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

[familypendragon]

I just went down to check the bator, I had pips, NOW I have what looks like a MURDER scene! Pictures are ALOT pretty than it is, its BLOOD RED all over the brahma eggs and sides and the chick is crazy running around and looks fine after I cut its cord off! HOW WEIRD never had this happen! I think the chick will die, how can it live with that blood loss? But its as active as all of them, and they are the MOST active chicks I ever hatched!

Holy cow!

 

[familypendragon]

My info on filing for an insurance claim came from here https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/the-truth-about-insuring-hatching-eggs but I did NOT bother with calling my PO or any of that. I followed the online links to file online https://www.usps.com/ship/file-domestic-claims.htm I listed it as "Animal" I stated the damage as "Air cells detached and bacterial contamination from raw egg" I attached photos of the box with the "fragile" "hatching eggs" "this side up" and my phone number on it, the open box with what looked like careful packing, the smashed eggs and crusted ones, and a jpg of a screen shot of my paypal receipt. I submitted it all online and they accepted it. Should apparently be getting a check in the mail. My eggs were shipped priority with automatic $50 coverage. They asked me for the price of shipping, then asked the price of the item NOT including shipping. I am not clear on which amount I am getting (total with shipping or not including shipping). But its better than nothing either way. My total price was $59 and the shipping portion came to $11.24 I think.

Whadya know - check came today and it is for the full $59! Yay!

 

[chickadoodles]

I just went down to check the bator, I had pips, NOW I have what looks like a MURDER scene! Pictures are ALOT pretty than it is, its BLOOD RED all over the brahma eggs and sides and the chick is crazy running around and looks fine after I cut its cord off! HOW WEIRD never had this happen! I think the chick will die, how can it live with that blood loss? But its as active as all of them, and they are the MOST active chicks I ever hatched!

What is that?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: umbilical must have ripped it

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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[chickadoodles]

Ok. Thanks.

 

[familypendragon]

Will y'all look at my thread here and give me your opinion of what is going on If this IS Coryza he exposed the new CCL chicks who exposed both my new hatchlings sharing a brooder and my previous hatchlings sharing a grow out pen - which is inside my run in my main coop with birds who all free range together... In other words this could wipe out my entire flock of around 100 birds of all ages.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/817948/new-10-month-old-rooster-ill-after-transport#post_11886253

 

[chickadoodles]

Sally, I am trying to do a hatch on some eggs with a still air styro foam bator. But for some reason every morning when I check it the temp has dropped to 97. I check it before I go to bed and in the middle of the night it's fine. But by morning it's at 97. Does this mean my eggs are not going to hatch tomorrow?

 

[chicksooner]

Sally, I am trying to do a hatch on some eggs with a still air styro foam bator. But for some reason every morning when I check it the temp has dropped to 97. I check it before I go to bed and in the middle of the night it's fine. But by morning it's at 97. Does this mean my eggs are not going to hatch tomorrow?

Are you getting temps back up? It is really hard in a still air to tell what the temp is in an egg because they get hot and cool spots. If you have been moving eggs around (position in the bator) and not just turning and they look like they have developed fine up to this point you are probably fine. Best thermometer for checking temp at the top and bottom of an egg is a probe type. Fingers crossed for your eggs.

 

[chicksooner]

Will y'all look at my thread here and give me your opinion of what is going on

If this IS Coryza he exposed the new CCL chicks who exposed both my new hatchlings sharing a brooder and my previous hatchlings sharing a grow out pen - which is inside my run in my main coop with birds who all free range together... In other words this could wipe out my entire flock of around 100 birds of all ages.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/817948/new-10-month-old-rooster-ill-after-transport#post_11886253

Hopefully he is just super stressed out from the move. Pull him out and quarantine him away from the others. Always quarantine even if you know where the bird came from and even if they are NPIP. Sorry hopefully he is just really stressed.