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[Wishing4Wings]

Good news!! Penny came home yesterday morning. At 2:30 am we heard scratching and whining at the front door. DH went out to check, and there she was.



and, I think I got an egg from a Cornish X. It is double yolked (my first double yolk). How can I tell if it's fertile?

Glad your dog showed up! She was gone for quite a while.

In fertile eggs, the white spot will look like a round bullseye. Yours look fertile.

 

[ChickNmamma]

Hey all interesting discussions (sorry to hear of the chicken illnesses, and that guinea hog looks interesting, I think I saw an ad on Craiglist for some!)
Got a newbie question here-- How does one submit a chicken for testing at UC Davis?
( I drive thru the area a couple times a week ) Is there a phone number or a website?
Am new to this chicken business! Basically we bought some books, grandpa built us a coop last summer when he was out here visiting, and just relied on random past experiences with baby birds and a parakeet... and so far our first year of chicken keeping is going OK.(We have our first broodies-- 2 hens are trading off on a clutch of eggs, but they wont move out of the nest box, and its day 18 which means its lockdown I think I know what that means)...
Anyways...Glad to have found this thread, we are up in the Grass Valley area....

Hello and Welcome to BYC

Hopefully you won't need the services of UCD for a long time. But if you have unexplained deaths, or you want to check your chickens poop for parasites or worms because they quit laying or do not look happy - they are a great resource.

Does anyone on here have fertile eggs for hatching in the following breeds/colors?

Blue, black or splash silkies
White silkies
Partridge silkies
Plymouth barred rocks

I'm looking for good quality in the silkies and just backyard layers in the barred rocks.

My silkies are either broody or only laying once a week....so I really want more eggs to incubate rather than 4 at a time! I live in Rio Linda and would love to meet up to get more hatching eggs.

I have 4 Momma silkies.. so no eggs. However I did just hatch 3 Black Silkie chicks from my BQ Partridge pen, one vaulted skull. They look great so far but I am not planning on raising Black SQ Silkies. I have two PQ (4 toes

) White Silkie chicks that also hatched from the broodies, I think those were the two eggs I left in from another hen. Let me know if you want any chicks to slip under those broodies.

Good news!! Penny came home yesterday morning. At 2:30 am we heard scratching and whining at the front door. DH went out to check, and there she was.



and, I think I got an egg from a Cornish X. It is double yolked (my first double yolk). How can I tell if it's fertile?

I am so glad you got them both back! She looks tired.

And yes - I can see bullseyes in both of those yellows (one just above the reflection on the LH one, and the other almost dead center and full left on the RH yolk). Look for large whitish concentric rings - or sometimes it will have a darker yolk ring around the white dot. Those are both fertile. I wouldn't set any double yolkers though, the chances of both chicks surviving to hatch is very slim.

 

[liz9910]

I have a strange thing happening, seems like mosquitos have taken up residence in my chicken coop! Yuck. I feel bad for the chickens, how do I get them out? There isn't a water source inside the coop and the bedding is sweet pdz. Is there anything I can do?

 

[ronott1]

Good news!! Penny came home yesterday morning. At 2:30 am we heard scratching and whining at the front door. DH went out to check, and there she was.



and, I think I got an egg from a Cornish X. It is double yolked (my first double yolk). How can I tell if it's fertile?

I am no expert and it is hard to tell by picture or eye, but they look fertilized to me.

Try to avoid hatching double yolked egg though.

 

[gryeyes]

Lizanne, I have heard / read of hanging those vanilla scented auto air fresheners shaped like trees inside coops for Mosquitos.

 

[chiqita]

Liz, SO HAPPY your puppy made it back. Was worried she had not returned.

 

[Farmer 87]

very happy to hear your puppy made it back I don't know what I would do if my puppy ran off .

 

[Farmer 87]

has anybody heard of fermenting your feed ? do you use water ?is it better for your chickens to digest

 

[debs_flock]

Does anyone on here have fertile eggs for hatching in the following breeds/colors?

Blue, black or splash silkies
White silkies
Partridge silkies
Plymouth barred rocks

I'm looking for good quality in the silkies and just backyard layers in the barred rocks.

My silkies are either broody or only laying once a week....so I really want more eggs to incubate rather than 4 at a time! I live in Rio Linda and would love to meet up to get more hatching eggs.

I have all those colors, except currently no splash. I also have paint, buff and porcelain, but currently all my silkies/showgirls are running together and not split up into color breeding pens.

And I have BR, but only bantam. I will have LF BR in the future, they are just starting to lay, but right now living with my Columbians also (and the new Icelandic cockerel).

 

[chiqita]

has anybody heard of fermenting your feed ? do you use water ?is it better for your chickens to digest

I use fermented feed. I notice a difference in my feed bail, when I'm lazy and don't keep up with it. Was and apple cider vinegar to start it. If I'm in a hurry I this in a brewers yeast to kick start it.