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

[5Sons Coop]

The chirping egg piped! Will hatch on day 24. Hopefully there are more in the morning.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Mine are late too. There are 3 out on day 22.

 

[newchickmama91]

should be getting ready in the next few days to internal pip!  good luck!!

Oh exciting stuff!! They go into lockdown tomorrow I'm sure one of them keeps poking the membrane I hope it doesn't hatch to early

 

[Tashaf]

Hello, Salley sunshine, I'm needing your advice and expertise! I talked to you about my rotator being off for a little over 24hrs on day 7-8. It seems one egg has a loose air sac and most of the others have weird looking air sacs which makes me think the chicks will
Have a difficult time hatching. What do I do??

 

[Tashaf]

I guess you could say most of them have saddle shaped air cells. Which means detached membranes. What to do?? Is it fatal at hatch day? I have a few days till lock down. Are they detached because I had them shipped to me or because I accedently had the rotater off for a day?

 

[BullChick]

I guess you could say most of them have saddle shaped air cells. Which means detached membranes. What to do?? Is it fatal at hatch day? I have a few days till lock down. Are they detached because I had them shipped to me or because I accedently had the rotater off for a day?

Good morning! When dealing with shipped eggs, you usually need to incubate them upright. In the case of detached aircells, you don't turn for a few days.
At this point, you just relax. You are close to the end, and the chicks are alive or not. If they aren't upright, cut the bottom out of a foam egg carton, and tear off the lid. Use this to keep them upright for this hatch.

 

[BullChick]

GOOD MORNING, MY LOYAL SUBJECTS! MAY TODAY BRING YOU LOTS OF MATH, LANGUAGE ARTS, READING, LUNCH AND NAP TIME!!

 

[Beer can]

Out in the orchard today I found these on my apple trees. At first I thought lady bugs but not so. Have you seen these before? How to get rid of them?

Using my headlamp with a piece of foam to hold egg I was able to see into the dark egg fairly well. I did modify the foam tubing with duct tape to stop light leakage.

Here's the egg again

On the bugs. I use tree tanglefoot. They have a couple hanging products I believe. I just have the container and brush it on tree wrap. Stuff catches a amazing amount of bugs and remains super sticky all yr. Only have to replace it when completely covered.
Wear gloves, get it on you no matter how careful and it doesn't wash off easily. Our biggest young fruit tree killer is ants farming aphids.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Good morning all!

I woke up this morning and found an egg carton on the table with 4 big white, messy eggs in it. I know that someone DH works with has a pair of Pekin ducks since he's been asking advice and talking to DH about it for months so I'm assuming they are Pekin eggs. I'm also guessing that they're here for me to hatch lol. I've never incubated a duck egg. Is there anything I need to do that's different or can I just throw them in with everything else?

 

[BullChick]

Toss them in with the rest. I never misted, and they did fine. Keep in mind that a chicken can hatch duck eggs, but a duck can't hatch chicken eggs. The duck eggs can take the lower humidity. The chicken eggs can't take the raised.