California - Northern

[PetRock]

here are the pics of my egg in an egg

This is a regular Large Australorp Egg alongside the huge thing...bigger than what my heritage turkeys used to lay.... I found on the poop tray this pm. You can see that it is cracked. It had a very thin shell. I went to clean it up and found out that it was heavier than I expected. Peeled back a bit of the shell and found this surprise!







The egg in the egg had a normal shell but had also cracked from falling on the poop tray from the roost. Cracked and cooked it up for the girls and it was normal.


That's albumen all over the inner egg and the plate. The Big egg was over 3.25 inches long. I just checked the vents of everyone to see if anyone looked damage. I believe this was layed by my Delaware that lays weird things. Her vent was all bruised looking and somehow is smaller than everyone elses :-( poor little thing she is walking fine and eating and seems otherwise normal but man! I can't imagine having to lay something like that!

Wow!!! Poor baby! Thank you for posting the pics! That was something that I really wanted to see!

 

[BCollie]

Thanks everyone!! I never would have guessed there'd be so many chicken people in Nor Cal! Of course, I just recently moved out of the city, so that may be why..

Welcome Adri.......................I have three border collies of my own

plus a great dane.

Oh, Border Collies are so much fun. Actually, I foster for Border Collie Rescue of Nor Cal

 

[chicksnthestiks]

Oh, nifty, a Nor Cal thread! Hello people, I'm Adri!

Hi Adri, welcome! a great place to learn.

 

[Ali707]

Awww I would love to see a pic of a call egg! Congrats!

x2 I want ducks really bad too, but I guess I should take it one thing at a time.

Oh, nifty, a Nor Cal thread! Hello people, I'm Adri!

Everyone is really nice here...

here are the pics of my egg in an egg

This is a regular Large Australorp Egg alongside the huge thing...bigger than what my heritage turkeys used to lay.... I found on the poop tray this pm. You can see that it is cracked. It had a very thin shell. I went to clean it up and found out that it was heavier than I expected. Peeled back a bit of the shell and found this surprise!







The egg in the egg had a normal shell but had also cracked from falling on the poop tray from the roost. Cracked and cooked it up for the girls and it was normal.


That's albumen all over the inner egg and the plate. The Big egg was over 3.25 inches long. I just checked the vents of everyone to see if anyone looked damage. I believe this was layed by my Delaware that lays weird things. Her vent was all bruised looking and somehow is smaller than everyone elses :-( poor little thing she is walking fine and eating and seems otherwise normal but man! I can't imagine having to lay something like that!

That poor bird. I can't imagine getting one of these. I haven't even ever gotten a double yolker yet.....

 

[Ali707]

My Genesis is holding steady and fairly accurate compared to my separate thermometer but the humidity reads much lower than my hygrometer. I'm crossing my fingers that the eggs hatch! I was so excited to get them started that I didn't fiddle with the incubator before loading them in. I just unpacked it, let it run for a couple of hours, and loaded in the eggs. In addition to being the first time in a new incubator, I am doing a staggered hatch with chicken eggs and the free quail eggs that were included with the incubator. The quail eggs arrived after the incubator and I had already put the chicken eggs in. So, I have the chicken eggs in locked down in egg trays inside a Costco grape container. The quail eggs are still in the operating turner. I'm trying to keep the humidity at around 60% so it's going to be high for the quail for the rest of their incubation. I started with 10 chicken eggs from chiqita and 8 went into lock down (1 blood ring at 10 days and 1 early quitter). I don't remember how many quail eggs we started with but there were over 30. We candled them last night at day 15 and there were 25 developing and the rest were totally clear (infertile?).

Well you know they say on the Quail threads if they glow they didn't develop, but I did like you did. Got it, set it up, ran it for a couple of hours and threw the eggs in! I didn't even candle them first . They also said the eggs are hard to see through, so I didn't know if they all glowed on day one or not. I had nothing to compare it to, so I left them all in there. I didn't mark them either like a goof so I couldn't even tell you later if they hatched or not!

Good luck with your hatch! Keep us updated!

 

[zooweemama]

One of the Trader Joe's Leghorn pullets Ron hatched. never get tired of their proud stance. Comb getting nice and floppy.

 

[BCollie]

One of the Trader Joe's Leghorn pullets Ron hatched. never get tired of their proud stance. Comb getting nice and floppy.

You are one of the few users I can remember so far, because of your pictures! It seems that almost nobody here is into photography, just putting up snapshots. I love to see your good chicken pictures! I can't wait to get my chickies, once they're settled in they will probably just as familiar with my camera as they are with me!!!

 

[zooweemama]

You are one of the few users I can remember so far, because of your pictures! It seems that almost nobody here is into photography, just putting up snapshots. I love to see your good chicken pictures! I can't wait to get my chickies, once they're settled in they will probably just as familiar with my camera as they are with me!!!

Oh gosh I spare the group more than half what I take. Obsessed. I even figured out that some people like to put them on their walls?? I've sold a few prints of my birds. So fun! I get to shoot birds and no one gets hurt. haha!

 

[Chickengirl1304]

You are one of the few users I can remember so far, because of your pictures! It seems that almost nobody here is into photography, just putting up snapshots. I love to see your good chicken pictures! I can't wait to get my chickies, once they're settled in they will probably just as familiar with my camera as they are with me!!!

When do these start to lay usually?

 

[Nikon]

You are one of the few users I can remember so far, because of your pictures! It seems that almost nobody here is into photography, just putting up snapshots. I love to see your good chicken pictures! I can't wait to get my chickies, once they're settled in they will probably just as familiar with my camera as they are with me!!!

theres a few of us photogs