He was a chick my broody Prim hatched out in November. When I put them back in the coop when the chicks were about 2 months old, they got locked out of the coop and he frostbit his feet. One fell off about 2 weeks ago, now the other one finally fell off. He gets around just fine on his stuubs and eats and seems happy. I really have to look to see which one is him in the flock...
Oh NO!!!! That's terrible!!!I only get to eat a bunch of good food if I cook it, and at this point it's
WELL....I don't have enough bad words for the news I have to give.
When I was down there last I bumped one of the setting hooks on my incubator, and since they have butterfly lock-nuts, it oughtn't have mattered...and I couldn't see that I made any change...it requires you to really turn it to make changes. It's not sensitive like the dials on LGs or anything like that. Fortunately (most of the time) this is an antique Sportsman older than I, and it's robust and not wimpy in any way.
Unfortunately, this incubator has seen so many owners and uses that the threads on my top temp thermostat wafer have been nearly stripped, and when I bumped it the setting was changed by about, oh...
12 degrees.
I pulled them all out and put them on the cold concrete floor of my basement to cool them as quickly as possible. I had 3 pipped, and one seemed to be alive, but no peeping. I carefully popped the top of the egg with my flashlight and opened a hold int north pole. It was pipped and breathing, shallowly. No blood in the veins, so I pulled it upright so it could cool to a livable temp quickly. I placed it back in the now cooler incubator.
I eggtopsied all of the 74 other eggs for this hatch date carefully, and there was another pip that was alive but still lots of blood in the membrane, so I put it back in. There were another 4 or 5 that were still alive, but weakly. I left them, as well. I left any that still had a chalky membrane, despite no signs of life. There were maybe 8. The rest had gone. It was awful.
I also had over 200 other eggs I'd set Monday. I have poor hopes for those but will leave them and candle later.
Very bad words. I had some amazing eggs in there. Amazing.
I was going to set some auctions tonight, but I'll be setting all of the eggs instead.
So, I candled and tapped, and heard no chirps from the tap and saw no movements of any kind when candling. They have good sized air cells, but there is no space at the little end of the egg at all, which seems strange because I remember seeing space on both sides when they went into lockdown. I also floated them for a minute or two in warm water about the same temparture as the incubator. No movement from any of them. They all floated as if they were developed, but did not wiggle. One of them floated on its side and had NO air cell at the top of the egg...not good, right?
Sorry about the Sportsman Renee. Mine is ancient. Made of wood. I once dropped a broom or mop next to mine and didn't even think about that wingnut. That sucker is hard to turn, so I have no idea how it moved, but 4 hours later the temps were really low.I only get to eat a bunch of good food if I cook it, and at this point it's
WELL....I don't have enough bad words for the news I have to give.
When I was down there last I bumped one of the setting hooks on my incubator, and since they have butterfly lock-nuts, it oughtn't have mattered...and I couldn't see that I made any change...it requires you to really turn it to make changes. It's not sensitive like the dials on LGs or anything like that. Fortunately (most of the time) this is an antique Sportsman older than I, and it's robust and not wimpy in any way.
Unfortunately, this incubator has seen so many owners and uses that the threads on my top temp thermostat wafer have been nearly stripped, and when I bumped it the setting was changed by about, oh...
12 degrees.
I pulled them all out and put them on the cold concrete floor of my basement to cool them as quickly as possible. I had 3 pipped, and one seemed to be alive, but no peeping. I carefully popped the top of the egg with my flashlight and opened a hold int north pole. It was pipped and breathing, shallowly. No blood in the veins, so I pulled it upright so it could cool to a livable temp quickly. I placed it back in the now cooler incubator.
I eggtopsied all of the 74 other eggs for this hatch date carefully, and there was another pip that was alive but still lots of blood in the membrane, so I put it back in. There were another 4 or 5 that were still alive, but weakly. I left them, as well. I left any that still had a chalky membrane, despite no signs of life. There were maybe 8. The rest had gone. It was awful.
I also had over 200 other eggs I'd set Monday. I have poor hopes for those but will leave them and candle later.
Very bad words. I had some amazing eggs in there. Amazing.
I was going to set some auctions tonight, but I'll be setting all of the eggs instead.
I wonder if they would...have you checked out the whole foods/trader Joes fertile egg hatching threads? They are hatching some of those eggs right from the stores...I would imagine your eggs have had a much less bumpy ride than those! I think the hatch rates were pretty low, but I think that supermarkets have to refrigerated their eggs. Maybe someone on that thread would be more knowledgable than I! Good luck! I hope you get a beautiful rooster from those eggs.
