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

[Saris]

I just picked this little guy up to take a picture, and noticed this. Does anyone know what the heck it is? It almost looks like an air bubble under the skin. I was going to sell it, but I can't if there's something wrong with it. Anyone have any ideas?

Probably just a ruptured airsac. It should resolve on it's own, I had a couple chicks with that. Can happen from a big drop in humidity or from stress getting out of it's shell. I wouldn't sell it until it looks to be resolving, or you can include it as a freebie and explain to the buyer to just keep an eye on it.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

My humidity and temp issue seems to be straight now but i did loose the two eggs that were in lockdown ,which sucks im just hoping that the other eggs are ok , i just candled them two nights ago and they are moving but until they are out of the egg, im going to worry....

awwww I am sorry!!

are you going to set more after this? @caeti21

A lovely day here, 64* right now supposed to get to 72. Spent the morning out with the chickens, cleaning and learning to use the mulcher attachment to my leaf blower. Now waiting on my sourdough bread to finish rising. Rooster in picture was my friendliest. A huge guy who though it was fun to charge at me the other night. He did not enjoy his punishment of being walked around his coop and marched in front of the other coops while he was dangling upside down. If anyone here watches game of thrones I was very much like the nun with the bell chanting " shame shame". He's been on much better behavior since.

nun!! ha ha ha

The,four black ones are out of my blue ee eggs.and the two others from ms SALLY s green eggs.

where is the serama?

Up to 7 pips now. No chicks yet. The membrane by the mal-positioned chick looks like it may be getting a little dry. I do see some movement when I check up on the incubator - the beak occasionally comes out through the membrane. I'm not holding my breath on this chick, but praying for it nonetheless. It has not been 24 hours yet, and I don't want to jeopardize the good looking pips for the one poorly positioned one.

go babies goo!!!!!



I have pips!!! dont ask me how many I didnt count lol

 

[HeatherMarieR]

Probably just a ruptured airsac. It should resolve on it's own, I had a couple chicks with that. Can happen from a big drop in humidity or from stress getting out of it's shell. I wouldn't sell it until it looks to be resolving, or you can include it as a freebie and explain to the buyer to just keep an eye on it.

Thanks! I'll probably just hang onto it for now. I only have 1 other chick that I'm trying to sell so I'll probably just hang onto both of them for now.

 

[Saris]

Thanks! I'll probably just hang onto it for now. I only have 1 other chick that I'm trying to sell so I'll probably just hang onto both of them for now.

Good idea. Solo chicks are sad.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Don't plan on it ma'am.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote:

I just do not understand

?? No pips in over 15 hours. 16 have hatched and 14 with no signs. Could I be that unlucky? I have done everything by the book except sit on them myself! Tomorrow is day 23. What is going on. During lockdown candled and only 2 we're questionable.

candle them

Hello everyone!
Sally, tag, you're it!

I must have just left before you posted your question earlier, we woke up this morning to a nice, crisp - 33.
Not too bad when you factor in the wind chill yesterday it was -46.

Got a warm front moving in today, supposed to get up to the teens and twenties for the rest of the weekend! Pulling out the tee shirts and sunblock.

danggggggggggggggggg cc!!! my feet would not survive!!

Quote: I doubt it, air cells are horrible!! how are yours>?

I just picked this little guy up to take a picture, and noticed this. Does anyone know what the heck it is? It almost looks like an air bubble under the skin. I was going to sell it, but I can't if there's something wrong with it. Anyone have any ideas?

never seen that!

I just drove 40 miles to fix a guys tail lights and I get here and find out its just a blown fuse

too bad it wasnt yer kid, you coulda smak the crap outta him!!!

 

[chicken hawk 33]

the smallest ones.

 

[HeatherMarieR]

I doubt it, air cells are horrible!!   how are yours>?

Mine don't look too bad. The only thing I'm really worried about is the one that was cracked.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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HATCHING/INCUBATION
NestingHillsSC Just put 42 eggs in the hatcher for Mondays hatch.2/11
granny hatchet 2/10 I put 50 eggs in today and had room for 22 more. LOL I opened all of todays eggs as it was freezing out and didnt see any thing watery. no ice except for the fact I have an egg eater and found a frozen yolk. they will be due March 3rd.
Fire Got all the breeders separated back into their pens. So we will be incubating heavy here in the next couple of weeks.
Sally great hatch, waiting on serama //// eggs from sara and martha set 1/24 day 7 legbar, projects, marans, Lemon Cuckoo orphingtons, tolbunt polish, and some mix silkies, add hole bator of serama more CCL serama misc in cabinets and coolers, added mmore serama, legbar and duck eggs.
J&TRanch 1/12/16 12 self blue Cochin bantams (shipped) day 3 (going to candle today to see how many are viable).... And 18 eggs arriving in the mail tomorrow @J&Tranch My shipped self blue bantam Cochins are doing good. I had to throw out a stinker and a seeper

So out of those 10 remaining, 7 are developing nicely

They're on day 7. I ended up receiving 16 shipped from GA, they looked good considering the single digit temps- only 3 saddles and none cracked. They're on day 3 today, will candle Wednesday maybe.
Saris10 (+2) Bielefelder eggs. going to set 2/12!
TJ I've started up the Mind reading Bator again! It has Guinea eggs and two silkied Serama eggs in it. Not sure yet if the Guinea eggs are fertile.
My R-com is full of shipped Serama eggs from a couple different sources, all were shipped and almost all are messed up.
Casportsponyday 34 for the Muscovy eggs and it looks like I have one external pip, two internals. One of the eggs have a huge "bruise" at the bottom of the shell, so I doubt it's still alive.
LocalYokel 13 Dominicker 5 Leghorn, may be White or Brown, mostly Whites in that coop.(Not the cheery oldish dude Whites) Hope the Doms and Leghorns are fertile.
7 RIR 2 out of 3 eggs under broody bator are alive/developing, 1 RIR 1 Leghorn, tossed the other.
4 out of 5 Leghorn in bator showing veins!
Some of the RIR look porous.
Hard to tell on the Dom eggs because my flashlight batteries are low, But I can see some developing.
Got a better cage for the broody!
Canadachickens Just set 18 Auracana Four silkie eggs - 1 Malpoed DIS, 3 late quitters. 0 hatch.
Venymae @venymae got an update? hope your ok! Salmon Favorelles and 11 shipped Cochin eggs on 1/15. On day 8, only 4 of the Favorelles looked good, but 8 of the Cochins did -- I left them all in the 'bator. I added 10 of my own silkies on 1/23.
gotro17 Shellee lavender Orpington shipped egg issue,Papa's Poultry. Jeff- you rocked it! Not one crack! Thank you!!! We have Bielefelders, Crested CL, BBs Marans and Mottled Lavender Orpingtons, along with some surprises from the rainbow pen! Can't wait!!!5 Marans eggs were cracked

. However, all frizzles and lavender Orpingtons were intact. Vital Farms eggs I got at Target, along with some silkies from our new friend from down the road, @Jessimom ... We are setting tomorrow for a Feb. 6th hatch day. 29 eggs go into lockdown tomorrow!!! Start honing your master Jedi skills of distraction and calm. I don't have a styrofoam carton to put the eggs, needing to be upright, in...but I do have plastic 2/3
ChickaLong Hatched 28, 16 boys and 10 girl black sex links. 2 RIR X BR. 1 girl lost today. Added 20 RIR and 5 astrolops from a hatchery
Hawk12 have 7 blue/gold partridge brahma chicks in the incubator on day 15. Candled last night and things look pretty good. Air cells might be a little small. I lost 5 from this hatch due to a temp spike on day 3

I emailed the gal I bought them from to let her know my progress and she sent me a dozen more for the cost of shipping. That was very sweet of her to do knowing it wasn't her fault or even the PO but my faulty incubator. I'll be setting those eggs tomorrowDay 15, 7 eggs.
deserteggs22Update on my eggs in the incubator on day 7: all 7 of the eggs have moving babies in them!!! YAY! I will do another update on day 14. @deserteggs22 when is lockdown date?
Mirajane 10 white leghorn eggs, as I've said, my dad will only eat white eggs, so I bought some white eggs for him, so I can hatch them and raise them for him. They were shipped, 5 are good, 5 have detached air cells. Sat out for a full day before being put in incubator. Also put in 11 of our eggs from... @Mirajane when is lockdown date?
Peachickie 4/4 silkies hatched 2/4 mutts hatched Hearing some chirps this mornin, fingers crossed
Auroradream26 I have 27 turkey eggs going on lockdown tomorrow.
macylee 1/19/second week of my first incubation attempt! I have 40 eggs, 3 Swedish Isbars and 5 Cream Legbars, 2 RIR/EE eggs, a few RIR/Golden Comet eggs and the rest are RIR/Black Sex Links. @macylee How is your bator and eggs doing?
ambe0487 2/1 I put the eggs in lockdown this morning because I will be busy getting ready for the snow storm that is suppose to hit over night here, day 18 actually starts at 3 p.m. 29 eggs, which comprise of 6 Isa brown/Legbar mix, 9 EE/ Bresse mix, and 14 Buff Orp.
Fire Ant Farm Cream Legbar hatch: 14 live hatched out of 15. Five with malpositions - one lethal beak away from air cell (DIS), and the others (4 of 5 eggs from one pullet) with small air cells and butt/hocks toward air cell. All hatched with assistance, one culled later, one being hobbled for splay leg.Aloha NNs lock down on February 16 (at least any that make it to lock down). Gently turning those three times a day now. Lock down 2/16/16.
Culled 2 with blood rings, but the rest are viable, several with movement. Air cells are HUGE! I'm a little worried about that. Humidity was 45%, moved it to 30% yesterday (in reaction to the malpositions in the CLs). Moved back up to 40% pending input (see photos below) - ambient is running 32-35%. Temperature running 99.7F. I know for a fact some of these eggs started old even before they were shipped - initial air cells upon arrival looked like a big day 7. Advice on humidity setting/adjustment based on these? Should I boost it between now and day 18? Not sure how the shipped status (or age) affects this decision. Is it purely just the actual size of the air cell?
scottcaddy 2 different broodies on eggs at about day 10 1/20
slordaz barnyard mix, now RIR is matured too we are gonna play guess whose the daddy game as both roosters were on all of the hens, patiently trying to get spring here faster so can build the new coopsat 23 eggs at 2 am this morning 2/3 Lockdown is Wed Feb 10th (before bed) 6 are questionable 1 clear
19 looking good
Math I set backyard mix chicken eggs on Wednesday, January 20th. @Math got an update o n your candles? what day is lockdown?
shahtir101 Just set 8 more serama eggs 1/23 got an candle update, when is lockdown, how did the show go? 4 went into lockdown yesterday and 6 more go into lockdown on wednsday. The mixed bantams hat hatch are going to my neighbors. The show went well. All the birds beat their previous score but, the hens froze on the table. Still a good show and I hope that the one this weekend will go even better. I have been working with the hens moreI had 2 bantam mixes hatch. The neighbor kids are so excited for them. The serama pipper died in the shell. Put some other eggs on lockdown today. And a serama egg is wiggling!
S5apiotrowski incubator warehouse incubator. I have 3 welsummer eggs, 18 BCM, 2 easter eggers, and 5 mixed breed (BCM and Cochin cross, father is ??) Putting my eggs on lock down. I have 23 eggs left in the incubator. 2/10 . I have 23 eggs left in the incubator. Air cells still look a bit small, but all have grown - some a lot more than others since day 14. ...Were at day 19. No Pips yet - not really expecting any until tomorrow.2/10
MotorcycleChick Of 24 eggs set; 2 clear, 1 early quitter. 21 went to lockdown. 18 born, 3 DIS.
PHAGE 5 dozen eggs for a friend (tolbunt, mottled orps, Swedish flower hen, swedish black hen, BCM, Lav ameraucana, and a bunch of other newer breeds from GFF), 2 dozen gifted "eating eggs" from same friend (yea right like I am gona eat them) 1 dozen Costco "pasture raised" brown eggs 1dozen Vons "pasture raised" brown eggs 2 doz shipped eggs -jubilee orp and lemon cuckoo niederrheimers. Sadly have very low expectations here - one was broken and 10 have mobile air bubbles. They are in the bottom shelf but 99.99999% sure they have no chance of developing. The rest have saddle airsacs.
Chicken Hawk33 CH set 40 41 set.10 infertal.one blood ring and thirty alive and going strong eggs set 1/23 37 going strong27 alive.went into lockdown 2/10 I,have six chicks one black serama,four ee,one blue,silver chick from one of your green eggs.eleven pips.and nine with nothing from what I see. 2/12
Jessimom Moved 6 of my silkie eggs into lockdown on 2/10. I have 12 shipped Blue/Splash silkies and 2 shipped Buff Brahma eggs set to hatch 2/20. At the 10 day candle - the silkies had 1 blood ring and 2 possible clears. One was doing back flips in the shell, and the rest had good veins. This batch goes in to lock down on the 18th, I'm leaving town on the 19th, not going to be home until the 23rd....I'll miss the entire hatch! But, I have 14 more Buff Brahmas and 7 shipped Biefielder/Cream Legbar cross eggs that are set to hatch on the 25th as well as 7 more silkie eggs set on 2/10.
jwlpoultry Out of the 100 I had around 75 hatch. on 2/1 24 of 30 hatched, I have 5 Rhodebars and 6 barnyard mix that are 9 days in due to hatch 2/20 also sat 6 more Rhodebar and a barnyard mix today for a 2/29 hatch and 2 goose eggs for a 3/8 hatch I just sat 80 Barred Rock eggs also due 2/29
Friday Yet 5 Russian Orloff, 3 Orloff/EE and 5 Orloff/Cream Legbar.Hatch is due on 2/14 - Valentine's Day. Four were pulled from the fridge and will be a day later, if they are good. andled today and have 13/16 looking good with 3 clears. Will leave them in for 3 more days just in case, and pull them on day 10.
DHetzle Currently have 200 eggs hatching (heard a lot of peeping this morning before I left for work) and 515 more in the incubators for the next 2 weeks. I will be loading another 300 or so tonight.
HeatherMarieRordered a dozen Ancona duck eggs, and they went in the incubator today. I received 13 eggs, but one was cracked. I tried to fix it with candle wax, but I don't know if it will work or not since I've never tried it before. I've started misting my eggs with a 50/50 mix of water and Gold Listerine before I put them in the incubator to disinfect them. Hopefully that with increase my hatch rate. I'm hoping that these guys will be much easier to hatch than my Calls and Muscovies that I usually try to hatch. *fingers crossed*
fresnofarmer I have officially set my 2 dozen grocery store eggs at 1/29/2016 8:45pm pst Yesterday was day 14 2/12 candled and 1 of the questionable was still developing the other definite early quitter thew it out still have 7 going strong out of the fertile dozen trader Joe eggs
Benny aka Akrnaf2 4 rumples Aracaouna,and 4 Partridge Plymouth rocks, this is tge first time that I h@ave bilt a bator! 1/29
Newchics blue/golden phoenix eggs I bought. First time getting shipped eggs 1/30
NTBugtraq 1/30 50 eggs into each tray this time, achieving the Brinsea Ova Easy 100 suggested limit. These eggs come from my own layers, who are first generation offspring of pure Black Copper Marans Roosters mated with a dual purpose bird resembling a Red Sexlink. These birds are inbreeds, as they are mating with their own fathers. The oldest layer is ~34 weeks old, the youngest only 24 weeks.
Bubbles1234 Set 15 (so much for 5 ) eggs, 7 EE and 8 BSL. Roos are silkie and sultan Set 5:10 PST on January 30th! @Bubbles12345 are your eggs moving yet LOL Did my candle, 2 blood rings (confirmed by cracking) and one with veins and another with a moving black dot. The rest were all pretty clear, no obvious veining, but nothing saying they were not alive. Down to 13, 8 BSL and 5 EE.
country lovin aka Ty 14 go into lockdown tomorrow. 5 Barred Rock,5 BR/BSL, 1 BR/WLH, 1 ee, and 2 Blue Copper Marans/RIR. 9 Olive eggers and 2 marans are on day 5. I don't have a lot of hope for the olive eggers because the last time I checked only one of my americanas was fertile, so we will see!
daxigait 1/31 Set 66 eggs last night. I have my fingers crossed for fertility after my roos were sick.
Possible Lavenders I this time as my Lavender Orpington pullets started laying four weeks ago.down the 48 after candeling.
howfunkyisurchicken I have 7 more eggs due to hatch tomorrow 2/2 silkies
bauerdog It looks like 7 chicks will be the final count. The grocery store eggs are DIS probably. I did an exploratory opening on 2 and they had died. I apparently had a huge drop in humidity while at work. The last live chick was shrinkwrapped and had to be assisted.
campinshaws 9! All honas! Due the 24th Sally all 9 of my honas looked good. We couldn't detect movement in two of them, might wind up being early quitters. Their veins looked a bit faded.
billiejw8912 Buff orpington eggs set 2/3
Tao Chick 7 Brabanter, 5 Pavlovskaya, and three from my pullets due2/26
mrleeroyset more eggs. 8 due to hatch on 2/25. Hatching the blue ones this time Candled the 8 eggs last night and it looks like one of them will not be hatching for sure and another had a crack on the pointy end of the egg(not sure how I missed that...) but is still developing normally. Also set 33 more eggs 2/11...Just the usual barnyard mix. My EE rooster that I had decided to get too mean a couple weeks ago (he became dinner) so his DNA is slowly being phased out and now I just have the Cream Brabanter rooster on those hens. Hens are RIR, SLW, BA, and EE. Barnyard mutts with hairdos it is
caeti21 15 eggs in the bator two in lock down
chicknlove 2/9 DAY 18 +17/21 going into lock down in the Coolerbator and +15/24 in the Styro.. Locked them in nice and tight 2/9 Woke up to 10 babes in the Cooler and 10 babes in the Styro..2/12 DAY 21 here. In the Styro corner we have 8/8 local eggs hatched and 4/7 shipped eggs hatched and 3 pips! In the Coolerbater we have 7/9 shipped and 6/8 local eggs hatched. I don't see any pips in the cooler but my visibility is not great. yay for hatch day!
studio chick . I candled tonight (day 10) I have eight going great and 10 clear, the air cells are still a little small for my liking. 2/10
Sassy Hens1 Day 18 lock down on the marans here. 16 out and dry. 14 more to go. No pips in the last hour. 2/12 2/13 No pips overnight on the last 10+ to go.
butterfliesdoku have 46 eggs in the incubator right now, they are barnyard mixes and Easter Eggers with a due date of February 24th. Today is day 6 and so far I've candled 27 and of those candled 19 have active little embryos!vI was going to pull clears and quitters tomorrow but decided to go ahead today. Today is day 9. I had 12 infertiles and 1 quitter. There's 4 I'm not too sure about but I'll check those again around day 16 2/12
sarah25bear So last night I started 41 eggs in my incubator this is my first time doing this so hopefully things go well they are just farm chicks my hens are Rhode Island Red and barred rocks and my rooster is a partridge Cochin ... So here goes!!!
CyndiD I have10 WH duck eggs being shipped to me next week. Is there a site I can read that will help me prepare the eggs for incubating?
kissofcrimson my first little baby chick hatched!! Now I'm anxious to make sure he/she doesn't burn to death under the heat lamp or die for some unknown reason. I've only got two eggs ready right now (started with 6 and they were my test eggs) but it doesn't hatch for the next 2 days.
S5apiotrowski Anastasia aka AC 6 pips now... chirping - no chicks. The mal-positioned chick has not quit yet. That is still the largest "hole" in any egg.
the one mal-positioned pip has knocked off a piece of shell and I see his beak working... I also see a nice blood vessel crossing the inner membrane. The other pips are where they belong.



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[mlm Mike]

the smallest ones.

cute. How many you have left in the incubator?