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

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: my late quail was like that yesterday and by end of day it was fine. she is walking ok? I have taped toes as late as 3 months and fixed easily. sometimes just a day helps them to get stronger and then the taping wont mess up walking near as much too.

3 Months? Really? That's interesting.

A friend of mine has a chick in a bad situation. It's about 4 weeks old. She told me one of her chicks had "clubbed feet" the day she got them, but I didn't think anything of it. Well, last week she called me saying that one of her chicks had broken legs. I drove over to take a look and the poor thing was in bad shape.

It's legs weren't broken, but they were very screwed up. What she was calling "clubbed feet" was really severely curled toes. The chicks ankle turned outwards and it's hocks bent inwards. One day, it was just too much for the little guy and his legs splayed. The poor baby was scooting around on it's belly to reach the foot on water. I'm not sure how to fix it's legs... They are very messed up and appear permanently deformed...
oh wow are you sure she isn't dealing with Mareks or virus that causes nervous system issues? I would at least give wrapping and spraddling a chance for it IF she has time to care properly, if not its a shame the poor thing

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Oh, and my other baby gosling hatched. Looks like 1 boy and 1 girl. Since I already have Goosey, I decided to continue using "goose" related names. The girl is named Goose-lynn and the boy is named Gooser.

Both have the weird navels... I wonder if it had something to do with the incubation..

I love the names!

My 110 degree eggs are on Day 4. There were two eggs I suspected survived and I checked them today and they have good veining today!!! I will check the rest tonight. They have a long way to go but we'll see.

ohhhh I hope they are ok!!!

 

[RenneRae]

My silky with the curled toes is perfect now... speaking of. It only took about 3 days. I have 3 eggs on lockdown. I kind of forgot about them. I had decided to NOT go into lockdown until I saw internal pips and they didn't happen until today, day 20. Normal?

My giant Polish Roo met the end of my shot gun for target practice a week ago. My kids love to go sit with the chickens and give them treats and the last straw was when my 19m old son tried to give a treat to one of our favorite hens and the rooster knocked him to the ground and flogged him. He was gone that day. Oh He!! No!

Sally the pictures of ALL your Serama's are beautiful. I can't wait to see what mine will look like.

 

[dolfi]

oh! all that info was updated and organized plus added to, I can suggest you read its update https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/hatching-eggs-101 and as your reading about what is most important with incubating you will run into the shipped eggs section of the notes. Feel free to come and chat and hang with us, plus we are usually here for you if you have questions!
Welcome to the thread, sorry about your eggs, polish are tough as are silkies shipped, they must have weak aircells. If I want to try polish again I will do everything I can to find them local or another state over.

Tell us a little about your incubator and how far have the eggs traveled, where the air cells dime size, quarter size, rolling or just "loose"

they are moving around and some are quarter size and some dime size. they came from california to florida. I havent found any one with polish frizzles here. i really want them

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Cochins worse than this?......
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/publications/6/diseases-of-poultry/217/vitamin-b2-deficiency

 

[Sally Sunshine]

My silky with the curled toes is perfect now... speaking of. It only took about 3 days. I have 3 eggs on lockdown. I kind of forgot about them. I had decided to NOT go into lockdown until I saw internal pips and they didn't happen until today, day 20. Normal?

My giant Polish Roo met the end of my shot gun for target practice a week ago. My kids love to go sit with the chickens and give them treats and the last straw was when my 19m old son tried to give a treat to one of our favorite hens and the rooster knocked him to the ground and flogged him. He was gone that day. Oh He!! No!

Sally the pictures of ALL your Serama's are beautiful. I can't wait to see what mine will look like.

Thank you! and oh no, was your son hurt? Hill posted a pick on here one time not too long ago either! RIGHT IN THE FACE! luckily no eyes were harmed! scary stuff!

Quote: Well if you don't get any to hatch we can help you search for something more local, that's a long bad trip for eggs. Prol traveled mostly by plane. so for now your resting them fat end/air cell end up and not turning? and going to "set" them tomorrow? if they are just a little loose you can get them to hatch, rolling ones are extremely difficult. When you candled did you see a fully formed yolk? Sometimes they actually have broken yolks, those wont make it. we call them scrambled. again that link has everything in it you need to know for a successful hatch as the eggs will allow. If you put the time into understanding by reading you can get at least a few to hatch! Plus you have all of us to help you!

You may need more eggs anyways! Frizzle gene is a funny gene and sometimes is only carried and not shown.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

More info found~ For those times we get really bad but EXTEREMLY important NASTY DIRTY hatching eggs!

EGG DIPPING SOLUTION
This procedure has been used to destroy pathogenic organisms such as Mycoplasma spp. that can be carried on the hatching eggs. The procedure must be conducted exactly as described, and is not intended as a routine hatching egg treatment. The procedure is only used in unusual situations.

The antibiotic solution contains 500 ppm gentamycin sulfate
(1 gram per 2 liters of water) or 1 gram tylosin per liter of water.
PLEASE refer to the following site for the rest of this info and important instructions http://msucares.com/poultry/diseases/solutions.html​

adding from that same site
interesting!
SANITIZING SOLUTIONS
These solutions will reduce or eliminate slime and most disease organisms in water, drinkers, and water lines.
For Constant Use

1 teaspoon chlorine bleach (sodium hypochlorite) in 5 gallons of drinking water ​

This solution provides 11 ppm chlorine for sanitizing. The birds will drink the water and not be harmed by drinking it. They may need a short time to become accustomed to this solution. A more dilute solution with half the above level of bleach can be offered for a few days before using the 11 ppm solution. Clean the waterers thoroughly each day to get the best effect.

 

[lizanne]

Saw this on "My pet Chicken":

"A study in Australia (Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 11(4) 664 - 672) has shown that eggs stored at 40 degrees Fahrenheit (rather than the recommended 60 degrees) hatch out more females than males. That is surprising! However storing your eggs at colder temperatures before hatching doesn't actually change the ratio of male to female eggs. It has been shown that the male embryos are preferentially killed off by colder storage temperatures, while the female embryos handle the chilling better.

In other words, your overall hatch rate suffers if the eggs are stored at cool temperatures, but those that DO hatch are slightly more likely to be females. Unfortunately, there is no way to know which eggs will hatch males and which females, as you can read in the "related questions" below."


A couple weeks ago I hatched refrigerated eggs from Safeway. If I had to guess they are 50/50. By the feathering and size I would say I have 3 boys and 3 girls.

 

[chicksooner]

My poor birds are knee deep in water and sinking ankle deep in mud. 4 inches since last night and more to come over the next few days. Not sure what I am going to do about the sand in the coops. It is going to be nasty and is already so stinky.

My back yard.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Saw this on "My pet Chicken":

A study in Australia (Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 11(4) 664 - 672) has shown that eggs stored at 40 degrees Fahrenheit (rather than the recommended 60 degrees) hatch out more females than males. That is surprising! However storing your eggs at colder temperatures before hatching doesn't actually change the ratio of male to female eggs. It has been shown that the male embryos are preferentially killed off by colder storage temperatures, while the female embryos handle the chilling better.

In other words, your overall hatch rate suffers if the eggs are stored at cool temperatures, but those that DO hatch are slightly more likely to be females. Unfortunately, there is no way to know which eggs will hatch males and which females, as you can read in the "related questions" below.


A couple weeks ago I hatched refrigerated eggs from Safeway. If I had to guess they are 50/50. By the feathering and size I would say I have 3 boys and 3 girls.

LOL! We will definitely follow these chicks! Report back with correct sexing in a few weeks!