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

[MrsChicky55]

So I just candled my eggs with my kids. Today's day 10 and they were super excited to get to see embryonic movement and the heart beating through the arteries. Really excited to see that they are alive. Very reassuring after all our issues with humidity and temperature. Also glad to see the air sacs developing considering the really high humidity we struggled to bring down.

Question though....we started with 34 shipped eggs. One had a minor crack upon candling- tossed it. I've had to remove 14 from the incubator. One I knew had a free floating air sac and it had a red ring of death- removed day 6. Today I removed another red ring of death and upon opening could see that the embryo had started to grow but not as big as what we saw in the other eggs. But we had a full dozen that upon eggtopsy turned out to be infertile. Is it normal for over 1/3rd of the eggs to be infertile? What is a decent fertility rate?

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Put a hole in that chair...and...well

 

[duluthralphie]

So I just candled my eggs with my kids. Today's day 10 and they were super excited to get to see embryonic movement and the heart beating through the arteries. Really excited to see that they are alive. Very reassuring after all our issues with humidity and temperature. Also glad to see the air sacs developing considering the really high humidity we struggled to bring down.

Question though....we started with 34 shipped eggs. One had a minor crack upon candling- tossed it. I've had to remove 14 from the incubator. One I knew had a free floating air sac and it had a red ring of death- removed day 6. Today I removed another red ring of death and upon opening could see that the embryo had started to grow but not as big as what we saw in the other eggs. But we had a full dozen that upon eggtopsy turned out to be infertile. Is it normal for over 1/3rd of the eggs to be infertile? What is a decent fertility rate?

I personally would never throw an egg on day 10...BUT I would not even look at an egg on day ten..

Shipped eggs and getting 2/3rds to start hatching is phenomenal. I am lucky to get 1/3 with shipped eggs...

 

[duluthralphie]

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That looks like a dux quacking!

 

[ronott1]

So I just candled my eggs with my kids. Today's day 10 and they were super excited to get to see embryonic movement and the heart beating through the arteries. Really excited to see that they are alive. Very reassuring after all our issues with humidity and temperature. Also glad to see the air sacs developing considering the really high humidity we struggled to bring down.

Question though....we started with 34 shipped eggs. One had a minor crack upon candling- tossed it. I've had to remove 14 from the incubator. One I knew had a free floating air sac and it had a red ring of death- removed day 6. Today I removed another red ring of death and upon opening could see that the embryo had started to grow but not as big as what we saw in the other eggs. But we had a full dozen that upon eggtopsy turned out to be infertile. Is it normal for over 1/3rd of the eggs to be infertile? What is a decent fertility rate?

With shipped eggs, a clear does not always mean it was infertile. Shipping can kill them.

A good hatch rate for shipped eggs if 50% of what you set

 

[BantyChooks]

I personally would never throw an egg on day 10...BUT I would not even look at an egg on day ten..

Shipped eggs and getting 2/3rds to start hatching is phenomenal. I am lucky to get 1/3 with shipped eggs...

X2... highest hatch rate I've ever gotten on shipped was 60%ish, and I've done more than a few batches...

 

[Lazy Farmer]

That looks like a dux quacking!

debating on hatching our purchasing last night. Come spring I am doing the duck thing.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Here comes another box of fertile eggs coming down the sidewalk!

 

[Cynthia12]

Mike will see this twice. Posted it on another thread.

 

[BantyChooks]

debating on hatching our purchasing last night. Come spring I am doing the duck thing.

Spring? Why should you wait? You don't have winter anyway.