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

[5Sons Coop]

I would still give them 24 hours, especially as they are likely to be fresh so an extra day should not be an issue.

I hope there super fresh and didn't lay around. That is the point of the extra effort put in to get them from about 3 hrs away....1 1/2 for me thanks to my sister-n-law. Well really an extra 1/2 hr for me because I already had a trip planned in that direction.

 

[Phage]

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Looks like smart move by feed store - chicks need feed to grow so will sell more feed, and then the chicks will lay more eggs that will hatch (think chicken math here) producing even more chicks that need feeding and so on.......

 

[AnneInTheBurbs]

 

 
Hello all! I have an incubation question, I think I may have done something wrong.  Should I ask question here or start a new thread?

Ask away

Thank you kindly!  First time using an incubator, usually use broodies.  I have a GFQ Styrofoam still with a turner.  I had gotten shipped eggs from  fellow BYCer but the shipment was delayed, so we both expected poor viability.  That was correct, none of them developed.  I also included four of my own girls' fertile eggs in case we had a lone hatch from her stock.   Mine have all developed well, and tomorrow is lockdown, day 18.  

I just candled the eggs this morning, and the air cells don't look big enough.  I was a jerk and didn't weigh them before I put them in, so I don't know the weight difference. 

It's not a big deal if they don't hatch, but I'd like to at least learn.  Is there anything I can do now?  I had been running the humidity at 35%, but sometimes it got up to 40%.  Our house is pretty dry right now. 

Original post above. Pictures below are what I just took. Any advice welcome!

 

[Akrnaf2]

We have a spider here that makes like a parachute out of a web and glides wherever the wind takes them setting up a new place to live where they land. Others glide rather precisely, google do spiders fly if you dare. National Geographic has quite the study on gliding spiders.

Coming into this rather late.....reminded me of Charolette's web, how her babies floated off into the breeze saying goodbyes to Wilbur   Cute rendition with computer animation and Julia Roberts doing the voice for Charolette.  

Love your Avatar, is it a Great Pyrenees?

 

[5Sons Coop]

Original post above. Pictures below are what I just took. Any advice welcome!

I am a rookie compared to the experts that keep up with tread, but I think they will hatch.

 

[Hawk12]

Lost one of my brahma babies today from a dumb mistake I made. I have the housed in a cage and when I fed everyone yesterday I apparently didn't latch their cage and they got out. My adult birds killed the little room but the little girl managed to find herself a hiding place and survived unscathed. Other than having s*** scared out of her. I imagine literally too. Poor girl! She was sure happy to see me. Good thing I decided to hatch more for the EHAL. I need me another rooster. Glad the girl survived though, think she's gonna be a beauty.

 

[Akrnaf2]

Why do ducks have to TWENTY EIGHT (long, long, long, long, long, LLLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGG) DAYS to hatch?

Send a PM to the Almighty and ask! I really would like to see the answer!

 

[Akrnaf2]

 

Why do ducks have to TWENTY EIGHT (long, long, long, long, long, LLLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGG) DAYS to hatch?

For the same reason geese take 35 and Emus take 60, larger birds require a longer time to develop.

Wonder how long it took Big Bird, from Sesame Street

Or this terror birds, especially no 5!

 

[Akrnaf2]

Elephants take 2 years....that's why they have flat feet.  

The male elephant get pregnant too?

Actually they are going on their finger point, but they have a huge fat sack under their ankle making the foot looking flat.

 

[Akrnaf2]

eeeewwwwwwwwww

fertile eggs?  why you say fertile?   and I have no clue how to break a broody goose except dont let her at the nest box

what u mean why a say fertile

CH did you have any wild gees near your house lately?