Shaws call duck incubation thread (hatch a wonderful(worthless to Ralphie) dux thread)

[orrpeople]

Correct... though packing eggs properly for optimal shock absorption that doesn't reach the eggs helps tremendously, shipping is always a crapshoot...

Is it prudent to set shipped eggs upright? Who says? Damages done in shipping that affect the actual viability are *not* reversible... if the chalazae becomes separated from the yolk (not something that can be determined by air cell damages) it will never develop, no matter how much or what way it is tried...

IMO, upright setting and minimal tilting actually causes more issues than help... ones I have laid down from the beginning have done just as well or better than ones upright...

Interesting information...
I have a hen who lays eggs with side air cells. It's the oddest thing. They always hatch.
I also have had shipped eggs with ugly air cell saddles that hatch. I'm beginning to think successful hatching has more to do with CAM development/damage than air cell issues...

 

[Ravynscroft]

Interesting information...
I have a hen who lays eggs with side air cells. It's the oddest thing. They always hatch.
I also have had shipped eggs with ugly air cell saddles that hatch. I'm beginning to think successful hatching has more to do with CAM development/damage than air cell issues...

It does... setting Call eggs in an upright turner showed me that, they will not develop their CAMs properly and hatches as a consequence are rare to nil...

 

[shawluvsbirds]

It does... setting Call eggs in an upright turner showed me that, they will not develop their CAMs properly and hatches as a consequence are rare to nil...

Since y'all are here. .
I checked my brood y eggs last night They are due to hatch tomorrow my calculations. .
They eggs look pretty close and full of baby. . just a bit of veins left that can be seen.. .but the air cells look way too small to me.
More like between day 14 and day 18 instead of 24 .
I assume I can't really do anything about this but thought I would ask.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

ok..I mean 14 and 21 . . . maybe even closer to 14

 

[Ravynscroft]

Since y'all are here. .
I checked my brood y eggs last night They are due to hatch tomorrow my calculations. .
They eggs look pretty close and full of baby. . just a bit of veins left that can be seen.. .but the air cells look way too small to me.
More like between day 14 and day 18 instead of 24 .
I assume I can't really do anything about this but thought I would ask.

Does she bathe daily?

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Does she bathe daily?

Yes. Several times a day.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Yes. Several times a day.

Well. . I actually haven't seen her come out as much the last few days. . .

 

[Ravynscroft]

Well. . I actually haven't seen her come out as much the last few days. . .

Don't stress it, let her do her thing...

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Don't stress it, let her do her thing...

Ok

 

[orrpeople]

I'm not a duck person, but with chicken eggs, I've had some air cells that just won't draw down in an incubator with others that are drawn down normally and I just can't reduce humidity or I risk the normal ones... In every case but one, the chicks with the small air cells did fine. In the one case where the chick didn't make it, if I had been paying closer attention, I could have saved it.
Guess what I'm trying to say is that your eggs are probably going to do fine.