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post #161 of 3055
10/30/11 at 6:14am

Hey Hdowden frow
   What type of marans? I have bcms and blue/splash marans from Charm1704 and Rockinpaints going hugslove

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post #162 of 3055
10/30/11 at 6:33am

How difficult is it to candle those maran eggs? I'm hoping to get some in December. How many maran eggs do you have going Melissa Rose?

Mom to 2 boys. dobermans, rabbits, guineas, ameraucanas, marans, silkies, showgirls, frizzles, bramas, cochins, polish, white faced black spanish,  phoenix, dominiques, campines, wyandottes. chickaholic!  SHHHH! Don't tell the neighbors, no fowl are allowed!

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Mom to 2 boys. dobermans, rabbits, guineas, ameraucanas, marans, silkies, showgirls, frizzles, bramas, cochins, polish, white faced black spanish,  phoenix, dominiques, campines, wyandottes. chickaholic!  SHHHH! Don't tell the neighbors, no fowl are allowed!

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post #163 of 3055
10/30/11 at 6:35am

where did u get the calendar?

2 wonderful kids, a loving husband, 3 speckled, 4 Buff O's, 2 rabbit dogs, 1 rabbit, 1 lab/bulldog pup, 2 parakeets,1 chi/terr! and now 25 Barred Rock babies!
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2 wonderful kids, a loving husband, 3 speckled, 4 Buff O's, 2 rabbit dogs, 1 rabbit, 1 lab/bulldog pup, 2 parakeets,1 chi/terr! and now 25 Barred Rock babies!
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post #164 of 3055
10/30/11 at 7:08am

bow Glenda sent Christmas in October love and Nellie sent some beauties too. The Blue Marans eggs are a little easier to candle. Glenda sent 4 and 4 and Nellie sent 6 Blue and 2 Black Coppers. I already have several BCMS from Glenda hatched so I am really excited to get the blue as well!!! My darling hubby bought me a LED flashlight from Sams that is 150 Lumens so I could candle the dark eggs !!!! The batteries don't last very long but I use recharable so that's OK. The Black Copper eggs are so dark I don't try to candle until lockdown - if they look solid they go in if the glow brightly they stay out. In the other eggs I candle I can see movement but not in the BCMs. I am soooo eggcited about the silkie eggs about to hatch lovecelebratecelebrateweeyippiechickieyippiechickie !!! It seems the last few days are always the hardest gig

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   Melissa Rose
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   Melissa Rose
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post #165 of 3055
10/30/11 at 7:08am
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Originally Posted by stines4 

where did u get the calendar?


On page one first post of this thread hugsfrow

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post #166 of 3055
10/30/11 at 7:59am
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Melissa Rose 

bow Glenda sent Christmas in October love and Nellie sent some beauties too. The Blue Marans eggs are a little easier to candle. Glenda sent 4 and 4 and Nellie sent 6 Blue and 2 Black Coppers. I already have several BCMS from Glenda hatched so I am really excited to get the blue as well!!! My darling hubby bought me a LED flashlight from Sams that is 150 Lumens so I could candle the dark eggs !!!! The batteries don't last very long but I use recharable so that's OK. The Black Copper eggs are so dark I don't try to candle until lockdown - if they look solid they go in if the glow brightly they stay out. In the other eggs I candle I can see movement but not in the BCMs. I am soooo eggcited about the silkie eggs about to hatch lovecelebratecelebrateweeyippiechickieyippiechickie !!! It seems the last few days are always the hardest gig


So how many eggs are you incubating now? I've lost count, lol. I would try and get a count of how many eggs we have so far on this thread, follow my lead, I'm going to post what I have, then you copy and paste in a new reply and add what you have and hopefully everyone else will follow!ya I'm just so excited and can'twait till some start hatching so we can see pics!

Oh and I know what you mean about having problems candling dark eggs, out last hatch was wellsummers, very dark eggs, lckily my mother in law had an old slide projector she let us borrow for candling, it was the only was we could see anything, gig

Wife to a wonderful husband (Michael-NMarine1057), Mom to 3 dogs, Pomeranian, Pug and Boston Terrier, 17 silkies, 12 wellsummers, 9 rhode island reds.

 

My swap page:  http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/paris-swap-page

 

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Wife to a wonderful husband (Michael-NMarine1057), Mom to 3 dogs, Pomeranian, Pug and Boston Terrier, 17 silkies, 12 wellsummers, 9 rhode island reds.

 

My swap page:  http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/paris-swap-page

 

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post #167 of 3055
10/30/11 at 8:01am
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Originally Posted by hdowden 
Quote:
Originally Posted by misslady 

I will not candle.
I will not candle.
I will not candle.

Okay maybe I did just once, the shell was fairly dark and I couldn't tell what I was looking at since I was only on day 3. Oh, it is so hard to wait!


lol i keep telling myself that all the time its so hard to resit the urge but its best for them...i saw little feets in one of mine its so cool. this is my first time incubating so excuse me if i sound i bit childish lol


I think I will always feel like a child at Christmas everytime I have eggs in the incubator, so your not alone, gig

Wife to a wonderful husband (Michael-NMarine1057), Mom to 3 dogs, Pomeranian, Pug and Boston Terrier, 17 silkies, 12 wellsummers, 9 rhode island reds.

 

My swap page:  http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/paris-swap-page

 

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Wife to a wonderful husband (Michael-NMarine1057), Mom to 3 dogs, Pomeranian, Pug and Boston Terrier, 17 silkies, 12 wellsummers, 9 rhode island reds.

 

My swap page:  http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/paris-swap-page

 

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post #168 of 3055
10/30/11 at 8:02am
Thread Starter 

21 silkie eggs, mixed colors-silkiemom1986

Wife to a wonderful husband (Michael-NMarine1057), Mom to 3 dogs, Pomeranian, Pug and Boston Terrier, 17 silkies, 12 wellsummers, 9 rhode island reds.

 

My swap page:  http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/paris-swap-page

 

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Wife to a wonderful husband (Michael-NMarine1057), Mom to 3 dogs, Pomeranian, Pug and Boston Terrier, 17 silkies, 12 wellsummers, 9 rhode island reds.

 

My swap page:  http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/paris-swap-page

 

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post #169 of 3055
10/30/11 at 11:32am

I'm 3 days in and decided to check & see how my shipped eggs are doing. Of the 24 eggs, 2 were cracked, 6 have oddly shaped air sacs (2 of which are huge!), 5 are too dark to see much, 9 have visible veining, and 2 I'm just not really sure about yet.

I looked around a bit- it seems oddly shaped air sacs arent all that unusual for shipped eggs and people have hatched them successfully. Some of them DO move a bit (also not unusual from what I've read), so I've got them as upright as I can, but I'm worried about the ones with really large sacs. One of them goes almost to the bottom. It has veins, so should I just leave it alone & see what happens?

Y'know... sometimes I like the chickens more than I like my dogs. (Who am I kidding?! I ALWAYS like the chickens more than I like my dogs!)

 

"Its nice to be in the woods with a girl who doesnt act like a girl in the woods!" (friend, Mike St. Pierre)

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Y'know... sometimes I like the chickens more than I like my dogs. (Who am I kidding?! I ALWAYS like the chickens more than I like my dogs!)

 

"Its nice to be in the woods with a girl who doesnt act like a girl in the woods!" (friend, Mike St. Pierre)

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post #170 of 3055
10/30/11 at 2:29pm

I will post a total in just a little. I've been working on connecting the run to the coop and I need to put my feet up for a few gig 50 is feeling like 70 old today giggiggig

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   Melissa Rose
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