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

[Chickengirl1304]

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did you wash your eggs or wipe them?

didn't wash any but I wiped a few with a damp paper towel

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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Quote: the same paper towel for all the eggs?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/hatching-eggs-101

Collection & Storage of Eggs
Sources for eggs are to search the BYC buy sell trade section, Craigslist and eBay. Your local thread on BYC may be the best bet for local eggs! Look for your local site in the “Social section” “Where am I? Where are You!” on BYC.

Choose eggs that are of good size, not abnormally big or small. Do NOT set dirty, cracked, or porous eggs.
Clinical studies at the University of Arkansas have shown that if your going to set a dirty egg, set the dirty egg, DO NOT SAND, WASH OR WIPE dirty eggs as hatchability decreases with these practices!
The washing and rubbing action also serves to force disease organisms through the pores of the shell. Place the eggs upright in an egg carton with the FAT, air cell end of the egg UP! Allow eggs to sit in a moderately cool, somewhat humid place for storage. Basements are great. Moderately cool means 55-65 degrees. Rotate your eggs a 3 times a day to keep the embryo from sticking. An easy way to turn all of the eggs at once is to place a thick book under one end of the carton, and later remove the book and put it under the other end of the carton, 3 times a day. Before adding eggs to the incubator always WARM eggs UP slowly to room temperature. IF THE EGGS ARE COLD Condensation can cause bacterial growth on the eggs! You can collect eggs up until 10 days or so, but after the 7th day lower hatch rates may result. Stored eggs take longer to hatch (about one hour per day of storage).

It is important to ALWAYS wash your hands before handling your hatching eggs!

Omphalitis, yolk sack infection is caused by a bacterium that enters through the porous egg shell and easily kills embryo's and newly hatched chicks. Unfortunately, incubation conditions are ideal for breeding bacteria as well as incubating eggs.
For more information on storing eggs refer to Recommendations for hatching egg handling and storage​

 

[Chickengirl1304]

the same paper towel for all the eggs?

We'll same one for the ones gathered on any given day. Eek bad bad

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Well... lets head to the hatching 101 article and go to what went wrong at the bottom and see what else is listed for early deaths, genetics I am sure are there...... I will see what else... http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00008570/00001

 

[Sally Sunshine]

 

[Chickengirl1304]

Ok we'll gathering for this weeks set to go in after my hatch due on thurs

 

[chicksooner]

Sally are you going to try saving your big bellied baby? Curious since I had Dh cull one for me this morning from the last hatch. Her tummy was black and she just wasn't growing like everyone else. Looked kinda bloated. such a hard decision when they seem fine but you know they aren't.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Sally are you going to try saving your big bellied baby? Curious since I had Dh cull one for me this morning from the last hatch. Her tummy was black and she just wasn't growing like everyone else. Looked kinda bloated. such a hard decision when they seem fine but you know they aren't.

yes she is fine running around the incubator now, she was full of energy from the get go, little stinker tried her hardest to climb out of that cup, she is now with the other black one snuggling! I will let you know how she is in the morning, and snap a pic.... as you can see her belly wasnt black it just seemed swollen and water logged, its since gone down pretty much. I swear by veterycin, LOVE THAT stuff, use it on all the critters and me!

 

[Red Star Rob]

you can go ahead and mark air cells and then make an external pip, STAY ABOUT the air cell line and then open them at air cell enough to creating a viewin hole and see if they are alive... if they are you wouldnt have compromised them if you stay ABOVE in the air cell and AWAY from inner membrane.... if it is alive put it back as is!

Thanks again for your help Sally. I did just that. All were deceased...

on eggtopsy, 5/6 look like they had a chance to hatch. Only one of these barely had an internal pip. The last one, 1/6, died earlier on, maybe a week earlier.

I'm thinking I lost the majority of them when I took them out of the turner and laid them down for lockdown. Their air cells were really bad.

thanks again, I really appreciate it.