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

[Sally Sunshine]

Not sure what you mean by detailed grams, but it is a very accurate scale. We calibrated it with a weight of 500 grams and it measured perfectly. The calibration weight we used is one that we use for reloading so it is exact.

Reloader weights!! GREAT idea! I was upset I paid over 40 bucks for my scale and here it only does increments of 5 grams... 5 10 15 20grams and so on!!! I was upset because when I set them and weighed I only then realized it, so the weighing eggs to keep track sure aint gonna work now!!

 

[chicksooner]

What is the purpose in weighing?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

What is the purpose in weighing?

WEIGHTloss Explaination & FREE Graph http://www.browneggblueegg.com/Article/MonitoringEggWeightLoss.html

WEIGHTLOSS GRAPH that http://www.browneggblueegg.com/Article/EggWeightGraph.docyou can record your eggs weights.

 

[jtallant]

Reloader weights!! GREAT idea! I was upset I paid over 40 bucks for my scale and here it only does increments of 5 grams... 5 10 15 20grams and so on!!! I was upset because when I set them and weighed I only then realized it, so the weighing eggs to keep track sure aint gonna work now!!

OH , I see what you mean now! That would be impossible to weigh accurate then. The one I have is an exact measurement though not in increments. I saw what you are getting in your other post and it looks like it will work just fine. Since your weights are off you could go strictly by air cell and mark them on the egg so you can easily keep track that way.

Chicksooner, I weigh to keep track if my humidity is correct during incubation. The eggs should lose about 13% of their weight in total and once you figure the ideal weight loss of each egg then when you weigh them you'll know if they are losing about right, too much too soon, or not enough and can adjust humidity accordingly.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

OH , I see what you mean now! That would be impossible to weigh accurate then. The one I have is an exact measurement though not in increments. I saw what you are getting in your other post and it looks like it will work just fine. Since your weights are off you could go strictly by air cell and mark them on the egg so you can easily keep track that way.

Chicksooner, I weigh to keep track if my humidity is correct during incubation. The eggs should lose about 13% of their weight in total and once you figure the ideal weight loss of each egg then when you weigh them you'll know if they are losing about right, too much too soon, or not enough and can adjust humidity accordingly.

uggg Air Sacks !!!

I am lucky if they have any, after that scrambled one they better NOT blow up on me until I candle at day 7!!

 

[chicksooner]

OH , I see what you mean now! That would be impossible to weigh accurate then. The one I have is an exact measurement though not in increments. I saw what you are getting in your other post and it looks like it will work just fine. Since your weights are off you could go strictly by air cell and mark them on the egg so you can easily keep track that way.

Chicksooner, I weigh to keep track if my humidity is correct during incubation. The eggs should lose about 13% of their weight in total and once you figure the ideal weight loss of each egg then when you weigh them you'll know if they are losing about right, too much too soon, or not enough and can adjust humidity accordingly.

That is very interesting. I was just going off of the air sac size. Not the best plan since all my air sacs are pretty wonky. Another thing I wish I had known before I started this adventure. I guess if I am on day 12-13 it is a little late to start monitoring weight.

Sally I was loving your pinterest chicken board so I had to start following.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

That is very interesting. I was just going off of the air sac size. Not the best plan since all my air sacs are pretty wonky. Another thing I wish I had known before I started this adventure. I guess if I am on day 12-13 it is a little late to start monitoring weight.

Sally I was loving your pinterest chicken board so I had to start following.

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I am out of the weighing too since I couldnt weigh in the correct grams, so air sack tracking is the best we can do! I love pinterest!! let me know what name you are under and I will do the same! u can msg it! I try to only pin stuff that will help and is cool, some people just pin stupid stuff lol.... its GREAT way to store info!

 

[WaterFowl209]

do you candle when you get them? air sacks been good? any luck with broken cells?  lol there I go questions again! he he he

Hi there, I try not to stress the embryo any for the first 2 days so I don't candle and I let settle outside of bator at about 50F but for this hatch I had ordered 3 shipments of eggs and didn't want a staggered hatch so I kept eggs to settle for 5 days that's when I had all eggs.

As far as air sacks I got two that look weird shaped kinda like a woman's bra lol but amazingly I have 2 moving living embryos in them so I think they may hatch I think they have a good chance, the first time I candle is day seven and I always wash my hands with soap so no bacteria is transferred because I don't want to get to many with the blood rings of death, IMO the less I handle them and the less I open the bator the better chances the eggs have. Oh and I been turning 4 times a day.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Anytime you ask a question regarding incubating, hatching, raising, managing, or anything else about poultry, you're going to get a wide range of opinions. In the end, you have to just look at all those opinions, take your research, use your experiences, and make your own opinion.

There's people that have bad luck with detached air cells, and people who have had good luck. I'm in the latter group, as I've hatched quite a few detached. I have a few in the incubator (day 10) that have detached cells, and so far, they're fine. I also just set some more, I think 5, that were detached last night.

How are yours now ? MnMPoultry?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Hi there, I try not to stress the embryo any for the first 2 days so I don't candle and I let settle outside of bator at about 50F but for this hatch I had ordered 3 shipments of eggs and didn't want a staggered hatch so I kept eggs to settle for 5 days that's when I had all eggs.
As far as air sacks I got two that look weird shaped kinda like a woman's bra lol but amazingly I have 2 moving living embryos in them so I think they may hatch I think they have a good chance, the first time I candle is day seven and I always wash my hands with soap so no bacteria is transferred because I don't want to get to many with the blood rings of death, IMO the less I handle them and the less I open the bator the better chances the eggs have. Oh and I been turning 4 times a day.

Womans Bra ! LOL I have a sink in the basement close to the bator, and I get them hands clean with antibact soap before I touch them, I am praying that mold in the bator dont rot the eggs too!

stupidest stuff aint? ugggggg