Mahonri's 3rd Annual, BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[ronott1]

Is this normal?

I just had to throw out my 3rd stinker.All BC Marans from the same source. If it was you, would you contact the seller or wait and see it any have developed and then contact? Or just keep my mouth shut and chalk it up to shipped eggs. They are dark beautiful eggs and I can't see what is going on. I think there are at least 2 that are developing.

The other breed she sent, I have 4/14 that I think is still developing. No stinkers in that bunch.

Thanks for any and all advice

The only eggs that have become stinky were ones that were shipped. I had local pickup eggs that were up to 20 days old and they did not stink. Bacteria gets into the eggs if they have poop on them and they are cracked.

I might skip the seller of those eggs because there might be a bad apple on the delivery route. Yes there are some postal workers that will be rough with boxes that say chicken eggs or live embryos. Sorry to say--not meaning to offed any postal workers

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[rarely bored]

Pulled two quitters yesterday... the boys enjoyed flinging them. Hope the other animals found the remains before I accidently step on one. shudder.

There are 3 eggs which appear to have an air cell on both ends - I can't remember if those are the ones which tend to be late quitters or not. So they remain in the bator.

Looks like a very nice day today. May all your incubators stay plugged in!

 

[The Sheriff]

HURRY!

Just over 24 hours to enter the Egg Art contest!

PM your submissions to me.

Check out the contest entries HERE.

Why are you just sitting there?

 

[ronott1]

The chart I am using says today is lockdown. Skyline, the Breeder that sold me the eggs says they hatch a day early too, so my eggs on in lockdown.

If your egg paper egg cartons are getting soggy, then something is wrong with the setup. Mine don't soggy. Also, you don't have to put them straight up. If you cut the carton down correctly, you can tilt them. You can even tilt the cartons:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/avhs-chickens

Here is a picture of mine at lockdown:



Each egg is set with the biggest part of the egg cell at the top. I was able to do this with the Dorking eggs and each one pipped exactly at the center of the air cell. These were shipped, so the air cell is not as perfect in some of them.

From candling this morning, 12 of the 13 here look good. One is iffy but I am giving it a shot.

 

[Spangled]

I hope so too. Bubbles was a "special" gosling, all of her hatch mates seizured and died within the first week, she had seizures too but survived. The seizures, however, left her a bit on the retarded side and unable to vocalize, but I did not have the heart to cull her. She was super friendly and never wanted us to leave her. I hope she bunkered down during last nights storm, there was no way she could get out of her pen unless something took her from air, but she was in the pen with a grown duck and a pot belly pig. ( they all sleep in one big pile)

Did Bubbles show up? I got up the next morning hoping to read a post and waited, but I could have missed it.

Are we all prepped and ready for final candle and lockdown/confinement?

No. No. Tomorrow for me. Not that I'll be ready tomorrow either. However, I did manage after quite a scavenger hunt to go and find the post with my photo of my incubator full of eggs and I linked that in my signature box below so that I can find it if I need to.

Edited to add: Maybe Thursday instead of tomorrow. I was thinking today was Wednesday. But it doesn't really matter all that much since I don't even do lockdown in the classical sense.

 

[ambrosia]

Getting excited for lockdown!!! I was quite a wreck at this point last time, so I am considering it an improvement...

Still have to get brooder set up, babies moved, coops cleaned... I am such a procrastinator.

Even though I know I have all of these things to do, I still sit here and ogle pictures, read posts, and stare longingly at the BSA here on BYC. I must have some serious issues...

Hope everyone else's Tuesday is more productive than mine!

 

[tls_ranch]

I took my bator with 12 eggs in to my son's kindergarten class on Monday. It went pretty smoothly. I took the eggs out of the turner and put them in a carton for the trip...about 6 miles to the school and plugged the bator in to a converter in the car's cigarette lighter. Temp held steady at 99-100 Once in class, I added warm water to bump the humidity and set the eggs up for hatching. I was a bit surprised to hear one egg peeping because they were due to hatch Wednesday.

When everyone got to class this morning the early peeper was hatching! It was great timing and all the kids got to see it None of the remaining 11 eggs are pipped, but looked normal when I candled early Monday morning. I'm also happy the bator held it's temp because the school's heat is turned off at night.

The rest of the eggs hatch without problems.

Trisha

 

[Cynthia12]

Well I put my eggs into lockdown. I candled a few and then I couldn't take it anymore. They look like they haven't changed since day 14, the day after my incubator was shut off all day. So bummed. I don't think any or gonna hatch. I just put them into lockdown and am hoping for the best. I don't want to look at anymore. Super sad. everyone was so encouraging, but I just haven't seen any movement. The few I looked at weren't at all like last time I hatched when it was clear that there was life inside... there's a sliver of hope, but it's very small.

Papa, don't get discouraged yet! I had the same thing happen to me, didn't see much in my eggs, they were too dark. If you saw nice air sacs..then you will probably have some babies..will be waiting for good news from you in a few days!

 

[Arielle]

The chart I am using says today is lockdown. Skyline, the Breeder that sold me the eggs says they hatch a day early too, so my eggs on in lockdown.

If your egg paper egg cartons are getting soggy, then something is wrong with the setup. Mine don't soggy. Also, you don't have to put them straight up. If you cut the carton down correctly, you can tilt them. You can even tilt the cartons:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/avhs-chickens

Here is a picture of mine at lockdown:



Each egg is set with the biggest part of the egg cell at the top. I was able to do this with the Dorking eggs and each one pipped exactly at the center of the air cell. These were shipped, so the air cell is not as perfect in some of them.

From candling this morning, 12 of the 13 here look good. One is iffy but I am giving it a shot.

Question, do you set the eggs so that the air cell is mostly at the highest point of the eggs and do you candle to verify the up position? Or just set the egg with air cell end elevated?

I took my bator with 12 eggs in to my son's kindergarten class on Monday. It went pretty smoothly. I took the eggs out of the turner and put them in a carton for the trip...about 6 miles to the school and plugged the bator in to a converter in the car's cigarette lighter. Temp held steady at 99-100 Once in class, I added warm water to bump the humidity and set the eggs up for hatching. I was a bit surprised to hear one egg peeping because they were due to hatch Wednesday.

When everyone got to class this morning the early peeper was hatching! It was great timing and all the kids got to see it None of the remaining 11 eggs are pipped, but looked normal when I candled early Monday morning. I'm also happy the bator held it's temp because the school's heat is turned off at night.

The rest of the eggs hatch without problems.

Trisha

The kids will be so excited to see the chicks hatch!!!

 

[ronott1]

Quote: I candle to find the aircell and tilt them up by the big end, so that the big curve of the oval is lower than the little curve at the back. With the shipped eggs it is harder to tell where this is. With the locally picked up Dorking eggs it was easy. It was neat seeing all 11 eggs with a Pip exactly in the center. All 11 hatched too