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- Apr 22, 2013
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Awesome... We had 13 that hatched. So out of 30 eggs, that were stored for two weeks, and had 3 high temp spikes, we got 13! Phew!
Ok so 5 days later, Lucky 13 was not so lucky, but we have 12 left. A couple of them were backwards in the egg, but I knew that before they hatched, cuz the air cell was also at the wrong end. I think I only lost one of those...
I think we did good under the circumstances. Much better than I expected. Next time, I will know better than to store them for so long. I'm not sure what could have been done about preventing the incubator temp from spiking... I watched it pretty close.
Eggtopsy revealed that a couple of them were fully developed and just didn't pip or died on hatch day. A couple of them didn't absorb the yolk enough by hatch time and they died in the egg. One of those had pipped, but died anyway.
A few of them died early on and were just starting to get a smell.
A few weren't even fertilized. Very dark eggs so I couldn't see into them...
One of them had coaggulated blood around it inside the membrane and the umbilical cord wrapped around it's feet, and it was just barely hangin on by a thread, the blood exchange vein, yanked out. That, I had not ever seen before... It must have just done that a few hours before, cuz it was fully developed, and dead. I know I didn't cause this cuz I opened the shell without damaging the thick white membrane. Then I used tweezers to break the thick membrane VERY GENTLY. I saw the blood inside of the clear membrane, before I opened the clear membrane and it was already gelatinous and very sticky like dehydrated egg white.
Of the living and thriving:
One has short upturned toes on the outside of the foot, but she doesn't know she's any different.
One of them that lived, hadn't absorbed the yolk completely, just a little still sticking out, I put that one in a bowl and kept wetting it and it absorbed fine and is now a bouncy little thing...
Two had umbilical cords that hung on still with blood in them. The first one of those got picked on so I put her and the other one in a bowl while it dried enough to cut off, and get them back with the others. I'm not sure which one it was that died, it looked the same as several others. It looked perfect, so I don't know what happened. Anyway, I because of the conditions, I think it was just les than 50% hatch rate. I'll do better next time...
MaTanner1
Ok so 5 days later, Lucky 13 was not so lucky, but we have 12 left. A couple of them were backwards in the egg, but I knew that before they hatched, cuz the air cell was also at the wrong end. I think I only lost one of those...
I think we did good under the circumstances. Much better than I expected. Next time, I will know better than to store them for so long. I'm not sure what could have been done about preventing the incubator temp from spiking... I watched it pretty close.
Eggtopsy revealed that a couple of them were fully developed and just didn't pip or died on hatch day. A couple of them didn't absorb the yolk enough by hatch time and they died in the egg. One of those had pipped, but died anyway.
A few of them died early on and were just starting to get a smell.
A few weren't even fertilized. Very dark eggs so I couldn't see into them...
One of them had coaggulated blood around it inside the membrane and the umbilical cord wrapped around it's feet, and it was just barely hangin on by a thread, the blood exchange vein, yanked out. That, I had not ever seen before... It must have just done that a few hours before, cuz it was fully developed, and dead. I know I didn't cause this cuz I opened the shell without damaging the thick white membrane. Then I used tweezers to break the thick membrane VERY GENTLY. I saw the blood inside of the clear membrane, before I opened the clear membrane and it was already gelatinous and very sticky like dehydrated egg white.
Of the living and thriving:
One has short upturned toes on the outside of the foot, but she doesn't know she's any different.
One of them that lived, hadn't absorbed the yolk completely, just a little still sticking out, I put that one in a bowl and kept wetting it and it absorbed fine and is now a bouncy little thing...
Two had umbilical cords that hung on still with blood in them. The first one of those got picked on so I put her and the other one in a bowl while it dried enough to cut off, and get them back with the others. I'm not sure which one it was that died, it looked the same as several others. It looked perfect, so I don't know what happened. Anyway, I because of the conditions, I think it was just les than 50% hatch rate. I'll do better next time...
MaTanner1
