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

[familypendragon]

good to know. does the hen have the same smell?

No, and I still am not sure he didn't just get crapped on :/

 

[familypendragon]

Update from my hatch-a-long.

Some pics of my malpositioned chicks waiting while they absorb everything.

This one is one of my olive eggers (Mommy was a Blue Marans and hopefully her daddy is the Ameraucana - if not its the Cuckoo Marans). As you can see her foot is straight above her head and she is wedged in good and tight. She still has absorbing to do so I am not letting her out.

This was another olive egger with the same mommy and I am pretty sure her daddy was the lavender ameraucana since she appears to already have a beard but we'll see better when she is dry. She was all done absorbing so I freed the top membrane and the shell behind her back which was at the top of the egg and prevented her from turning. Once I did that I set he back in the hatcher and she was able to push her way out. All yolk was absorbed. He naval bled a tiny bit when she puller the shell of so I put some antibiotic ointment on it and it seems fine now.

Here are my 5 waiting chicks. clockwise from the white egg is my SBEL. She also has her entire back in the top of the egg. She is almost done absorbing her blood but I don't know about the yolk. Better safe than sorry so I am leaving her in to cook some more in spite of her chirping insistence that she wants out. Today is only day 21 so all of them should be fine for some time.

Next is the Olive Egger from the 1st picture. Still has plenty of absorbing to do - again you can see her foot across her face.

Then are the 3 Partridge Penedesenca. They are all virtually upside down - almost sideways - with their backs in the tops, butts by their heads and wings seem to be under them. The last one was the one that was trying to pip out the side of the egg and hit a vein but couldn't get its beak clear. Its still hanging in there. But the hatched chicks were tearing up its membrane so I got them out and into the brooder. Now they all just need to rest and absorb some more without being used as soccer balls.

Wish me luck. I just want to know WHY I have SO MANY malpositioned chicks AND why they get so HUGE inside their shells. They literally fill the entire air cell with their backs.

 

[sumi]

That is weird. And there's so many of them! Here's what I got on causes of malpositions, you'll have to see what you think could be to blame here. I'll keep it short, since you are an experienced hatcher and knows what I'm talking about:

1. Eggs set small end up or in horizontal position.
2. Inadequate or improper turning.
3. High or low incubator temperature.
4. High humidity (also causes big chicks?).
5. Old breeder flock.
6. Round shaped or very big eggs.
7. Nutritional deficiencies, especially Vit A and B12.
8. Eggs handled or stored incorrectly.
9. Retarded development.

Good luck with them and big

!

 

[chicksooner]

use birthday candle wax as it is not nearly as hot. just light the candle and drip wax on the crack. Works perfect even under a broody.

So I got the bator out and going and 19 eggs inside of it. I was going to wait until early spring but decided to try for another lavender orp and I am wanting to get rid of that rooster. So eggs set and today is day 1...better add it to my calender.

Sally how is it that you have clean bators and I just got mine back out. Enjoy your bator free time. It is nice to not have it to worry about and then brooding the chicks. Freedom...almost.

 

[rbaker0345]

I officially have Bleached clean EMPTY BATORS!!! YAYAYYAAA Next up, removal all birds from my basement! They guy that wanted me to hatch him serama is not responding, so I will assume I need to post them for sale, I get so irritated with people!!!

I just did the same thing. Put them back in the box and out in the barn for storage. My husband did a little happy dance.

 

[mstricer]

Update from my hatch-a-long.

Some pics of my malpositioned chicks waiting while they absorb everything.

This one is one of my olive eggers (Mommy was a Blue Marans and hopefully her daddy is the Ameraucana - if not its the Cuckoo Marans). As you can see her foot is straight above her head and she is wedged in good and tight. She still has absorbing to do so I am not letting her out.



This was another olive egger with the same mommy and I am pretty sure her daddy was the lavender ameraucana since she appears to already have a beard but we'll see better when she is dry. She was all done absorbing so I freed the top membrane and the shell behind her back which was at the top of the egg and prevented her from turning. Once I did that I set he back in the hatcher and she was able to push her way out. All yolk was absorbed. He naval bled a tiny bit when she puller the shell of so I put some antibiotic ointment on it and it seems fine now.


Here are my 5 waiting chicks. clockwise from the white egg is my SBEL. She also has her entire back in the top of the egg. She is almost done absorbing her blood but I don't know about the yolk. Better safe than sorry so I am leaving her in to cook some more in spite of her chirping insistence that she wants out. Today is only day 21 so all of them should be fine for some time.

Next is the Olive Egger from the 1st picture. Still has plenty of absorbing to do - again you can see her foot across her face.

Then are the 3 Partridge Penedesenca. They are all virtually upside down - almost sideways - with their backs in the tops, butts by their heads and wings seem to be under them. The last one was the one that was trying to pip out the side of the egg and hit a vein but couldn't get its beak clear. Its still hanging in there. But the hatched chicks were tearing up its membrane so I got them out and into the brooder. Now they all just need to rest and absorb some more without being used as soccer balls.


Wish me luck. I just want to know WHY I have SO MANY malpositioned chicks AND why they get so HUGE inside their shells. They literally fill the entire air cell with their backs.

Why did you open them, just asking. They don't look like they are ready yet. Blood vessels are not absorbed. Had they internally pipped or did you pip them? Not questioning why, just that first picture the blood vessels are huge. Will they stay alive, until they are ready to hatch?

 

[rbaker0345]

Update from my hatch-a-long.

Some pics of my malpositioned chicks waiting while they absorb everything.

This one is one of my olive eggers (Mommy was a Blue Marans and hopefully her daddy is the Ameraucana - if not its the Cuckoo Marans). As you can see her foot is straight above her head and she is wedged in good and tight. She still has absorbing to do so I am not letting her out.



This was another olive egger with the same mommy and I am pretty sure her daddy was the lavender ameraucana since she appears to already have a beard but we'll see better when she is dry. She was all done absorbing so I freed the top membrane and the shell behind her back which was at the top of the egg and prevented her from turning. Once I did that I set he back in the hatcher and she was able to push her way out. All yolk was absorbed. He naval bled a tiny bit when she puller the shell of so I put some antibiotic ointment on it and it seems fine now.


Here are my 5 waiting chicks. clockwise from the white egg is my SBEL. She also has her entire back in the top of the egg. She is almost done absorbing her blood but I don't know about the yolk. Better safe than sorry so I am leaving her in to cook some more in spite of her chirping insistence that she wants out. Today is only day 21 so all of them should be fine for some time.

Next is the Olive Egger from the 1st picture. Still has plenty of absorbing to do - again you can see her foot across her face.

Then are the 3 Partridge Penedesenca. They are all virtually upside down - almost sideways - with their backs in the tops, butts by their heads and wings seem to be under them. The last one was the one that was trying to pip out the side of the egg and hit a vein but couldn't get its beak clear. Its still hanging in there. But the hatched chicks were tearing up its membrane so I got them out and into the brooder. Now they all just need to rest and absorb some more without being used as soccer balls.


Wish me luck. I just want to know WHY I have SO MANY malpositioned chicks AND why they get so HUGE inside their shells. They literally fill the entire air cell with their backs.

It sounds like humidity to me. Same problems I was having, finally just started opening up all eggs on day 21 and either pipping through the membrane for them or just keeping them going until I could pip for them and then waiting for them to absorb. I don't know why my humidity was so high, I figured it was just a shipping issue because my own eggs were hatching fine.

 

[wescottwomen]

My first chick of this batch hatched and I have a few pips!

 

[mstricer]

My first chick of this batch hatched and I have a few pips!

 

[sumi]

My first chick of this batch hatched and I have a few pips!

Yay!