May 2020 Hatch-A-Long

[ShannonsChimkens]

Hmmmm. My guinea egg air cells develop just like chickens do. Here’s a candling pic of one that’s only a few days from hatching, so larger than an early egg...

Hmmm, I’ll try to get a picture. The air cells are still pretty small, but you can definitely see them sitting on the side of the eggs.

 

[Tbjenkins2007]

Questions for you about he pictured egg turner. I assume it is manual. How do you like it? What would you change if you made another?

TIA

We are trying it out this time it’s new. We actually started to build it with wood dowels, they warped. Then went to a different metal rod but the eggs wouldn’t turn. These are made actually out of the metal from a tomato cage! They are working ok, I think. I may make something to keep it in place a little better. This is my 3rd incubator, and so far all 36 are doing well but it’s only been 4 days.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

3 are now pipped! These will either be Star Wars chicks (May the 4th be with you) or Cinco de Mayo babies; and get appropriate names...
Meanwhile, severe weather warnings...please no power outages!

We get a lot of weather here too in Oklahoma, but not today.... Best of luck with the weather!

 

[Tbjenkins2007]

Awesome. What did you make the big incubator from?

Large styrofoam coolers! Like from Omaha steaks, not the cheap ones from the grocery store

Today while I was tweaking the humidity in my incubator, I decided to candle my eggs, 4 days in and they all had little life in them! I’m so excited

 

[gimmie birdies]

I had those steak coolers they even said so on the side, people thought it was funny.

 

[FortCluck]

Hmmm, I’ll try to get a picture. The air cells are still pretty small, but you can definitely see them sitting on the side of the eggs.

They could have been detached and then reattached to the side

 

[ShannonsChimkens]

They could have been detached and then reattached to the side

Good point... I’m going to grab the rest of the eggs the end of this week and put them in the incubator. Curious what those air cells will look like.

 

[ShannonsChimkens]

When it comes to shipped eggs... when you have a reliable source, try to only buy from them.

Foxfire eggs arrived from Idaho, beautifully packaged, eggs secured in carton, all air cells were A+ was able to let them settle for 12ish hours and put them in with the turkeys.

The Liege Fighter and Chiquita eggs arrived from Arizona, eggs broken, box crushed, eggs shaken to the point the air cells are broken up everywhere. Box not marked to let people know what’s in there. So sad! I keep doing this Being an impatient person is a horrible thing.

Edited to add: Not heartbroken, don’t really need anymore birds lol but darn it, if you’re going to ship someone eggs let the carriers know?!

 

[FortCluck]

When it comes to shipped eggs... when you have a reliable source, try to only buy from them.

Foxfire eggs arrived from Idaho, beautifully packaged, eggs secured in carton, all air cells were A+ was able to let them settle for 12ish hours and put them in with the turkeys.

The Liege Fighter and Chiquita eggs arrived from Arizona, eggs broken, box crushed, eggs shaken to the point the air cells are broken up everywhere. Box not marked to let people know what’s in there. So sad! I keep doing this Being an impatient person is a horrible thing.

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Edited to add: Not heartbroken, don’t really need anymore birds lol but darn it, if you’re going to ship someone eggs let the carriers know?!

Did you contact the shipper

 

[ShannonsChimkens]

Did you contact the shipper

Oh yeah, right away. After what happened with the emu eggs and post office not paying the claim out... I was on it. Sent her photos. We’ll see what kind of seller she is. I just want to kick myself, as Foxfire said she could have Liege Fighters for me in 3 weeks damn it lol