➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[Ursuline Chick]

View attachment 1745675 View attachment 1745676 View attachment 1745677 This is Yellow Beard. One of two bearded ladies we adopted from the feedstore. Ideal easter eggers. Kiki warned me she would crow.

Narly sideways comb.

She is lovely. Except her comb looks like chewed bubble gum.

 

[RUNuts]

She is lovely. Except her comb looks like chewed bubble gum.

Missed you! Happy Easter! Find all your eggs?

How's the new job? Kids? Chickens? We are expanded into quail and trying that out for meat and eggs. The eggs are a hit. Meat is good also. It is Kiki's fault!

 

[Glitterchicks]

I'lI try to get the color to come out accurately in a picture. It's on white paper next to a Marans egg.View attachment 1745694
And by itself
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Oh, pretty! I love that it's speckled. I wish I had speckled eggs!

 

[ShrekDawg]

I am hoping to start quail soon too. Also Kiki’s fault lol

 

[debid]

I am hoping to start quail soon too. Also Kiki’s fault lol

Rats, I missed Kiki populating the quail cage while I was away. Quail are funny little things.

 

[debid]

Missed you! Happy Easter! Find all your eggs?

How's the new job? Kids? Chickens? We are expanded into quail and trying that out for meat and eggs. The eggs are a hit. Meat is good also. It is Kiki's fault!

How many quail eggs to equal one large chicken egg?

 

[RUNuts]

How many quail eggs to equal one large chicken egg?

3-5 depending on size of eggs and who you ask. The Jumbos lean towards 3. The regular/normal/not jumbo are said to be 4 or 5. Also depends on what size chicken egg we are talking about.

Does that help?

 

[debid]

3-5 depending on size of eggs and who you ask. The Jumbos lean towards 3. The regular/normal/not jumbo are said to be 4 or 5. Also depends on what size chicken egg we are talking about.

Does that help?

So I'd need to crack roughly 48 to make four 3-egg omelettes?

 

[debid]

Kiki needs to get into emus. One egg, done.

 

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

I don't know. I am sure that I can email them. I just have to decide if I want to go down that road or just allow my complaining to be done on here lol. Part of me is disappointed and part of me tries to be understanding that crap just happens sometimes. Will the feathers work themselves out after she molts again? Could all this be because she was sickly and had such health issues after she was born? Is she not pure bred? When is it too late to say something? Will it do any good? These are questions that I ask myself. The thing is, I actually ordered a Golden Cuckoo Maran. Their hatch didn't turn out as expected so I received a call the day they were to go out and asked if I would be willing to take a BCM in its place. They thanked me profusely for being understanding and the rest is history. As for the Andalusian, the Meyer website has a "disclaimer" on the breed page that says, "* The color blue does not breed true. The chicks hatched from these chickens can be blue, black, or splash. You will receive hatchery choice colors when ordering."

Now the above disclaimer being stated, do I still have a right to complain? Maybe I got a "black" Andalusian? I don't know. I'm just trying to make sense of it all.

She definitely is black, and I understand receiving black birds since that’s 25% of the crossing, but it’s the white feathers that don’t make any sense to me. Plus the frizzled BCM is incredibly weird, I don’t think it would be caused by her sickly infancy.