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

[Doug Hodges]

I have turkeys(several kinds), guineas, my golden and blue laced red wyandottes, Belgian Quail Bantams, Amercauna bantams, Swedish ducks, African Geese (my Canadian is crossing with the Africans and I cant wait to see what they look like when they grow up)

AND I am really into the Nubians. My farm name is Spotted Nubian. I have but I have 4 to pick up in Wyoming in June. 5 in Oklamoma, 2 in South Arkansas and a breeder is dropping off 2 more at my house in June. I have 17 babies and I think 13 adults. So how many is that? 43 total that I will have in June? Wait, I sold 5 to a lady in Louisiana that is coming up in May to get them. So I have 30 today and will have 38? Then I have a few more that are supposed to kid in July. So who knows how many I will have in the fall to start breeding.

 

[subhanalah]

Kathy, other than the veins, now that I look at it better, this egg looks like the remains of that check that hatched with its sac on the outside of its abdomen, and it stunk and had that brown stuff. This will be good for me too I think.
Not sure if I posted this here.

 

[casportpony]

Kathy, other than the veins, now that I look at it better, this egg looks like the remains of that check that hatched with its sac on the outside of its abdomen, and it stunk and had that brown stuff. This will be good for me too I think.
Not sure if I posted this here.

This egg is a duck egg and they seem to have more of the sticky stuf than chicks do. The duckling that hatched had absorbed 100% of it's yolk.





-Kathy

 

[subhanalah]

It's supposed to be brown/yellow like that and not clear/white?

 

[casportpony]

Yes, this is what it looks like when it's covering the duckling:




-Kathy

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: Hi Kathy, did you weigh eggs or watch air cells? I also had that goop today, its too much humidity or low temps or combo. Some of us on this thread had issues over winter with weight loss and some of our chicks ended up with alot of gunk in the bottom as well as the yellow gel like stuff and we knew it was from the humidity because we had trouble increasing air cell size due to climate conditions. let me quote the egg shell analysis link for you to read it too.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Anyone care to comment on this egg shell?



-Kathy

exactly what I delt with, and why some ducks didnt make it. read back through some of my recent posts and you will also see the read about lack of weight loss the first 11-12 days as well

 

[casportpony]

Hi Kathy, did you weigh eggs or watch air cells? I also had that goop today, its too much humidity or low temps or combo. Some of us on this thread had issues over winter with weight loss and some of our chicks ended up with alot of gunk in the bottom as well as the yellow gel like stuff and we knew it was from the humidity because we had trouble increasing air cell size due to climate conditions. let me quote the egg shell analysis link for you to read it too.

This one was under a hen, so I did not weigh them, and this is what another egg from the same nest looks like. Pictures taken at ~90 degress from each other.









-Kathy

 

[Gardeningmama]

Quote:
This is exactly what mine have been doing one by one, always starting around hatch day. One day a perfect egg and the next it takes on this look, and then nothing, no veins..still. It's happening as I type this. I'm all too familiar with it. 18 eggs later.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Day 11 next batch, Air cells are all over the place Eggs in the bator, sanded with 150 in lines, the smaller the air cell the more lines, only going to a lighter color deep. basically scratched in places.

After reading about humidity and weight loss in the first 11-12 days... this...
Quote:

See the 2nd chick just hatched, look at the bottom of the egg shell, it doesnt near go to bottom.




I think I am too late in sanding them harder!! ughhhhh as I take it, weight loss is important during the first part despite overall loss. DOHHHHH I knew this but didnt know how much effect my initial sanding would do. now I know, sand with reg paper right off the bat.

pretty gross I cant believe the chick is alive from this egg!


here they are, one is still in the bator absorbing, but these two are crazy duckies!

and here is one other post https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...etatched-shipped-eggs/26200_100#post_13376008

and the egg shell analysis https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...etatched-shipped-eggs/26200_100#post_13375865