well, i candled & found lots more TACs. all not viable. pitched 19 eggs, yes some cost as much as 2 bucks an egg! but many were from MY hens, those eggs wren't shipped & handled with TLC???!!!
Floating air sacs
TF, Wow - that is not what I expected to see out of homegrown hatching eggs. Sorry to hear about your misfortune. All I have is shipped eggs to compare, so maybe my opinion was biased. Anyone else having bad air cells in homegrown eggs? Thanks
Ya know its funny,but I just had a few
But they were all out of the same pen so I figured there had been some kinda rough housing going on
come to think of it, my 6 yo son Peter brought some of those eggs in. Ya can't trust him with a carbonated beverage in a can, so.....not as TLC as needed LOL and btw, NONE of those with TACS developed. and many were ones that weren't marked, i.e., i didn' tsee the TAC when i candled before i incubated...
i had some TACs develop..... BLODD RINGS!
actually one seems to be viable, with veins and a peep and movment. but still floats around...
learned my lesson. after tossing countless dollars worth of eggs...
tf
I know I'm jumping in really late on this, but, I too have had shipments of eggs TAC and if incubated with a turner I do nothing different and if no turner I prop the air cell end up and bit and handle with care and have had pretty good luck with hatching...
not at all bulroo, this is good info!
what you do, i heard that too and tried it with no luck. three eggs out of twelve made it to the pipping stage... but they were really bad tacs, way too big, like the membranes had ruptured...
its good that old threads pop up again it just means we can re-examine them from different perspectives and wat exactly do u do i dont understand it sorry im a bit slow today still tired
josh
you're tired? my baby kept me up till 3 AM, and i am so sleepy, need to take a trip to town to get water... baby just woke up from his nap, where is mine?
well your a mother your used to being tired i dont have kids yet well hoping to soon any way.how old is yours ??
you young chickens you.
are u saying your an old chook
Don't chickens keep you young? Tired, worn, smelly, happy, and young......
i agree with catscan dont forget they keep u in a grumpy mood:)
josh
some of you with young kids and wanting kids are the young chickens around here. I have done my time. Now I am having fun with babies.
yep u get to sit back and relax us "young chickens" are just getin started (dam)
bumping this up for reference
Thanks Jordan i've never heard of TAC and now i know was it ever determined if it was the shipping,
old eggs or just the egg it's self??
i'm still trying to figure it out. on of my eggs due to hatch monday has a leak on top. what does that mean?
Hi Harmony--it can be genetic--or bird's health--or any rough handling. When they ship them, it is due primarily to rough handling.
Somewhere in the thread there is advice to let the TAC eggs sit and stablize for, I think , 24 hours before putting them in the incubator. People have had good luck with some TAC eggs this way. I never did. I think I had one develop to about day14 and then die.
I just read in my new FFA book, "How to Raise Chickens" that you shouldn't start turning them until the fourth day. I've never heard that before. I have read that the embryo and it's blood supply are extremely delicate the first few days and any jostling could destroy them--one reason to wait til day 6 or 7 or 10 to candle.
Has anyone else heard of waiting that long?
lets see the natural way>>> A hen will lay about 7 to 14 eggs depends on the breed and will then become broody so the first egg has been in the nest for 7 to 14 days and i have seen them turn them during that time and when they go broody they turn them from day one. So i don't understand the not turning for 4 days.
Yes you should be careful handleing your hatching eggs prior to and at setting and candle at 7 days or later.
Interesting.... I've got to get some books.. so I can read while I'm away from the computer!
I hope I didn't mess with my eggs too much.... I'm not touching them now.. but I couldn't resist yesterday..
Thanks, Harmony--that's what I thought too.
ZZ--I have a lot of good books--if you'd like to borrow some and see which ones you might want to buy?
That would be awesome! I went to amazon several times.. then got overwhelmed and left.. LOL
I can't get enough...
Thank you!