Help! Day 7 & Incubator Knocked HARD

[WVduckchick]

@MacCana how about an update? How are things going?

 

[MacCana]

Sorry it took me so long to reply. I went to the other day - had message typed and everything - but I was distracted and then my computer was hijacked by my husband lol. Anyway, I candled on day 10, and nothing new to report that I haven't already except that one of the eggs air cell shifted and reattached in a shady place. I've still got it in the incubator, but I'm not sure how it's going to go.
Heres a quick drawing of its location:

I'm not experienced with an egg like this. What's the probability of it hatching you think, guys? I've considered using my 2nd incubator for it by itself on lockdown, so it doesn't get knocked around, and I can assist in hatching w/o drying the other eggs out by opening the incubator. Is the extra effort necessary? If I were to make sure it sits air cell up during lockdown, will it most likely hatch? Or should I have culled this one?

BTW,I can't report on if I could see movement in the eggs or not bc most are green so they are really hard to see into enough to tell.

 

[lazy gardener]

Is there enough room for you to put that egg in a basket to protect it from getting jostled by the others?

 

[MacCana]

Is there enough room for you to put that egg in a basket to protect it from getting jostled by the others?

Yes, there will be. My main concern was if I needed to assist it during hatch. I could dry out the membranes in the other ones doing so.
But if you all think as long as long as I put it in something to keep it air-cell-up & from being jostled, that it will hatch, I'd rather just keep them all in the same incubator.
I'm just wondering how it can "zip" it's shell off like this

 

[MacCana]

Well tonight is lockdown, so I am going to candle here soon and take out my egg turner. I guess I'm going to situate that one egg air cell up and make sure it can't be knocked around.

Hope that's the right thing to do, I'm really worried about it. It's of course, is the biggest, most perfectly mint green egg out of the bunch.

I will update if anything has changed worth mentioning after candling.

I plan on posting the results as I go, and will have baby chook pics too (That's really why we're all here right???)

It's going to be a restless 3 days...

Wish me luck!

 

[WVduckchick]

Great! At least its the weekend! Mine will go into lockdown next Monday.
Yes, please keep us updated! Good luck!

 

[MacCana]

Great! At least its the weekend! Mine will go into lockdown next Monday.
Yes, please keep us updated! Good luck!

It was an accident the way it worked out, but I'm on spring break and I start back school on Tuesday, so it really is perfect (btw, did I mention all the EE eggs are from my World Civ. professor? lol. He was grateful for putting him in touch with someone who had an Ameracauna rooster (the father of these eggs), so I got free hatching eggs ^-^).
I will be able to go tell him how it went also.

And thanks for the good wishes! I just finished candling and added some hot water through my handy dandy straw contraption.

3 eggs had stopped developing and had obvious blood rings so they were tossed. (I had a better flashlight this time) 2 of those were cracked ones, but another cracked one is still going strong. I hope it makes it. It'll be the first cracked one that I've been able to prevent infection in. Candle wax was a great idea. It's the first time I've done that.

The one with the funky air cell is still doing great too and if I'm not mistaken, looked as if it was growing from the under side of the air cell, with it's head facing that air cell.
I have no idea how it's going to go. I put it in a small measuring cup lined with t.p., air cell up.

I am only unsure of one egg. It was too dark to see into.

See ya'll day 21

 

[MacCana]

We have babiessss!!!
2 so far. The first one pulled a fast one on me so I didn't see it hatch, but I did the second one- which I have pics of (I gotta watch at least one hatch every time

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I have another one that's working on starting zipping. None of the others are yet.

Did I mention that the ones hatching first are my tolbunt polish/frizzles/sizzles (from a breeder) and they are hatching first bc they were put in a day earlier?
I put those 4 eggs in on a Monday evening. The following day, I got the EE eggs from my teacher and put them in that afternoon (Tuesday).

When should I expect the EEs to begin hatching? Will it be today (like the ones put in one the Monday) or will it not start until tomorrow bc they were put in just short of 24 hrs later?

Thanks for your help ya'll!

 

[WVduckchick]

That's awesome! I would expect the others to be close behind. Once one starts cheeping and moving around, I think it encourages the others. But being different kinds, it could still take more time.
Congrats so far! (I'm in lockdown, tick...tock...tick...tock... Lol)

 

[MacCana]

That's awesome! I would expect the others to be close behind. Once one starts cheeping and moving around, I think it encourages the others. But being different kinds, it could still take more time.
Congrats so far! (I'm in lockdown, tick...tock...tick...tock... Lol)

Thats great, I was hoping so

though the 2 that have hatched are almost completely dry & are having a blast playing soccer with the other eggs! But good grief I have broken a lockdown rule. I touched the knob, and now I can't get the temp stabilized in a good spot. Dang it, dang it dang it

What temp do you keep yours at? I have 2 thermometers that are always 2 degrees different. It's been at 99 on one and 101.3 on the other. I touched the knob twice today, causing a spike maybe 5 minutes long and it shot up to 101 and 103. I lowered it quickly, so I'm praying it didn't hurt anything. Currently, it spiked to like 103.6 and 101 but it lasted only 30 seconds maybe before I got it down. Though it fell to 95 and 96.5 momentarily and now it's fluctuating from that to 98 and 100. Idk why it's fluctuating. Ugh!
What risks am I dealing with here? Major hatch ruining ones or does it still sound ok to you? Not sure why my comment looks like this either, sorry.