The 5th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[ronott1]

Oz, when you say you've never had a rolling air cell hatch, do you mean completely detached? I have some shipped turkey eggs in the bator now and they almost ALL had loose air cells, but not completely detached...they're developing so far (day 14).

Please forgive me, I am not Oz. There are different degrees of air cell damage. This is from Skeffling Farm

your hatch plan. They have to sit 24 hours always pointy end down, to see if the aircells will reattach, about half of them will in my experience. Either way, leave them in the egg carton for all 21 days of the hatch. Stop turning early at Day 16 not 18. It is possible to hatch chicks from eggs with detached air sacs when the cells never stabilized even after 24 hours, but were left upright for hatch. Make sure any turning is gentle, and no flatter than 45 degrees, more vertical is better!

Disrupted, shattered or ruptured air sacs are seen when instead of one bubble on the side of the egg, there are more than one. Handling must be very rough in these situations and I believe can be enough to kill the embryo in the first place. These should have the same treatment as the detached air sac eggs, but don't re-candle after 24 hours, these won't reattach. Just having the air bubbles rising to the top of the eggs at the fat end while hatching the eggs vertically in trays gives any chicks that do grow chance to pip into the air cell. Likelihood of a chick hatching is lower than intact displaced air cell eggs, but worth a try if the eggs show no sign of spoilage or leaking.

Rough shipping lowers hatch rate on fertile eggs. If they hatched at 80% at the breeders place they will hatch at 50% when shipped. The rate will go down lower depending on how much air cell damage there is.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Goose time!

i was nervous i ordered 8 eggs and 3 are alive and those clear spots to the dark spot was a blood ring like is it or is that an air sack or what is that clear spot?

Just wanted to give everyone an update looks like I will be in Colorado for a while. My Foster Dad is very ill he had a blood order that they were treating that has sense turned into leukemia it was affecting his lungs and his blood marrow but they had gotten it under control but unfortuantly the treatment did not keep it out of his brain and he now has a lesion on his brain. We found all this out because he fell on tuesday he was not found right away when he fell right away and as a result aspirated and has pneumonia now. We are now waiting for the pneumonia to clear up so that he can be taken off the respirator after he is taken off the respirator we will then decide whether or not to start radiation on the lesion. This is a very stressful time I am not sure what the future holds all I can do is sit and wait and pray. On a different note the 100 eggs I locked down before I left on wed. are ow hatching my daughter is taking excellent care of them and so far there are 37 healthy chicks there were three chicks that were weak when I left from the previous hatch and unfortuantly they did pass away but I know that we can not save them all. TY for all you kind words, thoughts and prayers and I will keep you posted.

Our thoughts and prayers are with you.

We lost a bird recently and have been keeping all poultry locked in runs, only free ranging when we're outside with them. Well....they were out ALL day yesterday by accident, I fully expected to lose birds as I couldn't be home. But lucky us, my Bella was on the job, we lost no birds and I caught a shot of her chasing off what I think is a red tailed hawk.

Good GIRL!!! awesomeness!! sorry to see it at home though ughhh

I know, right?! LOVE her to pieces... I wish kids were this easy.

yea right. like that would ever happen

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sure thing! I am so glad he remembered to bring a few really dark ones for me to try it! When I asked him to snap a pic he looked at me like I was insane yet again! ha ha ha but I had to show that it actually works in them babies!! I dont think I will see total details, but certainly can see movement and veins! I was very happy with seeing in there after trying to hatch so many and all guessing!

Quote: ya think? ha ha ha

 

[EnnisLakeFarm]

I've been unable to get online this week. I set 28. Going to candle tonight.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

is anyone else having BYC posting issues right now?

 

[MontanaDolphin]

Just did my candle/trace air cells (not due till 7am tomorrow, but hubby sleeps in on Saturdays and my bedroom is where I keep my bator...ain't no WAY I'm waiting till noon tomorrow to candle hehe).

I set 60 eggs, which included 3 that were cracked (from two different people who sold me eggs) and that I repaired with liquid skin.

My results:

Out of the 28 from my own flock (EE over BR), 1 was clear. Pulled, cracked open, infertile.

Out of the 18 bantam eggs bought locally, 1 was clear...one of the cracked/repaired eggs. Pulled, cracked open, infertile. 2nd cracked/repaired egg from this batch has veins and movement.

Out of the 14 LF mixed eggs bought locally, 2 were clear...one was the 3rd cracked/repaired egg. Pulled, cracked open, one infertile, crack/repaired egg FERTILE. There was a definite bullseye, but not even the beginnings of an embryo. Must not have repaired egg well enough, or the repair came too late for it to start developing. Also out of this batch, two eggs I could not see into so I could not determine if there were any veins or an embryo.

Total eggs with veins and movement: 54
Total eggs that were clear and pulled: 4
Total eggs undetermined if living: 2


EDITED TO ADD PHOTOS:

1st egg I can't see into...there are spots when I candle, which makes seeing anything impossible!




2nd egg I can't see into, same problem with the spots:





This is the only egg out of the three I repaired that has an embryo. It's a silkie egg.

 

[Gardeningmama]

Goose time!

What is it with geese today??? This and the Facebook page offering Toulouse Goslings for $11.00 local to me???? Torture! I check my e-mail 20 times a day for word that mine have hatched. It's killing me! BTW good luck with your hatch

We lost a bird recently and have been keeping all poultry locked in runs, only free ranging when we're outside with them. Well....they were out ALL day yesterday by accident, I fully expected to lose birds as I couldn't be home. But lucky us, my Bella was on the job, we lost no birds and I caught a shot of her chasing off what I think is a red tailed hawk.

Wow Blarney! Bella deserves a steak for that one!

Quote: Praying all goes well

Quote: me too, no life mich just fainting of veining?

Veins are gone, just cloudy blood, but the embryo is still swishing. WEIRD! I'm wondering if this is bacterial, I washed them, and knew I was risking it.

Embryo:

Cloudy blood:

I keep checking because I want to eggtopsy it...is that sick or what?

 

[ImpulsiveFarmer]

Candled all my eggs.
All but one of the duck eggs looks good.

The 1 pheasant egg wasn't fertile.

I'm not sure about the turkey eggs... some look good, but in most I didn't see movement. At least a couple were clear quitters.

I've about given up on hatching turkeys, hopefully the girls have better luck hatching out their own eggs.
Can't really tell with the maran eggs, but they all look to be developing.

I have a batch due next week, and I'm hoping the turkeys in that batch do well or else I might need to buy birds to raise for Thanksgiving.

 

[chickenlisa]

My Good Luck totems for all (or most) of the eggs to hatch....I have more Chicken items people have given me over the years, but this gives them the right idea...C'mon little chickies,grow!

 

[ronott1]

My Good Luck totems for all (or most) of the eggs to hatch....I have more Chicken items people have given me over the years, but this gives them the right idea...C'mon little chickies,grow!

That is awsome!

I took the plug out to the vent hole on my Genesis and lost it.
What do other hatch a holics do? Do you use plugs?

 

[pickitfarm]

What is it with geese today??? This and the Facebook page offering Toulouse Goslings for $11.00 local to me???? Torture! I check my e-mail 20 times a day for word that mine have hatched. It's killing me! BTW good luck with your hatch

We have three toulouse geese that hang at our pond in our backyard (we have a townhouse in DE that has a 18 acre stream feed pond) mostly in spring and summer. They are the bosses to the Canadian Geese that come in and out Don't know where they came from. This will be their third year here. They are huge and really pretty and loud.