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

[Toast n Jelly]

I'm very careful with broody hens' eggs. I mark them and then some. Just in case... Gosh that was a horrible find

And to add insult to injury my MIL thought it was the funnist thing.

 

[Toast n Jelly]

Boots for curled toes. I hope it works! Its having trouble walking around in these things is that normal? Almost like trying to walk in a set of swimming flippers.

She'll be running around within 24 hours, I've done it recently and a couple of times before and it always worked. Yes they do walk funny for awhile.

 

[silver1313]

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Ok...it's day 24 and I have one egg still alive! I opened the air cell up and it's still got veins and red quite a bit. I didn't break the inner sac I just wetted it with a qtip. Also it's upside down. I took the whole top off of the air cell looking for the beak but it's nowhere to be found. so it's 3 days late, not ready to come out, and upside down. Blah! I just wet the membranes and put it back. Anything else I can do?[/quote

Try readibg the assisting part of the hatching 101 thread in sallys signature !!!

 

[RenneRae]

This is the Silver Sebright mixed with a polish roo... for now its very cute.

the two Silks. I fixed the boots a bit better. What color will these be? any guess?

two darker serama chicks. also the sweetest of all hatched!

the two gold Serama's. one has a white fluff butt. these two are feisty!

I had a silky hatch and die...the saddle air cell one. lots of blood and goo. it didn't look right either. kind of mushed.
the silverish silky with the boots pipped the wrong end all the way on the bottom of the egg. I was picking it up to see if
it was alive and turned it over to candle and there was a head mashed on the bottom end, side down. it was weak and gasping so I cracked the egg a bit and it fell out the rest of the way. Its the one with curled toes. It is perked up now, although walking duck like. Lol. I'm going to count the hatch as successful. I lost several silks but I truly don't think I could have done any different. Blaming shipping!

 

[gracie02]

Onions can overwinter I am pretty sure. They like the cold. I direct planted my sets earlier in the spring. Whereabouts do you live?
[/quote] The Green Mts. of Vermont

 

[Doug Hodges]

15 chicks out of 30 shipped eggs so far. I'll take that. Three pipped but died. 12 eggs left. Day 21. I need new batteries. Couldn't see any movement in some I tried to candle. Going to give the rest a couple more days.

 

[sumi]

Ok...it's day 24 and I have one egg still alive! I opened the air cell up and it's still got veins and red quite a bit. I didn't break the inner sac I just wetted it with a qtip. Also it's upside down. I took the whole top off of the air cell looking for the beak but it's nowhere to be found.

so it's 3 days late, not ready to come out, and upside down. Blah! I just wet the membranes and put it back. Anything else I can do?

Find it's beak and free it so it can breathe. Then leave it in the incubator with the humidity high so it doesn't try out while it finishes absorbing the blood and yolk. Whatever you do don't remove any more of the inner membrane than needed to get it's beak clear.

 

[dcba flock]

Hi everyone been busy trying to sit on my hands the last 2 days with this first hatch! Ugh! All 7 hatched 4 are doing good in the brooder 2 were dead when I checked this morning not sure if it was my fault for pulling 2 out that hatched early? Then the 1 left (big air cell) was very quietly peeping, it was pipped but hadn't made a lot of progress so I helped it... It's still in the incubator and up trying to walk now! Hope it makes it I just really didn't want to scoop out another fully developed dead baby if I could give it a chance! Overall I think for my first hatch and with shipped eggs it was a success!
Hope everyone has a great and safe holiday weekend! So thankful to all to military and their families for all their sacrifices!

 

[NestingHillsSC]

Water's risin!

Seriously though, we have flood warnings and the rivers are almost over. And it's trying to snow

A late May Noreaster.

That's awesome!!

 

[NestingHillsSC]

SALLY!!!!