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

[sumi]

Quote: It's a bit of both, Kathy. I am interested in odd eggs and researched them quite a bit for this article. I also asked and looked for pics of odd eggs to use in the article.

P.S. Sally, I'm still looking for a green/mottled yolk pic.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I've just set my first shipped eggs today. 16 mixed eggs from @chickenpox flock. The eggs arrived a day early, only one slightly cracked, and all the air cells look good, a few aren't quite round. But none seem broken. They are all very small as indicative of very fresh eggs.
I'm hoping they turn out well. I've got them set up in egg cartons with holes cut in the bottoms, In a food dehydrator since the 17 mixed eggs from my own flock are in there awaiting lockdown tomorrow. In the dehydrator I also have 13 of my own eggs. That way I can truly know the dehydrator is working. As I know my eggs have 100% fertility.

Awesome, candle is showing them well?

here are the turkey egg's i just got on monday one didn't make it

OMG this is why NO MATTER WHO we purchase from we have to use ozexpat letter to egg shippers and request how we want them shipped! good grief!

 

[casportpony]

Quote: It's a bit of both, Kathy. I am interested in odd eggs and researched them quite a bit for this article. I also asked and looked for pics of odd eggs to use in the article.

P.S. Sally, I'm still looking for a green/mottled yolk pic.
Okay, i'll keep you in mind for when I find samples that might interest you.

-Kathy

 

[sumi]

Quote: It's a bit of both, Kathy. I am interested in odd eggs and researched them quite a bit for this article. I also asked and looked for pics of odd eggs to use in the article.

P.S. Sally, I'm still looking for a green/mottled yolk pic.
Okay, i'll keep you in mind for when I find samples that might interest you.

-Kathy
Thank you. I've been looking high and low, but the two I mentioned above are scarce it seems.

 

[missnu01]

I figure Saturday I'll give the eggs the first candle looking for life, but I candled them to check out the air cell and it looked like they were all where they were supposed to be, but some weren't exactly round, but none moved. So I figure that's good

 

[Sally Sunshine]

How many times I stuck an egg in my pocket and crushed it! DOHHHHHHHHHHHhhhh

 

[TMNfarm]

I have a broody hen that has been sitting on eggs for 3 weeks now. She has been an excellent hen (not her first go-round) and we have been bringing her food and water and checking on her every night. She chose to make her nest on a stack of hay bales in the loft of our barn, so we boxed her in with bales so the babies wouldn't fall when they started moving around. Last night, I went to check on her and I reached under her just to feel and the nest seemed particularly deep... That's weird, I thought... But then I only felt 2 eggs, and she had been sitting on 13! I lifted her and discovered she had made her nest right on a gap between bales and all but two of her eggs had fallen through! My son says he checked her the night before and they were all there, so it had been less than 24 hours since they fell.

I figured they were dead, but I knew we had to remove them from the middle of the stack anyway, so my daughter held Nugget while my son and I tore apart the hay bale stack. We found all 13 eggs, some of them cracked. One was really smashed, so I handed that one to my daughter. My son tore into a bale to make a new indent to put the eggs in and we carefully arranged them and put Nugget back on her eggs. We stuffed any seams with empty grain bags and rearranged the bales around her again.

I took the smashed egg down into the barn, intending to dispose of it, but my curiosity made me look and peel away the smashed shell... It was still alive!!! It was breathing, but hadn't absorbed it's yolk sac yet. The longer I held it, the faster it started to breathe. I tried as best I could to wrap the shattered shell back around the yolk sac, then ran it back up and put it under Nugget.

This morning, the chick was dead, but it does give me hope for the rest of the eggs that we found. They were all cold, but if that chick was still alive, then hopefully, we weren't too late. I figure they may take an extra day to hatch given that they had cooled off... Today is supposed to be their hatch day, so I'll be anxious to go check and see if we have any babies tonight.

 

[familypendragon]

I have a broody hen that has been sitting on eggs for 3 weeks now.  She has been an excellent hen (not her first go-round) and we have been bringing her food and water and checking on her every night.  She chose to make her nest on a stack of hay bales in the loft of our barn, so we boxed her in with bales so the babies wouldn't fall when they started moving around.  Last night, I went to check on her and I reached under her just to feel and the nest seemed particularly deep...  That's weird, I thought...  But then I only felt 2 eggs, and she had been sitting on 13!  I lifted her and discovered she had made her nest right on a gap between bales and all but two of her eggs had fallen through!  My son says he checked her the night before and they were all there, so it had been less than 24 hours since they fell. 

I figured they were dead, but I knew we had to remove them from the middle of the stack anyway, so my daughter held Nugget while my son and I tore apart the hay bale stack.  We found all 13 eggs, some of them cracked.  One was really smashed, so I handed that one to my daughter.  My son tore into a bale to make a new indent to put the eggs in and we carefully arranged them and put Nugget back on her eggs.  We stuffed any seams with empty grain bags and rearranged the bales around her again. 

I took the smashed egg down into the barn, intending to dispose of it, but my curiosity made me look and peel away the smashed shell...  It was still alive!!!  It was breathing, but hadn't absorbed it's yolk sac yet.  The longer I held it, the faster it started to breathe.  I tried as best I could to wrap the shattered shell back around the yolk sac, then ran it back up and put it under Nugget.

This morning, the chick was dead, but it does give me hope for the rest of the eggs that we found.  They were all cold, but if that chick was still alive, then hopefully, we weren't too late.  I figure they may take an extra day to hatch given that they had cooled off... Today is supposed to be their hatch day, so I'll be anxious to go check and see if we have any babies tonight.

My fingers are crossed for you!

 

[winteree]

ladys and germs we have ducklings

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I cant quote for some reason! uggghhhh

TMN My guess if they will be fine, after I revived chicks in the middle of winter I saw how strong the little boogers are! Let us know what happens please!

wintree! yay!!! and even a healthy wrong end pipperzipper!! awesome!!! and I am praying for those turks too! when is candle day for them?

I have chicks due today or tomorrow, I heard chirping last night, guess I better go see LOL! Its freezing in the house this morning with every window open! I just wanted coffee and bundle up with my four springers and a big cup of java! lol