Disaster Themed Hatchalong and guess the hatch rate on scrambled shipped eggs

[Susan Skylark]

Getting impatient to clean up incubators, opened hole at pip of remaining egg, nice big blood vessel visible and chick still ‘chewing’ so a bit young yet, upped the humidity (membrane pretty dry and tough) and will monitor:

 

[Susan Skylark]

Last little guy finally hatched, seems to be fine, didn’t rotate eggs within the incubator like I usually do, had about 72 hour hatch window, used to 36, some is shipped eggs other is temp variation within the incubator. Final count 12/13 lockdown eggs with one significant deformity. That stat isn’t bad. But 5/12 early embryonic deaths, 1 late embryonic death, and a mutant means I got 5/12 healthy chicks from shipped, saddled eggs. I was pleasantly surprised at fertility (12/13) and expected more late term quitters but they were early instead which is less sad in my book, get the disappointment done early instead of devastated on hatch day. Home eggs were 6/7 with 1 day 5 quitter. Not a great hatch but considering the condition of the eggs, could have been much worse. But also interesting to note these eggs had huge angled air cells or none at all and 6/7 hatched without complication so air cell anatomy isn’t diagnostic for trouble hatching, may complicate things but won’t automatically kill your chicks, rather it is a symptom of shipping trauma and it is that that increases embryonic mortality and deformity.

And yes, we have a (mediocre) pic:
The blue dots are shipped chicks but everybody is a red head or blonde!

 

[GreenJay]

Last little guy finally hatched, seems to be fine, didn’t rotate eggs within the incubator like I usually do, had about 72 hour hatch window, used to 36, some is shipped eggs other is temp variation within the incubator. Final count 12/13 lockdown eggs with one significant deformity. That stat isn’t bad. But 5/12 early embryonic deaths, 1 late embryonic death, and a mutant means I got 5/12 healthy chicks from shipped, saddled eggs. I was pleasantly surprised at fertility (12/13) and expected more late term quitters but they were early instead which is less sad in my book, get the disappointment done early instead of devastated on hatch day. Home eggs were 6/7 with 1 day 5 quitter. Not a great hatch but considering the condition of the eggs, could have been much worse. But also interesting to note these eggs had huge angled air cells or none at all and 6/7 hatched without complication so air cell anatomy isn’t diagnostic for trouble hatching, may complicate things but won’t automatically kill your chicks, rather it is a symptom of shipping trauma and it is that that increases embryonic mortality and deformity.

And yes, we have a (mediocre) pic:
The blue dots are shipped chicks but everybody is a red head or blonde!
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I don't see any blue dots but I can see the difference between the blondes and redheads .

So 41% hatch rate on the shipped eggs, that's pretty good considering their rough start. And that was a great fertility rate too. Congrats!

 

[AntiqueB]

Not such a disaster! Congratulations on seeing these eggs all the way to hatch!