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

[Sally Sunshine]

In thinking.... the Cuticula, did you ever notice your hens lay an egg and see this foam? its really cool, but not so readily caught on tape! my hens in the layer coop are spoiled and crack me up... so if they see I come with cracked Corn and they are in the nest they will stand up and immediately turn their butt to me and plop the egg out and jump down and run to me! silly hens!!! But its only the few hens we have remaining that we spoiled with treats! No modesty let me tell ya! ha ha ha and to think I had curtains in that coop at one time!

 

[sumi]

Quote: I wouldn't feed them anything raw here. Tests done on raw chicken meat bought from a few random suppliers in Cape Town a year or 2 ago found salmonella and worse in the meat. Some days I'm glad I stopped eat chicken. We've always fed our dogs cooked chicken bones and we feed it to them here, as I said. Haven't had any problems yet, but I'll keep it in mind in future.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: I wouldn't feed them anything raw here. Tests done on raw chicken meat bought from a few random suppliers in Cape Town a year or 2 ago found salmonella and worse in the meat. Some days I'm glad I stopped eat chicken. We've always fed our dogs cooked chicken bones and we feed it to them here, as I said. Haven't had any problems yet, but I'll keep it in mind in future.
If you have been doing so, I wouldnt change a thing, I never researched it! have a go at it sometime and let me know how many horror stories you find, if any

 

[Sally Sunshine]

yesterday my BYC started to have tweeter birds all over it LOL

I get the strangest things happening with this site.... anyone else?
I swear I have an evil little person in my laptop that takes over!







on yet another note:

pups are 4 weeks old! This is RyLee girl! <3 look at those freckles poking!

 

[chicksooner]

My dogs only get dog food and eggs. When they eat anything other than that the gas level is enough to clear the house. Spoiled rotten. I have switched to antlers instead of bones because they last longer.

My air cells have not grown and today is day 18. It rained last night so humidity is up to 22% in the bator. My heater is not even running due to the warm temps so nothing to dry the air out with. Some of my air cells I could not even tell where the dip was. This is going to be a horrible hatch.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

My dogs only get dog food and eggs. When they eat anything other than that the gas level is enough to clear the house. Spoiled rotten. I have switched to antlers instead of bones because they last longer.

My air cells have not grown and today is day 18. It rained last night so humidity is up to 22% in the bator. My heater is not even running due to the warm temps so nothing to dry the air out with. Some of my air cells I could not even tell where the dip was. This is going to be a horrible hatch.

I am going out to do chickens and will check on my now day early 20's but I fear a mess coming up too

 

[chicksooner]

I am going out to do chickens and will check on my now day early 20's but I fear a mess coming up too

fingers crossed for both of us.

 

[cochins1088]

Coch I cant find it of course I have godzillion saved links that are not in categorizes yet, and I may not have even saved them! I do know that the older the hen the larger the egg, but the funny thing that I read was something about more weight loss and a smaller chick than a smaller hens smaller egg! go figure lol MIND you that I didnt see backyard breeder abstracts, as they are all geared for commercial poultry so keep this in mind, but I will assume the same could easily apply for us? I dont think its a big deal, I still believe its all this wet weather and I am sticking to it. My eggshells in the CCL ARE a tad thicker yes too, so perhaps its just a bad combination of winter blues going on! ha ha

And to add to the confusion the cuticula could close in a different way when its so cold outside and create a less porous surface? <hands in Air>
Cuticula ~Word of the DAY!
A thin membrane that covers the whole eggshell that is made from the sticky fluid which covers an egg freshly laid and quickly dissolves due to carbondioxyde activity.
This membrane can be penetrated by gasses but functions as a kind defensive mechanism to prevent the entry of bacteria.
The organic cuticle that covers the shell at the pore level forms layers full of cracks and crevices
that enlarge as the egg ages and allow the gaseous exchange between the egg and the ambient
air.



http://www.aviculture-europe.nl/nummers/11E06A06.pdf
http://www.jtmtg.org/JAM/2011/abstracts/0031.PDF


http://www.hubbardbreeders.com/managementguides/Incubation guide (english).pdf

http://www.pasreform.com/academy/fr...al-weight-loss-profile-during-incubation.html

http://www.ibna.ro/arhiva/AZ 14-3/05_Abanikannda.pdf

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...=oQRnSSIsV_P8bvMeSbfHqg&bvm=bv.61725948,d.aWc

http://poultrykeeper.com/incubating-and-hatching-eggs/weight-loss-method-forl-incubation
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15049506

yesterday my BYC started to have tweeter birds all over it LOL

I get the strangest things happening with this site.... anyone else?
I swear I have an evil little person in my laptop that takes over!







on yet another note:

pups are 4 weeks old! This is RyLee girl! <3 look at those freckles poking!

Weird. I've never seen anything like that on BYC.
RyLee is adorable.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

sorry coch I threw all those links, but thats the recent batch I saved, so you can imagine the other folders! ha ha ha!

ok upload candle

 

[Sally Sunshine]

added sponges, with draw down and positioning (back is up and see movement) (no internals from the few I grabbed) so anyminute they will start.

I seem to have much better looking cells, but they still need a prayer LOL that sharpie was day 18! candle images stink as you can honestly see the egg size and shape!! but the back of the egg the darkness of the chick goes into the air cell now way up in the back