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

[ozexpat]

I was all excited getting ready.to set eggs for the easter hatch & heard chirping from under my broody hen. Yay!!! She was sitting 6 eggs. Needless to say, shame on me... I didn't move her away from the other girls and a big fight occurred inside her nest box. In the process the one chick that hatched got hurt. I removed the naughty hen that started the fight and then my broody girl went nuts and started attacking the baby & a zipping egg. Agggh! Luckily my hatcher is spotless in preparation for the Easter hatch so I wisked away the surviving chick and 4 eggs. 1 of which was pipped and is just now starting to zip. This is not how I planned my day! Lol!

Sally, did you set eggs for the Easter hatch?

its good you were nearby. i am glad you saved the eggs

i found my hovabator genesis unplugged with 41 eggs on day 7. my housekeeper, bless her, probably did it by accident 6 hrs earlier. time will tell if it was too long.

 

[Rockashelle]

its good you were nearby. i am glad you saved the eggs

i found my hovabator genesis unplugged with 41 eggs on day 7. my housekeeper, bless her, probably did it by accident 6 hrs earlier. time will tell if it was too long.

Oh no! hopefully the eggs kept better temps the the bator.

Do you know much about broodies? I hope this is because it was her first hatch. I'm scared to let her try again.

 

[ozexpat]

Oh no!

hopefully the eggs kept better temps the the bator.

Do you know much about broodies? I hope this is because it was her first hatch. I'm scared to let her try again.

i dont know a lot about broodies but I am not sure she can be blamed for all the confusion. Even so, unless she is of emotional or financial value, its not a behavior I would be looking for and she would be a curry stew my next weekend - but thats just me.

 

[Rockashelle]

i dont know a lot about broodies but I am not sure she can be blamed for all the confusion. Even so, unless she is of emotional or financial value, its not a behavior I would be looking for and she would be a curry stew my next weekend - but thats just me.

Yes... That's my thoughts too. My husband's uncle wants some layers so she just might be volunteered. Course... Broodies don't make very good layers... Hmmm?

 

[ozexpat]

Yes... That's my thoughts too. My husband's uncle wants some layers so she just might be volunteered. Course... Broodies don't make very good layers... Hmmm?

what breed is she?

 

[hillfloweranch]

Thanks to Sally Sunshine I was able to save the one lone survivor of an expensive and terrible hatch. This sweet baby was peeping away on Day 22 so I made a small pip and then slowly more following her directions. Here she is in the egg and a few days later. She was peeping the whole time I was assisiting her out of the shell. I never had any blood. I call her my $200. chicken.

Sally is a blessing to us all!! Generous, kind and selfless with her time to talk all us crazy newbies through our first of many neurotic hatchings! Sally you are loved!!

 

[Rockashelle]

She's a lavender orp that I had sitting on my Dorking eggs when she went broody. I had the orpington only for eggs and planned on giving them to Uncle John until she decided to sit on eggs. I didn't know if my Dorkings would be good layers or not. Well, they outlay the orps so off they were going to go. I only have two of them, 1 EE who thinks she's a Dorking, and I don't know how many Dorkings without going to count the separate pens. Lol! Somewhere around 11 adult Dorkings, 26 chicks... Plus the additional 5 rescued from my CrAzY broody today. 2 hatched 3 still in the eggs. And then, I'll blame it on Easter, 42 just started for the Easter hatch. What am I doing???

 

[hillfloweranch]

She's a lavender orp that I had sitting on my Dorking eggs when she went broody. I had the orpington only for eggs and planned on giving them to Uncle John until she decided to sit on eggs. I didn't know if my Dorkings would be good layers or not. Well, they outlay the orps so off they were going to go. I only have two of them, 1 EE who thinks she's a Dorking, and I don't know how many Dorkings without going to count the separate pens. Lol! Somewhere around 11 adult Dorkings, 26 chicks... Plus the additional 5 rescued from my CrAzY broody today. 2 hatched 3 still in the eggs. And then, I'll blame it on Easter, 42 just started for the Easter hatch. What am I doing???

Exactly how I feel! Lol

 

[Rockashelle]

Exactly how I feel! Lol

Lol!

 

[3Dchicken]

I was all excited getting ready.to set eggs for the easter hatch & heard chirping from under my broody hen. Yay!!! She was sitting 6 eggs. Needless to say, shame on me... I didn't move her away from the other girls and a big fight occurred inside her nest box. In the process the one chick that hatched got hurt. I removed the naughty hen that started the fight and then my broody girl went nuts and started attacking the baby & a zipping egg. Agggh! Luckily my hatcher is spotless in preparation for the Easter hatch so I wisked away the surviving chick and 4 eggs. 1 of which was pipped and is just now starting to zip. This is not how I planned my day! Lol!

Sally, did you set eggs for the Easter hatch?

Awww what happened to the injured chick?

good! do you have any save a chick or electrolites? if not you could add a sprinkle of brown sugar in their water, she is drinking?

He is. And I do have brown sugar. How much should I put in? He is still not fluffy (just his head). I say he because I feather sexed him this morning and both rows of feathers were the same length. He peeped like a maniac last night because he was lonely in the incubator.