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

[sumi]

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?

Place those 2 eggs in an upright position and keep them like that until the end when the chicks are pipped, zipped and ready to go. In a normal hatch the chicks will pip internally, into the air sac, which they expect to be in the fat end of the egg. If it's not there they may pip into egg fluid and drown.

Good luck with your hatch!

 

[sumi]

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Quote: Did she interact with the chick at any stage? Showed them food etc? Did she call them when she went back to the box and are there eggs in it?

 

[MommaBee]

Place those 2 eggs in an upright position and keep them like that until the end when the chicks are pipped, zipped and ready to go. In a normal hatch the chicks will pip internally, into the air sac, which they expect to be in the fat end of the egg. If it's not there they may pip into egg fluid and drown.

Good luck with your hatch!

Thanks! I just did that, it was only one, the other was just an insane looking saddle cell, but it is in a carton upright now. Seemed like a lot of fluid when I just looked. I wonder if it already attempted it and drowned? I guess we will find out.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

This is tuxedo - the pink skinned nn and chickadee..not sure what breed on it....

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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.

iodine?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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

I think you should to give you a boost!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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.

oh my he sounds like Harmonys gorgeous frizzle serama that I pray we get another roo frizzle so he can GO!!!!!!!!!! he is all alone right now! he he he

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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.

It always amazes me, when you assist you will typically notice to the left of their pip area there is always one larger vein with a bunch stemming to from it! how they miss that sucker I have no clue, I never pull left on the membrane always towards right because of the veining. at first I was like wow, and now that I have done it over and over its pretty cool how most times you can bank on the veins left of that beak!

 

[Gardeningmama]

Hi All!

Well, with the week I've had I'm still 248 posts behind on this thread, but wanted to take a break from reading and say Hi! Cochins you did an awesome job on Sally's Avy! I have talent, but drawing is not one of them, I can't even draw a proper stick figure, LOL! What an awesome gift to have!!
I was so happy AND jealous to see that Oz made it home safely! Have I said before I want to go someplace tropical???

Okay, back to reading! This'll teach me to get behind!

 

[NestingHillsSC]

oh my he sounds like Harmonys gorgeous frizzle serama that I pray we get another roo frizzle so he can GO!!!!!!!!!! he is all alone right now! he he he

Yep. Jr is in the frig right now.