I have some roosters if anyone wants them:
Blue Ameraucana (5 Months)
Blue Copper Marans (3 Months)
Black Copper Marans (3 Months)
Blue Cuckoo Marans (2 Months)
White Leghorn (1 Month)
Lavender Orpington (1 Month)
Hatchery:
Buff Orpington (1 Month)
Barred Rock (1 Month)
Speckled Sussex (1...
They were pinkish...there was pink all over the foam too. So they might have been more plum at lay. Here's the ebay link for pictures. http://www.ebay.com/itm/BLACK-CROAD-LANGSHAN-HATCHING-EGGS-12-/181108440016?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a2ae77bd0
Hatched 2/14 from TNBearchick. All were fertile, I think I killed them somehow. 2 lavender orpingtons popped out! 3/4 silkie eggs got smashed by the PO, but only one didn't develop.
The last few hatches from shipped eggs I have had 3/9 4/9 1/4 2/7 2/12 3/9 hatch. The second number was not the eggs set, but the eggs at lockdown. This time I put 28 eggs into lockdown, 7 hatched, but one is fat and can't stand. Temperature was at 99.5 in a still air with 60-65% humidity. The...
I feel like a horrible hatcher...I had 7 hatch out of 28 eggs in lockdown. 3 Died while externally pipping, 3 died after internally pipping, and 3 might not have been alive at lockdown...that's the third hatch in a row! Maybe even 5th...the only good hatch I ever had was the first one.
I thought I read something where the reason they externally pip is because the oxygen levels get too low, so they start to pull in all of the oxygenated blood from the veins (after they have internally pipped and used up that air) and then get woozy, and that triggers them to strike a hole in...