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

[dolfi]

hi everyone. i been away for months how is everybody and chickens doing, give me some 411, there is to much to read. Its nice to be back

 

[sumi]

hi everyone. i been away for months how is everybody and chickens doing, give me some 411, there is to much to read. Its nice to be back

Welcome back! Not much happening my side, or nothing interesting anyway. What have you been up to?

 

[sumi]

Did you like those BLUE WHITE FACED SPANISH HEN EGGS????? pretty cool, I hatched her from my Layer pen last summer!

Sounds wonderful! You must breed some more of her, so you can send me eggs.

 

[dolfi]

Welcome back! Not much happening my side, or nothing interesting anyway. What have you been up to?

remodeling my chicken coop, and finally hoping to be able to have it more comfortable for me to feed my babies. lol among other life strees

 

[Sally Sunshine]

hi everyone. i been away for months how is everybody and chickens doing, give me some 411, there is to much to read. Its nice to be back

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: good for you! must show us pics when your getting done!

 

[Farmer Viola]

Egg Update! In case you forgot, I started out with:
Blue Wheaten Ameraucanas, received 10, set 9 (ALL detached air cells)
Blue Laced Red Wyandottes, received 15, set 15 (some detached air cells)

Today is day 15. I have not candled, weighed, or removed the eggs from the incubator until today. I have been hand turning them 3x per day. Using dry incubation method, forced air incubator.

Ameraucanas: Culled 5 (4 left)
Wyandottes: Culled 10 (5 left)

Sad, sad day. I had high hopes that they would all be developing since I have treated them so gentle, but alas they were too damaged in shipment:

3 Wyandotte eggs had a small pea-sized embryo, early quitters.
1 Ameraucana egg was quite developed, probably died day 10-12 I would guess. It had a beak with egg tooth, and it's legs were up by it's head, but it didn't have well defined feet and claws yet. It had the beginnings of feathers, I think.
11 eggs did not develop at all, they had whole yolks and looked good enough for breakfast. That is at least a little easier to deal with than dead chicks.

All the eggs I eggtopsied had re-attached air cells, except 1 Ameraucana. It was one that never developed at all, whole yolk inside. It was the 1 egg that was significantly poop soiled (the rest were clean)

It's hard not to be disappointed, and it makes me want to swear off incubating shipped eggs... but let's be honest, that ain't gonna happen!

 

[mstricer]

Sally I got an last night yay

 

[rbaker0345]

How long have you had the lights on? Not a one egg here and I've had mine on for over 2 weeks and girls are 9 months. Is it snowing there Sally? We are getting hammered

Sometimes its not about the light so much as it is about added vitamin D. I'm not sure how much to give, but a vita D supplement might help boost production.

 

[rbaker0345]

Sally, I trust you implicitly, and so I don't mind you adding me, but could you explain to me what an FB is? its the initials that I'm getting hung up on.