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

[Sally Sunshine]

My joy at hatching all of my viable eggs is dampened slightly by my candle of the other dozen I had going--you know, the filthy ones that got bounced around the county by the postal service.

8 blood rings, 3 clears, and 1 lonely embryo.

I think it was a combination of factors--the shipping (despite being done as recommended by Sally Sunshine), the fecal contamination, and I put them in a cheap incubator and kept fiddling with the heat because it wasn't maintaining temps.

What do I do with a lone baby, if it makes it? Will it adapt alright having siblings that are two weeks older? We have no fall chick days here, so I can't just pick up a buddy for it.

I suppose there is no point worrying about it now--I don't know if it will even hatch.

No more Ebay eggs for me!

I try to never purchase shipped eggs farther from an adjoining state. and always fresh fresh eggs and requested shipped as you tried. I have hatched many dirty eggs. I think your air cells were rolling, when you suggested you cant see them I had thought that immediately. nothing you can do about them, if they are truly rollers from end to end rolling, I have yet to see one hatch. many can hatch from loose, but detached nah but I always toss them. I dont want to have to baby chicks, I want the strongest chicks I can get from an egg. Sometimes I swear for the real bad ones, it may be better to just let them go a week before turning just a tad, and keep them upright once started upright, only laying at lockdown.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Despite the size difference, it really does depend on the older babies, and the amount of space. If nothing else, put a clear or wire divider between them. I will give you more ideas when I’m done driving myself insane with stuff here.

I was worried about adding the shipped silkie chicks in with the ones I hatched out in the coop, but they were fine. they all hang together now.
but they do always have a small area to run under the nest boxes to get away from the bigger ones should they want to.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I am ready for bed already, had Teagan from six this am until 330 and then I made 6 loafs of soap, three honey almond and three lav with pink salts. I ran out of shea butter so I had to stop ugh I really need to buy in bigger bulk, but dang house is so small!!!

I keep getting messages that people want to come to shop here. I dont have a soap shed or a store or anything, and the places that carry my soap dont carry much inventory. I really would like something here but I really dont want to deal one on one with people when I have so much going on all the time. Half the time people are scheduled to come and I have to reschedule because of kids or something or other. Like taking a major tumble thursday after kid got her braces on. I still hurt pretty bad. sucks getting old and they should really fix that sidewalk. Next person may not be as nice as me.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

I don't post a whole lot but I'm really excited for band season this year lol. Brendon's first parade of the season was today...They're doing a "Haunted Highlanders" theme this year and it's going to be a ton of fun. They have tombstone props and some kids are being zombies for the halftime show this year lol. This is from the Fireman's Jubilee parade today

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=2413651022005194

 

[Cynthia12]

That was cute. .

 

[Uff Da]

Gosh darn it, I lost my favorite chick. It had amazing coloring, and I was thrilled to see how it would turn out. This is the first hatchling I've lost. Why did it have to be this one?

On another note, I'm having a REALLY hard time convincing myself to wait to hatch again until spring. This is so addictive! I even looked on Ebay again, lol. Logic shall prevail, because I want to either get more local eggs, or order from the place I got my first eggs from (all the eggs that didn't hatch were my fault). And I don't want to fuss with babies in frigid temps. So I'll wait. I mean it, I'll wait!

 

[BullChick]

No, you won’t!

 

[Pensmaster]

Gosh darn it, I lost my favorite chick. It had amazing coloring, and I was thrilled to see how it would turn out. This is the first hatchling I've lost. Why did it have to be this one?

On another note, I'm having a REALLY hard time convincing myself to wait to hatch again until spring. This is so addictive! I even looked on Ebay again, lol. Logic shall prevail, because I want to either get more local eggs, or order from the place I got my first eggs from (all the eggs that didn't hatch were my fault). And I don't want to fuss with babies in frigid temps. So I'll wait. I mean it, I'll wait!

I’m convinced.

 

[Cynthia12]

Me too! Wait...nah...

 

[Phage]

..... On another note, I'm having a REALLY hard time convincing myself to wait to hatch again until spring. This is so addictive! I even looked on Ebay again, lol. .... So I'll wait. I mean it, I'll wait!

SURE THING!!!!