Stabilizing aircells on shipped eggs

[Nksg75]

Ok, so I am officially on day 18. I have a measly 3 viable eggs! If my predictions are correct, I should have 2 roosters and 1 hen!!
Eggs 1,3,and 5 are the ones left.
Even if none of them hatch I will still be able to figure out if I was correct on the genders.
Fortunately these are color sexable at hatch, so if it's a total disaster and not 1 hatches I will open them up and see.
#5 is the predicted female

I think I will post this whole expierement in a new thread! Should be interesting to say the least!!!

 

[song of joy]

I dont think you will find an autosexing olive egger. I am not sure but I believe that the gene that dictates the autosexing capability does not transfer to a mixed breed which an olive egger is (brown egg x blue egg).

I have 24 shipped eggs arriving on Wednesday of this week and I am planning on resting them for 24 hrs., incubating and not turning for 6 days and then beginning to turn after that. There is a seller on ebay that has a great explanation for dealing with shipped eggs if you search 16 olive egger rainbow eggs on ebay you will find it. Good luck with your hatches and your experiments. Please post the results, you will fascinate alot of people.

Just checking to see how this turned out, as I currently have 30 eggs in the incubator and all of them have terrible air cells.

Did you end up not turning for 6 days? Did any hatch?

 

[oregonkat]

Just checking to see how this turned out, as I currently have 30 eggs in the incubator and all of them have terrible air cells.

Did you end up not turning for 6 days? Did any hatch?

This clutch of eggs is going into lock down on Wednesday this week. Of the 41 eggs that went in I now have 31. I lost all but 2 of the 7 CCL eggs I am sure due to being shaken up during shipping. Upon eggtopsy, 4 were completely scrambled and 1 quit around day 5 I think. I have some Lavender Orpingtons that I also lost due to awful packaging and the remaining have very bad saddles but are alive. I actually did not turn the eggs for 48 hours once in the bator and everybody else in there seems to be doing well. I read from other posters that waiting too long to start turning causes more trouble than dealing with the saddles. So, I waited a little while instead!

I am sorry to hear about your air cells. My advice is to keep them upright until lockdown and just keep a super close eye on the pips. I dont know if there is a correlation between the saddles and shrink wrapped chicks (due to the air cell being pulled so low down on either side) but it would not surprise me if there was one! Good luck with your hatch and I will post this weekend as we progress through the hatch.

 

[song of joy]

This clutch of eggs is going into lock down on Wednesday this week. Of the 41 eggs that went in I now have 31. I lost all but 2 of the 7 CCL eggs I am sure due to being shaken up during shipping. Upon eggtopsy, 4 were completely scrambled and 1 quit around day 5 I think. I have some Lavender Orpingtons that I also lost due to awful packaging and the remaining have very bad saddles but are alive. I actually did not turn the eggs for 48 hours once in the bator and everybody else in there seems to be doing well. I read from other posters that waiting too long to start turning causes more trouble than dealing with the saddles. So, I waited a little while instead!

I am sorry to hear about your air cells. My advice is to keep them upright until lockdown and just keep a super close eye on the pips. I dont know if there is a correlation between the saddles and shrink wrapped chicks (due to the air cell being pulled so low down on either side) but it would not surprise me if there was one! Good luck with your hatch and I will post this weekend as we progress through the hatch.

It sounds like you have a good percentage that will make it into lockdown. Did you keep these eggs upright during incubation and if so, to what extent did you turn them after the first 48 hours (approximate degrees from vertical) and at what frequency (how many times per 24 hours)?

 

[Nksg75]

Just checking to see how this turned out, as I currently have 30 eggs in the incubator and all of them have terrible air cells.

Did you end up not turning for 6 days? Did any hatch?

Hi there!!
I wish I had not turned for longer. I did not have luck with this batch of olive eggers. All were DIS. I then ordered more from a closer source(not much closer) but I got lucky on them and my pro didn't play football with them.
Most arrived with intact aircells. This has never happen to me by the way!!
I posted updates on my expierement on a new thread called
Sexing eggs by SI(shape Index)

 

[oregonkat]

It sounds like you have a good percentage that will make it into lockdown. Did you keep these eggs upright during incubation and if so, to what extent did you turn them after the first 48 hours (approximate degrees from vertical) and at what frequency (how many times per 24 hours)?

The eggs went into an upright turner. It has a full cycle every 4 hours so it goes from a tilted 45 deg. angle slowly to upright and then to the opposing 45 deg. angle, if that makes sense. It does not actually rotate the eggs, just tilts them side to side. If you are turning them by hand, place the eggs into egg cartons that are cut down around the sides and have the bottoms of the egg holders cut out so there is a hole for ventilation. Eggs go in fat side down, you know this already, and then the egg carton can be tilted up on one side, e.g. the front side, and supported underneath by something like a rectangular lego piece so that the carton is tilted back and then when the time comes, tilt it forward again supporting it with the lego piece. Make sense? If not, I will try to explain better.

 

[song of joy]

Thanks @oregonkat . That's the kind of turner I have. They've been upright with no turning for 4 days now. I may wait another day before starting the turner.

 

[oregonkat]

Thanks @oregonkat . That's the kind of turner I have. They've been upright with no turning for 4 days now. I may wait another day before starting the turner.

Good luck with the hatch. I would start turning, I think your 4 days is probably good.