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

[sumi]

Quote: No, we found the perfect place and the owner promptly put the rent up. After we said we'll take it. I see it's still up for rent at the inflated price. Good luck to them getting that! LOL

 

[sumi]

ok sumi, now I am forced to go check and see whats under betty tonight, ugggggg are you sure she wont stagger hatch them if I steal fresh chicks from her

i put 3 shipped eggs under my broody runner duck but i candled one of hers lastnight & they are 1 1/2-2weeks further along than my shipped eggs! so should i get them out right around when her hatchs due and put em in the bator or should i wait til hers hatch to get em out? i had no idea they were so far along when i put the 3 in there.

It is better not to let a broody hen/duck sit longer than she needs to to get her chicks/ducklings to hatch. I don't know about ducks, but hens lose about 25% of their body weight while sitting. Sitting so long and eating so little is hard on their bodies.

The best thing to do in both your situations I think, would be to wait until the babies hatch and mom gets up, then remove any unhatched eggs and finish them in the incubator. Let the moms raise whatever babies they hatched and raise the incubator babies yourself, unless, Sally, in your case if you hatch any chicks in the incubator within 2-3 days of Betty's chicks hatching you may be able to get her to adopt them. What you do is wait until evening when she's sleeping and slip them under her and keep an eye on her in the morning to see if she realises and rejects them.

 

[sumi]

nothing changed with wrong end pippers, can see chips moving so I know he is in there! lol
AND we have another pip.

 

[sumi]

We are on day 19 with shipped serama eggs and two of my silkies. I got the humidity up to 64ish. I used the wet rag trick. I have no action to report, but since its only day 19, I'm NOT going to let myself worry yet.

Good luck!

I locked down 11 bantam eggs last night, soaked the cloth and spread it over the bottom, dipping it into both wells and filled the wells up as well. Humidity shot up to 70% and now, about 12 hours later it's down to the mid-60's. If I need to get it up again quick I'll just lift the side a fraction and pour water in. A thing I noticed with the Brinsea is that it holds it's temp and humidity well even if you lift the lid off for some reason.

 

[hillfloweranch]

7 in the big pen
7 in the little pen
14 in the big brooder
33 in the little brooder
Holy cr@p I need that app!! There is something wrong with my math skills.

 

[NestingHillsSC]

I sent Sally a PM thanking her for all the good info on hatching. She told me to stop by so I am. Saying "HI".

If it wasn't for people like her and others we wouldn't have all this great info to make our lives much easier. At least take some of the frustration out of trying to make things work. If you know what I mean.

Just some info. I have a flock of Production reds, 2 Roo's and 9 hens. Plus 2 EE's and a Delaware mixed in with them. I bought 8 Light Brahmas from TSC this year which are in the grow pen I built a few weeks ago. In my big brooder, I have 7 Leghorns and 10 Heritage Rhode Island Reds I bought from Ron Fogley, use to be the Ricky Bates Bloodline. April I have 25 Heritage Delawares coming from Paul Harter. So by next month my flocks went from 14 to 64.

My wife thinks I'm a bit off, but you know. She maybe right. Chickens to me are sort of addicting. All started just because our neighbors Barred-Rock Rooster got out and spent 2 weeks down here. I watched him like everyday. Thought he was the coolest thing ever. So I started getting some. And here we are today. LOL

Anyways, the reason I thanked Sally was because last month I bought a bator. Homemade plywood cabinet style one. Collected 20 eggs and put them in there. It was a total disaster!!

NONE!! So I got reading on the dry method and thought I would try that once. First I clean that bator for HOURS!!!! Stored my eggs different, bought a new temp/hydro, replaced the fan that was in there. No turner so the first time I had to turn every egg. Didn't much like the fact I had to keep the door open that much 3-5x a day. So this time I got a 30 cardboard egg carton, cut the top and bottoms out so air can move through throw there. Put a 1x2 across the shelf. So all I had to do this time is open the door and tilt the carton. Took maybe 3 seconds. Much better. Slao I did a test with the water. So I know how much I needed to keep the humidity right and how much I would need at lock down. Just made everything much smoother when the time was right. Collected 15 eggs and off I went.

Candled at day 7. 2 infertile 2 with blood rings. Day 14 1 more blood ring and one that stopped between these 7 days. Then day 19 when I went to lock them down seen for sure 8 moving. Wasn't sure about the 9th one. The next day all hatched but the 1. So after lock down 8 out of 9. Which I was so happy!!!

To be honest I didn't even care about the 9th one. LOL. Just was so happy to have the 8 I got. All in all, the dry method really worked for me. Had it running at 37% all the way till the 19th day. The first 10 days like a link I read I kept the vents closed then opened them for the rest of the time. Then on day 19 I shot the humidity up to 57-60%. Going to collect 30 eggs Saturday and try it again in a week.

Here are a few of the chicks. Like a day old, maybe.

Reds roo over a Delaware hen. My Fav.


Red over an EE hen. Fat little thing.


Just a red.


Hope I didn't go on and on. Tend to do that sometimes. LOL

 

[sumi]

Quote
7 in the big pen
7 in the little pen
14 in the big brooder
33 in the little brooder
Holy cr@p I need that app!! There is something wrong with my math skills.

Hmm, you're right. Shouldn't it be 7, 14, 28, 56..

 

[sumi]

I sent Sally a PM thanking her for all the good info on hatching. She told me to stop by so I am. Saying "HI".

If it wasn't for people like her and others we wouldn't have all this great info to make our lives much easier. At least take some of the frustration out of trying to make things work. If you know what I mean.

Just some info. I have a flock of Production reds, 2 Roo's and 9 hens. Plus 2 EE's and a Delaware mixed in with them. I bought 8 Light Brahmas from TSC this year which are in the grow pen I built a few weeks ago. In my big brooder, I have 7 Leghorns and 10 Heritage Rhode Island Reds I bought from Ron Fogley, use to be the Ricky Bates Bloodline. April I have 25 Heritage Delawares coming from Paul Harter. So by next month my flocks went from 14 to 64.

My wife thinks I'm a bit off, but you know. She maybe right. Chickens to me are sort of addicting. All started just because our neighbors Barred-Rock Rooster got out and spent 2 weeks down here. I watched him like everyday. Thought he was the coolest thing ever. So I started getting some. And here we are today. LOL

Anyways, the reason I thanked Sally was because last month I bought a bator. Homemade plywood cabinet style one. Collected 20 eggs and put them in there. It was a total disaster!!

NONE!! So I got reading on the dry method and thought I would try that once. First I clean that bator for HOURS!!!! Stored my eggs different, bought a new temp/hydro, replaced the fan that was in there. No turner so the first time I had to turn every egg. Didn't much like the fact I had to keep the door open that much 3-5x a day. So this time I got a 30 cardboard egg carton, cut the top and bottoms out so air can move through throw there. Put a 1x2 across the shelf. So all I had to do this time is open the door and tilt the carton. Took maybe 3 seconds. Much better. Slao I did a test with the water. So I know how much I needed to keep the humidity right and how much I would need at lock down. Just made everything much smoother when the time was right. Collected 15 eggs and off I went.

Candled at day 7. 2 infertile 2 with blood rings. Day 14 1 more blood ring and one that stopped between these 7 days. Then day 19 when I went to lock them down seen for sure 8 moving. Wasn't sure about the 9th one. The next day all hatched but the 1. So after lock down 8 out of 9. Which I was so happy!!!

To be honest I didn't even care about the 9th one. LOL. Just was so happy to have the 8 I got. All in all, the dry method really worked for me. Had it running at 37% all the way till the 19th day. The first 10 days like a link I read I kept the vents closed then opened them for the rest of the time. Then on day 19 I shot the humidity up to 57-60%. Going to collect 30 eggs Saturday and try it again in a week.

Here are a few of the chicks. Like a day old, maybe.

Reds roo over a Delaware hen. My Fav.


Red over an EE hen. Fat little thing.


Just a red.


Hope I didn't go on and on. Tend to do that sometimes. LOL

Welcome to the thread

It's so nice, reading posts like yours! Sally put a lot of time and effort into her articles and it helped so many people. It's so rewarding when people like you come back with chick pics and show how it helped.

But don't disappear now. Stay around and chat with us and share your next hatch too. And congrats on your beautiful chicks!

 

[NestingHillsSC]

Welcome to the thread

It's so nice, reading posts like yours! Sally put a lot of time and effort into her articles and it helped so many people. It's so rewarding when people like you come back with chick pics and show how it helped.

But don't disappear now. Stay around and chat with us and share your next hatch too. And congrats on your beautiful chicks!

I will. I'll try and check everyday or so. I have 2 pens, actually 3 because I have 3 ducks in one, plus 2 brooders full of chickens. Takes a lot of time during the day lol. Now that summers coming, garden needs planting, still have have to make my BIG area in the back. for all these new chickens. Going to do a hen community, then have 4 or 5 sections for the different breed roosters. Then 3-4 breeding pens. LOL. I'm telling you, my wife thinks I have lost it.

But it keeps me busy. And I enjoy working outside with the animals and with my gardens and all our plants and flowers. Don't know about my neighbors, but who cares!!

I'm really not like that.

 

[gracie02]

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