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

[Sally Sunshine]

She stopped chirping... No external pip as far as I can see, and she's on a flat surface.

she is probably just resting... go to the article and scroll down to the hatching stuff and read a while JUST IN Case you need to help, watch the videos again too!! I am gonna read with you... the link is in my signature below..... hatching eggs 101

 

[Sally Sunshine]

HOW THE CHICK EMERGES FROM THE SHELL http://chickscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/resources/egg_to_chick/procedures.html
The head of the chick develops at the large end of the egg. Between the 15th and 16th days, the chick orients itself so that its head is near the air cell at the large end of the egg. Not long before the chick is ready to attempt to make its way out of the shell its neck acquires a double bend so that its beak is under its right wing and pointed toward the air cell. About the 19th day the chick thrusts its head forward. Its beak quickly breaks through the inner shell membrane, and the chick's lungs begin to function. Complete breathing by the lungs usually does not occur until the 20th day of incubation.
Using its egg tooth (a tiny, sharp, horny projection on the end of its beak), the chick pecks at the shell thousands of times. Finally, the young bird pips its way through the shell and begins to breathe air directly from the outside. After the chick has made a hole in the shell, it stops pipping for three to eight hours and rests. During this time, it is acclimating its lungs to the outside atmosphere. After the resting stage is completed, the second stage of pipping begins.
The chick begins to turn slowly inside the egg. As it turns, usually counter-clockwise, the cutting edge of the chick tooth continues to chip away. In two to five hours, the chick has made about three quarters of a turn inside the egg. As the chick progresses in its movement around the shell, it begins pushing on the egg cap (large end). Squirming and struggling, the chick works feverishly for about 40 minutes pushing at the cap. Finally with a vigorous shove, the chick breaks free from the shell, still wet and panting.
When the chick is freed completely from the shell, it lies still. Its energy has been virtually exhausted, and it is extremely tired. After a rest of some few minutes, the chick begins to rise to its feet and gain coordination of its muscles. Within a few days the egg tooth, its usefulness over, will disappear.

After 21 days of incubation, the chick finally begins its escape from the shell. The chick begins by pushing its beak through the air cell. The allantois, which has served as its lungs, begins to dry up as the chick uses its own lungs. The chick continues to push its head outward. The sharp horny structure on the upper beak (egg tooth) and the muscle on the back of the neck help cut the shell. The chick rests, changes position, and keeps cutting until its head falls free of the opened shell. It then kicks free of the bottom portion of the shell. The chick is exhausted and rests while the navel openings heal and its down dries. Gradually, it regains strength and walks. The incubation and hatching is complete. The horny cap will fall off the beak within days after the chick hatches.http://msucares.com/poultry/reproductions/poultry_chicks_embryo.html

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Sparkey, I am heading to bed, suggest u do too.... just an FYI if she is chirping that loud to you she is strong.... so fingers crossed there is fluffy butts running around in the morning!!!

I have six laying around in the bator yet, resting I am leaving them until am then will switch all of them around

fingers crossed peepers in the AM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Sparkypatriot15]

Oh no I accidentally hit the incubator and it made two of the eggs roll a little bit and the chick still hasn't externally pipped and doesn't chirp a lot..... What do I doooo?!!!

 

[Sparkypatriot15]

Okay never mind the accidentally hit the incubator part, the chick is still fine and has externally pipped a small crack in her shell. Unfortunately, to figure that out, I thought she had been suffocating in her air sac since she first pipped it about 4 or 5 yesterday, I had opened my incubator and candled all the eggs (I didn't turn them though, just quickly picked them up and held the light to the air sacs looking for a beak) well, after candling 3 of the 4 eggs, which all look like they are dead, sadly, I found the one last egg had a little moving beak in it and them I saw the crack it had made right above that beak. The chick squeaked and squirmed a little so I threw it back in the incubator and filled the water troughs HIGH and got the humidity goin. Will she be alive when I get home from school, maybe a little hatchling? Or will picking her egg up kill her...

 

[MarineCorpFarmr]

Naw Sparky she should be fine until you get home from school. And yes she will probably be hatched out by then.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Naw Sparky she should be fine until you get home from school. And yes she will probably be hatched out by then.

X2 and if she hasnt and is still alive I would probably start zipping for her, you know what to do, you seen the videos and read, but fingers crossed fluffy butt tonight!!!

No movement in the other eggs when u candled? what day is it again????

 

[Sparkypatriot15]

Okay I will probably get home in like 30 minutes to an hour and if she isn't hatched then, I have actually zipped an egg before and the chick lived just fine and she is one of the chickens I have right now! (My very fist one ever, actually) I'm so excited about teh chickie! And there's no movement in the other eggs and when I candled I saw no veins and the air cells looked unusually big- I'm pretty sure they're dead. I could try pipping the air sacs and looking inside after I make sure my first egg hatches... It's day 20/21. I have an egg on day 18 today that I need to throw in the hatcher, and then 3 more in two days. I hope I get more than one hatch! I love hatching little chicks!

 

[Sparkypatriot15]

Well I just got home, and she hatched! She's an adorable little barred rock! None of the other eggs have pipped, I candled a few and didnt know what to do so I just put them back in my bator. Also, I came home to find that the light went out in my other incubator sometime during the day, and the four eggs in there were stone cold. I candled them immediately and they're still alive, and I pipped the air sac of one that is on day 18/19 today to see if it was still alive. It was, but the membrane is completely dry. Will it be able to hatch, since I took off the shell on the air sac meaning it'll only have to break the dry membrane? Also, there were 3 eggs in day 15/16 in the bator with the heat lamp mishap, and when I candled they moved and had veins so they ARE alive, but will this mishap prevent them from hatching? And what should I do with the ones on day 20/21 that haven't pipped?

 

[chicksooner]

Okay I will probably get home in like 30 minutes to an hour and if she isn't hatched then, I have actually zipped an egg before and the chick lived just fine and she is one of the chickens I have right now! (My very fist one ever, actually) I'm so excited about teh chickie! And there's no movement in the other eggs and when I candled I saw no veins and the air cells looked unusually big- I'm pretty sure they're dead. I could try pipping the air sacs and looking inside after I make sure my first egg hatches... It's day 20/21. I have an egg on day 18 today that I need to throw in the hatcher, and then 3 more in two days. I hope I get more than one hatch! I love hatching little chicks!

Don't be too quick to help. Hatching is a long process. 24hrs or so from pip to zip. Try to be patient.

I now have 16 eggs in the bator. Put two more from my orps that were fresh and warm this morning and then just added 6 olive eggs. Not really sure what will come out of them. She said they were and orp/americauna cross.

I was really wanting some easter eggs but this was all I could find on short notice.