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

[chicksooner]

humidity in my incubator is staying about 65% ...is this to high for the first 18 days?

65% is what I shoot for when I lock down on day 18. I like to keep it 40-45% the first 18 days. Are you running dry or did you fill the water wells?

 

[hillfloweranch]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...spy-mucus-sneezing-help-with-treatment-please

I NEED HELP started a thread... Sumi gal any ideas which way to go with this one?

I will research for you Sally, get back to you tonight crappy day at work so I need the distraction! Huge stemi had to ride along to cath lab stressful end of my night

 

[kaybee123]

18 eggs incubating, I had already culled three. Tonight on day 13, I candled and saw 13 moving and two I am thinking aren't going well. One I see no veins and clear, the other is too dark of an egg for me to see into it so I am leaving it in. . Not counting them before they hatch but it looks like I'll get some from my first hatch ever!

One thing I see is that the air cells are pretty big? Is that an issue? They are big compared to what I see ppl drawing on their eggs at day 16-17 and I'm on day 13. :-/

 

[ozexpat]

I will research for you Sally, get back to you tonight crappy day at work so I need the distraction! Huge stemi had to ride along to cath lab stressful end of my night

my fave kind of patient

 

[ozexpat]

18 eggs incubating, I had already culled three. Tonight on day 13, I candled and saw 13 moving and two I am thinking aren't going well. One I see no veins and clear, the other is too dark of an egg for me to see into it so I am leaving it in.

. Not counting them before they hatch but it looks like I'll get some from my first hatch ever!

One thing I see is that the air cells are pretty big? Is that an issue? They are big compared to what I see ppl drawing on their eggs at day 16-17 and I'm on day 13. :-/

ideally you should go by weight. are they shipped eggs?

 

[kaybee123]

Yes, they were shipped from MT to FL. I'm hatching them upright in a paper egg carton that has the bottom torn out. I'm only able to turn them twice a day but I do it at no more than 45 degree angle. I didn't weigh these. I read everything else on shipped eggs but missed that part.

 

[ozexpat]

Yes, they were shipped from MT to FL. I'm hatching them upright in a paper egg carton that has the bottom torn out. I'm only able to turn them twice a day but I do it at no more than 45 degree angle. I didn't weigh these. I read everything else on shipped eggs but missed that part.

then as they are shipped, the air cells are probably saddled and look bigger than they are. hang in their

 

[hillfloweranch]

my fave kind of patient

UGH!! Oz give me a Trauma patient any day!!

 

[3Dchicken]

Well I have olive egger # 2 out and 1 poking through gonna be a late night with the kids hovering over the hova bator

 

[3Dchicken]

Guess what? CHICKEN BUTT! Speaking of chicken butts, look at this amazingly adorable one that hatched from my bator without me knowing at 12 at night!:

Sophie!!!

She was all hatched out when I woke up to her peeping! I only went to bed two hours before!! I didn't expect it to be that fast! These pics were taken @ 12 last night.

I think she has a bit of brown on her? These were taken this morning.



Her feet and beak are pink, and her beak has a brown/black spot on it.



And the fun isn't over- I have another pip! I am glad this hatching stuff is going over so smoothly this time around... I must have done something right! (the pip is on top of the 7- It is kind of a bright spot)

I know I am going to watch this one hatch since I missed Sophie. This one will be named Bell. (I think maybe I will name her Bella, because that sounds more easy to say in a sentence to me)