This bloom actually keeps harmful bacteria out of the egg. You see, an egg is coated with an amazing, protective coating, called “bloom,” right before the hen lays the egg. You want unsoiled eggs that are also unwashed. Dirty eggs are more likely to harbor germs.
Work together with one or two family members one holds the incubator lid while another removes the chick and yet another removes the pieces of shell. The best answer is a really simple one: do it quickly. After all, every time you lift the lid, the temperature and humidity levels drop.
#Delayed chicken egg hatching incubator how to#
If you’re like me, you’re wondering how to remove the potentially harmful shells without disturbing the perfect heat and humidity that’s inside the incubator. That way the little balls of cuteness won’t possibly cut themselves on jagged shells when they’re squirming around, trying to learn how to use their legs. Removing the broken egg shells will not only lessen the likelihood of deadly germs, but also remove the potentially sharp-edged pieces. So this year as soon as a chick is ready to come out of the incubator, I’m gonna be sure to remove all the pieces of her egg with her. All the rest of the sweet feathered siblings died in their shells. (After all, bacteria thrive in a warm, humid environment.) But either way, we realized too late that the incubator was a breeding ground for a bacteria that was deadly to the little chicks.
#Delayed chicken egg hatching incubator cracked#
I don’t know if one egg in the lot was contaminated and got cracked while the first little guy was hopping around in there, or if the first baby’s shells, which we left sitting in the incubator, harbored bacteria. Most eggs showed signs of the chicks working their way out, but no one got further than an exposed foot or a tiny bit of a beak. Then we swiftly took her out, and placed her under the brooding light when she was ready. We watched her through the glass for many hours. The first baby made herself known, loud and clear, as soon as she was born. Thanks to the Chicken Chick’s awesome site, this post helped us offer our tiny cutie some late-night rehab, via taped-up legs and standing assistance, and she is thriving today.įast forward to last year.
Our first year the only problem we faced was one adorable spraddle-legged chick. It was our second year of incubating chicks, and we felt like we knew kinda knew what we were doing. Last year about this time things were going well. If so, you may want to hop over to this post to avoid another huge, deadly mistake that I made with my rooster and my chicks when they were a few months old.
If you wanna incubate your eggs, you’ll need your eggs to be fertile, so you must have a rooster on your farm as well. So here I am yet again, pouring salt in wounds, and rehashing my silly mistakes, because I really do hope that sharing about my mistakes can help you avoid similar problems. Hopefully sharing it here will help others avoid the same blunder and save some baby chicks in the process. That got me thinking about last year’s incubation and my huge mistake. Go here if you’d like to see the products I recommend for raising your own chicken.īut on top of broody chicks, broody ducks, and new baby bunnies, we’re incubating chicks and ducklings, and they’re due to hatch this week. Then go here to read all about this broody hen and how I convinced her to adopt more chicks. Scroll to the end, if you wanna see Eagle and hear her story. And then there’s our adorable story, with a very happy ending, about our missing-turned-boody hen, Eagle. If you’re following on facebook or have checked out my youtube channel recently, you’ve probably seen more baby bovine cuteness than you can stomach this week, since we’re baby goat sitting for friends. But even if you’re not incubating any eggs this spring, scroll down for the most adorable baby goat pictures ever. New life is exploding on the homestead this week, which reminds me I wanted to share with you all a huge mistake I made last spring when incubating chicks (hoping no one else makes the same mistake).
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