Air sac determines sex.

[Slothinc]

It’s 3:21 am so I’m not going to type it all out (SI etc, posting a pic instead) because I’m going to a bird auction today and who knows what I’d buy on little sleep from staying up too much. Maybe a roo with a crazy ‘do that I’m not allowed to have. If I were allowed I’d love one to have one though. I actually did have a buff polish cockerel but he died on March 25 which is probably why when I candled those 39 eggs last night most looked clear. 6 I took out as I somehow missed the cracks in 5 of them and one EE egg looked like the yolk wasn’t good which was confirmed by cracking it.

Anyone who’s annoyed by my, as DH puts it, “verbal diarrhea “ can blame it on my high school history teacher Jason. Instead of wishing me a good summer like everyone else, he wrote “you need to talk more”. This was about two years before everyone started using social media and now all introverts can become extroverts. I’m usually very quiet in person, especially in crowds. Annoyingly quiet. I guess it’s my mission in life to be annoying. Sometimes I do it because I’m “too polite” (and don’t want the chance of interrupting anyone) like I was told when I worked at Tim Hortons making me wonder how this country was stereotyped to be too polite. They didn’t know that I’m American and I didn’t say. I’m even less inclined to say it these days for obvious reasons.

Back to the other mission, sleep.

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By the way that polish egg above the EE egg has the most “side air cell” of any egg. If they all were like that telling them apart would be a breeze. But a lot of them are off centre and one would need to ensure you don’t see it on the opposite side to be classified as a side air cell.

It was 6 C when I went to get the eggs yesterday.

Excited to see what you get at auction!! I love your posts!

 

[Ladybird CA]

Thank you! I got a satin silkie. My 7 year old traded me his tablet for the evening. I'll post her pic when he's sleeping

 

[Ladybird CA]

Meet Sabrina

Hoping she will go broody and raise the babies that are due to hatch out of those 6 eggs on April 19. I’ll be setting a dozen lemon blue OEGB eggs that day along with the eggs I’m collecting currently unless I see on April 15, the day that the other 27 eggs will be on day 7, that those eggs aren’t fertile.

I changed my 2 sexed standard chicks order that I was going to pick up on May 11 to the equivalent in silkie and d’Uccle hatching eggs and the seller was nice about it.

Today the high was 13, low 3 C. 6 C when I collected eggs this morning. I collected an EE egg and 2 polish eggs. One polish egg weighed 65 grams. Might be a double yolker. SI 61, centered air cell. Most likely the golden polish’s. The other would be the buff polish’s, SI 71, also centered.

The EE egg weighs 48 g, SI 61, side air cell.

Around 4:40 pm I forgot to check the temp. My son and I watched the campine lay an egg. I couldn’t see an air cell until now. It is 39 grams, SI 73, side air cell. White spots on the egg that might be calcium.

The other egg that was already in the nest box at that time was the BLRW. SI 72, 53 g but I don’t see an air cell.

 

[FrostRanger]

Meet Sabrina
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Hoping she will go broody and raise the babies that are due to hatch out of those 6 eggs on April 19. I’ll be setting a dozen lemon blue OEGB eggs that day along with the eggs I’m collecting currently unless I see on April 15, the day that the other 27 eggs will be on day 7, that those eggs aren’t fertile.

I changed my 2 sexed standard chicks order that I was going to pick up on May 11 to the equivalent in silkie and d’Uccle hatching eggs and the seller was nice about it.

Today the high was 13, low 3 C. 6 C when I collected eggs this morning. I collected an EE egg and 2 polish eggs. One polish egg weighed 65 grams. Might be a double yolker. SI 61, centered air cell. Most likely the golden polish’s. The other would be the buff polish’s, SI 71, also centered.

The EE egg weighs 48 g, SI 61, side air cell.

Around 4:40 pm I forgot to check the temp. My son and I watched the campine lay an egg. I couldn’t see an air cell until now. It is 39 grams, SI 73, side air cell. White spots on the egg that might be calcium.

The other egg that was already in the nest box at that time was the BLRW. SI 72, 53 g but I don’t see an air cell.

If she's not broody now, she's not going to be broody long enough to accept them on the off chance she does go broody. I would plan on raising them yourself

 

[Ladybird CA]

I'll observe her tomorrow. Today she didn't seem broody. Hopefully my EE will go broody again. She was broody for a day before the rabbits kicked her off the nest. Then I put them in the omlet and they dug their way out. So they are both in and out of that omlet. If there is no broody we will raise them until I sell them on May 4th at a buy, sell, trade unless there's 2 that I want to keep.

Having seen the campine lay that egg, I will assume without certainty that hers are the smaller eggs. I looked at some of those eggs and they do have varying amounts of white spots. The golden polish's would be the largest as she is not only the largest of the three hens but hers was identifiable except for today and some other days with yellow food gel.

 

[Ladybird CA]

Oh yeah it would be the same with the EE but more of a chance she wouldn't accept them as she isn't a silkie. I'll keep looking on kijiji for broody hens and ask the seller how long they've been broody for if I find one.

 

[Ladybird CA]

I forgot to thank you for the warning about the broody hen. Thank you, Frost

For the 27 eggs April 16 would actually be day 7. I set them on April 9 which would have been day 0 so they are due on my birthday on April 30.

Since it is day 8 for the 6 eggs I candled them and they appear to be moving except one of the EE’s eggs I can’t see much.

And because I candled them decided to candle the 27 others which are on day 4. All appear clear except for 5 eggs with side air cells and 4 with centered air cells.

The side air cell eggs are all white.

The eggs with centered air cells are two white, an EE and a BLRW.

There are two eggs that may have quit (not including the 9 that appear to be developing) an EE and a white egg. The EE’s egg yolk appears sloshy. I’m guessing this may be due to her age. She is laying almost daily so is probably not more than a couple of years old but probably more than a year old.

 

[Ladybird CA]

I also removed two eggs. A white egg that was broken- not sure how I missed it. A blrw egg that has a meat spot (moves around when I move it around)

The clear eggs I’ll leave til April 16 then remove if still clear.

 

[cassie]

Think about it. If that was true hatcheries would be sexing eggs before incubation so they wouldn't be wasting incubator space on hatching unwanted male chicks.

 

[Ladybird CA]

That was discussed and I wrote my rebuttal but it’s lengthy and a few pages back so I don’t blame you for skipping it. Someone else mentioned that they do use male chicks and chicks are sold straight run. In my case I have a 42 egg incubator. I had 39 eggs with 13 of them having centered air cells so I could have tossed them but since I had space and no more eggs to add I decided since they were refrigerated I wanted to see if they will develop and 4 of them are showing that they are so far.

It’s also not black and white. Some eggs are obviously centered and some are clearly on the side. So there are a lot of eggs that are off center that I label as centered but could actually be side.

And maybe it doesn’t work but I want to try and don’t see the harm in it. In fact if it doesn’t work then I hope that I’ve helped others not waste time doing it. For me I’m not wasting time because I feel that I’m helping disproving or proving something.