Dixie Chicks

[NotAFarm]

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Do what Peep said....are the Ams in lockdown already? Place as she said for best chances of hatching.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Saddle cells are not so bad.   If you hatch in egg cartons just make sure the largest air pocket area is tilted facing up.  (kinda like putting your face to the sunshine)

Good luck!

Thanks... just feeling frustrated... not in cartons... in my previous hatches I found that incubating in carton worked well for damaged air cells, but hatching in them most pipped too low and drowned since I couldn't see the pips...

     Do what Peep said....are the Ams in lockdown already?  Place as she said for best chances of hatching.   

Yep, in lockdown... with the ohiki...

 

[NotAFarm]

Quote: In the future, on your final candle, just before lockdown, trace the wonky air cell. Place the egg(s) with the air pocket facing up in the rack/egg carton (like Peep said). You will know whether the external pip is in the air cell if it is in your tracing.
I hope some of them hatch!

 

[Ravynscroft]

In the future, on your final candle, just before lockdown, trace the wonky air cell.  Place the egg(s) with the air pocket facing up in the rack/egg carton (like Peep said).  You will know whether the external pip is in the air cell if it is in your tracing.
I hope some of them hatch! 

Thanks, been doing all that, just fighting humidity here now... never had an issue with it during fall/winter hatches but lately it is really hard to keep it down enough in the bators... they pip in air cell, but get drowned in the extra fluid before they can get it zipped enough...
I am hoping though...

 

[minihorse927]

AI update...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/11/health-birdflu-idUSL1N0Y21GU20150511

yuck! I seen this earlier. It's moving closer to me

 

[minihorse927]

Hoping the ohiki do pull through. Those are my best hatches here (normally)

On a good note my leg horns are a brown split single comb roo, 3 Isabel pullets, and a brown split rose comb pullet

 

[Ravynscroft]

Hoping the ohiki do pull through. Those are my best hatches here (normally)

On a good note my leg horns are a brown split single comb roo, 3 Isabel pullets, and a brown split rose comb pullet

Gotta love the PO, and our humidity isn't being nice either... am hoping they were just resting tho!

Yay!! I knew that one was a roo!!!

 

[Amberjem]

In the future, on your final candle, just before lockdown, trace the wonky air cell. Place the egg(s) with the air pocket facing up in the rack/egg carton (like Peep said). You will know whether the external pip is in the air cell if it is in your tracing.
I hope some of them hatch!

thats what I was going to say


all of my @bamadude eggs had horrible air sells saddles galorie.. I traced them and set them with big saddle end up...

 

[Amberjem]

Hoping the ohiki do pull through. Those are my best hatches here (normally)

On a good note my leg horns are a brown split single comb roo, 3 Isabel pullets, and a brown split rose comb pullet

Isabel leghorn

pictures!!!!!!!

 

[Amberjem]

well I kept trying to do a vidoe and take some pictures of the chicks free ranging today and phone was ringing off the hook and kept getting distracted lol...loving my lil buff brahma's they are sooo sweet