Setting Eggs Today? I am, hatch with me?

[just2rosey]

Good Luck, Erica! Sounds like you are off to a great start.

Well, I know I keep saying no more shipped eggs, but I keep buying more.

I saw WM Ameraucana eggs going for a song on ebay so I bid on them, just because they were a steal, and I won.

So they will ship on Monday (he gave me a choice of tomorrow or Monday) So I said Monday, by the time they arrive, my silkies should be hatching! I will just take the new babies out, and pop the new eggs in.

I think I am going to have to find a chicken swap and try to unload all these extra chicks and roos.

How ya doing with the humidity Momsflock?

 

[erica.godinez]

thank you , just2rosy and im happy for you, good luck on them. Im just keeping my fingers crossed, i did some stupped thing today while i was turning eggs this morning i dropped one and now has a crack

man was i mad, that one was 1 of the few i canddled

 

[just2rosey]

Sorry about the dropped egg, Erica. Don't feel to bad, I dropped a silkie egg the other day, too, it cause a small dent/crack in it.

Then I think I went and stuck it under my broody, without thinking. Looks like we are both getting into the same Ameraucanas. I mostly have b/b/s, but have been trying to hatch some wheatons also, but I am not having as much luck with those. I only got one from my first hatch, and only 3 eggs look to be viable from the second. Maybe they just aren't meant to be. Well, only one more week to go. I candled all the eggs I have set to hatch May 4th, and it looks like 12 out of 13 are developing. I can't wait to see the silkie babies. Should be interesting.

 

[erica.godinez]

I candled the one that has a crack and it is still viable so i am hopping it willbe ok

 

[momsflock]

Humidity has been fine and easy to control. It is the tem that I am having trouble with. I am still ranging from 97-102. It is driving me CRAZY! Thank you for asking

 

[just2rosey]

Well, I just candled my eggs due to hatch May 12th, you know the shipped Ameraucana eggs? Well out of the 8 eggs I am down to 3. Two or 3 had ruptured air cells and never started, and a couple of blood rings. Nice (not!).

That's why i just hate hatching shipped eggs.

Its very frustrating, to have home grown eggs do so well and watch so many shipped eggs fail. The only good news is that the two olive egger eggs I received as extras were among the yokers I tossed. I didn't need any more variety in my flock, I have to may projects going already. I still have 12 of the original 13 silkie and cochin eggs going which should hatch by the 4th. I lost one to a bloodring a few days ago, but just tossed it today with the others. So I currently have 20 in the incubator, and I have 9 eggs under my broody still. When I candled the eggs due on the 4th, the embryos are looking good, they almost fill the shells now.

 

[erica.godinez]

OMG, just2rosey what in the world would be ruptured air cells, and a blood rings

gues is much more things to wory about, then just toss the eggs in the incubator

I better do my homework

 

[just2rosey]

Well, Erica, you are in the right place for homework!

I have spent more hours the last few months reading on here about hatching and all that can go wrong, and what I can do.

Shipped eggs get shaken up so much in transit. The air cell is formed by air trapped between the shell and the inner membrane of the egg. The jarring ride can cause the membrane to tear or rupture and air cells to break, then when you candle you can see an air bubble traveling around inside the eggs shell. Most of the eggs in that bad shape won't even start to develop. That's why everyone writes about shipped eggs being such a gamble. I have purchased eggs from all over the US, and they all arrive like this. I think it must be my local mail sorting facility which treats them so badly.

Well here it is folks, I hit day 18 and go into lockdown at 10pm tonight!

So ya'll should be locking down this weekend also right?

Hard to believe we are there already. I hope this is a good hatch!

This is the first hatch since I modified my homemade incubator, so here's hoping.

I would like sell to most of these little chicks at the swap next weekend, since I have 17 more I hope to hatch a week later: 7 more silkies (an egg under the hen broke), 2 more cochins, 5 barnyard mix, and 3 wheaton ameraucana). Other wise I will have way to many chicks!! So I am locking down 12 of 13 from this batch, how about everyone else?

 

[mskittydjs]

Hi all, My broody, Cinderella, has been dutifully sitting on 11 of the 12 eggs of a variety mix (she ate one). We have 7 different types of girls and 4 different types of roos so we are excited to see what will the babies be like!!! Tonight is day 19 so I figure we should have little fuzzy butts somewhere between Monday and Wednesday. My son and I candled them a week ago and everything looked good. A bunch of his friends came over after church Wednesday and wanted to see what candling was all about (12 year olds that read about it in Science class) and so we tried it again. All I could see was the air sac in each along with a big mass in each. I could not see any movement and am just praying that we have a bunch of babies in a few days. I read up on some of the other posts about eggs going rotten, so tyesterday when I had her off the nest, I picked up each one and smelled them...no foul odor to be shmelt!!! If they are bad, wouldn't they have a foul odor by now??? I am hoping to hear some little pips on Monday. A friend of mine offered me a chance to borrow his incubator and try it out...not sure if I want to deal with all the variables that come along with that! Having a broody is stress enough! Of course, DH thinks it is a good idea...but he doesn't mind putting more on my plate since he doesn't take care of them!!! Will have to think long and hard about this...

Good luck to everyone else that is going into lockdown this weekend!!!

Can't wait to see pictures!!!

 

[momsflock]

Lockdown is Monday night for me! Praying my temps stay stable. I will be watching the eggs like a hawk!