Setting Eggs Sept. 24th-Oct. 4th-Last Hatch of the Year. Anyone care to join me?

[Brookhavens]

If it's bad, will it smell first? Here's a few pics.











Here's one of my other good eggs. I know it's alive, I saw it moving.

It may or may not smell bad. If you look at your good egg you can see the air cell on one end and the chick fills the rest. Your bad egg has an aircell, chick and then another light area under it...not good.

 

[Brookhavens]

Day 10 for me on my Heritage RIR eggs. Candled finally. The good news is that all of them were fertile. The bad news is I had to toss 6/15. They all had blood rings. Some of the eggs that are left have some really wonky aircells in them but the chicks are growing well. Keeping my fingers crossed that I don't loss anymore.

 

[cindersga]

Hey CUZ (since we are related - Ha! Ha! Ha!

) Yes, I did just read a good article this morning about vaulted skulls, I'll see if I can find it for you. Just from your picture I can see two or maybe even three that I can tell have vaulted skulls. Basically it's the brain without a skull covering it, like the soft spot on a babies head. Here are some to look at, oh, I think that article I was reading is the first one written by Nikki Stetson of Hattrick Silkies.

http://www.google.com/search?q=silk...KDYezyQH87oGYBw&ved=0CCYQsAQ&biw=1454&bih=704

CUZ ~ Thanks for the link I went and checked out her article. I also looked at some pretty nice eye candy also. No fair tempting me like that!

I will have to read her other articles about Silkies too. But, that was very interesting and yes now that I know what you were asking/talking about I do have some with the vaulted skulls and some without. It will be interesting to see what becomes of them. At first I thought you were going to tell me that the vaulted skulls were going to be Roos

and I was panicked. I will really hate having to sell off any Roos, and have to pick which one I want to keep. I don't look forward to that day. I don't even know which color of Roo would be best to keep if I did want to do some breeding.

Night Cuz kiss my babies bros and sista's for us. LOL

 

[1stTimeChikMama]

So you do know of full term and healthy chicks hatching with the finger nail polish? I was wondering if everything was fine with the babies after hatching and gotten older. I haven't really been able to find much on that. You know that would be a good invention for someone to develop. A non toxic wax crayon type thing, where the wax was really soft and in a crayon shape to be able to control the sealing.

I've never done it with chickens before BUT i did it with finch eggs a ton of times. I use to raise Gouldian Finches and I'd use sally Hansen's tough as nails for it. Most hatched out fine and all that hatched lived though adulthood with no problems. But my room was kept at a constant minimum temperature at 75+%. So I'm not sure if that made hatching easier. I always worried about the chemicals but it never seemed to have an effect. But I did feed them (just like to do my chickens) mashed up egg every morning with Spirulina added to it and Spirulina removes chemicals for a human body. So perhaps it would help them the same?

 

[Roxanneinla]

Yeah I KNOW!!! She has another shot of them in the silkie thread I believe it is. Yes, post 25522 on page 2553. I'll try to link it:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/297632/silkie-thread/25520

lol cool

 

[Roxanneinla]

Next incubator project
http://images.craigslist.org/5I35Lb5G93Gc3F83L7c9re0c6808077841916.jpg

picking it up tomorrow. Score!

YowZA!!!! That's a whopper!!!

X2 just WoW!!

 

[Roxanneinla]

Okay I couldnt take it had to bring them inside alittle nippy outside so took a quick pic


have no idea what were gonna have here in colors LOL theres for there the other one is tucked in there 3 the same color and one black

Cute cute cute

 

[Roxanneinla]

Thank you! It was hard to get a good shot as they wanted to run right off the edge of that pie safe! No it wasn't me because I can't tell anything about the shape of the beak, or the feathers on the wings, etc. LOL Okay now...on the vaulted skulls I said something on some thread about isn't it something that they come out with the puff already on their head and someone answered with a link about silkies having a vaulted skull. So I shut up because I don't know nothin'! If you have more info or can explain it to me I would love to hear. Thanks.
Roxanne I did use a photo editing program to try and fix the colors because all the pictures looked washed out. While trying to sharpen the picture it kind of evolved into this and it does remind me of a painting. I really liked the effect so I kept it. I have submitted it for the calendar but there are so many really cute pics I don't know how they will choose.

Cool you did a good job with the photoshop I miss my editing program...need to save some money and buy another one.

 

[Selah]

We just completed our day 14 candle. We started the incubation with 18, discarded a porous shelled egg at day 7, and just pulled 3 quitters....so continuing on with 14 (elementary chicken math I can handle)!

This is our first experience incubating...we are using our own eggs. Had to go look up youtube videos to try to verify what we saw...the second-guessing is agonizing! At day 7 we worried that we stopped one that could have gone on...day 14 we are worrying that we may have missed a quitter, especially as the three we pulled had definitely quit. It is some comfort that we made fairly swift decisions about the ones we pulled. On a bright note, all air cells looked of appropriate size...we think

 

[picanins]

No pics, but the vents are one inch round holes with red plastic stoppers. The stoppers are not in the vents except if the temp falls too much, I put the vents in to raise the temp and then take them back out. I just put blocks under the incubator to raise it off the table so the air holes underneath should work now.

I have 2 LGS that I use with automatic turners and I manage to keep temps very stable by leaving one red plug in throughout incubation. I leave the plug open that's positioned more towards the middle of the bator. I leave the red plug in the hole positioned by the cable (if that makes sense)