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

[Sally Sunshine]

I ran into this interesting read on low incubation temps..... thought I would share

Acclimation to hypothermic incubation in developing chicken embryos (Gallus domesticus) Developmental effects and chronic and acute metabolic adjustments
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/207/9/1543.full.pdf

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[Sally Sunshine]

I candled some of my silkie eggs in the coolerbator, the white eggs are mostly inferts! Do I have to spray love me lotion on my Juliet or what? any suggestions! maybe I should take some hens out a while?? I have a splash, black, blue and white hen in with now only one roo, Romeo

 

[pcreel]

I have place my roo each night in the house in his huge Rubbermaid garbage can. he is perched with food and water.
each morning I let him out about 9 or 10 o'clock. remember distance makes the heart grow fonder ;-). if I want him to Romeo with a particular group or hen I section then off and when I take him outside he can't mate fast enough.

 

[pcreel]

all my eggs are fertile even the bantams
he does not discriminate.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

interesting!

 

[ozexpat]

This is true. I can check with my husband on the length and width and if you should put any rebar in it. Usually we do I think. It will be a lot of mixes of cement! Might be easier to have a truck drop a yard or so in the hole. If it's 3' x 3' x 4' deep it's 1.33 cubic yards concrete, plus a little that won't come out of the truck, so you'll have to likely pay a small load fee on top of the per yard cost, or you can rent or borrow a cement mixer and buy bags of cement.

or you could get bernie to do it

 

[ozexpat]

I ran into this interesting read on low incubation temps..... thought I would share

Acclimation to hypothermic incubation in developing chicken embryos (Gallus domesticus) Developmental effects and chronic and acute metabolic adjustments
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/207/9/1543.full.pdf

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I am not surprised that chronic hypothermic incubation does not induce heterokairy, or at least as it specifically physiological changes that affect growth or the maturation of the respiratory system.

How many people do we see here with internal pippers that either fail, take forever to zip, or end up getting assisted, and probably too early?

One day I am going to conduct my drill the top on all eggs at day 21 experiment

 

[Gardeningmama]

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You understood those words? I got the general idea, but, yikes. Wasn't feeling like the smartest apple reading that, LOL!

 

[Crimsonchicken]

Ok. So the eggs are in lockdown. I did like you said Sally, and positioned them with the lowest air cell dip up. Well, I did the best I could due to the wonky air cells. Humidity is about 43%. I was told by another BYC member not to increase my humidity till I get my first pip to keep chicks from drowning. What are your opinions on this? I thought I had to get humidity to around 60 for lockdown. Please reply with helps. You guys are getting me through this...maybe..

 

[sumi]

Quote: Oz, speak English! You're not at the hospital now