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

[pcreel]

I have 28 chickens and 12 ducks all together in the same area. Will the others hurt the baby chicks????
They are able to follow mom but as of now I closed the coop door. I also placed food and water inside with them too.
There are 6 more eggs to go. Staggered hatch different chickens. Should I pull out the bator and hatch the rest myself?
I did not want to interfere

and compromise the others. What to do????

 

[chicksooner]

It's forced air. Both thermometers said 99-100. The humidity was dry for the first 18 days then between 60 and 77 when the first hatched. I have a qfg digital hydrometer. I don't know what happened. The chicks that hatched are big and healthy. I forgot to mention that 15 were shipped eggs. I let them set for 3 days, all had nice air cells and growing well.

How dry was your dry? I only ask because too much moisture loss is not good. I normally like to keep mine about 45% and that means I am adding water every couple days. Sorry for your hatch.

 

[chicknfun]

ugggg..... wondering....

I got a notice that occasionally State Farm Insurance comes to inspect property's for homeowners, they will be here anytime in the next 90 days.

How will my coops and chicken play in this "visit" suggestions anyone run into this?

My best guess only going by experience, but not State Farm- When they came here last year, they said nothing about the coops. We are zoned ag though, so that is how they insure for my area. They expect us here to have animals.
a. Can they be seen from the road?
b. Are you completely fenced all the way around? With No Trespassing signs?
c. Is there any extension cords running to them from house or garage?

a. Could be considered an attractive nuisance, but doubtful....
that usually applies to pools and /or ponds, swing sets, play houses, anything that can attract a child and then could get hurt.

b. If you're fenced completely, no one can just walk on your land to have a looky loo without trespassing-- Local Law, don't know about in PA

c. No electricity cords, no fire hazard. If you do have, remove them if you can till after the visit.


Hi again Y'all-Came in to get girls off bus. Running back out for a while

 

[chicksooner]

Mich you did dry hatch? meaning what? You need to use humidity to reach the necessary weight loss in the egg, too dry and they cant turn, too wet and they drown. Dry hatch doesn't imply no water in the bator, it means you use it as a tool to keep weight loss on target, sometimes you need more sometimes less depending on your room conditions etc. Do you think your chicks were stuck? It sounds to me like you ran dry dry and lossed too much. also did you weigh them throughout? (I don't but some do)

Same thought process...

No lower then 26, no higher then 35. The ones that were stuck, were ones that were hatching after I thought they were done. The extra cup of water was dryed up. Only one started shrink wrapping and i think it was because i opened it i tried the mister thing, but I think i did it incorrectly. Two of them had a litttle to much fluid in the bottom of the egg shell. I keep wondering if it is because I put that liner on the wire. I always have better hatches when i dont cover it. But I worry about them getting their feet cut on edges. Maybe if i tape the edges with duct tape, they wont get cut and humidity can flow better. What do yo guys think.

Aquarium tubing and a medicine dropper thingy. I have the tubing run thru the wire hole and under the turner. I have to open it and lift the turner off of the tubing then squirt the water thru the hose. Keeps me from having to find a spot to squirt water between eggs and I don't have to take the whole contraption out. I will get pics later and post.

I don't mean to jump in here, but this just happened to me. This past hatch was horrible, very much staggered, and umpteen glued chicks, and a few total losses. I have never used a turner before, and always had wonderful hatches, but this time I had so many detached air cells it seemed to make more sense to put all of the eggs in a turner. Once I did, I had no room for water containers, and the wells underneath the turner would dry out, so I would let them be for a couple of days as it was so hard to fill them with the turner in place. Often throughout my Acurites read 16% humidity(I'm pretty sure that's the lowest reading possible on an Acurite). When I finally pulled out the turner for lockdown, the aircells were completely messed up. The rest is history. Your hatch sounds too much like mine, and I'm betting on humidity issues.

See above about aquarium tubing.

Sooo, the first chick is running around like mad, the egg on the upper right is making a lot of progress, the chick in the upper left egg just started pecking again, and the lower left one is just sort of sitting there. Is the pip on the lower left egg even big enough to let the chick breathe?

Perfect. They got this hatching business down.

 

[Mianna]

Two are out!

 

[ozexpat]

I like Lucky!
we should have a standard list of questions to be answered each time ya know it! lol
need to know the basics they have been running to give any help.

but the person asking them needs to check their grammar -"how were your humidity"

good god. I hope my mother does not log on anytime soon.

 

[Mianna]

The second chick is completely clear of its shell now, but has a little string of clear-ish yuck dragging around behind it. Normal? Sorry for the flood of posts!

 

[Doug Hodges]

I've got 5 running around and two more that are close but I don't have any more pipped eggs. And I have one that is dead in the egg. Do I just wait?

 

[ozexpat]

As some as you know I work in the medical field. To make an accurate diagnosis we need as much information as you can provide.

This is an expanded set of questions posted in another thread by chicknmama

To help you we will need as many of the details that you can provide.

What kind of incubator do you have?

Still air or Force Air?

What day the eggs are the eggs currently on?

How did you follow their progress:
Did you weigh them and track the weight loss and growth of air cell?
How often did you candle?

Temperatures:
What were your incubation temps?
Did you use a calibrated thermometer?

Humidity:
What was the humidity history of the hatch thus far?

Hand turned or auto turner:
If hand turned - did you roll them back and forth, always the same direction or end to end?
When did you stop turning?

What type of eggs/birds?

Shipped or local or your own eggs from your flock:
If local how old?
How was the packaging?
Were there any bad weather patterns in the path of the shipping?

 

[gracie02]

Well, the hatching is done as of Tuesday evening.

Had to assist 4 that had ext. pipped but were too weak to zip, also too big! There was no room for them to move. Two are doing great, one I had to put boots on, thanks BYC for how to do this!! and she is standing and walking pretty good today. One is struggling and will drink from an eyedropper but won't eat. Here is what I've done, is there anything else to try or just wait and see?

Pro-Vi-Sol no iron 3 drops/day
Water by dropper every two hours or whenever I think of it.
Added a little honey to water and dropper feeding as of today
Feeding raw egg yolk by dropper. Aargghh, worried that it will intro. bacteria but the baby was so weak it seemed like it couldn't hurt.
Just got Grow-gel over-nighted and it won't touch it, even if I try and introduce it with a toothpick end.

Don't know what else to do. Also, it barely opens it's little eyes, they seem to not be able to open all the way. It does not smell bad. Vent is clean. Navel is healed up fine. It's in a 95 deg. brooder with the others. I think this is the one that had gunky sticky stuff all over it when I opened the shell, and I did give it a warm bath and made sure it was warm and dried off fast by holding it under the lamp. (No, I didn't bake it)