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

[Sally Sunshine]

Beautiful kids Sally!

Thank you ! and everyone else!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Thanks everyone. I ordered 24 eggs from My Pet Chicken over a month ago. They hopefully ship this week, should I cancel it until I figure out if it was local or not? I don't want to lose anymore & this next batch cost me over $100.

If you read the beginning of this thread you will find I do not suggest Mypet at all. Every red silkie they sent to me was infertile and they wouldn't refund or anything. they shipped horrible and I had broken eggs too.

I would do anything I could to find the breed I want LOCAL, even if its only shipped from the next state. You can find breeders in your area doing google searches and on here in BYC, search the thread of the breed you want and contact people PM. Everyone is awesome and they can usually help you out too! OR ASK for something in the farm section of CL or join some local livestock and chicken groups on FB.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

well i just put 18 eggs into lockdown! 10 Polish and 8sizzle/silky...started with 27! the Polish came to me in terrible shape! looked like they were just thrown in the box willy nilly although the seller said she packed them carefully. they also arrived a day later than expected! i honestly don't get how the po wants us to pay more for things yet they lose stuff and wreck it often!

oh well enough early morning ranting! wish us luck!!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I threw eggs in the bator.... WHITE FACED SPANISH ROO OVER BLACK POLISH he he he
Thoughts???

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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!!!!

OHHHHHHHHHH WOW!!!! catch him on your cell and let us see too!!! COOL BEANS!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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.

YAY Hill! very interesting about the lower temp for the blues, my troubles are SHIPPING that starts everything going bad fast! I have excellent hatches on everything close to me even shipped from the next state, anything any further forget it!

I will show you what I got a squeal from this morning,.,,,, uploading

 

[Sally Sunshine]

My 2 goslings have internally pipped!

YAYAYYAYYAYAYAAA go gos go gos

 

[cochins1088]

I threw eggs in the bator.... WHITE FACED SPANISH ROO OVER BLACK POLISH he he he
Thoughts???

I thought you were done incubating for a while??

Anyways, it sounds like an awesome combo! You can start your own line of crested white faced Spanish chickens.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Not a pip in site last night, and I walked by the hatcher when I went to turn the eggs in the coolerbator and squealed like a scared momma with a few mice running over her feet! I wasn't expecting full hatch running around and a full bator full of chicks! I cant imagine having 50+ eggs in there and having them hatch! Holy crow!

OMGAWD every Cot hatched except 2 clears! there is 18 total, 3 still drying in the bator! I NEVER CANDLED notta! Day 17 hatch

 

[cochins1088]

Not a pip in site last night, and I walked by the hatcher when I went to turn the eggs in the coolerbator and squealed like a scared momma with a few mice running over her feet! I wasn't expecting full hatch running around and a full bator full of chicks! I cant imagine having 50+ eggs in there and having them hatch! Holy crow!

OMGAWD every Cot hatched except 2 clears! there is 18 total, 3 still drying in the bator! I NEVER CANDLED notta! Day 17 hatch

That's awesome! Yay!