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

[lindalouly]

Played that on YouTube for the kids awhile back, that and Name Game by Shirley Ellis, they loved them. I was going insane listening to them play over and over the gummy bear song and barbie let's go party song. Was sick of frozen songs also, so I played them the parody to let it go, 'it is cold'.
I thought it was hilarious, they started to sing along then realized the words were wrong, they hated it Lol! :-D

Why should you never give Elsa a ballon?

 

[daxigait]

Thanks.

 

[bullets]

This is a great thread! Subscribing :] I have a question!

I'll go ahead and apologize now to the people who are subscribed to the other threads I posted this on. There's just tons of activity here :]

Question:

I'm currently 4 days in [starting tonight at 5pm] to incubating serama eggs. My first attempt at it I had 2 out of 4 fertile eggs make it to lockdown and died shortly after. I eggsietopsied them. 1 never piped and he other had the tip of its beak through the internal membrane just barely. They were both positioned correctly. They air cells were very large. The eggs were shipped so I had them up in cartons through the incubation process. I ran the humidity around 45% and upped it to 65% during lockdown. Since I've never incubated bantam I was alarmed through the whole process at the large air cells. So, the question I have is, does it only seem like air cells are very large compared to the eggs because their so small? MY hygrometer has been calibrated so I now it's accurate and the chicks weren't 'shrink wraped' when I eggsietopsied them at day 24. What should I do differently this hatch? They're in egg cartons again as they're shipped. I have the humidity at 55%. My bator is a forced air as well.

 

[Akrnaf2]

Played that on YouTube for the kids awhile back, that and Name Game by Shirley Ellis, they loved them. I was going insane listening to them play over and over the gummy bear song and barbie let's go party song. Was sick of frozen songs also, so I played them the parody to let it go, 'it is cold'.
I thought it was hilarious, they started to sing along then realized the words were wrong, they hated it Lol! :-D

Why should you never give Elsa a ballon?

Because she was born free?

 

[daxigait]

This is a great thread! Subscribing :] I have a question!

I'll go ahead and apologize now to the people who are subscribed to the other threads I posted this on. There's just tons of activity here :]

Question:

I'm currently 4 days in [starting tonight at 5pm] to incubating serama eggs. My first attempt at it I had 2 out of 4 fertile eggs make it to lockdown and died shortly after. I eggsietopsied them. 1 never piped and he other had the tip of its beak through the internal membrane just barely. They were both positioned correctly. They air cells were very large. The eggs were shipped so I had them up in cartons through the incubation process. I ran the humidity around 45% and upped it to 65% during lockdown. Since I've never incubated bantam I was alarmed through the whole process at the large air cells. So, the question I have is, does it only seem like air cells are very large compared to the eggs because their so small? MY hygrometer has been calibrated so I now it's accurate and the chicks weren't 'shrink wraped' when I eggsietopsied them at day 24. What should I do differently this hatch? They're in egg cartons again as they're shipped. I have the humidity at 55%. My bator is a forced air as well.

Welcome!
@Sally Sunshine

 

[lindalouly]

Because she was born free?

Because she will let it go.

 

[lindalouly]

This is a great thread! Subscribing :] I have a question!

I'll go ahead and apologize now to the people who are subscribed to the other threads I posted this on. There's just tons of activity here :]

Question:

I'm currently 4 days in [starting tonight at 5pm] to incubating serama eggs. My first attempt at it I had 2 out of 4 fertile eggs make it to lockdown and died shortly after. I eggsietopsied them. 1 never piped and he other had the tip of its beak through the internal membrane just barely. They were both positioned correctly. They air cells were very large. The eggs were shipped so I had them up in cartons through the incubation process. I ran the humidity around 45% and upped it to 65% during lockdown. Since I've never incubated bantam I was alarmed through the whole process at the large air cells. So, the question I have is, does it only seem like air cells are very large compared to the eggs because their so small? MY hygrometer has been calibrated so I now it's accurate and the chicks weren't 'shrink wraped' when I eggsietopsied them at day 24. What should I do differently this hatch? They're in egg cartons again as they're shipped. I have the humidity at 55%. My bator is a forced air as well.

Welcome! I'm interested to hear the answer as well. Humidity controls the size of the aircells. The higher the humidity the less they should grow. I hope someone can work with you to figure this out. What temperature did you keep and did you turn your eggs? I'm just curious.

 

[Akrnaf2]

Because she was born free?

Because she will let it go.

So? This is the end of all balloon!
We have a very nice children story that is a repetitive sentence!

 

[chicken hawk 33]

Two have been popped and two are not doing anything

 

[campingshaws]

Who remembers my breed pen talks last week? I took the goats back there this morning to clue them in to the prime foraging. I guess it's too close to the treeline because Mama Roxie was pretty anxious. Guess I'll be cleaning it out myself.