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

[firedragon1982]

Aawwweee!!!! That's so sad. I'm sorry. Did you find a painless way to cull???

Yeah we did the gas chamber method. So sad to have to take the tiny body out of the container. But his one eye was located about 1/4" lower than the eyelids. Crazy. Yay genetic deformities!

 

[rossfam06]

I bet it was sad. But I bet it was cool to see along with sad.

 

[Cynthia12]

Since Sally had me get the tablet out here are a few pics that are on here. Ill have to move a bunch off my phone. Enjoy.

Love these photos..the German Shepard is my DH's favorite dog in looks. I am loving that chocolate lab up there!

 

[Lynn Manes]

Hi I've been following this thread for a while well actually I found it and read the entire thing lol. I'm a chickaholic and I was hoping to just get my fix and leave but now I want to fire up the Bator and start again. Let me tell you a little about myself I'm 25 female and I've only recently built my own incubator I hatched once but need to do it again. But I'm working all the bugs out with it. The hatch that I did was out of necessity I had a broody that quite as I just got it put together it was a message from god to fire up that incubator. Everything that could go wrong did. Power outages staggered hatch because I was a newbie and figure if a through a few extra that were laid that day in it wouldn't hurt. And a list of a hole lot of problems but I loved it I got the hole family involved everyone was coming over for candling nights and I had a full house come hatching day. All in all it was amazing process i ended up with a 74 percent hatch rate and I can't wait to do it again and this thread is making that itch worse. I will be following along.

74% hatch rate. Someone was on your side despite your setbacks . Congratulations & welcome.

 

[WVduckchick]

Doh, so my newest chick is going to have to be culled 

SEVERELY deformed. Missing one eyeball on one side. Other side has eyeball in the wrong spot, and a hole where it *should* be. A slight cross-beak, and that leg thing going on, like one leg was positioned farther up/back than the other. Wondering if only one of his ears worked too, because when talking to him, he'd turn his head to the side that didn't have an eye at all to "listen". Now  I need to figure out how to cull him, my husband wants it to be "painless". 

Poor Batman.... Only made it to 24 hrs old.

So sorry for what you had to do. I read that you used the gas chamber, but I've also heard that wrapping it in a paper towel and using a sharp pair of scissors at the neck. Not easy, but quick and painless. Then just roll up the paper towel and dispose.

LOL...Good, cause I'm really good at them!  Really I am! 

Firedragon, I just got here, and we haven't met, but I'm very sorry about your chick! 

Welcome over!

 

[fire370]

HA HA HA figures! what kinda silkies?  dang brahma take a long time to grow out for noodle soup fire

She has blacks and whites carrying a blue gene. If I keep any cockerels around that I breed, I kill them at 16 weeks unless I'm keeping them for replacement.

 

[chicken hawk 33]

She is off the nest and not setting

 

[Lynn Manes]

We had 7 quail peeps born the night before Thanksgiving and 7 more hatched Thanksgiving night. That's almost a 50% hatch rate if my math is right-out of 30 eggs. But as always it disappoints me to still see those other eggs sitting in there. We had problems this time keeping our humidity levels even. This was the first time we've incubated in Winter with our heat in the house on so with every check, we had to add more water all the way through lock down.I am thinking that might be why we only had 14 hatches. I'm am eternal optimist and will give them extra days full well knowing it's time to clean up the incubator and get on with it. So we've 2 brooders going, both with 14 peeps each in them now as we have 14 of the 17 we hatched for the Halloween Hatch-a-Long. We've got to build another pen, bc it will be time to get our Halloween peeps outside soon.That probably will be it for us now til Spring.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Okay... I've finished the brooder. I think... lol! I made a "window" in the divider panel, and added a power distribution center (a/k/a power strip or surge protector ).

Very nice!! Was gonna say it just needs a strip of plastic along the wire sides, but then saw Sally already said it, lol... don't forget the door too...

hey Ur..... you also will need a kick guard! those chicks are gonna throw those shavings all out that brooder now that I look at it!

I was thinking same... They sure don't stay tiny and slow for long...

Well he is an Araucana which has that genetic thing where if it got the 2 double tufted gene that it would DIS before hatch, makes me wonder if he was one of those. I also wonder if the power outage getting the incubator down to 65-70 and then when we got the generator, raising it back up too quick might have done something? If that is the case, i worry for my marans now too because the 3 Thermometers have all been calibrated and read ~2 degrees of correct. Argh, sad baby

So sorry for your loss... Temp fluxes can cause deformities... but I think since it was shipped, there might have been unseen damage within the egg as well... I had something similar happen with a different breed, shipped from a friend with solid genetics... eggs were hatched under a rock solid setting broody... only thing we could figure out is that maybe shipping does damage at the cellular level we can't see...

 

[Lynn Manes]

Well, my first try at shipped eggs was a total bust....0 hatched, I cracked the remaining 5 that were in the bator early yesterday morning....1 was a questionable that I left in just in case...was long gone, 1 quit around lockdown, had a lot of yolk left to absorb, 3 were fully formed, a sliver of yolk left to absorb, 2 were malpositioned with their heads under their leg instead of wings, 1 of them had an air bubble attached to his back...never seen that before but looked like the air cell attached to him instead of the egg....I should have gotten pictures but was trying to get everything done before the kids woke up.....I'm bummed

I'm sorry you had such a bad experience.