INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

[Hawk12]

Hi everyone! Here is my update from my hatch. I incubated blue cochins. The hatch was going wonderfully until lockdown. I had 14 eggs growing perfectly until the 1st power outage on day 1 of lockdown. The eggs were without power for 6 hours that night. The power came back on until the morning of day 3 lockdown. At that point I brought all the eggs into bed with me and kept them warm with my body heat but I had no control over humidity. I had to transport them to my parents to finish the hatch. 3 hatched on their own and having a bad feeling I intervened with the rest. Most were dead Two were perfectly formed, ready to hatch but never did. That was very hard for me. The 3 I helped were shrink wrapped and would have died if I didn't help them. It's always hard to know if and when to assist. So I ended up with 6 beautiful babies but I'm having a hard time not thinking about the ones I lost.

 

[casportpony]

I had 4 like that in my one and only incubation. I assisted all 4, and all 4 are happy, healthy chicks! I got really lucky!!!

You saved all four, that's pretty good. I'm at about 50% on mine.

-Kathy

 

[TJChickens]

Hi everyone!

I'm as caught up to this thread as I'll ever be. I cheated though and read every 4th or 5th page....Did catch most of the drama.

I will be candling the eggs in the mind reader bator tonight. I only candled them on day 7. 6 of the 7 eggs were developing well and one was clear. Today is day 14. Bator has been running pretty smooth. These are my NYD HAL eggs. Seramas from my flock.

The R-com has 11 shipped Serama eggs and 4 of my Serama eggs in it. They were set last Saturday. All 4 of mine are developing great. Out of the shipped eggs which mostly were messed up, 4 are developing. One had a blood ring and nothing in the rest. I have not taken any out yet to open them. Out of the 4 that are developing, two are pretty bad saddle cells and two are almost normal looking cells.

Mind Reader Bator

Cells marked the day I set the shipped eggs. The ones that are developing are the top one that's in a row by itself, the two on the far right of the middle row, (horrible, wonky cells!), and the one on the far right in the bottom row.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Good! I'm sheltering inside right now from the crazy windstorm outside drawing some birds. I don't celebrate Christmas but my grandma always gets me a amazon gift card. I'm gonna get a book about training a herding dog with it.

I decided yesterday to get Cackle Hatchery's surprise box come april.

sweet gift!

Thanks, Sally Sunshine!

Super excited to see how we hatch out. Yes, we have it at 102 at the top of the eggs in the still air, not worrying much about raising humidity until lockdown - it's pretty even with our home.

Awesome! Cant wait until you candle!! just watch air cells to be sure your not loosing too much.

Oh, and the breeds! I resisted buying Welsummer and Marans eggs locally so we could get our hatch rates up and get to know the bator first with some barnyard mixes. BEAUTIFUL eggs! Black Australorps, Buff Orps, Production Reds, just a bunch of brown layers that give some beautiful colors. Lots of pinks, too!

awesome eggs and you did your homework!!!

AWESOME!!!! glad your doing your own barnyards first!!!

Pouring down rain and windy here. Slowly turning to sleet/ice ahead of all the snow we are supposed to get tomorrow thru Monday.

careful with that stuff fire

Yes, there was a link to an article in it regarding Panacur AquaSol being approved in Europe for broilers, layers and breeders.

oh good!! I should have read your post better cause you said you saw it lol

his one from last year that was peeping but hadn't pipped internally.

It actually lived.

-Kathy

Kathy do you remember discussing this, some people insist they wont peep until internal pipped, when I had dry membranes I had them like this too.

awesome images too!

GUESS what! Got my first crested cream leg bar egg today! Gorgeous blue egg! Set a bator of 42 eggs, half ee and am and half bcm.

12 one week old chicks doing good
16 five week old chicks moved outside today since it's 76 degrees. They are happy

So I'm off for hatch 3! Wish me luck!

Hey any way to check fertility before you set theegg WITHOUT breaking the egg. She gave me extra bcm eggs so I'd like to set the ones I know are fertile, if possible...

BJ!!! 76 everyone is happy right? HATCH 3 comin up!! not really bj

when you have malpositioned chicks, is it better to help sooner than later?

this time didn't see as many but still lost the whole hatch at lockdown. 2/7 were in a really odd position

Mals typically pip externally BEFORE the others, because they are pipping right to the outside of the shell, NOT into an air cell. So their timing is much different than normal hatchings. They also will be the last eggs standing in the bator, the ones DIS/ unable to pip.

When I see a malposition at the begin of the hatch, typically from lack of turning properly I will grab the egg and just make sure the chick is chirping and the pip is clear from liquids and then put it back. sometimes they die at this stage from liquids/drowning. some pop yolks etc. most times they get out on their own if they are let to do their own thing after you check they are clear to breath.

Fixed it for you.

lol

 

[Jessimom]

I assisted 4 after a few hours of pipping. I removed a tiny bit of shell around the pip, and when I didn't see blood vessels, I opened a 1/4" slit in the membrane by the beak so the chick could get fresh air. I kept the membrane wet with a damp Q-tip while working on it. I left them alone for a few more hours, and then removed a little more shell from around the hole. Then I left them alone. All 4 hatched by zipping around the middle of the shells.

Since I have never hatched before, I'm not going to assist any of them. My pip hasn't done anything more. She's the only pip. But I do hear chirping from more than one. My humidity is high - I was having to add water hourly to keep it above 50, so I put in a sponge. Now it's it holding steady at 85. Is it more dangerous to have high humidity or low?

 

[daxigait]

I am going to be wishing I could walk on water with all this rain. We are getting torrential rain here, and water is overflowing all over.

 

[casportpony]

Foot over head and beak over wing


























-Kathy

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Well, those are events of sorts. My wife worked yesterday as well, then the kids came over and spent the evening. That was pretty much it...  

sometimes quiet is best

 

[slordaz]

Thanks Sally, trying one last hatch in that LG, going this dry incubation but without the turner this time, if that doesn't work it's going in the trash

Have 10 leghorn crosses down as of 3 days ago.

Cannot decide though what I would replace it with, a brinse or a home made one

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

Hi everyone! Here is my update from my hatch. I incubated blue cochins. The hatch was going wonderfully until lockdown. I had 14 eggs growing perfectly until the 1st power outage on day 1 of lockdown. The eggs were without power for 6 hours that night. The power came back on until the morning of day 3 lockdown. At that point I brought all the eggs into bed with me and kept them warm with my body heat but I had no control over humidity. I had to transport them to my parents to finish the hatch. 3 hatched on their own and having a bad feeling I intervened with the rest. Most were dead

Two were perfectly formed, ready to hatch but never did. That was very hard for me. The 3 I helped were shrink wrapped and would have died if I didn't help them. It's always hard to know if and when to assist. So I ended up with 6 beautiful babies but I'm having a hard time not thinking about the ones I lost.

It's hard to incubate without power. You did all you could, and were lucky to have any survivors. I know it's hard to get that close, but at least you have something to show for your efforts. Sorry for your losses...

You saved all four, that's pretty good. I'm at about 50% on mine.

-Kathy

Nah... as I mentioned earlier, I got really lucky. I'm a realist, and I know it might not go so well next time... but I'm awfully optimistic, too! Okay... I'm a little bit of everything!!!