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

[campingshaws]

I floated the remaining four eggs.

Spoiler: Warning: Eggtopsy Results.

Egg #1: Lots of blood. Pipped a vein?

Egg #2: Not internally pipped. Also lots of blood. ???

Egg #3: Internally pipped, yolk not fully absorbed. Just didn't make it?

Egg #4: slimy. :/

 

[Penny Hen]

someone please make it stop. I came home from church and one of my Welsummer chicks from January that I put out with the Christmas chicks was dead with no apparent cause unless moving it scared it to death.
Inside another chick was dead and four more look listless. I have to got upstairs and check again in a minute. I just want them to stop dying. I don't know how much more I can stand.

Sorry to vent on you guys.

Daxi you need to get these to your state veternarian to be autopsied. If they are some distance you can freeze them and put them in ziplock bags and send them with the gel ice packs and mail them. Double bag them. Find out what this is. They arrived sick from the hatchery. It could be an outbreak. That needs to be ruled out.

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

which pad?

I must have not found the one Ant Farm bought. I bought a large pad since I had 15 older chicks and didn't want them to be too crowded. This is what I used:

Sunbeam 2013-912 Xpress Heat Microplush Heating Pad for Quick Pain Relief, Extra Large (12" x 24"),Olive
Sold by: Amazon.com LLC
$39.99

 

[kwhites634]

Maybe I posted in the wrong thread. I got the date wrong in my previous post anyway, so this is up to date:
3/5 @ noon, Set:
12 assorted Silkie 5 Buff Laced Polish
10 Lavender Orpington (drove 2 hours each way last night for these)
2 chocolate Orpington (gifts from LO lady)
1 Jubilee Orpington (also a gift from LO lady)
3 Ameraucana (not EE)
2 mystery eggs- Ameraucana or EE, not marked, so we'll see
15 White Plymouth x EE aka barnyard mutt
3 Easter Egger
7 Midget White Turkey (set 2/27)
= 60 total- hoping for a bountiful hatch

Our last set ended poorly. We hatched 12 of 48 eggs. Unfortunately we had our first experience with shrink wrapped chicks. It upsets me to know that we could have helped the poor little chicks, but I kept hearing about not opening the incubator too early. Since then, we've learned more and we read and learn more and more everyday. BYC has been such a blessing. I'm grateful for the advice from the pros- and I'm glad that I can ask questions without feeling like a fool. We'll get this soon! We're hoping the have eggs to offer to more family and friends this summer.

PJ (=

Working on a logo for our newly dubbed "Flamicken Farm"

The only foolish question is the one never asked

 

[Jessimom]

I'm on day 4 of my shipped eggs from PapaBrooder. I seem to be extremely anxious about these eggs, vs others I've hatched. Probably coming off such disasterous hatchings. I usually wait till day 7 to candle, but I might have to candle on day 5.

I have to ask, on the broody hens that sit right next to each other and seem to swap nests each day, do I really need to candle their eggs? I know that most of them (if not all) are fertile. I can't change their humidity or heat, so why candle their eggs?

Thanks!!!

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

I'm on day 4 of my shipped eggs from PapaBrooder. I seem to be extremely anxious about these eggs, vs others I've hatched. Probably coming off such disasterous hatchings. I usually wait till day 7 to candle, but I might have to candle on day 5.

I have to ask, on the broody hens that sit right next to each other and seem to swap nests each day, do I really need to candle their eggs? I know that most of them (if not all) are fertile. I can't change their humidity or heat, so why candle their eggs?

Thanks!!!

Good luck with your new eggs!!!

Never understood why people candle eggs under a broody... she usually knows how the eggs are doing, and will often kick out the bad ones. I think it's more curiosity mixed with a little anxiousness that causes people to do that...

 

[chicken hawk 33]

U,do lockdown goose eggs on day 25 right

 

[flocktastic]

Good luck with your new eggs!!!   

Never understood why people candle eggs under a broody... she usually knows how the eggs are doing, and will often kick out the bad ones. I think it's more curiosity mixed with a little anxiousness that causes people to do that...   

My husband has always said, when it comes to broody hens, they know what they're doing, let nature take its course and let them be.

 

[kwhites634]

Good luck with your new eggs!!!

Never understood why people candle eggs under a broody... she usually knows how the eggs are doing, and will often kick out the bad ones. I think it's more curiosity mixed with a little anxiousness that causes people to do that...

x2...was going to say something similar...you're too fast clearing the holster for me

 

[kwhites634]

My husband has always said, when it comes to broody hens, they know what they're doing, let nature take its course and let them be.

Smart husband