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

[ozexpat]

Just wanted to drop in real quick to let everyone know I am alive and to apologize for leaving yall in a secretarial lurch..my life took some crazy turns but I hope to be back soon..love n miss yall ..laters !!!

glad to hear you are ok silver!
you were missed

 

[Doug Hodges]

Just wanted to drop in real quick to let everyone know I am alive and to apologize for leaving yall in a secretarial lurch..my life took some crazy turns but I hope to be back soon..love n miss yall ..laters !!!

glad to hear you are ok silver!
you were missed

X2

 

[wescottwomen]

I have :
Red star
Black star
Austrolorps
Buff orpingtons
EE
SLW
Bar rock
NHR

In brooder I also have
IRD
Jungle fowl

I want a lot of other ones lol

 

[chicksooner]

Hi Silver! Glad you are doing good.

 

[chicksooner]

. This chick has a big squishy lump on its head. It's a wellsummer. Also might have mushy chick disease. Should I cull it? I hate to see it suffer but I need an easy way to do it for myself as well please.

Need to cull. My preferred way is to make Dh do it with a pair of sharp scissors. He was out of town the last time I had to cull and I could not find his scissors. So I put a bunch of baking soda in a zip lock bag kind of in one corner. then put the chick in the other corner. Then zipped mostly closed. Used a dropper to drop vinegar onto the baking soda. I had to do 2 droppers full as I used a rather big bag. zip the bag closed and the chick will be overcome with co2. It was a lot easier than I had imagined. It went to sleep with out much twitching. Then just put the whole bag in the trash. sorry you have to cull.

 

[familypendragon]

Reposting corrected.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: PM sent with links!

 

[lizanne]

You guy make me feel better. I only have:

Barred Rock
OE's
EE's
Standard Cochin
Bantam Black Cochin
Bantam Partridge Cochin
Buff Silkie
Dorking/Maran cross (project meat bird)
Australorp
Cornish Cross
Red Ranger
Silver Laced Wyandotte
Gold Laced Wyandotte
Black Wyandotte
Blue laced Red Wyandotte
Grocery store (cross?)
Crele Penedesenca
White Empordanesa

and some Black Copper Marans in the 'bator.

 

[kaybee123]

Lol.

I forgot about my Cochins . . .

And I have Serama, WFBS crosses, SLW and more EEs in the bators!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

The air cells seem to have really dried out this time. This is the most amount of air cell space in eggs I have ever had on a hatch. I also stopped turning on Day 16. I seem to have malpositioned eggs with them being upside down so I'm going to see if that helps with hatching in egg cartons. I put the lowest air cell point facing out so I can keep an eye on their external pips. I really hope these hatch well. I really want some quality SLW to add to my flock and after Sally's eggs hatch the bator is being stored so no more chances this year if they don't hatch.

Sally, I finally felt comfortable to move your eggs to the other bator with a steady 102 with a humidity of 32%. I should look for serama to hatch as early as Day 19? I was reading up on the WFBS crosses and since the white face is a recessive gene, it's not supposed to be expressed in any off spring but might get some white or whitish lobes. I contacted some BYCers by PM who I had seen posts where they crossed with Ameraucana and Polish. None had pics but they told me what was expressed in the hatches of crosses they had. I especially can't wait to see the Polish cross hatch. And, of course, I'd like to have some beautiful seramas!!!! Are these eggs the regualr serama or frizzle or some of both?

Do you think this is male or female below? It carries itself so stately!!!!

Mine hatch day 19-20 but I run 100 throughout until pips