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

[Sally Sunshine]

Okay Sally, I bucked up and opened one of the eggs, after looking at the last chicks to hatch. They are extremely small even for d'Uccles. Here is a picture, if you can tell, my air cells all looked like the ones you showed on day 18. I'm wondering if I didn't have some sort of bacteria. The liquid in the egg is thick like syrup and wet, if that makes sense. It poured out thick, it had no smell and the chick internally pipped.
Incubator Hovabator 1583 forced air
I used one of these and one of these

Here is the egg

edit to make pic bigger

oh wow, it looks like a wet chick too mich! wtheck! I cant tell enough from the size of the air cell but from that angle the cell looks too small no? I think its just the angle of the shot!

 

[bellah1]

oz is awesome and has a lot of information to share himself ...
i am sure the same questions showing up can get tedious ... thats why i read and reread and try not to ask the same questions over and over myself ....

it wasnt really directed as a persona lthing against anyone or in anyway about the question that was asked ... or as far as i read it wasnt ... is it just me or has byc been full of stuff this week ...

If what u mean by "full of stuff" is bat crap crazy, then no it's not just you!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Snarky isn't the way to help. I was continuing a private conversation that Sally and I had started in a PM.

I am a gardener by trade and I am a 4-H leader and I work on antique wooden yachts for a living and I have two preschoolers. If I got snarky everytime I was asked a question that I had already answered for someone else, I would get a reputation as not a nice person.

I am not a newbie, by the way. Even Sally said that she had only had two of those giant chicks and I surmised that it was a humidity issue. I didn't ask about how to correct a humidity issue, I know enough about incubating by now to be able to vet my own issues. I just asked her a question (in a PM) which led to another question in the course of a conversation.

Sally gave me the link for this thread so that I could bounce ideas off of other people.

True story !

seriously you will love oz, you trusted me before right? LOL
He cares for us and he showed that today during chaos hours

you see with this thread, sometimes we can chat and have fun and then in an instant we have major issues and sick chicks and so on, we all try to help the best we can, and it can get pretty full of issues fast. Again, that was NOT meant directly at anyone, oz keeps us in line as much as we do him, have some smart people on the thread but I consider oz the Master of figuring the stuff over my head out, and even the stuff I am too lazy to go figure out for myself! I need to also practice researching a bit more than I do at times.

Whats neat about all of us is that if we have something we really turn into a topic we all research it and come back with proof and FIGURE IT OUT TOGETHER, we learn as a group. Look how much we learned about shipped eggs, and about shipping eggs, about assisting chicks, on and on and on! Heck we learned about copper pennies and never OD with Tylenol too!

 

[silver1313]

Quote: yeah kinda.. just people getting along less and taking offense at some stuff that doesnt seem to be offensive ... and misbahavior and yeah kinda crazy ....

 

[silver1313]

Quote: from the article - "more females hatched at high incubation temperatures and more males hatched at low temperatures" - did i read this wrong then ?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: you know that is a very good analogy! And this is why I personally can take a breath and still help. OMG today was minor you should see a few of my messages! sometimes I repeated myself like 10 times, we all have to realize we are hanging with all sortsa people on here! And I swear I will help everyone I can no matter what, but that doesn't mean I cant make a BLEEP sometimes right? sorta like the kid spilling milk all over the kitchen table and floor! move on, breath and help clean up!

 

[ozexpat]

from the article - "more females hatched at high incubation temperatures and more males hatched at low temperatures" - did i read this wrong then ?

further into the article....

Molecular sexing of chicks and embryos confirmed that male embryo mortality was greater at high temperatures while female embryo mortality is greater at low temperatures, with mortality in both sexes similar at intermediate incubation temperatures.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: WHAT THE!!! See oz your wacked! explain later! in MY LANGUAGE!

and what the hell does succinct mean? Is your mom on the thread again, you cant impress her anymore oz, your too old!

 

[ozexpat]

my apologies for being over protective of the five foot nuthin sassy read hed

 

[Sally Sunshine]

so there may be some truth to it huh? oh and i AM a total newbie and try to research as much as I can. I just hadn't thought of it much since I read it and figured it must be so much crap because if it were true why wouldn't the "big" hatcheries use this technique since they seem to want more girls? I know I sure would think of using it since Roos tend to not like Mike (I tell him it's cuz they're jealous of his long blond hair) lol

I get to keep some roos..but oh how nice would it be to stack the deck to get more hens????

right on!