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Good morning, experts!
I'm hoping this is the right place to post, since I'm not using an incubator, my broody did the hard work with eggs I provided her. I had 5 blue eggs from Ameruacna eggs (I never spell that one right, not EE eggs) and 3 brown eggs, 2 darker speckled ones and a slightly lighter shelled one that I had really hoped to hatch into Amerucana x Barnies or Marans or dark brahma babies. While it was really hard to see through the darker two, I could see just enough to tell they were developing, and by day 18 you could see the chicks moving inside each, just like the 5 blue and the lighter brown.
The two darker ones I was concerned with originally because I couldn't tell if the eggs were somewhat porous, or if it was the darker speckling that was throwing me off, but the lighter egg seemed okay.
That's he back story, here's some more information that might help to deduce if this was an environmental factor, a failure on my broody's part or if this was a an issue cause by the hens who laid them:
The nest was in side a full coop, not a prefab, protected from drafts so well that its routinely 4-5c warmer inside during the day when the pop door is open, and 5c-8c warmer once all the ladies are in for the night. Usual outdoor temps were hovering between 5-10c, until a massive heat wave brought it up to 22c-28c. Food and water were placed within a foot of Bug and her clutch to keep her from having to be off the nest too long, And she did good! So good that all 5 blue eggs hatched into healthy, strong little peepers starting on the morning of day.20 and finishing on the ight of day 21. NOT a single brown egg hatched.by the end of day 22, bug pushed the two darker eggs out, ad was still sitting on the 3rd.
My observations on the two darker eggs,
By day 18 candling, the eggs seemed more porous than they had in the beginning, but the chicks were very large shadowy shapes that moved quite vigorously and the air cells were as expected in the fat end of the eggs. The light brown one had slow movements, but no other obvious signs that would indicate something was wrong.
The three dead eggs all felt like they were off balance, with all the weight in the pointy end and nothing in the fat end. Upon candling, it was apparent that was exactly the case, the air cell had taken up 2/3 of the space and the last 3rd had the chick crammed into the bottom with the membrane shrink wrapped over it. After removing the membrane, the two darker chicks were fully formed, with no yoke sack remaining, and in the right posit, but didn't exactly have any room to move, the light brown egg was in the same situation, just awkwardly turned so that its head was on top of the right wing, with a foot extended back so that toes wee curled in front of its face.
Any input would be awesome, and freely ask any questions I forgot to add!he answer! Thank you!
I'm hoping this is the right place to post, since I'm not using an incubator, my broody did the hard work with eggs I provided her. I had 5 blue eggs from Ameruacna eggs (I never spell that one right, not EE eggs) and 3 brown eggs, 2 darker speckled ones and a slightly lighter shelled one that I had really hoped to hatch into Amerucana x Barnies or Marans or dark brahma babies. While it was really hard to see through the darker two, I could see just enough to tell they were developing, and by day 18 you could see the chicks moving inside each, just like the 5 blue and the lighter brown.
The two darker ones I was concerned with originally because I couldn't tell if the eggs were somewhat porous, or if it was the darker speckling that was throwing me off, but the lighter egg seemed okay.
That's he back story, here's some more information that might help to deduce if this was an environmental factor, a failure on my broody's part or if this was a an issue cause by the hens who laid them:
The nest was in side a full coop, not a prefab, protected from drafts so well that its routinely 4-5c warmer inside during the day when the pop door is open, and 5c-8c warmer once all the ladies are in for the night. Usual outdoor temps were hovering between 5-10c, until a massive heat wave brought it up to 22c-28c. Food and water were placed within a foot of Bug and her clutch to keep her from having to be off the nest too long, And she did good! So good that all 5 blue eggs hatched into healthy, strong little peepers starting on the morning of day.20 and finishing on the ight of day 21. NOT a single brown egg hatched.by the end of day 22, bug pushed the two darker eggs out, ad was still sitting on the 3rd.
My observations on the two darker eggs,
By day 18 candling, the eggs seemed more porous than they had in the beginning, but the chicks were very large shadowy shapes that moved quite vigorously and the air cells were as expected in the fat end of the eggs. The light brown one had slow movements, but no other obvious signs that would indicate something was wrong.
The three dead eggs all felt like they were off balance, with all the weight in the pointy end and nothing in the fat end. Upon candling, it was apparent that was exactly the case, the air cell had taken up 2/3 of the space and the last 3rd had the chick crammed into the bottom with the membrane shrink wrapped over it. After removing the membrane, the two darker chicks were fully formed, with no yoke sack remaining, and in the right posit, but didn't exactly have any room to move, the light brown egg was in the same situation, just awkwardly turned so that its head was on top of the right wing, with a foot extended back so that toes wee curled in front of its face.
Any input would be awesome, and freely ask any questions I forgot to add!he answer! Thank you!
