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

[Gardeningmama]

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This afternoon I had to have a serious talk with my 11 yr. old DS. He has gotten his first real very cute girlfriend AND discovered FaceTime. He never even came out of the closet for breakfast (Yes, I said closet. He locks himself in there to prevent my 9 yr. old from eavesdropping). At about 3:00 I realized I hadn't seen him all day so told him to get off until 7:00. What did he do? Sit and stare at the clock and then try and convince me that the ovens digital clock was running slow!! UGH!

 

[cochins1088]

I never knew BYC had an aquarium thread. I'll have to check it out.

Yeah, it dies a lot, but if someone posts something, it's usually receives replies pretty quickly.

 

[MommaBee]

Oh friends I should have started a whole different thread for this. So our stubborn chick is still stubborn and looking kinda stuck. I took another pic through the top of the bator. The membranes still look moist inside to me but maybe a lil tight and it is NOT making any progress, just fighting and chirping. What are your thoughts?
Stats are...
Internal pip AT LEAST 48 hours ago.
Made a tiny breathing hole pip about 5 hours ago
It made the crazy giant hole about 3 hours ago.
I do not see any blood veins
Here is what it looks like now, you can see it's beak open on the right hand side.

 

[ozexpat]

I agree that the spike would be more lethal than the drop, but, we're talking a quick spike vs. hours at 83 PLUS the wandering off and reading rather than monitoring the temp once she'd 'adjusted' the temperature. She was already in trouble for reading instead of doing her homework, so this was the final straw for me. She *would* have done good if she'd stayed close by and kept an eye on the incubator. She did not. So, no, she did not do 'good'.

sounds like justifiable reasoning. trying to get a kid to do the right thing is not fun. My two are 18 months and almost 3yrs. I have so much to look forward to in my old age

 

[bellah1]

Mine is only at day 11 and is almost 3/4 of the way down aswell only thing to do is to keep a good eye on them and hope for the best. Im just worried about how far it will be at lockdown.

I am only on day 13. But I also wanted to tell Sally I put 2 of the same messed up air cell shipped runner eggs along with a shipped call egg after only letting them sit for maybe 8hrs right under my broody duck and just candle those 3 shipped eggs this afternoon and the air cells are PERFECT & reattached! I guess Mother Nature really does do it best. What are you hatching pogmobum?

 

[Gardeningmama]

Oh friends I should have started a whole different thread for this. So our stubborn chick is still stubborn and looking kinda stuck. I took another pic through the top of the bator. The membranes still look moist inside to me but maybe a lil tight and it is NOT making any progress, just fighting and chirping. What are your thoughts?
Stats are...
Internal pip AT LEAST 48 hours ago.
Made a tiny breathing hole pip about 5 hours ago
It made the crazy giant hole about 3 hours ago.
I do not see any blood veins
Here is what it looks like now, you can see it's beak open on the right hand side.

I would start an assist

I just had this happen during the Easter Hatch. I waited, but it became very obvious that help was necessary. I will say though, the chick lived, but is terribly splay legged, and I kind of wish I'd have let it be.

I just can't get it's legs fixed.

 

[MissBroodyHen]

i have a question ... its more for duck people but anyone who might know feel free to chime in ... we lost out male while i was away from town helping out with family... the female did not lay for two or three weeks and finally started back... is it possible any of the eggs would still be fertile after 6-8 weeks ? it looks like a bullseye in the two we checked but i am not certain ..... i just wanted to ask if it was possible they were still fetile that long after losing a male ?

I believe the timing here is about a month after. But best thing you can do is just collect some and have a go. They can store sperm. So you never know. Stranger things can happen. You may just get one out of a dozen!

 

[cochins1088]

Oh friends I should have started a whole different thread for this. So our stubborn chick is still stubborn and looking kinda stuck. I took another pic through the top of the bator. The membranes still look moist inside to me but maybe a lil tight and it is NOT making any progress, just fighting and chirping. What are your thoughts?
Stats are...
Internal pip AT LEAST 48 hours ago.
Made a tiny breathing hole pip about 5 hours ago
It made the crazy giant hole about 3 hours ago.
I do not see any blood veins
Here is what it looks like now, you can see it's beak open on the right hand side.

If you don't see any veins, then you can probably start to assist, but an assist might not be necessary at this point.

If you want to assist, remove pieces of shell and moisten the membrane just to make sure there are no active blood vessels. If there aren't any vessels, remove all of the pieces of shell around the air cell or "zip" for the chick. Keep the membrane moist and the chick should be able to come out on it's own.

 

[pogmobum]

I am only on day 13. But I also wanted to tell Sally I put 2 of the same messed up air cell shipped runner eggs along with a shipped call egg after only letting them sit for maybe 8hrs right under my broody duck and just candle those 3 shipped eggs this afternoon and the air cells are PERFECT & reattached! I guess Mother Nature really does do it best. What are you hatching pogmobum?

Wow thats amazing, i have no broodys unfortunately, hatching out my first pure breed chickens ever pekin bantam with frizzle gene there is not much i can do now anyways except wait and see :/

 

[silver1313]

Quote: ty for the advice .. i have about 10 saved bc we believed they couldnt be fertile but i cracked two today that came fresh from the nest and looked like bullseyes... i am gonna stick the others in i think .. worse case scenario .. i toss obvious non growers and get nothing.. best case i get at least one frank/fred baby ( yes the dad had two names.. never knew which personality he was gonna show lol )