip we'll bump the humidity a bit. Right now I'm trying to give the eggs a little more time to lose a little more weight.

YAY good news!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: how have your air cells fared with the guinea eggs? did you have to change any procedures with that breed?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

We are totally overrun with chicks at this point, I think I have 50 in the brooder and a ton still pipped, I did grab 6 eggs and they are dead, two are alive and remain unpipped, not hoping I have another two that never hatch like the last two times, very very weird!!