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

[duluthralphie]

@duluthralphie somewhere I saw (and am too lazy to go back to find it) you said your hatching egg cartons were disintegrating after washing them a few times with bleach. Guess they will do that.

I use antibacterial washing up liquid and hope that the "0.001% of bacteria" that it does not kill are NOT the ones in the bator. Seems to work fine.

Love Lysol too (hate bleach as clothes end up peppered with white spots).

I bought some of those plastic egg cartons that are used on camping trips today. I am going to cut them in half and use them. I will be able to wash them in the dishwasher. (The WWD was not as excited about this part as I was).

I also like they are more square than rectangular, that means more room around them for crawling chicks. I also think I can soak them in a Duxicide in case anyone sneaks a dux egg into my hatchers.

As far as the bleach "stains: on my clothes that too bothers the WWD way more than it bothers me.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

ANYONE see this? https://www.avitronics.co.uk/what_buddy_offer

What can Buddy offer you?


Heart Rates
The first thing that the user will notice when a fertile egg is put into Buddy is a visual heart readout. Just that in itself gives a warming knowledge that everything is fine. The heart icon is flashing away at a good rhythm in conjunction with the pulse line and the three-digit heart rate is telling you how many beats per minute this is all happening at!

The heart rate of a developing chick in the shell is staggering when seen for the first time! Most Parrots and parrot-like birds are up around 260 – 290 beats per minute (BPM).
As you monitor your eggs during the incubation period you will for most of that period see that 260 – 280 BPM is the norm. If heart rate changes you will notice and want to know why?

During the trials of Buddy, an egg at mid-duration of incubation period was placed into Buddy, and heart rate recorded at 260 BPM. As the egg cooled after 1 – 2 minutes, heart rate slowed noticeably down to 220 BPM and further !
At 3 – 4 minutes it was down to 180 – 190.
This is quite natural because the egg is slowing down to conserve energy while the sitting hen may be away from the nest for a short period of time.

Internal Pip – a critical time
Toward the end of incubation a developing chick will ‘internal pip’ – this is a very important time. The chick has to push its way through the internal membrane. This is the membrane that separates the developing embryo from the ‘airs ac’ end. This normally happens 2 full days before hatch and is extremely demanding on the chick’s energy reserves. You will notice this on the heart rate read outs.
At this stage it is almost impossible to get a read out while the chick is moving and pushing inside of the egg. Buddy amplifies everything 20.000 times so this ‘noise’ is also amplified and displayed to the Buddy user as chick movement. That is the little chick icon on the screen and can be seen flapping its wings.
Only when the chick rests during this exhausting period will you get a heart rate readout and you will notice it to be lower than usual around 190 – 200 BP because of the hard work.

External Pip and Hatching
After the ‘internal pip’ stage your chick will set about the task of ‘external pip’.
This is when the chick begins the task of pipping around the inside of the shell; this normally takes the remaining two days of your incubation period.
Again all crashing and banging is amplified 20.000 times so the ‘chick moving’ icon will be busy.
As during internal pip the chick will rest and heart rates will be displayed.
If you can visually see that the chick is pipping the egg around the entire circumference then a perfect hatch is probably going to happen. But if you see the chick is pipping in one area only then the chick could be stuck in the internal membrane. If after the two day hatching period the chick is still in this one position and Buddy is indicating that the heart rates are now down around 90 – 100 BPM then assistance is required to save the chick.
This assistance can be safely carried out as long as the two-day hatching period has elapsed. If after the two day hatching period Buddy is indicating a weak heart rate and no ‘pips’ can be seen then the chick may be breach (wrong way around in the egg).
Assistance can save these chicks that would otherwise have been Dead in Shell (DIS). Buddy will tell you!
We have had many many ‘phone calls from Buddy users who have saved chicks that would have been DIS because they could not get out!

 

[Phage]

Quote:
DH was working late last night so I got all the bator stuff up from the basement and washed it in the kitchen sink and felt very rebellious as that is not approved of.

By the time he got in "nothing" had happened

He also complains that everything in the kitchen is fair game as chick hatching/brooding paraphernalia

 

[duluthralphie]

DH was working late last night so I got all the bator stuff up from the basement and washed it in the kitchen sink and felt very rebellious as that is not approved of.

By the time he got in "nothing" had happened

He also complains that everything in the kitchen is fair game as chick hatching/brooding paraphernalia

He he related to the WWD? Maybe one of her demon brothers?

 

[Phage]

ANYONE see this? https://www.avitronics.co.uk/what_buddy_offer

What can Buddy offer you?


Heart Rates
The first thing that the user will notice when a fertile egg is put into Buddy is a visual heart readout. Just that in itself gives a warming knowledge that everything is fine. The heart icon is flashing away at a good rhythm in conjunction with the pulse line and the three-digit heart rate is telling you how many beats per minute this is all happening at!

The heart rate of a developing chick in the shell is staggering when seen for the first time! Most Parrots and parrot-like birds are up around 260 – 290 beats per minute (BPM).
As you monitor your eggs during the incubation period you will for most of that period see that 260 – 280 BPM is the norm. If heart rate changes you will notice and want to know why?

During the trials of Buddy, an egg at mid-duration of incubation period was placed into Buddy, and heart rate recorded at 260 BPM. As the egg cooled after 1 – 2 minutes, heart rate slowed noticeably down to 220 BPM and further !
At 3 – 4 minutes it was down to 180 – 190.
This is quite natural because the egg is slowing down to conserve energy while the sitting hen may be away from the nest for a short period of time.

Internal Pip – a critical time
Toward the end of incubation a developing chick will ‘internal pip’ – this is a very important time. The chick has to push its way through the internal membrane. This is the membrane that separates the developing embryo from the ‘airs ac’ end. This normally happens 2 full days before hatch and is extremely demanding on the chick’s energy reserves. You will notice this on the heart rate read outs.
At this stage it is almost impossible to get a read out while the chick is moving and pushing inside of the egg. Buddy amplifies everything 20.000 times so this ‘noise’ is also amplified and displayed to the Buddy user as chick movement. That is the little chick icon on the screen and can be seen flapping its wings.
Only when the chick rests during this exhausting period will you get a heart rate readout and you will notice it to be lower than usual around 190 – 200 BP because of the hard work.

External Pip and Hatching
After the ‘internal pip’ stage your chick will set about the task of ‘external pip’.
This is when the chick begins the task of pipping around the inside of the shell; this normally takes the remaining two days of your incubation period.
Again all crashing and banging is amplified 20.000 times so the ‘chick moving’ icon will be busy.
As during internal pip the chick will rest and heart rates will be displayed.
If you can visually see that the chick is pipping the egg around the entire circumference then a perfect hatch is probably going to happen. But if you see the chick is pipping in one area only then the chick could be stuck in the internal membrane. If after the two day hatching period the chick is still in this one position and Buddy is indicating that the heart rates are now down around 90 – 100 BPM then assistance is required to save the chick.
This assistance can be safely carried out as long as the two-day hatching period has elapsed. If after the two day hatching period Buddy is indicating a weak heart rate and no ‘pips’ can be seen then the chick may be breach (wrong way around in the egg).
Assistance can save these chicks that would otherwise have been Dead in Shell (DIS). Buddy will tell you!
We have had many many ‘phone calls from Buddy users who have saved chicks that would have been DIS because they could not get out!

Saw it a couple of years ago, but it seems to have come a long way!!
Seem to recall it is expensive!!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: I didnt look at price, how do you think it works? like a baby doppler thing?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: lol I would tell you that your are terrible but you know that your terrible funny

 

[Sally Sunshine]

@fire370 wondering if you ever made a Farm/Poultry Website?

 

[Phage]

Quote:
You never know, though I have to say apart from the incomprehensible lack of "passion" for anything chicken related he is pretty chill

....

BUT then there are the ROAD BIKES - his latest bike is worth more than his car, and I can tell you mammal or as it is correctly spelt MAMIL* has a totally different meaning around here... there are swarms of them on the roads at the weekend - make that every day.


*Middle Aged Men In Lycra


Guess the chickens cancel the lycra AND I have to wash the lycra

 

[kajira]

I see bars on the windows; - is this advanced prep to the teens "under control"????

No, it's because I was worried if he didn't put something on the window, the kids would climb through it since the stairs were there.