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

[sumi]

Quote: Sumi eat her ducks! NOW THAT IS FUNNY!



Did I tell you I used to raise and slaughter my own pigs? Home grown pork

 

[chicksooner]

I just realized the new calendar I am using is a FUNERAL HOME calendar!

This calendar says one of two things......

Either Sally has an addiction or Sally needs a Little Black Chicken book to show up in her mail box!
either way, I can see now why Sally writes the set dates on her eggs instead of X and O's

Oz screw the chicken math ap, we need a MULTI incubation calculation calendar with alarms!

Little black chicken book! If I find one I will send it to you.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

This little chicky had an assisted hatch last night after trying for over 12 hours to get out on its own. This morning I gave it a long bath to remove all the stuff that was stuck to it everywhere. I soaked it for a while and gently began rubbing and slowly peeling off the membrane and shell that was stuck to it. I dried it the best I could and placed it back in the bator. It's navel is a little questionable still. Three eggs remain unhatched and I will candle one more time and look inside them later today to determine if they are dead or behind the others.

Awwwww how active is the pipsqueak? betadine/iodine the navel?

Quote: awwwww that stinks!

rolling right along with the hatch. Lots of chirpy faces at 5:30 this morning when I sneaked a peek. slow hatch as I feared. I think the temps up and down kinda balanced out but still taking a while.

YAY!!! We are up to 5 pips one is already in the brooder dry and mad! lol

Quote: oh no! another reason to make sure you have the lid off the top of the jugs right!

Good morning Sally!

Hey Rox! Good Morning! I had to run for cover as it is drizzling outside! uggggg

 

[ozexpat]

i could do that on a pc but do not have the skill set yet for a smart phone

 

[chicksooner]

Yeah, I have to admit that I laughed at Aflack's reaction.

Here he is. Imagine him running around a milk jug in circles chirping his little head off.

I think this is by far the cutest duck I have ever seen. If I ever go ducks again I think I would want runners.

 

[sumi]

Quote: x2! Where do you find these things? LOL

 

[sumi]

Quote: I think you should get that poor thing a splash pool

I'm glad to hear she's o.k!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

My bator this morning. Blacks are shipped and buff are mine. So far the hatching is about equal.

YAY go chickies!!! look at the whiteish head on that one! gonna be a cutie!

Quote: Coch look how big he got!

Well... I finally found out where my sneaky duck had been laying her eggs; Behind an old duckhouse. There was a pile of them, and only one duck! Since I couldn't tell how long they had been there, I threw them out. Yesterday, I got 2... Somehow... One duck, one drake, and 2 eggs. I'll never know why she lays 2 eggs a day. LOL. So I ran those two eggs to the bator. 2 questions... I should know this, but I don't; What temp do duck eggs need to be at? And I wanted to do some MORE chickens, so I am going to get some chicken eggs when these duck eggs are 7 days old. So they all go into lockdown at the same time, and it doesn't mess anything up. But anyway, if I want to incubate the duck eggs AND the chicken eggs together, what should I keep the temp at? Right now it's at 100.3 degrees

if you have a fan send it down to either 99.5 100 and Marty can help with those questions better than I.
I don't know if you intend to mist and cool your eggs?
There are some links in the hatching 101 article for scovy and they show the misting and cooling techniques,
which breed do you have in?
I have all mine in together and hatch in a hatcherbator.
Are you weighing or going to watch air cells?

 

[sumi]

My bator this morning. Blacks are shipped and buff are mine. So far the hatching is about equal.

Congrats!

 

[BullChick]

Goosey actually got herself in quite the situation yesterday. I use milk jugs with holes cut out for their water and yesterday I decided to make one with a bigger hole so that Goosey could fit her head into it. Bad idea! I went out there a bit later and found her in the jug when one leg sticking out. The hole for her head was only 2 or 3 inches. I don't know how that huge month and a half gosling managed to fit in there..

I had four hens in the quarantine before selling them (easier to catch!). The woman kept calling the morning of the sale to postpone another day, another few days... And I kept wondering why I wasn't getting eggs. They had been squeezing their big bodies into a four inch hole (I left the rabbit nests in) to lay their eggs!
Sally told me to join you guys. I saws that she invited some others today, too.

I thought I was special!