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

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mmmmmmm what do you think? Could it be?
 
If O2 deprivation during the first 10 days of incubation followed by regular oxygen concentrations after day 10 leads to stronger chicks and higher rates of O2 over the entire incubation period leads to bigger chicks, I bet if you combined the two you would end up with the Chuck Norris of chicks.

Deprive O2 for the first 10 days so that more blood vessels develop, then find a way to increase the ambient O2 levels for the rest of the incubation period.

@Sally Sunshine
 
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Hey Kathy @casportpony something you can try with duck eggs maybe




THE EFFECT OF BOTH PRE-INCUBATION
DIPPING EGGS INVITAMIN C AND COOLING EGGS DURING INCUBATION PERIOD

ON EMBRYONICAND HATCHABILITY PARAMETERS
http://www.epsaegypt.com/pdf/2011_june/15- 1271.pdf

They dipped eggs in nothing, sterile water and two different strengths of sterile water with vit C for 2 minutes. the dipped eggs were cooled to 24C (75.2F) for 6 hours.

The eggs were kept at 24 C for a total of 6 hours

Fertile eggs cooled at 24˚C for 6 hrs at the 16th day of incubation decreased embryonic mortality compared with those non cooled
Mortality rates -
16.34% no cooling
14.85% cooling in sterile water
11.07% cooling in sterile water with 5% ascorbic acid
12.77% cooling in sterile water with 10% ascorbic acid
The most significant mortality reduction was with the 5% vitamin C solution.
Also noted, exposing eggs to cooling during incubation increased the time of hatch compared to control. Also, the whole incubation period in hours was significantly (p< 0.01) affected by cooling eggs during late incubation where the whole incubation period of cooled eggs for 6 hrs at 24˚C at the 16th day of incubation was 509.12 hrs while that of non-cooled ones was 500.67 hrs.
The increase in hatchability % suggests that, cooling reduced the metabolic rate of embryos during the latter part of incubation and relieved stress caused by excessive production of metabolic heat.


Those findings suggest that the improvement of hatchability percentage may be due to the decreasing of embryonic mortality where ascorbic acid may be regarded as an anti-stress agent


Interesting article - we need more data before we start dropping eggs in our orange juice though.
 
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If O2 deprivation during the first 10 days of incubation followed by regular oxygen concentrations after day 10 leads to stronger chicks and higher rates of O2 over the entire incubation period leads to bigger chicks, I bet if you combined the two you would end up with the Chuck Norris of chicks.

Deprive O2 for the first 10 days so that more blood vessels develop, then find a way to increase the ambient O2 levels for the rest of the incubation period.

@Sally Sunshine
AWESOMENESS!!! thank you sweets!!
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I was looking for that forever!!!!
 
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