Tis Time for a March 2020 Hatch-a-long!

[FortCluck]

I'm thinking about hatching a shell less egg... Anyone want to watch me try?

 

[julskinka]

When I woke up this morning the last two chicks had hatched overnight! So that gives me a 91% hatch rate overall!
Now that they're all dry, I think there are 6 Blue, 2 Splash, and 2 Black! I will update with fuzzy pictures later today!

A recap of the Undesirable egg experiment if you weren't already following along on the thread:

- Hatch 3/12/20: 91% (started with 12, 1 infertile, 1 quitter, 10 live chicks)

- Used Version 2 Nurture Right incubator, 99.5°F, 40-50% (usually 45%) humidity for the first 18 days, increased to 65% for hatch.

- A total of 7 of the original 12 eggs were "undesirable" and 5 hatched!
- 2 Oblong Eggs - Both Hatched!
- 2 Porous Eggs - Both Hatched!
- 1 Sticky Eggs (thought to be egg white leakage) - Hatched!
- 1 Calcium Build Up Egg - Clear/Infertile
- 1 Cracked Egg (repaired with wax) - Quitter on approximately day 15-17 due to bacteria or from the amount of wax needed to cover large crack preventing proper gas exchange.

Awesome! Glad to hear you had such good results. And what a nice spread of colours on the babies!

 

[julskinka]

I'm thinking about hatching a shell less egg... Anyone want to watch me try?

YES, make it its own thread and I will follow. Was thinking about exactly this earlier, but none of my pullets have laid a leather egg.

 

[FortCluck]

Can you take a picture of what you're looking at? I know it's really hard to identify where things are. My guess would be malposition since there hasn't been a pip. Sometimes when waterfowl try to pip they leave what looks like a bruise on the shell, do you see that anywhere?

I opened it a lot because when I made the hole it busted.

 

[FortCluck]

YES, make it its own thread and I will follow. Was thinking about exactly this earlier, but none of my pullets have laid a leather egg.

I'm doing it now she'll at all no leather egg. I'm cracking an egg open and incubating it.

I'm bored

 

[julskinka]

I opened it a lot because when I made the hole it busted.

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I think I see the beak - it's to the right of the vein and the red line on the shell is pointing at it. If that's it, it's not malpositioned. Is there movement?

ETA - I may just be seeing things, haha.

 

[julskinka]

I'm doing it now she'll at all no leather egg. I'm cracking an egg open and incubating it.

I'm bored

Ohhhhh like that experiment I posted a video of way back?

 

[FortCluck]

Kids are home for 2 weeks so I figured we would do egg experiments I have plenty of eggs for it. About 5 dozen.

 

[FortCluck]

I think I see the beak - it's to the right of the vein and the red line on the shell is pointing at it. If that's it, it's not malpositioned. Is there movement?

Yes. But I feel like it'll die

 

[FortCluck]

Ohhhhh like that experiment I posted a video of way back?

I saw one on YouTube from a China college. I'm going to try it. I'll make a thread for it.

My husband needs to get me supplies, but I'll be doing it for sure. I'll make the thread now and tag it in here