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

[chicksooner]

Well, now I see what Sally was talking about! I have this thermometer/hygrometer in my incubator. I asked (and you can obviously answer!) if it is taking the temp from the top or bottom? I.E., the thermometer is on the egg turner, and says 102. Is that the temp at egg level, or egg turner level?

Motor! This is my favorite thermometer/hygro. I keep it to the side up on my turner when it is running. Since my turner is usually full. I don't have a pic to show this. Sorry. When I lay them down I move the therm down. I actually have 2 so I have 1 for each side of the bator. I have not noticed much temp variation when I move the therm from the turner to the bottom. Do you have a still air or forced air? If you want to get really technical with temps at all the levels the probe type are supposed to be awesome.

 

[BullChick]

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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!


WHAT!
Someone on this thread thinks they are NOT SPECIAL!

EVERYONE GIVE MC a WARM WELCOME and the ball and chain please, MC right or left foot?
Left, please.

 

[BullChick]

Quote: Still air.

 

[Gardeningmama]

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!

HI MC!!!

You are special! No Motorcycle Chicks over here yet, as far as I know!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Short lesson for the day

(it is Friday you know! so no pop quizzes until Monday!) http://www.poultryhub.org/physiology/body-systems/embryology-of-the-chicken/



"Fertilization and early development

Fertilization of the germinal disc by the sperm takes place in the infundibulum about 15 minutes after its holding follicle has released the yolk. Cell division to create the new embryo starts about five hours after fertilization and continues while the egg passes along the oviduct and is eventually laid. It is generally said that the hen’s egg takes 21 days of favorable incubation conditions for the chicken to develop and hatch. However, this development takes 22 days – one day in the oviduct and 21 days in the incubator or nest.

The zygote

When the sperm cell (with half the required chromosomes) fertilizes the female egg cell (with the other half of the required chromosomes) it forms the zygote – a single cell with the correct number of chromosomes. About five hours after fertilization the zygote enters the isthmus and it is here that the new embryo starts to develop by simple cell division. By the time the egg leaves the isthmus, the zygote, now called the blastoderm or embryo, comprises eight cells and after four hours in the uterus it has grown to 256 cells"

Embryonic communication

With natural incubation the chicks hatch over a relatively short period of time. This is despite the eggs being laid in the nest over a period of several days and the hen sitting on different eggs for different periods of time. This indicates that there is some system to synchronise the hatching process. It is now known that the different embryos communicate with each other by a series of clicking sounds, the rate of clicking being the important feature. Ensuring the eggs on the hatching trays are in contact with each other facilitates the synchronisation of hatching where the eggs are incubated in a modern machine. This assists in reducing the time between when the first and last chicks hatch.

Again we see ANOTHER GOOD REASON TO lay your eggs down together for hatching! just saying and who was making that chick hatching soundtrack? perhaps add some click clicking too!

 

[Marty1876]

Wow, ya'll move fast! I went back reading to try to get faces and incubators and hatches toghater, but then I am now a few pages behind! It's fun to be on a thread like this again. And, as a major hatching geek, I'm up with it all.

I've got 3 incubators going. Two are for incubating, and one is for hatching, but not everyone gets moved. Turkeys especially seem to resent being moved, so they always hatching where they have incubated. I seem to get better results that way. I also keep waterfowl seperate from chickens/turkeys/quail/pheasents seem some prefer 99 and others prefer almost 100 degrees. Also, I do the cooling/spraying technique on my waterfowl, so it's best for them to be seperate.

I feel left out, I hatched last weekend, but don't have anymore due until tuesday.

Oh well, I guess I'll go set some Ancona ducks, that ought to cheer me right up!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I set 3 turkey on the 5th I think, is 99.5 100 too hot for them? any tips to turkey?

and the ancona duck I set on the 8th.

 

[Marty1876]

99.5 is good for turkeys. I can only recomend that you leave them to hatch in your regular incubator. Mine do much better this way, the resent the change. If needed, I don't even pull out the other eggs, I just up the humidity once the first pips internally. It doesn't seem to harm the other eggs, even though they aren't ready for lockdown.

I only have one Ancona girl left (but 4 boys

) after that huge dog attack last Novemeber. The first court date for that is this month.

 

[BullChick]

Short lesson for the day

(it is Friday you know! so no pop quizzes until Monday!) http://www.poultryhub.org/physiology/body-systems/embryology-of-the-chicken/



"Fertilization and early development

Fertilization of the germinal disc by the sperm takes place in the infundibulum about 15 minutes after its holding follicle has released the yolk. Cell division to create the new embryo starts about five hours after fertilization and continues while the egg passes along the oviduct and is eventually laid. It is generally said that the hen’s egg takes 21 days of favorable incubation conditions for the chicken to develop and hatch. However, this development takes 22 days – one day in the oviduct and 21 days in the incubator or nest.

The zygote

When the sperm cell (with half the required chromosomes) fertilizes the female egg cell (with the other half of the required chromosomes) it forms the zygote – a single cell with the correct number of chromosomes. About five hours after fertilization the zygote enters the isthmus and it is here that the new embryo starts to develop by simple cell division. By the time the egg leaves the isthmus, the zygote, now called the blastoderm or embryo, comprises eight cells and after four hours in the uterus it has grown to 256 cells"

Embryonic communication

With natural incubation the chicks hatch over a relatively short period of time. This is despite the eggs being laid in the nest over a period of several days and the hen sitting on different eggs for different periods of time. This indicates that there is some system to synchronise the hatching process. It is now known that the different embryos communicate with each other by a series of clicking sounds, the rate of clicking being the important feature. Ensuring the eggs on the hatching trays are in contact with each other facilitates the synchronisation of hatching where the eggs are incubated in a modern machine. This assists in reducing the time between when the first and last chicks hatch.

Again we see ANOTHER GOOD REASON TO lay your eggs down together for hatching! just saying and who was making that chick hatching soundtrack? perhaps add some click clicking too!

Thank you! That is good to know! I admit that I am looking forward to seeing a chick (or a few) running around, and knocking on the other chick's shells. "Hey, Sally! Come out and play with me! April, Chad, Heather and Michelle are already out here!"

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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!

HI MC!!!

You are special! No Motorcycle Chicks over here yet, as far as I know!!

That is true. Most people don't ride around on motorcycles with chicks in their leather. I wonder why?

 

[Marty1876]

Motorcyle Chick, you are special, that's why you were invited!

Besides, with a handle like that, I've just got to get to know you!

I love motorcycles. I had a 1967 Honda Dream 305 I adored, but it got swipped 2 years ago. Now I have a hot pink scooter.