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

[ozexpat]

ouch

the maid and gardener also have 2 kids so 10 mouths to feed and 11 when I am there. fortunately the garden provides most veggies, chicken and eggs.

we grow corn, squash, beans, spinnach, cabbage (buk choy), peppers, tomatoes, egg plant

50kg of rice is $45 and fish is $1,30 per pound. Our grocery bill is less than 50 bucks a week.

We mix our own feed 2450lbs cost me $380 - about $9 per 50lb sack

 

[winteree]

the maid and gardener also have 2 kids so 10 mouths to feed and 11 when I am there. fortunately the garden provides most veggies, chicken and eggs.

we grow corn, squash, beans, spinnach, cabbage (buk choy), peppers, tomatoes, egg plant

50kg of rice is $45 and fish is $1,30 per pound. Our grocery bill is less than 50 bucks a week.

We mix our own feed 2450lbs cost me $380 - about $9 per 50lb sack

not bad we are lucky to get away with a $200 weekly grocery bill but we have 5 people 8 cats 2 dogs and 2 chickens and at that one of my dogs is on a very expensive diet

 

[ozexpat]

not bad we are lucky to get away with a $200 weekly grocery bill but we have 5 people 8 cats 2 dogs and 2 chickens and at that one of my dogs is on a very expensive diet

our dogs get rice and fish or chicken with veggies - just like us

my gardener eats any cat that comes on the place lol

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Hi guys!!!

Its that time of year where I can finally get going with chicks again. Its been bloody freezing here, in Alberta and still freezing in the AM! Hope everyone is doing well??

So I had my incubator filled with my mixed breeds as I havent been able to separate yet but posted an ad on Kijiji saying that i was getting the incubator going. My phone went off the HOOK! My husband then bought me a dozen Duck eggs to try hatch as its been a life long ambition to have some! got home and didnt have room in the bator. phone still going like crazy for orders. SOOOOO i squashed 42 eggs under 3 broody hens and switched out them for the ducks and turkeys....phone still going like crazy.

After a lot of debate and believe it or not me saying no no no for a while My husband and I have invested in a Sportsman which should arrive on Friday!!! EEEEEK omg! my mother inlaw and sister inlaw were saying he is willing to do this GO FOR IT! lol

Now i am waiting for chicks to hatch on saturday under the broody hens and then my ducklings and Turkeys to hatch on the 19th I think it is! I am no doubt going to drive you all nuts asking about ducklings. Have been doing my research (mainly you Sally! thank you) but still very nervous all the same. Nervous about my incubator arriving too as I have never ordered an expensive bit of equipment before!

good for you! yes go for it!

Thanks Oz. I think it helps that the nearest Hatcheries are all the way in Edmonton. Maybe it might be worth looking into a little more deeply. If I had Cornish giant eggs I could make a bomb I think! Hows you and the Family?

awesome idea!

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[Sally Sunshine]

PUT duckies into a reg cooler the ones with the big yellow area on the bottom are loosing way too much weight, actually my average pulled high because of those three! 18.5% day 21 average. I think they look good visually to be honest! Except the bottoms and yellow!! ughhh

I need at least 55% humidity for them, they have been at 38-40% a few days and they are still loosing too much now. Plus I had to start the dehumidifier down there its getting musty cold, room was up to 45% this am.

Some are drawing down fast since this morning!

Day 21 (last duckies internally pipped day 19-20 I think, have to find those posts)

I will keep watching for internals and then put it up to at least 65%
note the second image, you can see the lines I drew on some of them where that chorionic membrane didnt reach the bottom of the shells.... I will also take pics of all that dont hatch, or just a video so I can turn them and show what I have going on. dont want to mess with them now.

I dont have much faith after noticing the bottoms, I am so sad about it, part of me wishes I never would have candled the bottoms, and part of me is wondering if it was the wiggles from trying to sand them twice throughout? bummed that it could be my fault, I should have sanded them right away, but I didnt know, I feel like I killed them already! ughhh

My two babies are growing fast, and they sure love dandelion greens! when do you think I can put them in an inch or two of water to try to swim and clean themselves? I cant believe how clean they are in the brooder yet! they are what two weeks old! hmmm are they already? good grief I forget! I usually write hatch dates on brooders with dry erase markers, but I thought I would remember those!

With ancona I was ready to throw them out of the house by now LOL!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Wonder what this mix is, and yes I would attempt it as a last resort LOL

http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S1516-635X2010000300001&script=sci_arttext

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[Sally Sunshine]

Note to self, if I can get eggs again, IF I do these eggs again, sand first then settle, lay horizontal for incubation and hatch, and watch that CAM growth on ANY SHIPPED EGGS! .

 

[rbaker0345]

humidity during hatch does not drown chicks. period.

you set humidity at around 60% to stop membranes drying out during hatch. the wet chicks make it go up higher

if your humidity is at 15% then you are going to be pulling membranes off tired chicks struggling to get out - making more work for yourself and stressing the chicks.

Not happening. If I add humidity, the chicks end up in a wet, jelly-filled egg. With no added humidity, I'm having perfect hatches. I know what the science and experience tells you, but this is what's going on in my crazy incubator. Even if the chicks aren't drowned, they have a hard time getting out and they're too wet and they develop omphallitis or just don't do well. I am telling you the truth and I am not exxagerating, nor am I trying to get anyone else to do as I do. This is what's going on in my little styro world. I'm not having chicks get stuck in the eggs, in fact, I had one hatch with an egg that looked just like Kathy's the day before last. I have calibrated my hygrometer and so I know its not off by 50%. Of course, I am talking pre- internal pip. I can raise the humidity after they pip internally, but not before. But, of course, once they start pipping externally, the humidity goes up to around 50%. The humidity in my house is around 60%. Don't know if that makes a difference, but I thought I would add it.

 

[rbaker0345]

I like the stripey eggs Sally, very art nouveau, nihlist easter motif.

 

[subhanalah]

Not happening.  If I add humidity, the chicks end up in a wet, jelly-filled egg.  With no added humidity, I'm having perfect hatches.  I know what the science and experience tells you, but this is what's going on in my crazy incubator.  Even if the chicks aren't drowned, they have a hard time getting out and they're too wet and they develop omphallitis or just don't do well.  I am telling you the truth and I am not exxagerating, nor am I trying to get anyone else to do as I do.  This is what's going on in my little styro world.  I'm not having chicks get stuck in the eggs, in fact, I had one hatch with an egg that looked just like Kathy's the day before last.  I have calibrated my hygrometer and so I know its not off by 50%.  Of course, I am talking pre- internal pip.  I can raise the humidity after they pip internally, but not before.  But, of course, once they start pipping externally, the humidity goes up to around 50%.  The humidity in my house is around 60%.  Don't know if that makes a difference, but I thought I would add it.

learning about the remains of the shell, I believe I'm going to have to keep them out of the Hatcher until internal pip or use less humidity while hatching. The first couple seem to do fine, then the ones that come after (slower to develop) wind up with the jelly sac around them and some dying while zipping (this was only my last hatch that it got that bad, I got a octagon and don't have the humidity during incubation set right yet.