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

[silver1313]

Well... My 8 Salmon Faverolle eggs had to be thrown out... ALL of them...

One was fertile but died at around day 6 or so. The rest looked clear and infertile at day 12. A waste of $30.

And they were from a good hatchery so I expected them to be fertile, but I was wrong.

Next I'm gonna do some ducks!!! My first duck hatch!

sorry to hear that !! but yay for duckies!! i am getting a new pair of mallards next week and then i have two younger ones !!! cant wait to get eggs from them ..have hatched pekins before but not mallards

 

[ozexpat]

Well... My 8 Salmon Faverolle eggs had to be thrown out... ALL of them...

One was fertile but died at around day 6 or so. The rest looked clear and infertile at day 12. A waste of $30.

And they were from a good hatchery so I expected them to be fertile, but I was wrong.

Next I'm gonna do some ducks!!! My first duck hatch!

i have had good luck with salmon favs from an ebayer - they can be had cheap too. pm me if you like. he does ship in egg cartons but they developed well. hatched 65% on shipped

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: 28 days is what it says everywhere! How weird is that! are you sure you don't have call duck in the mix! wow 4 days early! I would again calibrate that is just odd! and you are positive on set dates? I am sure you are but I am just thinking with my fingers

 

[mikkles]

here's another humidity question. I've only ever hatched chicks one other time and was so excited i didn't notice. do the insides of the shells that chicks have already hatched from dry out normally or stay dampish. i only have a little brinsea mini and don't have room for a hygrometer. so I've been keeping an eye on the little reservoir ..but now since it's in the middle and i have chicks hatched And the other 2 are pipped, i don't want to open it to check it. i guess if they were takin ideas, I'd recommend making that clear plastic instead of solid yellow.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I have movement in my chicken eggs that were in the same bator as the ducks. Why would the ducks be shrink wrapped and not the chickens? Or could they be? Jeez. I'm with you Sally. I hate styrofoam. Dad and I use to incubate eggs years ago and we had a big cabinet type. It was rare that we didn't hatch all the eggs or at least 90%. We talked about that tonight. He hasn't had good success with styrofoam either. The lady he sold the cabinet too 20 years ago still uses it and had great success. We couldn't remember the brand but it cost 600 bucks 25 years ago. You sure get what you pay for. I may just buy a good one instead of building one.

This is where we are forever second guessing ourselves, you know BYC is a great place to keep hands on the keys and not on the eggs! No straight jacket needed afterall!

interesting! well you will have to keep in touch as you research too and share the mass info you find out!
I cant afford one for sure, but I still like the idea of the hands on creation!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Hey!!!

What's the difference in a painted Silkie and a Splash?

money!

actually painted have splotches of solid colors and splash have more spotted coloring, typically blue splash, or light blue splash coloring.
Painted can be white with large black splotches and AMAZING! I think genetically they are hard to make and it takes a lot of crossing back and forth all of which someone like me has no clue even to begin to understand! But I do love them! oh and Silver Partridge are also gorgeous!

 

[silver1313]

offbase question kinda but where is the color calculator people talk about on here sometimes?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Well... My 8 Salmon Faverolle eggs had to be thrown out... ALL of them...

One was fertile but died at around day 6 or so. The rest looked clear and infertile at day 12. A waste of $30.

And they were from a good hatchery so I expected them to be fertile, but I was wrong.

Next I'm gonna do some ducks!!! My first duck hatch!

what hatchery? perhaps the USPS scrambled them or broke chalzas? I had an issue with my pet chicken, every single red silkie was infertile. if it wasn't every one I wouldn't have thrown a fit, but every one of those notta and the blues had some signs!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

here's another humidity question. I've only ever hatched chicks one other time and was so excited i didn't notice. do the insides of the shells that chicks have already hatched from dry out normally or stay dampish. i only have a little brinsea mini and don't have room for a hygrometer. so I've been keeping an eye on the little reservoir ..but now since it's in the middle and i have chicks hatched And the other 2 are pipped, i don't want to open it to check it. i guess if they were takin ideas, I'd recommend making that clear plastic instead of solid yellow.

they dry a sorta clear like with thin hairlike red vein lines, but in the bottom of the shell their is sometimes some goop and ooze, not a lot but some!

Anyone have a pic of that? I don't have one!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Since my ducks are laying. I have one female Mallard and one male Mallard, so I'm gonna get some ducky eggs!

awwwwww how old are they? I cant wait till our ancona lay!