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

[cochins1088]

Good Morning Hatchers!!

Good Morning Sally!

Ah, "Sunrise by the Ocean" by Vladimir Kush. I have always loved this painting.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I just found it! Its amazing!

why does it take so long to upload a video! grrr 50% and its from my cell no less!! am I doing something wrong?

 

[sterlingb]

Thank

Sterling-they lay around and catch their breath as they dry. Antibiotic ointment on the umbilical. Then when dry use save-a-chick or sugar water to give them a boost of energy. Save-a chick is best since it is full of good vitamins and electrolytes.

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Thank u!! The bleeding has stopped and it seems to be resting. The other two still look good and are chirping away! Fingers crossed they both make it out!

 

[sterlingb]

sterling you come and go fast! LOL

Lol I know! I use my phone so I don't get up dates until I refresh the page!! I don't have any Betadine cream just antibacterial ointment. I swabbed some on it and hopefully that will help.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

got pics of the other two? curious at the membrane look, the wrong end one may need more help

 

[cochins1088]

My gosling is getting stronger and stronger by the minute and I love how vocal she is! The blood vessels have almost completely disappeared. I imagaine that she'll be ready to hatch either tonight or tomorrow morning.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

My gosling is getting stronger and stronger by the minute and I love how vocal she is! The blood vessels have almost completely disappeared. I imagaine that she'll be ready to hatch either tonight or tomorrow morning.

coch!! YAY! snap another pic please!!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

yay 77% LOL

 

[sterlingb]

 got pics of the other two? curious at the membrane look, the wrong end one may need more help

 

[hillfloweranch]

They dipped eggs in nothing, sterile water and two different strengths of sterile water with vit C for 2 minutes. the dipped eggs were cooled to 24C (75.2F) for 6 hours.

The eggs were kept at 24 C for a total of 6 hours

Fertile eggs cooled at 24˚C for 6 hrs at the 16th day of incubation decreased embryonic mortality compared with those non cooled
Mortality rates -
16.34% no cooling
14.85% cooling in sterile water
11.07% cooling in sterile water with 5% ascorbic acid
12.77% cooling in sterile water with 10% ascorbic acid
The most significant mortality reduction was with the 5% vitamin C solution.
Also noted, exposing eggs to cooling during incubation increased the time of hatch compared to control. Also, the whole incubation period in hours was significantly (p< 0.01) affected by cooling eggs during late incubation where the whole incubation period of cooled eggs for 6 hrs at 24˚C at the 16th day of incubation was 509.12 hrs while that of non-cooled ones was 500.67 hrs.
The increase in hatchability % suggests that, cooling reduced the metabolic rate of embryos during the latter part of incubation and relieved stress caused by excessive production of metabolic heat.

Those findings suggest that the improvement of hatchability percentage may be due to the decreasing of embryonic mortality where ascorbic acid may be regarded as an anti-stress agent


Interesting article - we need more data before we start dropping eggs in our orange juice though.

Agreed! however what I found interesting is that it had little to no effect on whether or not the embryo incurred a malposition. so maybe that means malpositions are a result of genetic effects and not incubation process. Which as a result would relieve many chicken lovers! Great article sally.

the %'s of hatchability were most affected by cooling the dipped eggs as Oz said because they noted that the different percentages of ascorbic acid lowered the likely hood of stress-induced mortality of high embyonic metabolic heat produced during later stages of incubation. They're rationale for this was based on the natural broody hens who leave the clutch to feed thus the eggs are cooled for a time.