6th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2015 Hatch-A-Long

[Cynthia12]

Adorable, can't wait to see my bantam ones. I have a LF out now..it's all black. With an EE comb!! Came from a brown egg.

 

[Dish chickens]

I had 2 more quitters I took out, one was a pullet and one had blood ring so I had a ? mark on the pullet egg on day seven because I saw veins but no movement. veins were not visible today but had dark shadow on top by air cell and one at bottom No movement and egg clear on one side. so after eggtopsy my guess is first egg quit at day 4 or 5 and pullet egg was 7 or 8 based on the development. I went looking on you tube for fun and found this.

 

[Cynthia12]

Today is the first day that day light hours will start going up in the Northern hemisphere so one of my Pita Pinta pullets decided to celebrate by laying her first egg!

The first egg is from an OE hen, an EE x Marans. The second is from an Arkansas Blue and the littlest on the right is from the Pita Pinta pullet.

Beautiful..wish my EE would have thought of doing me the same favor. She is past ready! Then another EE after her. I'm beginning to think the younger one..by a few weeks, may lay sooner than the oldest. I am expecting blue, but I would take one of each like you coloring here..that beautiful Olive color, and that blue!

 

[ronott1]

I have one baby, and one close to hatching. These are little mutskies. Will post photos when more hatch and they are fluffy.. I don't care if they are little mutts..I haven's had a fuzzy butt in my house for a while. This little one has such a soft peep. I'll probably get a loud one, there usually is at least one. I am excited that I have so many silkie/firzzles that are pipped.

I hope you have a great hatch!

 

[SallyinIndiana]

I had 2 more quitters I took out, one was a pullet and one had blood ring so I had a ? mark on the pullet egg on day seven because I saw veins but no movement. veins were not visible today but had dark shadow on top by air cell and one at bottom No movement and egg clear on one side. so after eggtopsy my guess is first egg quit at day 4 or 5 and pullet egg was 7 or 8 based on the development. I went looking on you tube for fun and found this.

That's a great little video. It's the chicken version of In The Womb, a wonderful video for anyone expecting a baby.

 

[LemonMeringue]

yeah, cute bantam chicks...what kind do you have?

They will either be pure bantam cochin or cochin mix.

I just really can't wait until we are getting the bantam black cochin eggs! They are so fluffy! And they are my daughters for 4-H. And she is also planning on crossing her bantam red cochin rooster over one of the black hens that has much better type. Its going to be a project that will take years, but hopefully well worth it. I think they are getting really close to laying though. I gave one a little tickle on her back today and she "assumed the position" hahaha!

 

[Cynthia12]

 

[Roan]

I'm glad you mentioned this. While some other people have answered, I figured I'd throw in my two cents.

Even by day 5, there are so many veins that it can "shadow" the embryo and make it difficult to see. Same thing happened to me, and I panicked. I thought they were simply all dead! I found the candling thread on here and it quelled my fears.

It seems, even with a dark mass in the egg early on, they're developing as they should!

PS - The color of the light used in candling can make a difference, as Ron keeps noting!

MrsB

Ah, that makes sense about the veins! That's probably what I've been seeing!!!

seen ppl mention the lgiht makes a differnce but noone has said what spectruim the light needs to be???

Thank you! That was going to be my next question!

White to yellow. below 3000kelvin is better. Higher kelvin gets into blue and it does not pass through the shell as well.

Look for led light that is not blue for candling.

Thanks! That makes sense!

Today is the first day that day light hours will start going up in the Northern hemisphere so one of my Pita Pinta pullets decided to celebrate by laying her first egg!

The first egg is from an OE hen, an EE x Marans. The second is from an Arkansas Blue and the littlest on the right is from the Pita Pinta pullet.

Is the Pita Pinta egg so small just because it's a pullet or is that the rough size of a full on adult hen's egg?

 

[FuzzyHens]

Today is the first day that day light hours will start going up in the Northern hemisphere so one of my Pita Pinta pullets decided to celebrate by laying her first egg!

The first egg is from an OE hen, an EE x Marans. The second is from an Arkansas Blue and the littlest on the right is from the Pita Pinta pullet.

Really pretty eggs, what a great way to celebrate longer days...fingers crossed my hens here decide to start laying.

 

[ronott1]

Ah, that makes sense about the veins! That's probably what I've been seeing!!!

Thank you! That was going to be my next question!

Thanks! That makes sense!

Is the Pita Pinta egg so small just because it's a pullet or is that the rough size of a full on adult hen's egg?

The adults lay large to Xlarge eggs. They are a nice light brown color.

I expect her next egg will be much bigger.