Hi All,
I am new to raising Coturnix quails - we just acquired 4 hens that are actively laying (~3 months old) this past Monday. They seem to be settling into their new digs okay! Today one of the hens laid an egg that has a white cast on it? It almost looks like the egg was dipped in whiteish...
Hello again fellow chicken lovers!
okay, so I think I have a fertile egg, since I witnessed one of my hens mating with my young roo yesterday.
I believe the egg to the far right is fertile…?
Found this odd egg in the laying box this evening. Anyone have any suggestions as to what it could be and what could be causing it? The solid bits felt like cartilage after further inspection. Newbie here but thankful for this community!
- E in NC
So excited that we got our first few eggs. Not sure who’s laying them, but what can I expect? An egg a day or an egg every few days?
What’s some treats I can feed them to reward them?
Lmk if this should be posted somewhere else! :)
Context: I own two female ducks, one (Shortcake) a khaki campbell and the other one (Muddy) I believe a khaki campbell and rouen mix (her feathers are almost exactly like a rouen except without the patterning around the head, and as a duckling she...
I went to check my girls lay box and she had two eggs as I’m still unsure weather or not her and my male have been together I wasn’t sure if they would be fertile and I read if you crack open an egg you can tell by a white spot on the yolk so I cracked open the older of the two eggs and I’m...
I have read through some other posts about odd shaped eggs but have not seen any that look like this. I have an 8 month old Orpington that I got about a week ago. In the past 4-5 days she has been laying eggs with this odd bulge around the middle. Her eggs always looked different from my other...
Hi guys. I need some advice please. A friend had gave me bird eggs they found earlier. We don’t know how far along they are. I did the float test on both of them. One of them sinks. However, when I did the candle light method on it, I saw veins. It appears to still have a yoke inside so maybe...
I’ve had some problems with egg quality in my flock recently, and am hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
First, one of my ameraucanas started laying eggs with lots of calcium deposits on top a few months ago (I haven’t actually seen anyone lay, but I’m 99% sure it’s her). She’s...
I took this photo yesterday when I was using a heating pad and towels to incubate it. The veins can easily be seen and there’s no doubt it’s alive.
then I got this cheap little plastic incubator, it has me a little worried.
It says on the instructions to put the pointed side down, so it looks...
Finally! I got my first egg with my new flock, but it wasn’t what I expected.
I thought my French black copper maran would be the first to lay. But this egg looks like a Silkie egg. I do have a bunch of silkies but most are too young. I do have a full grown silkie that I rescued from the co-op...
I have been incubating mallard duck eggs for 29 day's so far, I started on march 12th. I candled the eggs and did not see any movement or any shadows within the air sack. This is my first time hatching eggs, They were progressing normally with veins and movement before. I am a bit worried that...
Hi all! So I’ve got a 2-year-old (almost 3-year-old) Partridge Olive Egger hen named Jennie. I let them all out into their pen this morning and collected an egg that was in their nesting box from my Golden Laced Wyandotte, Poppy. When I went back out to bring them in for the night, I saw two...
I went into my turkey pen today and I’ve had 2 broody hens sitting on 12 eggs, today I’m down to 7 eggs and about 20 feet from their nest box I found an empty egg shell...I looks like a finger just pressed down on it but I can’t see peak marks or anything on how it happened
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since a week I have an egg from a duck. Just a normal duck 🦆like this one. But I’m a bit worried that the egg is dead. When I put the flashlight from my phone under the egg, there is a black spot, like really big it floats with the way I’m turning. But that wasn’t always like that...