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

[dolfi]

Dolfi how are yours coming along?  I have 18 serama in the bator day 7 and they all have nice veining!

I'm trying not to candle too much. Last I saw I had some vain. I'm kinda scared to be disappointed again. Will check tomorrow.

 

[Toast n Jelly]

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[Toast n Jelly]

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[Toast n Jelly]

Good Morning!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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[cochins1088]

Note to self: NEVER underestimate a three day old White Faced Black Spanish Chick! Trying to photograph 6 chicks and a few eggs ended up with three broken eggs and chicks running all over the counter and luckily none fell on the concrete floor! So I had to do two chicks and those were very difficult!


These were from the weekends hatch, some of the large batch of "quality control" hatchlings

Great picture!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

thanks!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

when is everyones next candle? I think lockdown for my little bunch is friday, gotta look. I think half are dead as I had a drop in styro bator 94 and who knows how long. I am not using that anymore

 

[cochins1088]

when is everyones next candle? I think lockdown for my little bunch is friday, gotta look. I think half are dead as I had a drop in styro bator 94 and who knows how long. I am not using that anymore

As you probably know, I candle every night.

Last Friday I set another 20 eggs, 5 BCB and 15 SLCB. The 5 blacks were infertile (as expected) and only 6 of the silver laced developed. The rest must have froze before I collected them.

Of those 6 developing eggs, 3 passed away yesterday and I can't figure out why. Other than temperature fluctuations, what would cause day 4 embryos to die?

This leaves me with only four embryos on day 12 and three embryos on day 5.

Hopefully my next batch will prove to be more successful with the warmer temperatures and the AI.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: I had this happen to me with this batch wonder if its the cold, the eggs were not frozen. Coch did you ever read about the people that hatch eggs from the fridge? I wonder how many they actually get to hatch.

I hope it warms up as well, I thought it was to this week but obviously not yet.