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

[sumi]

Doug, congrats! She is beautiful! Thanks for the update and the wonderful pics and "Well done!" to mom too. I'm so glad to hear it went so well and that you are feeling better.

 

[sumi]

Hi I have 3 little bantam Cochin eggs pipping in a little simple incubator day 21 today- all were put in and laid within the same 24 hours...one little fighter is cheeping and coming through ( I can see a little beak...) the other two I can see a hole but ever so tiny and more toward the under side of the eggs. Should I be worried? They don't seem to have any action but I am encouraged that there is a tiny hole in all 3...thoughts?? I'm a first time hatcher!! I'm beyond excited and nervous for my new babies!!!!

Chicks can take hours and hours to progress from that little pip hole. I recently had one only start zipping after 19 hours, so I wouldn't worry yet. Keep the lid on the incubator and keep an eye on the humidity. Good luck!

 

[ozexpat]

Happy World Egg Day

 

[mstricer]

Is that today. I had yummy egg omelet with green peppers, red peppers, spinach and cheddar cheese for breakfast this morning. Happy World Egg day to you too

 

[ozexpat]

yes its the second friday in October.

I am surprised BYC does not have some sort of competitiion

 

[familypendragon]

What a week. My wifes water broke Monday Morning at 4:30. Heres the story. We had a midwife. We started going to her monthly at first. Toward the end she started coming to our house every other week. My wife started leaking (water broke) at 4:30 in the morning. We contacted the mid wife. Around 10ish her labor increased and the midwife came over. We were going for a water birth in our jacuzzi. So I made the water and got it to 100 degrees where we tried to maintain it. Once my wife started hard labor, the pain was intense. No pain meds. She wanted out. We got her out and she wanted to lie on the floor. So she laid back in my arms right on the bathroom floor. We had found that rubbing her lower back eased her hard labor so that's what I did as I held her up. She was in hard labor for about 30 minutes and about the 3rd time she pushed the head appeared. The midwife cleared any obstructions from the babies mouth and removed the umbilical cord from around her neck. One more hard long push and the baby was out and laying on her belly and in our arms. We put heated towels over the top of her and clamped off the cord after it quit pulsing and I cut it. After a bit, we got my wife to the bed and the baby stayed with her and us. We did all the tests with her in our arms. She never left us. Completely different from any hospital and something I will never forget. Our two youngest children(my step children girl 13 boy 11) and my wife's mother and two sisters watched the birth. I saw all of it from my position as well as I craned my head forward to see. We had a nurse/midwife on hand as well who was constantly checking the babies heartbeat with an ultrasound. Everything went great. Since we left the water, the midwife kept hot compresses on my wife to help with any tearing and she had just a very tiny tear of her skin. Nothing that needed stitches. She had our daughter at 12:03 pm.

I was in so much pain Wednesday night from the bulging disc in my back that I couldn't even get out of the chair without rolling out and crawling to the bed. I put an icepack on and yesterday morning I woke up with no pain. I even drove to St Louis and looked at a roof and drove home. Im at work today. I haven't been at work more than 5 days in the last month. Its a miracle. I went from extreme pain to just a distant unpleasantness in my lower back. My prostate infection seems to be gone too. Im hoping my latest PSA test will come back good and this nightmare will be over. Im trusting in God for complete healing.

Sumi sent me a message and I realized I hadn't told anyone on here anything. Sorry for that. Pictures to come.

Awesome crunchy birth My 2nd was very similar and so wonderful. Congratulations to all of you and best wishes on your back.

 

[cochins1088]

Daddy sleeping with Destiny

Congratulations Doug!

 

[cochins1088]

Happy World Egg Day

and a Happy World Egg day to you too!


There was a hatch along for it last year with all the chicks hatching on world egg day, but it wasn't as big as the New years day hatch along or Easter hatch along. It was a small group, but it was fun. There were different contests and prizes along the way.

 

[cochins1088]

How good are my incubation skills? That's the question I'm asking myself right now...

I'm very temped to buy some hatching eggs, but it's $150 per dozen. If I were guaranteed a pair to hatch, than I'd buy them in a heart beat, but sadly the world isn't perfect. The number that hatches will depend on fertility, transit, and my incubation skills. I'll most likely get at least a handful to hatch, but then who's to say that they won't all be males or females, and who's to say that they'll be of the quality that I'm searching for.

Questions, questions.... I'm still trying to weigh the benefits versus the cost to figure out an answer.

 

[ozexpat]

How good are my incubation skills? That's the question I'm asking myself right now...

I'm very temped to buy some hatching eggs, but it's $150 per dozen. If I were guaranteed a pair to hatch, than I'd buy them in a heart beat, but sadly the world isn't perfect. The number that hatches will depend on fertility, transit, and my incubation skills. I'll most likely get at least a handful to hatch, but then who's to say that they won't all be males or females, and who's to say that they'll be of the quality that I'm searching for.

Questions, questions.... I'm still trying to weigh the benefits versus the cost to figure out an answer.

at that price, try and get them shipped in an overnight live bird box. it will at least keep them upright