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

[cochins1088]

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Yup, it's a perfectly healthy silver laced bantam.

It just wanted to take a more creative approach to hatching.

 

[jbher]

QUOTING MYSELF for reference...

Feeling optimistic... Out of the 27 I set, I have still 22 that have babies growing!! My results from Day 10 candling and weighing are below (I was not able to weigh the marans... I started but didn't realize until I was done that my spreadsheet screwed up the marans weights (my 8yr old was entering them)). From your suggestion I upped my humidity to the 40's. Based on Day 10's results do you think I should still aim for humidity in the 40's? Tomorrow is Day 14 so I will be weighing again. On Day 10 I didn't mark air cells because I'm realizing that marking them isn't actually telling me much considering the weight is more important.

Okay finally had a chance to candle, weigh and mark air cells. Here's where I'm at... (ignore the one Marans egg with the huge weight loss - the original weight was not correct and I don't remember what it was). And I accidentally deleted one of the Faverolle weights ugh... now I don't remember that either. I tried to get some pics of the air cells too. I definitely have some bad ones - there was a marans egg that had an air cell that looked like it was HALF the egg :-( All 22 still had babies moving. Really worried about the ones that are already over 12% or even the ones close to that.

 

[ozexpat]

I am at a chicken meet up. Posting as pictures sort of makes out impossible to cut and paste into a spreadsheet but eyeballing looks like ten percent. So you lost about three percent this week. You seen to be right on track. Continue what you are doing

 

[jbher]

I am at a chicken meet up. Posting as pictures sort of makes out impossible to cut and paste into a spreadsheet but eyeballing looks like ten percent. So you lost about three percent this week. You seen to be right on track. Continue what you are doing

I think you're right!! I think my average must be close to 10%... granted some are higher... but some are also lower. Okay just calculated. My average is 9.90%!! Wow you're good at estimating based off those air cells!!! I will just continue on with keeping my humidity in the 40's! THANK YOU so so much!!!!

 

[ozexpat]

Lol. I just eyeballed the math.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

. @lizanne

Ummmm Luke sorta opened the box and made claim to HarmonyAnns pretty apron you made!! HA HA HA

WE LOVE THEM!!! YOUR AWESOME THANK YOU TONS AND TONS!!

 

[lizanne]

. @lizanne

Ummmm Luke sorta opened the box and made claim to HarmonyAnns pretty apron you made!! HA HA HA

WE LOVE THEM!!! YOUR AWESOME THANK YOU TONS AND TONS!!

It looks great on him!!

 

[subhanalah]

It looks great on him!!  

is that a plastic feed bag?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: I know it does!! Harmony came home with daddy and started yelling at him to GET OUT OF HER APRON! ha ha ha!!! too cute!
PERFECTION! Thanks you!

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you betcha! love love the aprons!! I have a problem with all my shirts having bleach spots around the front of my belly from cleaning waterers and sterilizing stuff many times a day!

NO MORE BLEACHED SHIRTS FOR THIS CHICK! muwahhhahhhahaaaaa

 

[Sally Sunshine]

oh and she added nice deep pockets!! LOVE LOVE!!