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

[Bejammie]

How long after a pullets starts laying can u set their eggs? A month?

 

[casportpony]

A duckling:
Here is an egg that I knew would have problems.

The shadow you can see is a foot




And here it is after pipping







-Kathy

 

[slordaz]

not sure on that one Benammie, our roosters we caught breeding them as soon as they started laying as they are all free ranged, thought about locking tghe roosters up in chicken jail but the hens were squatting for them.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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.

Hey

Whats up CH?

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.

they are adorable.

and you know you shouldnt feel bad at all. you couldnt know when to help them in that situation. If you have ever wittnessed a few broody hatches you will realize how truly cruel nature can be. And this was totally out of your hands. Most people may not have done the effort you put into them and have none. Power outages suck big time. I am glad I have a generator.

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.

oh wonky air cells stink! and then trying to keep an average humidity for both sets of eggs, your all over the place on them too. Good luck! I just love that mind reader bator, its so pretty! is it turning the eggs good?

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?

dont go higher, I run 70-75 and then when they start to hatch it automatically goes up sometimes up into high 80's low 90s from all the wet chicks/ Come on babies..... oh and LOW is worse, but make sure you have plenty of air flow in that bator! come on babies!!

 

[kwhites634]

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.

Stroke, stroke, stroke
And Noah kept telling the rabbits, "only 2, only 2"

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

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?

If they're chirping, they're breathing. Low humidity would be more dangerous than high, since the membrane can literally shrink-wrap the chick, making it impossible for it to zip the shell. I've had some old-timers say they jack humidity until it fogs the window(s). In a lockdown situation, high is better than low.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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

remember 3x hand turning a day is just a min. try to do as much as u can and gently as you can as well.
you know what I suggest lol a coolerbator!

How long after a pullets starts laying can u set their eggs? A month?

it depends if you want the birds for yourself or to sell BJ... as soon as they are fertile you can get chicks... I am not sure how up to par they will be, sometimes they are smaller for the long run.

 

[Jessimom]

If they're chirping, they're breathing. Low humidity would be more dangerous than high, since the membrane can literally shrink-wrap the chick, making it impossible for it to zip the shell. I've had some old-timers say they jack humidity until it fogs the window(s). In a lockdown situation, high is better than low.

Thanks for all the help everyone!! She has really started to break out. She has about a half inch crack now. We see her beak poking out. This is so EXCITING!! She will be alone for a while, since nobody else is trying...lol

 

[Hawk12]

A generator is on my list to purchase before I do a winter hatch again. I know I did the best I could and I'm so happy with the ones that made it ♡

 

[speney]

Egg up date I had the second one hatch about an hour ago n drying off in the Bator the next two are due the first so we will wait and see but for know I'm just glad I have two very healthy chicks