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

[kaybee123]

I have a three day old chick that I heard strange noises coming from. I peeked in the brooder and it was crowing like a rooster with head posturing and everything. The chick is also butting towards the other chicks. I've never seen this in a chick so young. . . now to see if it continues and I can film it for you when I get home tonight and if it becomes a roo!!!!

 

[chicksooner]

hope everyone had a good weekend.

 

[hillfloweranch]

7 eggs in lockdown!

Hi Sally

welcome back, hope you had a great time on vacation!! we missed you!!

I have been trying to keep up with everyone's hatches but since many of the questions with regard to incubator temps are out of my league...I still use my styrobators,
I feel inadequate to add any real information. But as I've noted many of us had bad hatches through April I'm wondering if it was related to something else?

I know I've hatched several batches, but my successes are not consistent enough to offer "expertise" thus I refrain.
I have noticed with my own hatches that if I keep temps a tad higher in the still air they seem to do better than in the air fan bator.
So I use the still air for the first 18 days with the turner, then move them to air fan hatcher bator for lockdown.

With the Blue Andalusian eggs I've noticed that temps in lockdown need to remain lower -not sure if it's just a breed thing or what?
With my EE eggs and other "brown" eggs keeping temps at 99.5 seems work perfect.

Now for humidity, with the BA eggs higher humidity in first 18days then when moved to lockdown maintaining aroun 50% seems to work, although this is true of all eggs I believe.
So my question is this, anyone here care to document on a chart for the various "rare" breed eggs and their troubles,findings etc.?

My theory is that with some of the rare breeds seem to be more fragile initially then the "regular" or "mutt" eggs? Let me know, I'm interested to learn if I'm on the right track.

 

[sumi]

7 eggs in lockdown!

Hi Sally

welcome back, hope you had a great time on vacation!! we missed you!!

I have been trying to keep up with everyone's hatches but since many of the questions with regard to incubator temps are out of my league...I still use my styrobators,
I feel inadequate to add any real information. But as I've noted many of us had bad hatches through April I'm wondering if it was related to something else?

I know I've hatched several batches, but my successes are not consistent enough to offer "expertise" thus I refrain.

Please don't say that! Every hatch counts for something, whether it was a success or failure and you may just have learned something from one of your hatches that could help someone here. And besides, you learn the the most from your unsuccessful hatches... So chime in!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: OH HA! that's funny! I love the naked necks! I hope she does well! awesome!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Wondering when to give up on these eggs. I haven't been weighing them but the air cells don't seem to have changed & they don't look any different :-(. The temps have been between 99.3-100.0 the whole time (the 100 was very brief but since I logged it I added it), the humidity has never been more than 45%. It has an egg turner. these were shipped eggs. What did I do wrong?
#1
#2 sorry so blurry. :-(
#3
#4
#5, no question in my mind this one is a goner :-(
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These are on day 10. I know the pics aren't great but shouldn't there be more development by now? I hope I'm just being impatient but I think my first hatch has failed.

Day 10 need to go, at those temps you do have a fan model right? and you calibrated thermos and hygros?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Eggs went in bator at 99.5 yesterday at 99.5 but I came home today to a 115 degree temp.

. Just throw in the towel now or wait a couple of days to see if there is a miracle egg or two?

awwwww you should be able to tell after a day at least. Just candle again, so sorry, do you know what happened?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote:
Sally, Love these pics. I tried to "Like" them on FB and it wouldn't let me

...So, now I'm telling you I "Like" them, LOL!
That's weird! wonder why? did I screw something up again!

 

[cochins1088]

My 2 goslings have internally pipped!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Welcome back Sally.

To answer your question. High 20's to low 30's for the first 18 days. Although my bators are running mud 40's now with no water. Then up in the 70's at the end. I'm lowering the end. Adding very little water and maybe none next time depending on what happens here.

Again I will suggest you weigh your eggs, something isn't right at all, and I sometimes have a humidity up to 75-80 at the end and have no issues!