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

[BantyChooks]

Monsters are huge already, and I may add, we have NEVER spoiled ducks but kids are holding them all the time.

MINESSSS

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Where did I go wrong? The membrane is very wet/slimy?

its hard to say, high humidity, low temps look like big wet chicks

hey guys
This is kinda an emergany so can someone answer ASAP

This is our first time hatching duck eggs and they are about to hatch
But there is like this red netting around them preventing them to hatch

What is that?

Thats its inner membrane!

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Quote: No, no I will be 50 ( in a few ours.

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CLOSE TO MY AGE! we are getting old!!!! OMGERDEDEDEEDDDD
HA! You all are still just youngsters that need to stay off my lawn!
HA HA HA yer cute!!

Chick from this morning is still pipped not zipped, I'm waiting it out a bit. This morning I took a tiny peice off its shell and saw blood so I put it back in, I'm gonna give it awhile before I mess with it again lol. Another pip- white leghorn!

This hatch is gonna be crazy, my temps got low every night and humidity was All over the place and I don't have my fan in! I'm shocked I have pips even if only two!

 

[Chaos18]

Ok. How many suggest to use egg cartons at lock down versus just laying them on their sides.?

My first hatch I did laying down. My second hatch I did in styro cartons with bottoms cut out. Air cells were fine both times. Besides the cartons being way easy for cleaning up after the hatch I don't really have a preference.

 

[venymae]

NO

Wow. Imma see myself out.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: MARKING AIR CELLS DAY 18

Candle day 18 is to determine growth, weigh, pencil mark air cell size and dispose bad eggs. It will look pretty dark and FULL in there! You may or may not see movement on this candle. Its ok if not, don’t panic! The chick may easily be resting! The embryo now occupies most of space within the egg, but NOT the air cell, the beak is against the inner shell membrane and ready to pierce it.


See how that air cell is beginning to dip more to one side and if you lay the egg down it will roll into the hatching position. I set my eggs with lowest dip in the aircell up. This position for hatching is good so the chick is able to turn into position and I can easily see my pips too! Setting eggs horizontal in the hatcher actually can aid a chick to hatch 1-2 hours earlier. (HOWEVER, shipped eggs that have had loose air cells or saddle air cells, should be hatched upright but tilted just enough so that the lowest dip is somewhat upright, so if they have fluid in the air cell it may prevent drowning).


AGAIN, I lay my eggs down LOWEST DIP of the AIR CELL UP! see below images, this is the normal and most likely hatching position and the chick will break through or Internally pip and externally pip in that probable area. See the image below with the x, x being lowest dip in air cell and probably pip area/s.

Chick normal hatching position, Where to place your X, Example of chick position/beak in shell
before internal pip drawing below: image below:
drawing below:

GOOD LOOKING MARKED AIR CELLS and SIZE: images below

WHY LAY HATCHING EGGS HORIZONTAL TOUCHING:
It is now known that the different embryos communicate with each other by a series of clicking sounds, the rate of clicking being the important feature. Ensuring the eggs on the hatching eggs are in contact with each other facilitates the synchronization of hatching where the eggs are incubated in a modern machine. This assists in reducing the time between when the first and last chicks hatch.


@rIrs roost

 

[BantyChooks]

its hard to say, high humidity, low temps look like big wet chicks Thats its inner membrane!

HA HA HA yer cute!!

I forgive you!

 

[h2oratt]

@sallysunshine
Do you have a booby prize for the worst hatch rate? If so this would be a good prize.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

@sallysunshine
Do you have a booby prize for the worst hatch rate? If so this would be a good prize.

LOL that is good!!! No we dont as we are not keeping track of numbers on the April or May HALS.

 

[Jessimom]

Ok. How many suggest to use egg cartons at lock down versus just laying them on their sides.?

Since I seem to hatch mostly bantam eggs, when I lay them in the egg cartons, they wedge in there. It looks like the poor chicks have to work TWICE as hard to push the shell open. They are bumping into the sides of the carton rather than another egg that will mostly likely give way when pushed.

I started putting a puppy pad under shelf liner. I can add water ANYWHERE and the humidity bumps up - and the clean up is so easy!!! I got that hint from the spring hatch along thread for helpful hints! Go check it out!

 

[mlm Mike]

Quote: the link: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...g-in-the-chicks-april-hatch-a-long-2016/0_100

To helpfull hints, you'll have to find the puppy pad one yourselves!