Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

[MyHaven]

First - welcome to Aliyah7404 ...   hope you enjoy your days on the Aussie threads here ... you are in the U.S. ?   Can't recall if you said where exactly. ... would be interested to know.  

Second, I am bouncing off the walls in shock, and have just gone and candled all my purchased eggs LOL ( my girls are on sit-down, strike, lock-outs, and picketting, due I think to the extremely cold wet weather in Victoria ) .... for a bit of fun - did not expect to see anything whatsoever - and I didn't. !! 

Bit of a surprise that some purchased eggs can be fertile but more to the point, that they can be hatched, particularly after being in a refridgerator.    Have opened supermarket eggs over the years and found a little foetus or whatever it is called in chickens, inside.   Just presumed it  would never have been viable, and used it anyway.    That was BC  ( before chooks ).  

If ( a 100 to 1 chance ) anyone found a fertile free range egg from the supermarket, and if perchance, a hen was broody ... would it work to bring the egg to room temperature as mentioned - and stick it ( or maybe even 'them'  ) under the broody chicken ?    ... Or for that matter, keeping eggs that are purchased fertile, in the refridgerator - to WAIT for a chicken to go broody, or return to broodiness - would that work ? ... I am guessing from the comments, it would - but only for a limited time ?  

Absolutely fascinating.  

Makes me again, want to raise some chicks, however, visiting a hospital every day to visit my poor husband who would totally have some kind of comatose reaction,  at the thought, perhaps not a good idea.  .... We don't have the proper set-up for chicks - unfortunately, and he has put so much work into making good and safe housing for my three chooks ( separated because of punch-ups as mentioned before here ) ... I wouldn't ask him to do more at this stage.    

Cheers to everybody ----

Anniebee 

Hi, AB sry I've been silent. Work and chatter don't leave any time.

The eggs I hatched were under a hen an at least one month in the refrigerator. The guy I bought them from said he keeps eggs for up to three months in the fridge. I got my Barnies from that hatch.

Cheers

 

[Teila]

Good morning friends

appps sorry to read about your lack of eggs. After Dusty’s hard moult back in March, she returned to laying on the 13th of May, laid 22 eggs and then stopped laying on the 1st of July, laid 1 egg on the 17th of July and nothing since. It is around this time she started acting all weird; crowing, feeding the flock etc. Well, now she has decided to moult her head feathers; she looks bald!

I blame the weather!

Fancy I heard that shark attack story while listening to the radio in the garden; then came in to do a couple of things, checked the site and read your post. I can imagine how you would have felt to hear something like that; when your loved one is in the area doing the exact same thing that would have been very worrying. I am so pleased that your hubby rang to let you know he was OK. But I am also saddened for the diver who was taken and how his loved ones are feeling right now … tragic

Have I mentioned I lived on a yacht for two years and sailed up the West Australian Coast from Perth to Darwin? Anyway, we experienced a close encounter with a mumma whale and her bub, close encounters with crocodiles and close encounters with sharks and sea snakes … the only water I am going under or into now is either plumbed on in a pool!

I had my scuba dive qualifications at the time and all the gear; not any more

Out of all the ways we could leave this earth, being eaten-by-something is not my preferred option.

chooks01 congrats on the bubs .. too cute!

Hey feather lane 52 welcome to BYC and the thread; nice to meet you. What do you have in your flock?

Tee hee at your hubby’s reaction Anniebee. I vaguely remember promising my hubby, after the last coop renovation, “No more renovations for at least 6 months” .. I am marking off the days

Wow, your son leads an exciting life … what an amazing experience!

The whole ‘hatching from supermarket purchased eggs and refrigerated eggs’ amazes me also

So .. we won! I will not overload a chicken thread with copious words about the AFL game but will just say that we had a wonderful time and share a picture

 

[Teila]

Please indulge me while I share some pics

My little girls turn 19 weeks tomorrow and for 'mutts' I think they turned out quite pretty.

Crystal:


KiKi .. I love the 'flame' look around her neck:


With mumma, Cilla:


KiKi:


And threw one in of Auntie Blondie having a siesta in the shade:

 

[Anniebee]

Hi, AB sry I've been silent. Work and chatter don't leave any time.

The eggs I hatched were under a hen an at least one month in the refrigerator. The guy I bought them from said he keeps eggs for up to three months in the fridge. I got my Barnies from that hatch.

Cheers

Thanks MyHaven ... for that information - it is quite astonishing. .... Some people refridgerate things like tulip bulbs - I guess to emulate more of a ' winter ' climate where the bulbs if left in the ground after flowering, kind of hibernate - and then come awake in the Spring to double and bloom ? .... an odd analogy I know, but presumably the fertilised egg does much the same thing - until warmer conditions ( room temp for several hours and then under the warmth of a broody chicken or in an incubator ) ... wakes them up to start growing. ... I find that fascinating. ...

Have seen comments here, about a hen leaving the nest, and owner finding 'cold' eggs with fear that all might be dead. Guess once the growing procedure begins, warmth then cannot be taken away from the eggs, but it's ok at the very beginning - at just fertilised.

By the way, like someone else here ( I can't recall who ) ... I found two eggs today, same day to begin to lay again ? - from Mindy Araucana, and Mandy Welsummer - last ones from all girls were laid in early April. ... Molly RIR is not quite red enough in her comb - I'd give her another week or two before she produces. She was last to start and finish her moult too. ....

I can only guess they stimulate one another to lay, by their different noises / clucks etc. AND it heralds an earlier than expected Spring I think. ... Yet today is really very cold, so my theories on cold weather is out the window - kind of !! .

Cheers ....

 

[Anniebee]

Please indulge me while I share some pics

My little girls turn 19 weeks tomorrow and for 'mutts' I think they turned out quite pretty.

Crystal:


KiKi .. I love the 'flame' look around her neck:


With mumma, Cilla:


KiKi:


And threw one in of Auntie Blondie having a siesta in the shade:

Your chickens are beautiful - stunning Teila ... and they are great photographs. Hard to get chickens to stay still-ish for a photo op !! .... thanks for sharing. And again, your daily diary post is fantastic, full of fun and great comments ... glad to hear you had a good time watching your North Melbourne win too ...

.... That was my Dad's team when he was still with us ... I am a Melbourne supporter

 

[ChristieB]

So gorgeous teila, grown into beautiful girls

Today I have pulled my homemade incubator apart and started over. Warming up now, if all goes well I'll put those eggs in tomorrow. If not I've ordered a janoel10 off eBay plus another hydrometer. I've got like 3 thermometers in there, I think it needs a fan to circulate the heat better will have to get one tomorrow

When's the earliest I would see signs of life? I don't want to run it for 3 weeks if they aren't even fertile! I'm sure the first few would have been but there's no way to know when they were mated last if at all (though there were multiple roosters in the same pen as the hens so you would assume one of them was doing the job) plus having been in the fridge a week, the odds aren't on their side. All the research I've been doing has me excited to try again

 

[sjturner79]

So gorgeous teila, grown into beautiful girls

Today I have pulled my homemade incubator apart and started over. Warming up now, if all goes well I'll put those eggs in tomorrow. If not I've ordered a janoel10 off eBay plus another hydrometer. I've got like 3 thermometers in there, I think it needs a fan to circulate the heat better will have to get one tomorrow

When's the earliest I would see signs of life? I don't want to run it for 3 weeks if they aren't even fertile! I'm sure the first few would have been but there's no way to know when they were mated last if at all (though there were multiple roosters in the same pen as the hens so you would assume one of them was doing the job) plus having been in the fridge a week, the odds aren't on their side. All the research I've been doing has me excited to try again

If the shells aren't too dark you will start to see veins when candling around day 7 and shoul be able to tell on all but really dark eggs by day 10. I usually won't pull eggs until day 14 unless they are obviously not developing.
Any I'm not sure off I always leave until day 23.

 

[ChristieB]

They are araucana so they'd be in the "darker" category wouldn't they? If I get any germination at all I'm calling it a success but I won't hold my breath for a hatch. I'm already planning what breeds I want to try next
Might have to get Fancy to send me some of those coveted coro Sussex!

 

[sjturner79]

They are araucana so they'd be in the "darker" category wouldn't they? If I get any germination at all I'm calling it a success but I won't hold my breath for a hatch. I'm already planning what breeds I want to try next
Might have to get Fancy to send me some of those coveted coro Sussex!

The blue eggs aren't always hard to see, unless they are a darker blue. it isusually the darker Browns or the greens that are hard to see.

 

[lowey]

hi guy's have just joined,i'm in southern vic.love the look of the little frizzle hen. barry