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

[sumi]

A faceless chicken!!! Only you Chad!! LOL look at that fluffy blue!!!

This better Sally? A chick with a face?

"Who are you calling a faceless chicken?"

Be careful what you wish for Sally!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: AWESOME!!! No bator opening YAY!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: I heard tapping faintly but not chirp quack : ( no external pips yet, I would have sworn there would be : (

LET THE WORRY BEGIN!! and the questioning my incubation procedures again too!!! uggg

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: YES!!! She will be one broody hen!!! LMAO!!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

This in another one...more inquisitive natured.

ach du gut in himmel awwww blue and black!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Cute, cute, cute chicks! Love the colouring!

And I must stop reading this thread, I'm thinking about duck eggs now!

Sally, I saw you posted over on the article contest thread about hatching eggs after deworming, but I'll talk to you about it here, instead of hijacking that thread. I've done some digging into the effect of dewormer on the embryo and the people who have tried it are very reluctant to discuss it. What I have learned though is that it causes handicapped chicks and chicks dying immediately after hatching. So basically it's a bad idea.

A guy I knew back in SA went a bit hatch crazy, trying to get as many chickens in the shortest time possible and he came round frequently to demand hatching eggs from me. I dewormed my flock and he came and collected the eggs, supposedly to feed to his pig... I told him not to try and hatch them, but after about 3-4 weeks he came round shouting that I "cheated" him with the eggs and he wants more. No prize for guessing what happened there.

I keep finding articles like that gal wrote for the contest, but I need the TREATMENTs hers was vauge.. I think MOST people dont understand it!! so I should do the worming like now when its winter when the eggs can be thrown for a while...

But that wazine everyone uses is NOT for layers PERIOD this is frustrating....

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: ancona and yes a friend from BYC sent them from about 50 miles away and she gave me those OE eggs that just hatched too!
there are 5

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: OMG Sumi did I show you the pic of the deformed beak and eyes of that chick I assisted when all the marans hatched last week? UGGGGGG poor thing

I am debating adding that to the end of the step by step assisted hatch article, so people KNOW what else they can find in assisting, weak, deformed sick chicks ???????????????????????????????????????

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Marty Pm'd to help with my understanding of ducks.... gotta read it and see what I need to get its beautiful outside snowing and laying in all the trees and such a clean looking landscape! LOVELY!!

 

[sumi]

Sally, here's some stuff on pre-incubation care of hatching eggs and storage. I'll see if I can find more.



Egg Care and Storage

Many times a producer carefully attends to the incubation process but disregards the care of the eggs before they are placed in the incubator. Even before incubation starts the embryo is developing and needs proper care. Hatching eggs suffer from reduced hatchability if the eggs are not cared for properly. Listed below are tips to help maintain hatching egg quality.​

• Collect eggs at least three times daily. When daily high temperatures exceed 85 degrees F. increase egg collection to five times daily. Collect two or three times in the morning and one or two times in the afternoon.​
• Slightly soiled eggs can be used for hatching purposes without causing hatching problems, but dirty eggs should not be saved. Do not wash dirty eggs.​
• Store eggs in a cool-humid storage area. Ideal storage conditions include a 55 degree F. temperature and 75% relative humidity. Store the eggs with the small end pointed downward.​
• Alter egg position periodically if not incubating within 4-6 days. Turn the eggs to a new position once daily until placing in the incubator.​
• Hatchability holds reasonably well up to seven days, but declines rapidly afterward. Therefore, do not store eggs more than 7 days before incubating. After 3 weeks of storage, hatchability drops to almost zero. Plan ahead and have a regular hatching schedule to avoid storage problems and reduced hatches.​
• Allow cool eggs to warm slowly to room temperature before placing in the incubator. Abrupt warming from 55 degrees to 100 degrees causes moisture condensation on the egg shell that leads to disease and reduced hatches.​