Hands on hatching and help

[rochesjourney]

Great!!


We really need to get into a place of our own with a little land! I was offered some sebbie eggs for some silkie chicks. I want sebbies!! Lol No way I can have geese here, but maybe I'll have a source for the future.....

That is why we moved from California to Texas! We have just over an acre. Just imagine how many chickens I can get on an acre.

The one sebbie egg I have left is still going and my first duck just hatched!

 

[casportpony]

Strangest air cell I have ever seen. Anyone have any idea why it looks like this?

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Strangest air cell I have ever seen. Anyone have any idea why it looks like this?

Nope. Is that a duck egg?

 

[casportpony]

Nope. Is that a duck egg?

Yes, duck egg. It's one of nine and they other eight look normal internal and external pips.

 

[rochesjourney]

Strangest air cell I have ever seen. Anyone have any idea why it looks like this?

My goose egg air sac looks similar.

 

[BYC910]

Nope. Is that a duck egg?

Strangest air cell I have ever seen. Anyone have any idea why it looks like this?

Had a Marans egg look like that and there was a tiny pin hole low on the egg .

Is it alive ? Mine developed but didn't hatch .

 

[Dennyis]

If you see the beak in the air cell, which will look like a moving shadow in there, he's internally pipped. It looks like that might have been the case from your earlier photo

So the progress is like this
Hes moving (internal pip) for 24hours and then cheerp last night, but still dont see any pip hole yet, im so worry but lets wait til tomorrow

 

[casportpony]

Yesterday:


Today


Yesterday I decided to make a pip for it and it looked like maybe it was shrink-wrapped? I cranked up the humidity in the hatcher and now it looks like this. See that little hole? I wonder if that had something to do with it?

 

[jenniferlamar70]

Yesterday: Today Yesterday I decided to make a pip for it and it looked like maybe it was shrink-wrapped? I cranked up the humidity in the hatcher and now it looks like this. See that little hole? I wonder if that had something to do with it?

I've had that happen before with my shipped eggs. Did seem shrink wrapped when i opened them up.

 

[Chicken cas]

Ok I have (almost) survived my first hatching. I have 13 seemingly healthy chicks. The last one to hatch was a Light Brahma early this morning. I have about the same number of eggs in my bator left. How long do I leave them and can I "peek"? They rested as of Thursday March 30th. My silkie showed me out by not only hatching the 4 I gave her but 3 of her own (my buff orpington rooster bred her) they are too cute with their bald necks and mom"s feather pattern!