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

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One of the chicks pipped at the very end/top of the egg, will it be able to zip

It appears to be the round end of the egg in the pic, but can't be sure. It's a good pip, so I don't see any reason why it can't zip...

 

[lindalouly]

One of the chicks pipped at the very end/top of the egg, will it be able to zip

Im gonna throw in my two cents.. It doesnt look like it is malpositioned I had a chick zip the wrong way, I was patient and gave it time and it corrected itself. Good luck. wish i could give you more help.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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ha ha ha I know that!! its just the early days I worry about you, but knowing you, I know you handle with extreme care!!!

Im out of breath.. the boys came home and said two big dogs where trying to get in our yard. They were beautiful... no tags. one was a pretty boxer and the other a black lab. very sweet, Oly girl scared them away from the fence line though.. dont need dogs eating my birds.

oh my!!!! hope they get home again!

One of the chicks pipped at the very end/top of the egg, will it be able to zip

it should do just fine, just keep track of when it pipped, and compare to all the others that pipped at the same time or just keep track of timing.

HELP HELP, my goose egg is probably dead now.I,just got back from fishing and temp was 104.7,and I don't know how long for.I took top of bator so temp would drop.

not sure what to tell you, how long was it up?
you got the temp down so he should be ok.

 

[BantyChooks]

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@campingshaws
  I loose much more weight than 13 14% again everyone on here that has weighed with us had wet goopy jelly chicks.  
@BENNY 

LET me say this..... 

If your hatching shipped eggs I personally feel weighing them is useless, you have NOT A CLUE how old or how much they have already lost.  Also air cells vary so much with shipped eggs.

So do our own eggs, when hatcheries incubate they typically would set pretty close to age eggs and same breed!  We need to ALWAYS REMEMBER TO THINK OUT OF THAT COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIES STANDARDS!  I realize I have that written in the article, its information that is standard.  I DON'T WEIGH EGGS!!!  When I did I lost 15+ percent per egg!  and I weighed individually!  look at everyone that weighed so far on the thread and had 13 percent weight loss and had big wet yellow goopy chicks!  I dont think anyone that weighed had shown us a good clean hatch, PLEASE pull the posts if we had! would love to read them again!

We have many more variables than that of hatcheries, BREED alone changes the rules!  Do you all remember the discussion on how the egg HUMIDITY EDIT NOT TEMPS to loose weight. We mix breeds in the bator all the time!  We set clutches of eggs meaning we have different weight loss before incubation therefor weighing the tray must give us an average, but the average of what?  @ChickenCanoe
  needs input here as I believe he weighs and not sure if he does several breeds at one time etc.  I refuse to weigh eggs because I hatch all sorta eggs old new shipped, different breeds.

So these are my THOUGHTS from experience with incubation, I DO NOT WEIGH, and I dont have faith in weighing either because of the reasons above. 



so should I go hide now?   

No reason to hide!
-Banti

 

[country lovin]

It appears to be the round end of the egg in the pic, but can't be sure. It's a good pip, so I don't see any reason why it can't zip...

yes it s the corect end just didn't know if it would be able to zip a big enough circle to pop off he top.

 

[NTBugtraq]

I would love if you could show more details as you go along! and do you check chicks hocks etc after hatch? and the empty shells? Red Sexlink I believe is what your incubating? from a young flock? Please mark them and if you can show your weights and how you adjusted per weigh in and how you figured out what to do? dont know if that makes sense but its for everyone to understand. Also how old the eggs were and I would assume you took individual weights on some of the smaller and larger or not?

Ok, so you have asked me a few questions I have no answer for.

Why would I check chick hocks after hatch? I count chicks that die within 3 days of hatch as "late deaths". If you'd like me to report splays, I can do that.

I am incubating Gen 1 crosses with their fathers, so no "pure" red sexlinks. All my hens/pullets are crosses with red sexlink hens and pure BCM roosters.

I weigh every egg when I collect it from the nesting box, then weigh it again when it goes into the bator. In this hatch, I have eggs as old as 11 days, and I have a 10 day old egg that lost 2.38% of its weight before it went into the bator. So I have those numbers, but I haven't seen a pattern in them.

I weigh my 2 trays, and come up with an average for the 100 eggs (or less as I cull unfertile or dead eggs). This setting I only make 1% changes in the RH per day, so there would be no dramatic changes.

 

[campingshaws]

[@=/u/302630/campingshaws]@campingshaws[/@]did the lady with the attacked hen disappear?
[@=/u/162672/Sally-Sunshine]@Sally Sunshine[/@]Hi, glad you are feeling better. Do you know if Dick is npip? MO law requires that for out of state eggs or testing.

She must've gone somewhere else for help. I suggested taking close-ups & posting them here. Also reminded her that chicken eggs hatch in 21 days, give or take; she was thinking 28

I kept asking if it was a chicken hen. She never did say.

 

[casportpony]

Kathy there are a few terrible things in that post though. like humidity suggestions and so forth! NEVER RUN LOWER THAN 18% at minimum! It will affect the CAM! I wont read on, that was enough for me to stop.
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I think she meant adjust it 10% less than a given number, not run at 10%?

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-Kathy

 

[lindalouly]

HELP HELP, my goose egg is probably dead now.I,just got back from fishing and temp was 104.7,and I don't know how long for.I took top of bator so temp would drop.

It takes a lot of time to pentrate the egg with heat.. also the bator which is why it is smart to give it a few days to run. Your egg should be fine, but there isnt much you can do about it now. whats done is done. You have to stabalize that bator before you put eggs in honey... I know, I get impatient to, but you just got to do it.. that means finding the right spot in your house and not messing with it so much until it has time to do its thing. Good luck kiddo.

 

[Jessimom]

One of the chicks pipped at the very end/top of the egg, will it be able to zip

I agree with everyone - I've had chicks pip at the top, but they corrected themselves as they zipped. But, that is a BEAUTIFUL blue egg - what kind is it?