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

[Sally Sunshine]

snapped a pic of one of the splash roos butts the other day, forgot about it, just found it on my cell uploading the serama image! Love their butts!! I am a true chicken butt watcher!! ha ha ha

I like that this roos comb is smaller than his daddos, but not sure where the foot feathering went! he had really good feathering but now not so much, odd. He is starting to get his rooster tails, I see them starting to stick out now! he is already bigger than the other roosters, he doesnt come to me like his dad roos do, he is more skitzy!

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

snapped a pic of one of the splash roos butts the other day, forgot about it, just found it on my cell uploading the serama image! Love their butts!! I am a true chicken butt watcher!! ha ha ha

I like that this roos comb is smaller than his daddos, but not sure where the foot feathering went! he had really good feathering but now not so much, odd. He is starting to get his rooster tails, I see them starting to stick out now! he is already bigger than the other roosters, he doesnt come to me like his dad roos do, he is more skitzy!

He is beautiful! Are you going to breed with him?

 

[HenchantedAcres]

He's gorgeous!!

 

[DaveOmak]

it said 17-22 in the bator as well as out of the bator. the side holes are all open. plenty of flow, its this wet winter I guess. just doesnt make sense with the coal stove and such low humidity down there. who knows if I will ever figure it out! I refuse to run a dehumidifier in the winter with a coal stove running I can tell you that lol! Everyone was having issues this winter, last hatch finally did good with weight loss in the end, praying this set does the same.

OK...... That poses another possibility.... Hang with me on this one.....

When making sausage.... The air dried kind of sausage, that dried in a thermostatically controlled chamber with humidity control..... There is a condition called "case hardening"..... That occurs when the humidity is too low....... The moisture is the sausage is usually reduced by 30 ish % over a period of time.... That means a 100 gram sausage will, or should, weigh 70 grams when it's considered "safe" for long term non-refrigerated storage.........
If the humidity is too low in the "chamber" during the process, the sausage will form a "crust" so to speak, from too rapid evaporation, thus locking in the remaining water and no further evaporation can occur.... the sausage can sour, can grows bacteria, and not be fit for eating....

Considering the porosity off the egg shell, and the protein of the egg, perhaps the evaporation rate exceeded the capacity of the egg shell to keep the pores open... maybe they partially plugged with "stuff" that is inside the egg.....

If you weigh your eggs, check the % loss against what is visible, for confirmation.....

Contemplate the alternatives..... what % humidity worked well in the past...

Does seem strange I'm thinking of this stuff at 1:30 AM........ Coffee is yesterdays, and is cold....

 

[foxvalleyfarm]

Here are those pictures I promised along with pics of the whole bunch in the LG. Please let me know if I should throw any out. #s 1-14 are on day 16 and the rest are on day 9.

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23 This is the duck that had attached to the very top but had now moved and is alive and super active.

Here's it's air cell.

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So it seems that none from the first batch are doing anything besides 1 and 2 they came from a diff person. And in the second group many are doing good.

 

[sonoralinda]

Thanks for candling and sharing the pictures. I'd like feedback on each picture from someone knowledgeable please.

 

[sonoralinda]

I'm on day 16 for my shipped eggs. I have 10 left out of 20. I've pulled 3 clears, 1 seeping and at day 14, 6 tiny quitters. What causes a quitter? These are the disturbing ones. My humidity has gone up and down just a little and temps stay the same all the time.
I'm not going to candle again.
My 4 Jap eggs seem to be fine.

 

[subhanalah]

A lot of those eggs look really good, fox!
Can't wait for hatch day for you!

Sonoralinda, it could be from the egg being scrambled in transit or a weak embryo.

Oh, and I woke up to a pip this morning! Here's the picture! It's already bigger now than it was before!

 

[foxvalleyfarm]

A lot of those eggs look really good, fox!
Can't wait for hatch day for you!

Sonoralinda, it could be from the egg being scrambled in transit or a weak embryo.

Almost all of the second group look awesome even the green egg which is my favorite and the goose.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: Yes if he gets his foot feathering back!

He's gorgeous!!

He is a unique boy for sure! thanks!