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

[sumi]

Hatch final count is 7 seramas and 1 silkie that I think is a mix. I put 10 serama eggs into lockdown and 7 hatched. These were shipped saddle cell eggs too. I think that is pretty good. I'll get pics up soon.

Well done!

 

[cochins1088]

4 artificial internal pips, 1 ruptured yolk sac, 2 tied off navels, 4 open navels, and 1 complete assist.

But all 5 chicks are still alive. 3 of them look like normal healthy chicks after I gave them vitamins and electrolytes, the other 2 still look very weak, but they just hatched. I finally took the baby with the ruptured yolk sac out of his egg this morning, it was ruptured for 2 full days so it's very possible that bacteria invaded. I tied off his navel and applied iodine tincture. I also did this to a baby who hatched too early and still had yolk left.

Those 2 are recovering nicely, though I'm worried that the one with the ruptured sac will develop an infection.

 

[cochins1088]

I will be hatching local eggs next. My last 8 hatches have all been shipped eggs and it's driving me nuts.

 

[NestingHillsSC]

14 more eggs to collect for my next hatch. Probably will fire up the bator tomorrow. I like to let it run a good full day with no water in it to get all the wetness out from washing.

Put my 13 month old rooster in death camp last night. Can't stand that rooster. Got him from my neighbor. Never again. He terrorizes my hens. Won't roost. Sit's in the nesting box all night. So in the morning I have to clean it out. And he's a rapist!!

Brutal with them. The girls hate him. No more. Now I only have my nice older roo. Hopefully one of the one's I hatched from the last batch will take his place.

 

[sumi]

4 artificial pips, 1 ruptured yolk sac, 2 tied off navels, 4 open navels, and 1 complete assist.

But all 5 chicks are still alive. 3 of them look like normal healthy chicks after I gave them vitamins and electrolytes, the other 2 still look very weak, but they just hatched. I finally took the baby with the ruptured yolk sac out of his egg this morning, it was ruptured for 2 full days so it's very possible that bacteria invaded. I tied off his navel and applied iodine tincture. I also did this to a baby who hatched too early and still had yolk left.

Those 2 are recovering nicely, though I'm worried that the one with the ruptured sac will develop an infection.

 

[MommaBee]

4 artificial pips, 1 ruptured yolk sac, 2 tied off navels, 4 open navels, and 1 complete assist.

But all 5 chicks are still alive. 3 of them look like normal healthy chicks after I gave them vitamins and electrolytes, the other 2 still look very weak, but they just hatched. I finally took the baby with the ruptured yolk sac out of his egg this morning, it was ruptured for 2 full days so it's very possible that bacteria invaded. I tied off his navel and applied iodine tincture. I also did this to a baby who hatched too early and still had yolk left.

Those 2 are recovering nicely, though I'm worried that the one with the ruptured sac will develop an infection.

Oh that sounds exhausting! Sounds like you did a great job giving them the best start you could! I would have no clue what to do with the navels, or even what to look for! I feel you on the shipped eggs!

 

[sumi]

Update on broody-incubator eggs: I have a chick on it's way. I heard it peep this morning, waited for it to pip and eventually candled. It's beak was in the air sac, so I created an artificial pip, and saw the strangest thing. I didn't take a pic (sorry!). It had a blood vessel, clear and open, next to it's head. It had quite a bit of the inner membrane cleared around it's head when I opened the shell and this vessel sitting there. I left it in the 'bator for about an hour and when I checked now the vessel disappeared and the membrane is almost clear. Little Bit is anxious to get out, but I'm going to wait a little bit longer. No sign of life from any of the other eggs and no idea what's going on under the broody. I'm going to check on her this evening.

ETA: She's out and nearly dry. Discovered where the blood vessel went. There was blood all over the inside of the shell. But she's o.k. Very strong and vocal! Will post a pic later when she's dry.

 

[blzzrdqueen]

I have two D'Uccles hatched and my lone blue Ameraucana...who is in a cup because he didn't finish absorbing before hatching. Pip #1 had to be assisted twice, once I had to make a tiny opening in his membrane so he could breathe, then just now I had to zip for him, and I put bacitracin on his membrane...his beak has been in the original hole for over 12 hours now, and in two hours it'll be 24 hours since he first pipped. I have 3 more pips, and 5 eggs that haven't done anything yet...we are 12 hours into day 22. Pics to come.

 

[sterlingb]

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How old are the chicks? It's not uncommon for a hen to wean her chicks early (after 5-7 weeks) and immediately start sitting on the next batch. I had a hen that did that over and over. 

The chicks are only days old. She only hatched two and I removed the bad eggs from her nest and then A day later she was sitting again.

 

[MommaBee]

detached cell talk: (I know crazy to think I am going to talk on topic on this thread, haha)

So I locked down a day early yesterday. It was not really a lockdown as much as it was getting them out of the turning and laying them down. Today is the real lockdown (day 18) day. So I candled this morning to see if I had an internal pip, and holy moly the air cell in 2 had moved BIG time! I wish I had taken a pick but basically it looked clearly detached, but I know there is growth inside the eggs. I saw them grow and the look filled up. The cells went from being at the top of the egg to center middle (like a carpenter level) UGH! How will this affect the hatch, if at all?