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

[Sally Sunshine]

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[Sally Sunshine]

SHIPPED EGGS EXPERIMENT~ I should have video taped this.... BUT I DIDNT because EVERYONE That buys shipped eggs needs to do this....... And dont laugh at me, well go ahead because a chuckle is good for Y'all.....and IT was quite silly and I thought myself funny at first but the results amazed me......If anyone can video tape their procedures that would be most awesome! and more proof for the "records"

I WILL NOT Open discussion until ALMOST EVERYONE of us has done this............
yes you too SUMI and OZ!

DO THIS IN THE DARK, its all about the candle results............

STEP ONE ~ Get a few days old egg, 3-4 is fine, make sure its not frozen like mine lol......yes you can use bought eggs, but the air cell wont be the same size as shipped but if its your only option, have at it.... results will vary for store eggs and I am assuming BIG TIME.....but we can add it noting the difference.
STEP TWO ~ Candle the egg and if you can see an air cell, mark it with pencil
STEP THREE ~ Shake the egg for just a little
STEP FOUR ~ Candle and note if air cell changed
STEP FIVE ~ REPEAT step three and four UNTIL you have a rolling air cell
STEP SIX ~ SEND ME A PM OF YOUR FINDINGS in much detail, what breed, how many times shook, how much you laughed and a pic of your original air cell marking (so we can compare sizes)

When I have most of our results I will copy and paste them for everyone to discuss openly, I have a new scientific idea of HOW EGGS should be shipped!! Lets see if we all agree in the end......

GOT IT???

THIS EXPERIMENT

 

[kelly77]

I am in Maine and it was -12 yesterday morning at 6am. My 8 chickens in 2 coops are doing fine with just one heat lamp each coop. I check on them often but they all seem fine!!

That is colder then here! Do you have a big coop? I think my problem is that my coop is to big, no insulation and not enough birds. I mean they seem fine its the ducks that seem cold...they keep trying to put their feet under their wings

 

[kelly77]

Celsius or Farenheit???

Farenheit

 

[kelly77]

A few mine have some black spots on comb.... but they seem ok, I havent lost any, and they are still locked inside due to cold and wind.....

I read that combs can get frost bite...and that putting vasaline on them helps

 

[chicken fever]

I use Vaseline on mine and it helps tremendously! coat coat it tho

I read that combs can get frost bite...and that putting vasaline on them helps

 

[Chick_In_The_Burbs]

Sally, looks like someone told my gals about your experiment! I just got my first egg in almost 4 months this morning! It's a tiny pullet egg from my RIR/BO cross, her first ever. I will wait for them to get a touch bigger and maybe my other ladies will decide to donate soon too.

 

[sumi]

Sally, looks like someone told my gals about your experiment! I just got my first egg in almost 4 months this morning! It's a tiny pullet egg from my RIR/BO cross, her first ever.

I will wait for them to get a touch bigger and maybe my other ladies will decide to donate soon too.

Congrats!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

COOL!!

Well they all look better today, I have too many chickens to go crawling in the coop plus my RA says dont you dare! Next year we will have lamps on standby... sucks because they are mostly 250 watts heat lamp bulbs, we put an 80 in with the little ones that didnt do crud! is there no in between sheez dh says just use the 250s..... yea yea

 

[sumi]

I like the 250 heat lamps. But I just use them for chicks. My older chickens just have to be tough. They all got sopping wet in the rain today. And it's so cold already.

Hmm, talking of heat lamps... I'm going to need one of those. And DH just dragged home a beautiful plastic tub with "brooder" written all over it. It's perfect! Then he told me I can't have it. Well, in that case, he can go buy another one.