Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today

[Iain Utah]

My air cells on the first shipped eggs see HUGE and still a total mess. I have them sitting upright with a slight angle to them. I am concerned about the goose eggs cause their air cells are so misshapen and still sloushy.

I have the same thing going with one of my goose eggs which I have incubating upright. It is developing the membrane in the middle of the egg, with the fluid at pointy end, instead of my others which are developing vertically, i.e., when you look at egg with fat end on top the left side is membrane and right side is clear fluid. I just posted a follow up question on my thread in the goose forum. Hope I get some replies.

 

[stillmecle]

It is still raining, snowing and buttass cold. We are suppose to stay colder than a witches tit too. The highs this week are to be barely 20. I hate this crap. And that means I will probably have to go take care of horses in the morning and night tomorrow since Jeff will be out of town. I still need to go take care of ducks outside, change their water, clean up poop and put down more straw over the sawdust. I also need to make them some oatmeal, peas, corn, boiled eggs, and whatever else I can find to throwing in there to feed them to give them a warm insides.

 

[Chicken Crazy12]

No, I don't mark the lines on the eggs. I try not to handle them more than I have to so I just note the air cells when I candle to check for any that may have quit along the way. I have a book that shows where the air cell should be at what point. It's one of my storey's guides, could be the duck one I think. I can't remember I have the duck one, the poultry one and the chicken one. Heck they may all have that little picture in them on the air cells durring different weeks of incubation.

Chicken, do you mark lines on egg to show air cell rate of evaporation? I am doing that now with my goose eggs and find it very interesting,

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

I love your colorful use of adjectives you got goin' on there. LOL.

It is still raining, snowing and buttass cold. We are suppose to stay colder than a witches tit too. The highs this week are to be barely 20. I hate this crap. And that means I will probably have to go take care of horses in the morning and night tomorrow since Jeff will be out of town. I still need to go take care of ducks outside, change their water, clean up poop and put down more straw over the sawdust. I also need to make them some oatmeal, peas, corn, boiled eggs, and whatever else I can find to throwing in there to feed them to give them a warm insides.

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

I don't see air cells. Somebody tell me what I'm looking for here. I'm talking about before I start incubating. I look for floaty bubbles. But I can't see them good until the embryo starts growing.

 

[Iain Utah]

It is a whopping 12 degrees here right now! Just came back inside from feeding. Brrrrrr. Here's a picture of my horses & geese waiting for their breakfast.

 

[Iain Utah]

QJ, it is hard to see, especially if eggs are really fresh. I just throw the eggs in bator and check after 72 hours.

 

[country_girl011]

still no other developmennt in any other eggs.
but the veining is almost spread across the entire eggs. in the 2 that are veining. (one of them looks a little weird? kinda darker)
tomarrow is day 7 for pekin eggs. so we will c .

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

QJ, it is hard to see, especially if eggs are really fresh. I just throw the eggs in bator and check after 72 hours.

Ok that's what I'm doing. Whew.

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

still no other developmennt in any other eggs.
but the veining is almost spread across the entire eggs. in the 2 that are veining. (one of them looks a little weird? kinda darker)
tomarrow is day 7 for pekin eggs. so we will c .