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

[Sally Sunshine]

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The little yoke chick has company in the dish now. The other chick climbed in and now can't get out.

At least she isn't trampling their sibling anymore.

lol

 

[Chickengirl1304]

So in one of my eggs here on day 18 I can't even see an air cell where did it go? Lol and should I toss it?

 

[kefiren]

i took the other chicks out and set the "upside down pipper" on its side. it is peeping. but not progressing. considering starting chipping.

 

[littlecritters]

then he is ok

Sally, I'm new to incubating and just had a disastrous first hatch with some special expensive eggs. 0% hatch rate with chicks in a breech position... heads jammed down tightly between their legs... no way to rotate, reach the air sac or pip. I've got a test batch of less costly eggs in the incubator now. So... I am reading everything I can get my hands on about embryo development, incubation and assisted hatching. Your threads and all the resource links have been extremely helpful.

I'm going to order the digital scale that you mentioned in the beginning of this thread and I'm wondering if you still like it? I am also curious as to which candler you use?
Tina G

 

[kefiren]

chipping didnt go well, hit blood, unfortunately. a big, huge chip came off, more than it was ready for. hope it lives.

 

[Chick_In_The_Burbs]

chipping didnt go well, hit blood, unfortunately. a big, huge chip came off, more than it was ready for. hope it lives.

Hope she makes it.


Update on the yoke sac chick; the sac is still there but it is much less red and inflammed looking. It is starting to look more like skin around it and I think it shrank a little bit. At a minimum it isn't hanging as far as it was.

I know we aren't out of the woods yet but it's a start!

 

[sumi]

Quote: Good luck

 

[kefiren]

follow up: (breech chick). after helping with chipping too early--i put the egg back in the incubator. a popped in some wet paper towels to the incubator to bring up humidity. about an hour later i started getting real worried about shrink wrap, so i took a 3 inch by 3 inch wet paper towel corner and laid it over the exposed membrane, being careful not to cover the breathing hole.

i went to bed and when i awoke the chick had hatched. it seems a little weak and a little sticky, but ok.

thanks for your help!

one thing i've learned-- whether it is just a coincidence or not--is that the lower left hand corner of my incubator always makes a stuck chick.

and, gosh, even though my humidity meter seems to say my humidity is fine--maybe it isn't. and the weird thing is i calibrated it.

well, going to give these other 24 eggs some more time, but i'm not going to bet the farm on them. no pips as of now. day 22. 7 chicks under the brooder. 2 were busted aircells.

 

[kelly77]

follow up: (breech chick). after helping with chipping too early--i put the egg back in the incubator. a popped in some wet paper towels to the incubator to bring up humidity. about an hour later i started getting real worried about shrink wrap, so i took a 3 inch by 3 inch wet paper towel corner and laid it over the exposed membrane, being careful not to cover the breathing hole.

i went to bed and when i awoke the chick had hatched. it seems a little weak and a little sticky, but ok.

thanks for your help!

one thing i've learned-- whether it is just a coincidence or not--is that the lower left hand corner of my incubator always makes a stuck chick.

and, gosh, even though my humidity meter seems to say my humidity is fine--maybe it isn't. and the weird thing is i calibrated it.

well, going to give these other 24 eggs some more time, but i'm not going to bet the farm on them. no pips as of now. day 22. 7 chicks under the brooder. 2 were busted aircells.

 

[Chick_In_The_Burbs]

I have one more pip this morning. #18, the saddle shape air cell. S/he pipped about midnight last night (insomnia induced humidity check)