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

[Sally Sunshine]

Cute peas! The one fanning looks like a black shoulder India Blue boy, the other one is an India Blue hen. One was born yellow?

-Kathy

I cant remember if that was from the first set of eggs or the last two eggs he set to be honest, I would have to read back through this thread.

Here is a good link with black shoulder pictures:
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/Peafowl/BRKBlackShoulder.html

-Kathy

darn they take forever to grow dont they!

Quote: yeppppp yepppp these were local eggs.

Hey Sally so glad to see you on here with awesome research as well.
Hope all is well with you.

Wondering if HarmonyAnn is still selling Serama eggs ? I'm looking for some, let me know when you can.
Victoria
Going through some medical issues myself with thyroid and them not knowing what else is wrong. I'm miserable, my chicks are only thing helping. Everything else sucks including weather.

Thanks for all you do!
Victoria

Hey Victoria, message me about eggs she has a list going on FB I will give you some details then. Didnt they figure out your thyroid yet? Is it the pyranthoid or whatever that one is called thats in the back or what? poor thing, I hope they figure that out soon!! I have my appointments and tests again at the big hospital tomorrow and of course they want bad weather, so pray for a safe round trip for us, always so lucky I am lol.
still havent gotten me figured out and its been over 15 years, but this hospital is finally doing some homework!!!

is there a praying hands emoticon?

 

[DaveOmak]

Stay outta the ditch... Hope all goes well......

 

[casportpony]

Is there any correlation to wrong end pips and eggs being incubated upside-down?

-Kathy

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Is there any correlation to wrong end pips and eggs being incubated upside-down?

-Kathy

you betcha:
Malpositions=
Temperature too high or low, Turning inadequate, Large end of egg not up when set, Old or poorly handled eggs, Poor breeder nutrition

 

[wilmascluckmom]

Today I'm at 7 days incubation and I realized that I set one egg in upside down!! Not good. I don't know what I should do it looks like the other ones except upside down. Would it be in humane to let it go any further or should I leave it be. I would feel horrible if it were deformed or something and its my fault

 

[ozexpat]

Today I'm at 7 days incubation and I realized that I set one egg in upside down!! Not good. I don't know what I should do it looks like the other ones except upside down. Would it be in humane to let it go any further or should I leave it be. I would feel horrible if it were deformed or something and its my fault

Incubating is a tough thing to master.

I would invert the egg and cross my fingers then add to the list of things I have learnt not to do when I incubate. My farm worker recently set 200 eggs upside down for three days till I caught it and they hatched just a tad lower than expected.

Some tough words - if you cannot stomach losses caused by limited knowlege as you move along the learning curve, its better to stop right now becuse you are going to be responsible fo some failures.I have made some aweful mistakes. I have also had to deal with environmental issues - like power outages - that delayed a hatch and produced a bunch of birds with leg deformities.

Deformities are inevitable and so is having to euthanize chicks. Make sure you have someone who do it if you cant.

In saying all that, it only takes a few hatches to hatch like a pro.

 

[wilmascluckmom]

Thanks I will invert and try and see what happens

 

[HickoryHollow]

Incubating is a tough thing to master.

I would invert the egg and cross my fingers then add to the list of things I have learnt not to do when I incubate. My farm worker recently set 200 eggs upside down for three days till I caught it and they hatched just a tad lower than expected.

Some tough words - if you cannot stomach losses caused by limited knowlege as you move along the learning curve, its better to stop right now becuse you are going to be responsible fo some failures.I have made some aweful mistakes. I have also had to deal with environmental issues - like power outages - that delayed a hatch and produced a bunch of birds with leg deformities.

Deformities are inevitable and so is having to euthanize chicks. Make sure you have someone who do it if you cant.

In saying all that, it only takes a few hatches to hatch like a pro.

Excellent post! We have all done it. I was doing eggtopsies on my first hatch ever, and found 2 still alive in the shell. I was responsible for killing them. It happens. The flip side is we are also responsible for thousands of peeps being born that would have been on a plate with bacon without us!

 

[casportpony]

Lots of experiments I'd like to try, but I don't think I have the stomach for it.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Many of you have probably seen this, but thought I'd share it just in case.


It starts off with:
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-Kathy