Jan./Feb. 2014 hatch a long

[AmericanMom]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/f/21/meat-birds-etc







This is where I read when I want to know about raising birds for meat

 

[Farmer Viola]

this is not my information, I saved all this info from BYC user @DMRippy

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[Cynthia12]

This is what I woke up to this morning in my incubator. Only day 20! Now 28 eggs to go, I hope.

I have a few pages to catch up to, so you probably have more by now.

 

[Cynthia12]

In this incubation and hatching guide (it's for goose eggs but it applies to chicken eggs too), he talks about seeing a "shadow" as the chick moves into position for hatch before it internally pips. you can see the illustration for this part way down the guide.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/491013/goose-incubation-hatching-guide-completed
it is a LOT of reading but it helped me understand the process so much better!

here is an internal pip (on a white egg)

Oh wow! What a great shot!!

 

[Cynthia12]

On the kitchen liner stuff, I get mine at the dollar store..all a dollar. For those of you that can't get it that cheap, you can shake the liner out, and turn it over..double the last.

 

[Cynthia12]

you guysssssss.... my eggs are OUT FOR DELIVERY!!!

I am going to sprint out to the mailbox when it gets here! hurry up!

<----- no patience at all

I have more coming too.

Could be here tomorrow. More EE's. Love to have different ones out there. I have a beautiful one right now, that I was worried was a boy for a while. It's a girl! Sooo pretty.

 

[cluckcluckluke]

her eggs have detached air cells....all of the above is in the hope they will heal
I too have just received posted/ shipped eggs and I only had 2 of the 6 with detached air sacks and only plan on doing what I have listed.

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. So I let them sit ( cool room ) for 24hrs. Then warm them to room temp. Then put them in the bator for another 1-2 days not turning them. I will give this ago thanks.
Do I have to lower the temp of that bator when I first put the eggs in then slowly increase it up to 37.5? or can I just put them straight from room temp to 37.5???

I think by "posted" you mean shipped?

these were not only shipped, but also arrived damaged (the air cells are detached)!

the air cell is a pocket of air that separates the shell and the membrane. what has happened to my eggs, is that the air is moving around under the membrane - it's not supposed to do that
when I tilt the egg to the side I can see it move like a bubble.

so, all the extra planning is in effort to make the membrane re-heal to the egg.... otherwise, if it doesn't heal into place, it is unlikely that it will hatch! I also don't lay them flat for hatch when detached. whole new ballgame

I'm in Aus and we say posted, but it doesn't really matter.lol.

Yes, I understand about the air sack, the level like bubble on the side when it's detached. I just didn't know you had to do so much. As I listed above ( read the other quotes above this ) I only have those steps.
The lady whom I purchased these eggs off even said she has had success with chicks hatching from detached air sacks at day 18.

 

[Cynthia12]

Got my EBay eggs today!!! Gonna let them rest for a day and then straight into the bators!!!!

 

[jan12]

Do not eat Tyson thought i was watching a vid about hatcheries and then I saw them killing day old boys. So sad they're are so many other options. The lady was picking up Li'l fluff balls and crushing there skulls and throwing them down a shoot. :,(

I've seen it too
It's horrible what they do to chickens in the commercial world! That is a big part of the reason why I decided to raise chickens myself. At least my chickens are cared for with love, and I am boycotting inhumane commercial treatment of animals.

 

[Cynthia12]

Ahh, well, I just turned 40 and am too ignorant to get glasses, haha

That's funny, because that's about the same age I started to need reading glasses. I soo know where you are at with that now.
Sure was hard to get used to having those things. Only needed them then, so I tried all sorts of things to keep them near. Tucked in the shirt, then got those silly looking glass neck holders, then finally got bad enough that I needed bi-focales. (spelling is as bad as my eyes.) So, then I had them on all the time. It's been years. Used to glassed now. Can't live without them!