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

[Sally Sunshine]

 

[Toast n Jelly]

Set 20 Brahma eggs, one infert, one cull due to broken yolk and external intestines, 18 chicks. Set 4 CCL hatched 4 girls! Finally a turn for the better! Set 4 White faced have 3 chicks, one early death.
All hatched within 12 hours! That is a first EVER! usually the white faced go a day early! I am not complaining! Chicks head to Florida in the morning! except white faced, we need to grow out a rooster or two to replace existing. IF I keep them that long

I want to keep them but I want another breed more. oh decisions!

 

[Stacykins]

I have a question. Have you noticed if certain breeds are more susceptible to air cell damage during shipment?

For instance, almost every single purebred Araucana egg I've been shipped has air cell damage. From rolling/detached air cells to tiny bubbles. Saddle shaped egg cells commonly occur. I've never received a broken egg, and all have stellar packing jobs.

I've had turkey, duck, and other chicken breeds sent to me, and they don't have the same degree of air cell damage. Maybe a few misshapen or detached cells, but not many.

 

[winteree]

I have a question. Have you noticed if certain breeds are more susceptible to air cell damage during shipment?

For instance, almost every single purebred Araucana egg I've been shipped has air cell damage. From rolling/detached air cells to tiny bubbles. Saddle shaped egg cells commonly occur. I've never received a broken egg, and all have stellar packing jobs.

I've had turkey, duck, and other chicken breeds sent to me, and they don't have the same degree of air cell damage. Maybe a few misshapen or detached cells, but not many.

yeah i heard certain types of silkie hatching eggs have that problem

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I have a question. Have you noticed if certain breeds are more susceptible to air cell damage during shipment?

For instance, almost every single purebred Araucana egg I've been shipped has air cell damage. From rolling/detached air cells to tiny bubbles. Saddle shaped egg cells commonly occur. I've never received a broken egg, and all have stellar packing jobs.

I've had turkey, duck, and other chicken breeds sent to me, and they don't have the same degree of air cell damage. Maybe a few misshapen or detached cells, but not many.

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Silky and Polish

 

[Roxannemc]

Ok all you experienced hatchers...
My air cells were too small..... weighs too heavy a week ago so havent added water in a week not a drop....humidity reading mid 20s in there...
Check eggs today which is day 15 .....air cells still look like day 7 on EVERY egg! DID NOT WEIGH THEM.
Seems like they have only gotten smaller by 1/8-1/16th of any inch
Now WHAT? Was gong to weigh day 17. Maybe should today?

Humidity the whole hatch has been 25-37 untilthe last week and now mid 20s.

 

[casportpony]

I am actually doing a test on what my "eye" equals to with weight loss, I have a feeling that heading to 14+% may have better hatching of chicks than the lower. I will confirm this in two weeks. Ducks I just hatched losses were 15.4 to 20.10% weight loss!! and those were the numbers that hatched! So dont panic if you reach 14% in fact I would try to reach it throughout and then up humidity during the last week if needed. Its always better to loose through entire process just not at the end or the beginning!

I think you're right... many peafowl breededs shoot for 13-15%, but the two under a hen that just hatched *perfectly* for me lost 16 and 18% from date laid, so that's gonna be what I shoot for with the batch I put in the bator.

-Kathy

 

[Roxannemc]

Sally its great to question.Thanks!
We have read 13% is the right weight..but many other things that were suppose to be in chicken raising and hatching seem to fall flat later when tested. out.. What to believe?

 

[subhanalah]

Perhaps 13% is the threshold of how to get the biggest chicks or ducklings out of each egg. 16% may have good results, but the chick won't be as big had it only lost 13%?
Discuss.

 

[casportpony]

My first batch of pea eggs lost about 15%, but only four hatched and the other four died the last two days. Was it because of weight loss? Guess I'll never know for sure, but I suspect I had the humidity too high.

-Kathy