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Well, now we have 4 eggs pipped and 3 are on the smaller end.

We're at the end of day 19 and I just found a pipped egg about an hour ago. It's toward the small end of the egg, though...should I be worried. I've had zero success with my last two hatches (hatched one batch successfully before that). We just have a LG forced air incubator and had trouble...

Hope you can find an answer for poor little Myra soon!

8 out of 9. The 9th is molting, though.

That's funny! Ours seem to lay less or not at all some Sundays. We have 9 laying and were joking that they take Sundays off as a "day of rest".

Is this wise? He's been in with the same four girls for about 3.5 months, but we'd like him to fertilize the eggs of our five girls from the other coop. Is he likely to just get picked on, or does being a rooster grant him any privileges in that respect? Any hints on doing this, if you think...

Thanks for the replies. We went ahead and put the eggs in the incubator yesterday since no one appears broody (even the older girls).

OK, newbie question here. I've hatched eggs once before, in an incubator. These were eggs I bought from someone else. Now my rooster is finally doing his thing and our eggs are fertile (checked some for the "bulls-eye" shape). We still have the incubator but would like to let one of the hens...

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Our family will plan to attend the POOPS get-together. Two adults and four children for a grand total of six. I'll definitely bring some foods, but need to think about it a bit and decide exactly what. Wish list--Salmon Faverolle pullet or moderately young hen

Quote: Welcome, Jeannie! I forget to check this section often, but our family is in Lawton. We come out to Elgin weekly to get milk from the Kennedy's.

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Today, one of our new layers laid her egg in the litter box we use as a wading pool for chickens. With the shells being porous, I assumed we shouldn't eat this egg. What do you think? Thanks.

Until my girls recently started laying we were buying eggs from local people. Taste of the eggs and the diet fed to the hens were most important to me (still are!). I prefer knowing the eggs are from hens fed an organic diet and free-ranged as much as possible. Color and size are secondary...

Our EE started between 22 and 23 weeks. We're in SW OK with a lot of heat (100's many days) so I was worried about that, too, but it doesn't seem to be bothering my girls so far.