setting eggs tonight!! anyone else?

[hdowden]

i lost one in the shell it was fully formed and yolk assorbed but didnt pip shell when i found them all pip it did seem the weakest like it was piped internally for a while, i thought about piping the egg myself but didnt but now i wish i did theres no reason this chick had to die. poor thing was huge and couldnt move in the shell. if i had pipped the egg for it it could of at least breathed and survived the night

 

[1keegan]

Sorry to hear that, hdowden.
But glad that your others are coming along-

we opened two eggs- one a fully formed chick, dead
and the other had a very small decomposing embryo.
we left the remaining 3 in there.

 

[Corg33]

i lost one in the shell it was fully formed and yolk assorbed but didnt pip shell when i found them all pip it did seem the weakest like it was piped internally for a while, i thought about piping the egg myself but didnt but now i wish i did theres no reason this chick had to die. poor thing was huge and couldnt move in the shell. if i had pipped the egg for it it could of at least breathed and survived the night

Sorry I hope your others come along just fine.

 

[1keegan]

How did the one that had a late night pipping party make out?

And the one that was zipping this morning?

Pictures?

i had a pip this morning around 130am went to bed and got up this morning to it still pipped and a different one zipping

 

[1keegan]

This noon we thought we'd see how the new solo hatchling would get along with the five chicks we bought alst weekend. There's a 11 day difference between them. One at a time we brought an older chick into the baby brooder for introductions. The older ones didn't bother the little one in any way, however, the baby was pecking at their eyes, their feet, their beaks, etc.
Not sure if the older ones will "put her in her place" or not- this is our first experience with blending differnt age groups.

any suggestions?

 

[CayuseRanch]

Congrats Hdowden...looks like my hatch is the only dud

 

[CALI CHICK]

This noon we thought we'd see how the new solo hatchling would get along with the five chicks we bought alst weekend. There's a 11 day difference between them. One at a time we brought an older chick into the baby brooder for introductions. The older ones didn't bother the little one in any way, however, the baby was pecking at their eyes, their feet, their beaks, etc.
Not sure if the older ones will "put her in her place" or not- this is our first experience with blending differnt age groups.

any suggestions?

They should be fine as their sizes aren't that different. It sounds like the 'baby' is a spoiled only child!

As long as the older ones don't gang up or hurt the baby, they'll probably work out the pecking order on their own. I would just keep an eye on them for awhile to make sure they accept each other.

 

[CALI CHICK]

Congrats Hdowden...looks like my hatch is the only dud

Aww, Cayuse, I'm so sorry about your eggs.

How many did you start with and what do you think happened to keep them from hatching?

 

[CayuseRanch]

Aww, Cayuse, I'm so sorry about your eggs.

How many did you start with and what do you think happened to keep them from hatching?

I had 3 of my own and 8 shipped. One of my own wasn't fertile and out early. I had two others that were shipped but busted open so I know that the USPS did some magic on the eggs. That is the only thing I can think of that would have caused them not to hatch. I will be doing the eggtopsy tonight. Never done one of those either.

 

[CayuseRanch]

Ok everyone, I need all of your expert hatching help... Please read thru my experience and let me know your thoughts.

I have just completed my second hatch in an incubator and my very first with shipped eggs. So I am really new to this. I put in two eggs of my own and 8 FBC Maran eggs. Because all of the eggs were so dark, candeling was near impossible. I had perfect temps, no power outages, I didn't take them out except for twice to candle. So here I am on day 24 and I do an eggtopsy. My two eggs had development my cuckoo maran was the furthest developed probably quit around lockdown time. The other one was an early quitter, probably before day 10. Now here is my thoughts on the shipped eggs and I know that there is risk with shipped eggs. 1) I ordered 10 eggs, but two were broken they were wrapped in bubble wrap that did not have inflated bubbles (was this a shipper issue or could they have been flown and maybe an air pressure thing?) 2) Of the 8 eggs only 1 showed any sign of development 3) two of the shipped eggs I was able to open without busting the sac and found the yolk still intact like a regular egg but there was no sign of fertility, no white spot, no veins nothing. 4) One of the shipped eggs had a green ring which points towards bacteria. There was a very faint stale smell to the incubation.

So my questions are... Do you think that I got unfertilized eggs and 2 what went wrong with the hatch? Could it have been the bacteria in the one egg? If so why the two different stages of development?

I will chalk this one up to an educational experience as disappointed as I am.