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

[AnneInTheBurbs]

Hello all! Just popping in for some advice please.

I bought these eggs from eBay, so they are shipped. Two did not develop, and I pulled one quitter yesterday. Today is lockdown, but as expected, some of the air cells are wonky, saddle shaped. They seem like they are not as big as they should be for some, but it’s hard to tell. (I should have marked them on the eggs like @Sally Sunshine says to do in the instructions...)


I added some additional eggs 2 days later from a friend, so I kept the Turner in there, but removed the trays and laid these eggs on their side to hatch. Also cranked up the humidity as best I could, but I will have to add more moisture tomorrow, as the heater is drying everything out this time of year. I have hatched before, but it’s always nerve racking, especially with shipped eggs.

Any advice for improving my hatch?

 

[kwhites634]

Rise & shine! Daylight's aburnin'

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Rise & shine! Daylight's aburnin'

overcast here with misty rain..

 

[Pensmaster]

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Hello all! Just popping in for some advice please.

I bought these eggs from eBay, so they are shipped. Two did not develop, and I pulled one quitter yesterday. Today is lockdown, but as expected, some of the air cells are wonky, saddle shaped. They seem like they are not as big as they should be for some, but it’s hard to tell. (I should have marked them on the eggs like @Sally Sunshine says to do in the instructions...)


I added some additional eggs 2 days later from a friend, so I kept the Turner in there, but removed the trays and laid these eggs on their side to hatch. Also cranked up the humidity as best I could, but I will have to add more moisture tomorrow, as the heater is drying everything out this time of year. I have hatched before, but it’s always nerve racking, especially with shipped eggs.

Any advice for improving my hatch?

Good morning, everything sounds great so far. AC look great for shipped eggs. I’m assuming that the incubator is a styrofoam type which is good as well. It’s what I hatch in.

If it is styrofoam I fight the humidity thing like you do. The house heater here removes any moisture as well and that’s very little in our area. I’ve cut the two small strips of styrofoam out of the bottom of mine to give more surface area. Adding water with the straw is made much easier this way also. Something I relearned on the NYHAL was to add a sponge for more evaporation. I put a new kitchen sponge in sponge sized Tupperware container small enough that it doesn’t hit the heating element. Set that by the straw hole and fill water into the container and the bottom of incubator at the same time. You will have no trouble keeping the humidity up with the sponge. Mine shot right up.
I also hatch in a cardboard egg carton with the bottoms cut off, to hold eggs upright. Less mess and chicks aren’t using the others as bowling pins.

 

[Pensmaster]

Rise & shine! Daylight's aburnin'

It is just getting started here can make out trees now. Lots to do today. How’s your bum doing from the fall. Better I hope.

overcast here with misty rain..

No rain or snow in forecast here. Mid 70’s later.

 

[kwhites634]

It is just getting started here can make out trees now. Lots to do today. How’s your bum doing from the fall. Better I hope.

No rain or snow in forecast here. Mid 70’s later.

No bum problems, thanks. Seem to have dodged another bullet; should have been dead years ago, like before adulthood.
Lot of the ice is getting mushy; warming some.

 

[Pensmaster]

No bum problems, thanks. Seem to have dodged another bullet; should have been dead years ago, like before adulthood.
Lot of the ice is getting mushy; warming some.

You and me both on the dead part. Glad it’s doing good.
The slip and slid here has dried up for the most part. Already need to water and it’s only February. Daffodils are blooming starting yesterday. 5 deer just walked through.

 

[kwhites634]

You and me both on the dead part. Glad it’s doing good.
The slip and slid here has dried up for the most part. Already need to water and it’s only February. Daffodils are blooming starting yesterday. 5 deer just walked through.

I had to laugh at myself after I fell. I couldn't get a foothold anywhere, so while I was down I slid across the ice on my backside 'til I got hold of the fence. Didn't even get wet.

 

[Pensmaster]

I had to laugh at myself after I fell. I couldn't get a foothold anywhere, so while I was down I slid across the ice on my backside 'til I got hold of the fence. Didn't even get wet.

That’s just too cold.
No wonder Tucker took off. Might check with Connie in a few weeks if he’s made it there yet.

 

[kwhites634]

That’s just too cold.
No wonder Tucker took off. Might check with Connie in a few weeks if he’s made it there yet.

I highly doubt he made it very far.