Montana eggs hatch-a-long

[gimmie birdies]

One more egg to the left of "Belt" not in pic.

 

[TwoCrows]

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Beautiful bunch of eggies!

All you eggs, let's hop to it, and get growing!

 

[gimmie birdies]

Find the dots eyes if u can.
Bozeman

big timber

Bear paw

sorry I moved
big sky

big Sandy

Belt

Brady

babb

Birney

BLOOMFIELD

Second Birney

Baker

Boyd

Billings

basin

Ballantine is still with us, and Batavia is still with us....but not in pic.


Butte below had a death ring.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Was there a dramatic difference between elevation where the eggs were produced and your elevation?

 

[gimmie birdies]

I have hatched these eggs before. Our elevation is 1700, Bozeman elevation is 4817.
These guys are on about day 6 in the pics. My phone camera is not that good, but all had the spiderwebs and eyeballs.

 

[tlcmurphy]

I have hatched these eggs before. Our elevation is 1700, Bozeman elevation is 4817.
These guys are on about day 6 in the pics. My phone camera is not that good, but all had the spiderwebs and eyeballs.

Eyeballs are good!

 

[21hens-incharge]

Following along and rooting for them ALL!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I have hatched these eggs before. Our elevation is 1700, Bozeman elevation is 4817.
These guys are on about day 6 in the pics. My phone camera is not that good, but all had the spiderwebs and eyeballs.

That's cool. The reason I asked is that any time I hear someone talk incubation around the Rockies, I wonder about elevation differences.
Had it been reversed and the eggs were laid at your elevation and incubated at the higher elevation, there are a plethora of issues that come from the thinner air.
Eggs laid from hens living at higher elevation will have compensated by limiting porousness of the shell among other things.

 

[TwoCrows]

That's cool. The reason I asked is that any time I hear someone talk incubation around the Rockies, I wonder about elevation differences.
Had it been reversed and the eggs were laid at your elevation and incubated at the higher elevation, there are a plethora of issues that come from the thinner air.
Eggs laid from hens living at higher elevation will have compensated by limiting porousness of the shell among other things.

I live at 7,000 ft in New Mexico. A few times I have ordered hatching eggs from Murray McMurray in Iowa. I assumed there might be issues due to not only the attitude change in shipping but the eggs being laid by hens at lower attitude might effect the hatch rate and survival of chicks due to a lot less oxygen. Honestly, the hatch rate was always about 75% which to me was excellent for shipped eggs, eggs never arrived damaged and chicks grew just as healthy as chicks hatched from eggs laid at this attitude. The actual hatching process is definitely a different than at sea level (vents must remain open at all times and humidity must be tended to daily.) I actually like the arid air to hatch in.

 

[gimmie birdies]

I have hatched from my in-laws before, we both like NN.
The roosters were EE and I cant remember the others.