EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[DovesFlyAway]

Please help my eggs are not 2 days late and I dont know what to do I'm really frustrated this us my first hatch and I I'm scared there dead please any advice helps

 

[dan26552]

[COLOR=0000CD]GOOD SATURDAY MORNING, COFFEE CLUBBERS! (PLEASE DON'T CLUB THE COFFEE. WE HAVE SOME BABY SEALS OUT BACK FOR THAT!) AND GOOD MORNING TO ANOTHER NEW MEMBER, @dan26552 [/COLOR] [COLOR=0000CD]PLEASE REMEMBER! I HAVE A MANAGER TO HANDLE MINOR COMPLAINTS, AND A SPECIAL DEPARTMENT (THAT HAD TO BE REBUILT YESTERDAY) FOR THE BIGGER COMPLAINTS![/COLOR]

Now that's a cup of hot chocolate! Thank you and good morning.

 

[lovechicks1293]

 

Good morning. You are welcome. Did you say you are doing something fun today?
My day is going to be wrestling a 2-year-old that finally realized that her leaves were gone last night (mulched by the landscaper).

Well, fun that I get paid... I'm babysitting from 12:00-6:00...have fun wrestling that 2 yr old!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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UPS store opens @ 8:30; I'll be there shortly thereafter.

Buster Brown should be coming up the mountain by Monday or Tuesday, I'd think.

Mornin Whites! thank you !!

Well, I am disappointed to say that I was not able to wear my new shoes to work today, still dealing with some bruising and swelling from my fall on Monday. Now I will have to wait until NEXT Friday. Oh wait, Monday I am chaperoning a school field trip for my daughter, maybe I can wear them by then???

If I had worn them, they look like this...



But my foot looks like this....



So no new shoes today.

ouch hope it heals quickly!

awwww how fun!!!

Sally, bubba should be a model for target.

i have some pretty pics to share from a couple weeks ago








i drive by this lake a couple times everyday

WOW lovely images Liz!!!

wanna see my cucumber?



he's a very happy cuke

Hi Cuke!

@BantyChooks



this has since been moved to the spare bedroom


this was prior to cleaning yesterday am

Hi duckies!!!!

 

[campingshaws]

Do ducks need less heat than chicks? Or the same? What temp would be best for two-week old babies? The cold part of brooder is 60*. Our temps dropped and I'm having trouble keeping them warm. :/

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Just set 3 doz eggs from my friend this week. She said that fertility is pretty crummy just now but worth a shot.
There were between 2 and 7 eggs of each breed. Just what was laying really

They are:
Lavender ameraucanas
Svart honas

Barbizieux
Silkies
Buff orpingtons
cream legbars
lyonaise (I think)

And I think one or 2 other breeds.

Also the TJ eggs are due to hatch soon.

Barbizieux

had to look those up, sweetness! Good Luck!

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[Sally Sunshine]

look at all these cool cakes i found on pinterest! maybe a new baking project....?https://www.pinterest.com/LovesChickens6/chicken-ckes/

sweet literally!!

Oh where, oh where has my Sunshine gone, oh where oh where could she be? @Sally Sunshine

It was sunny here all day! bit windy though

Please help my eggs are not 2 days late and I dont know what to do I'm really frustrated this us my first hatch and I I'm scared there dead please any advice helps

@DovesFlyAway
I am sorry, I will post a few things for you, first have you calibrated thermo/hygros?

I HAVE EGGS LEFT UNHATCHED NOW WHAT? post #25223

If the majority of your chicks have hatched
or its past day 21 (for Chicken eggs),
it's time to....CANDLE & Tap!

Candle and look for an internal pip.
Pencil mark the air cell.



Below is what an internal pip it looks like.
The beak is thrust through the inner membrane into the air cell.





Tap with your fingernail GENTLY on the air cell
and hold to your ear, Can you hear a peep?




**IF** YOU DO NOT HAVE AN INTERNAL PIP AND YOU CAN’T HEAR CHIRPING and you do SEE MOVEMENT, place that egg BACK in the incubator and WAIT, this EGG DOES NOT need assisting at this point!

**IF** however YOU DO NOT HAVE AN INTERNAL PIP AND YOU CAN’T HEAR CHIRPING and YOU DO NOT see MOVEMENT please proceed to The Float Test ~ Checking Egg Viability. Give Eggs A Full 24 Hrs Overdue Before Float Testing ONLY AFTER CANDLING and NO Internal pips and NO internal MOVEMENT or CHIRPING! This procedure takes very little equipment Or time to do and Is Easy To Perform. If your egg is still viable, place back in the bator and wait!

CLICK HERE FOR FLOAT TESTING..... https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/383525/float-testing-checking-egg-viability-for-late-or-overdue-hatching




CLICK HERE FOR: Step by Step Guide to ASSISTED Hatching


Sometimes you can tell they are dead as the embryo drops as well as the blood in the vessels drop to the bottom of the egg and candle will show like these.....











ALSO HELP FOR NEXTIME you set!!​

INCUBATION

A MUST READ***** INCUBATION QUESTIONS w/answers post #85688

Hatching Eggs 101 CLICK HERE

Shipped Eggs = Change Of Plans! post #53845
Important FIRST TIMER Incubation TIPS! post #66830

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Do ducks need less heat than chicks? Or the same? What temp would be best for two-week old babies? The cold part of brooder is 60*. Our temps dropped and I'm having trouble keeping them warm.

Mornin beautiful
A starting temperature near 90 degrees at the edge of the hover is about right. This temperature should be reduced about 5 to 10 degrees per week until 70 degrees is reached. When using infrared brooders, air temperature is not so important. Heat usually is not required after the fifth or sixth week, and in good weather, the young birds can be taken out.

 

[BantyChooks]

 

[Sally Sunshine]

mornin sweets! how are you?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

@shahtir101

How is it going?
I have four eggs, we lost electric for about four five hours yesterday, but I put hot water bottles in and it only dropped to 94 so fingers crossed on those!