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

[kwhites634]

Sometimes mature hens will crow, and some will mount hens, but it's usually a temporary behavior.

-Kathy

I had a Jack Russell who would mount anything; he wasn't picky

 

[kwhites634]

I'm no expert, but they look like boys to me.

-Kathy

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[casportpony]

Egg #2 eggtopsy. @casportpony This is the one that had the bruise. It had pipped low. It was also sticky like the other one.

Was the bruise where the bill is? Don't feel bad, I don't think that pipping for it would have helped because there way too much yolk there.

The one that had pipped internally, was there still yolk?

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

New update: The Muscovy that was pipped died. Here's the eggtopsy. It was filled with yellow sticky liquid. That means that the humidity was too high doesn't it? I can't remember if that means too high or too low. I'm not a happy camper right now. None of the others show movement.

So sorry! I think that it does mean humidity was too high.

-Kathy

 

[chicken hawk 33]

 

[casportpony]

Sometimes mature hens will crow, and some will mount hens, but it's usually a temporary behavior.


-Kathy

I had a Jack Russell who would mount anything; he wasn't picky

I have a peacock like that.

-Kathy

 

[Jessimom]

I have a peacock like that.

-Kathy

LOL, where my daughter goes for Equestrian therapy, they have all male peacocks. Those things will jump on anything. There was 1 volunteer that had a shiny new car, and they couldn't leave it alone. She had to bring a cover, and cover the car to keep them away.

 

[HeatherMarieR]

Was the bruise where the bill is? Don't feel bad, I don't think that pipping for it would have helped because there way too much yolk there.

The one that had pipped internally, was there still yolk?

-Kathy

I did eggtopsies on 5 of the ones that I was sure were dead. None of them had absorbed their yolk, and all of them had a ton of brownish yellow stick mess inside. Isn't the sticky stuff usually caused by high humidity during incubation? 3 of the 5 had pipped internally.

 

[casportpony]

Was the bruise where the bill is? Don't feel bad, I don't think that pipping for it would have helped because there way too much yolk there.

The one that had pipped internally, was there still yolk?

-Kathy

I did eggtopsies on 5 of the ones that I was sure were dead. None of them had absorbed their yolk, and all of them had a ton of brownish yellow stick mess inside. Isn't the sticky stuff usually caused by high humidity during incubation? 3 of the 5 had pipped internally.

@Sally Sunshine and others are more qualified to answer this, but I think that too high humidity could be the cause. What humidity were they at?

-Kathy

 

[HeatherMarieR]

@Sally Sunshine and others are more qualified to answer this, but I think that too high humidity could be the cause. What humidity were they at?

-Kathy

They were between 40-50%. Normally I would've kept them lower, but I didn't have any luck with that when I tried it either, and I had read that some people do higher. Next time I'm going to pretty much do a dry hatch. The egg from one of mine is still alive, but I doubt it makes it since it incubated with the others.