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

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: She should be o.k. Sally. Lots of chick caring is via communication, so as long as she can talk to them, that's the most important. Can you not let her stay and raise the chicks in her current coop and run?
with all those big feet? no way!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Well, just had a perfect hatch from my last set of eggs. I had taken all forms of moisture out of the bator and hatcher after the last drowned-chick hatch and it was a week between hatches so these last eggs had a full week to dry out and it worked like a charm. I am very confident now of setting this next hatch without water. And yes, I weighed each egg separately, I am way to OCD to just weight the tray and take an average, that wouldn't work for my Excel spread sheet. Besides, I only have about two and a half dozen eggs in there.

awesome!!! go eggies

 

[chicksooner]

with all those big feet? no way!

since she is not experienced and you have had bad experiences with broodies if you have room in her normal coop section off a corner for her until you are confident in her care of the chicks. After that she won't let any of the others near her babies. My big thing with my broody is the temps and your temps are worse than mine right now. I trust my broody with chicks since she is a 3peat at this point but she couldn't hatch eggs this time and she has been pretty well insulated in the garage. I guess i should have given her a heat lamp.

 

[chicksooner]

This round of hatching is done. I had 4 that quit around day 18 or so. 1 that I think I am going to have to cull. I tried to capture some cuteness but the one was not having it. fluff balls.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: I dont have walk in coops, just our big shed coop remake

ok if we do it I will do a lamp

 

[sumi]

This round of hatching is done. I had 4 that quit around day 18 or so. 1 that I think I am going to have to cull. I tried to capture some cuteness but the one was not having it. fluff balls.

Cute stuff!

I love one in front.

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

This round of hatching is done. I had 4 that quit around day 18 or so. 1 that I think I am going to have to cull. I tried to capture some cuteness but the one was not having it. fluff balls.

Aww, very cute.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

This round of hatching is done. I had 4 that quit around day 18 or so. 1 that I think I am going to have to cull. I tried to capture some cuteness but the one was not having it. fluff balls.

 

[cochins1088]

33 from 33

A first for my transpacific equatorial incubating

That's amazing! Congratulations Oz!

Well, just had a perfect hatch from my last set of eggs. I had taken all forms of moisture out of the bator and hatcher after the last drowned-chick hatch and it was a week between hatches so these last eggs had a full week to dry out and it worked like a charm. I am very confident now of setting this next hatch without water. And yes, I weighed each egg separately, I am way to OCD to just weight the tray and take an average, that wouldn't work for my Excel spread sheet. Besides, I only have about two and a half dozen eggs in there.

I'm glad that you figured out your humidity issues. Congrats on the perfect hatch!

I'm having the opposite problem. I have eggs on day 4 that have air cells the size of a day 15 egg.

I raised the humidity to 50% last night.

 

[sterlingb]

It takes a long time for the core temperature of the egg to rise/fall. If the core temperature of the egg to rises to 104*F it will kill the embryo. 15-20 minutes wasn't very long. FWIW I've had heat spikes worse than that and for longer periods and the chicks were o.k. Hope yours will be as well   

Checked all eggs on day 18 b4 lock down and all was well. Saw good movement and eggs bad grown a lot. Thanks for the the help!