Half Shell Hatch-A-Long! (Caution, unsuccessful, please read whole thread before attempting)

[MGG]

I’m excited! I hope s/he makes it!!!

I'm sorry I missed you! Happy to have you. Me too.

 

[MGG]

I might join you but do a full shell-less go at it, the whole chick-in-a-cup thing. My junglefowl was too far along the last time to try. Haha.
I have quail eggs coming and they usually send extras, and those guys are small enough I should be able to fit a smaller cup in the incubator then. It’ll be similar, just in a different vessel.

Oh yay!!!! I saw a video where a guy did a quail egg in half a chicken egg. He never turned it at all which I think was his problem. I just didn't want to worry about the calcium powder and oxygen or whatever. I'd love to have you join me though, I really wanted to try the no shell thing. I wish you luck! You can post updates on yours on this thread if you want. It's annoying there's almost no info on this, and there arent very many succesful ones. I've seen several videos where you see the chick on day 16, and then it skips to just a chick, and they say it hatched. Suspicious... Lol.

 

[Trisseh]

Oh yay!!!! I saw a video where a guy did a quail egg in half a chicken egg. He never turned it at all which I think was his problem. I just didn't want to worry about the calcium powder and oxygen or whatever. I'd love to have you join me though, I really wanted to try the no shell thing. I wish you luck! You can post updates on yours on this thread if you want. It's annoying there's almost no info on this, and there arent very many succesful ones. I've seen several videos where you see the chick on day 16, and then it skips to just a chick, and they say it hatched. Suspicious... Lol.

Cool! Depending on when my eggs show up it may wind up being pretty close to the same timing for us, for hatching. It would be nice to compare.

Yeah, my plan is to just tip it side to side like I do with the jiggly air cell eggs. I’ve got access to calcium and some disinfectant to put in the bottom of the cup and all that jazz, and a relatively open incubator so why not. the one video I saw that kind of shows from start to finish was good, I believe that it was the same chick; but who knows how many they had to set to get one viable one, right? Worth a try though, FOR SCIENCE.

 

[MGG]

Cool! Depending on when my eggs show up it may wind up being pretty close to the same timing for us, for hatching. It would be nice to compare.

Yeah, my plan is to just tip it side to side like I do with the jiggly air cell eggs. I’ve got access to calcium and some disinfectant to put in the bottom of the cup and all that jazz, and a relatively open incubator so why not. the one video I saw that kind of shows from start to finish was good, I believe that it was the same chick; but who knows how many they had to set to get one viable one, right? Worth a try though, FOR SCIENCE.

This will be fun I think! How exactly do I go about the turning? Do I need a half of an egg carton and just tip it? I'm worried the egg white will spill out the hole. That might be ridiculous, Idk. Lol.

 

[CaliFarmsAR]

I'm sorry I missed you! Happy to have you. Me too.

Oh it’s fine! Thank you for having me on!!

 

[Trisseh]

This will be fun I think! How exactly do I go about the turning? Do I need a half of an egg carton and just tip it? I'm worried the egg white will spill out the hole. That might be ridiculous, Idk. Lol.

Chicken eggs seem a lot more forgiving than say duck eggs when it comes to turning, from what I’ve read. I tipped my entire incubator to “turn” my last batch, it was maybe a 30 degree angle? Just enough to slosh the contents the other way. Haha. I guess the other option would be to tip the egg inside the carton cell? Depending on how big the egg is... bantam or medium eggs in a large carton will flop back and forth so that might be enough.

 

[MGG]

Chicken eggs seem a lot more forgiving than say duck eggs when it comes to turning, from what I’ve read. I tipped my entire incubator to “turn” my last batch, it was maybe a 30 degree angle? Just enough to slosh the contents the other way. Haha. I guess the other option would be to tip the egg inside the carton cell? Depending on how big the egg is... bantam or medium eggs in a large carton will flop back and forth so that might be enough.

Ok. Yeah, these are chicken eggs from an unknown chicken in my flock. I'm guessing the SLW. She doesn't lay much anymore and these eggs don't look like any egg I've ever gotten. A neighbor has some bantams, I wonder if he'd give me a couple fertile eggs? Maybe I'll ask. I'll see about the tipping. How much do I need to tip for it to have sufficiently turned? 30 degrees like you said?

 

[Trisseh]

Ok. Yeah, these are chicken eggs from an unknown chicken in my flock. I'm guessing the SLW. She doesn't lay much anymore and these eggs don't look like any egg I've ever gotten. A neighbor has some bantams, I wonder if he'd give me a couple fertile eggs? Maybe I'll ask. I'll see about the tipping. How much do I need to tip for it to have sufficiently turned? 30 degrees like you said?

According to some studies I just looked up haha, the bare minimum is 35 degrees with 90 degrees being preferable. You won’t get a 90 degree angle change with an open egg but if you’re keeping it intact for the first week it should be fine, since that’s the most crucial turning period - you could turn it the full 90 degrees for that time period and be ok with less dramatic turning after? From my understanding of it anyways.
I’ve done the incubator tipping twice now and had chicks hatch, not all of them but they were shipped eggs so who knows what else was going on in there. Lol.

 

[MGG]

According to some studies I just looked up haha, the bare minimum is 35 degrees with 90 degrees being preferable. You won’t get a 90 degree angle change with an open egg but if you’re keeping it intact for the first week it should be fine, since that’s the most crucial turning period - you could turn it the full 90 degrees for that time period and be ok with less dramatic turning after? From my understanding of it anyways.
I’ve done the incubator tipping twice now and had chicks hatch, not all of them but they were shipped eggs so who knows what else was going on in there. Lol.

Ok. I will just wait a few more days then. I can't tip the whole incubator, the water channels will spill and leak out through the vents in the base. I'll see about cutting a carton. Do I have to make "air hole" vents in it?

 

[Trisseh]

Ok. I will just wait a few more days then. I can't tip the whole incubator, the water channels will spill and leak out through the vents in the base. I'll see about cutting a carton. Do I have to make "air hole" vents in it?

That makes sense, I can tip my janoel because the bottom is solid. Lol. When I made mine I cut the sides down so it’s just the cups, and I popped a hole in the bottom. I don’t think it matters so much as long as you’re using the cardboard type cartons; they breathe a bit anyways.
You’ve probably seen the way some people turn them with 2 carton trays and extra or fake eggs underneath? Something like that might work for you too... it’ll depend on how much space you have in there I guess.
Lol. All speculation, I haven’t done this before either. xD