2 more dozen into the incubator today!
Lost one last night, thermometer fell off side, tape stuck to an egg (unbeknownst to me), so when I picked up the thermometer, slow mo saw the egg pop up and drop. "Nooooooooo...." So, I'm down a little blue egg, but ah well. Them's the breaks.
Darn storm ripped my door off the coop, so it's propped in place right now, but tomorrow will be a Home Depot day, to build a new door in the garage to place. The old one is falling apart, so better just to build a new one with a better design.
Think I'll put a barn door design on this time, always loved those X doors. *big grin*
I want Tri so bad I can hardly stand it! Who were her parents? Do you have any idea how this unique girl popped out?I mentioned we have a sebastopol with two colored eyes last week.............well here is a good picture of her up close.
she has two toned eyes and three colors of feathers. A very unique girl who my hubby reminded me is not on my project list of breeding plans.this means she will likely be for sale
Shellie, do you have a brooder house (or several...)?oh and here are some chickie dees who are growing out
swedish flower chicks and 4 EE made from lavender AM roo over white leghorn hens (made splash chicks)
Beth - this picture is for you:
Meet Inky (a.k.a Inkspot)..he came from the first set of duck eggs I got from you. Remember I told you I kept one of the ducklings? Well this is Inky all growed up. He is the sweetest lil 'ole thing! He'll come running up to me when I call his name, and loves to eat out of my hand.
~ Enjoy
~:~ Aspen ~:~
But I am glad I made the decision to take her out and help because I don't think she would have continued to try much longer. Now she has finally gotten out of the egg and is resting. I still have two eggs that have not pipped. One is a TJ egg that doesn't seem to have anything wrong with it and the other is a Basque egg that had a bad saddle shaped air cell. I traced the air cell on the Basque egg but I don't hold out much hope for that one as I think it may have either died a late death or perhaps pipped in a very bad spot.
**Mrs Fluffy Puffy! The little peepers I have now are EO Basque and the Trader Joe white leghorns.**
I am not sure if the TJ eggs are all white leghorns or if they use a cross. Either way, they came out will little yellow combs folded over and squished down on their heads. Below of a pic of the ones who have fluffed up and there are two more in the incubator that hatched this afternoon.
I had to help one because she appeared to be stuck and was growing weaker.
How long should I leave these unhatched guys in there? Day 21 ended yesterday at 5PM. Thoughts? Do they start to smell bad if they did die? THANKS ALL!
I have a yarn needle I use to make a hole in the shell over the air cell, then use tweezers to chip some away so I can see iif the chick is still alive or not[COLOR=EE82EE]**Mrs Fluffy Puffy! The little peepers I have now are EO Basque and the Trader Joe white leghorns.** [/COLOR] [COLOR=EE82EE]I am not sure if the TJ eggs are all white leghorns or if they use a cross. Either way, they came out will little yellow combs folded over and squished down on their heads. Below of a pic of the ones who have fluffed up and there are two more in the incubator that hatched this afternoon. [/COLOR] [COLOR=EE82EE]I had to help one because she appeared to be stuck and was growing weaker.
