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[farmhand]

What is the length of this string?

 

[Luvinmyhurd]

Thanks for the information and pictures!

 

[PetRock]

My first PIta Pinta/Langshan chick has hatched!!!

I will post pics once they finish hatching and have fluffed up. We had 6 pipped out of 11 last night when we went to bed. Monet wanted to know if I was going to stay up all night watching them. I laughed and told her no but then I couldn't sleep. I kept waking up and then had a terrible dream that the chicks had gotten out of the incubator. Our cat had caught one before I could get them back in the incubator. I decided to go ahead and get up at 4 to check on them. The first one was sitting with it's head out of the shell so of course I couldn't go back to bed. I'm cleaning house, checking the incubator, reading emails, checking the incubator, cleaning house, checking the incubator, etc. You get the picture! It is going to be a long but beautiful day! I love new life!!!

 

[ronott1]

My first PIta Pinta/Langshan chick has hatched!!!

I will post pics once they finish hatching and have fluffed up. We had 6 pipped out of 11 last night when we went to bed. Monet wanted to know if I was going to stay up all night watching them. I laughed and told her no but then I couldn't sleep. I kept waking up and then had a terrible dream that the chicks had gotten out of the incubator. Our cat had caught one before I could get them back in the incubator. I decided to go ahead and get up at 4 to check on them. The first one was sitting with it's head out of the shell so of course I couldn't go back to bed. I'm cleaning house, checking the incubator, reading emails, checking the incubator, cleaning house, checking the incubator, etc. You get the picture! It is going to be a long but beautiful day! I love new life!!!

I can't wait to see pictures!

 

[PetRock]

I can't wait to see pictures!

I can't wait to see her (thinking positive) all fluffed out! I am hoping that she has feathered legs! So far, she looks just like a Pita Pinta.

 

[juststruttin]

What is the length of this string?

I did not measure it but I would say it was close to 11-12 inches. The cutting board it is on is 18" and it was a couple inches short of the board on each side. It was in a pile in her carcass and not in a line like it is in the photos.

I wish we had removed the cluster more carefully. We disrupted her innards and there were eggs everywhere. I only collected the ones I could collect neatly, the rest were all over the inside of her cavity and were washed down he drain.


I also wish I had the foresight to look for a germinal disk on the yolks. In one photo it looks like I can see a germinal disk but I can't tell if it is fertile. I understand better now why eggs can remain fertile for up to three weeks.

It is interesting to consider that chickens are born with all the eggs they will lay in their lifetime; and it makes more sense now why some anti-biotics are not recommended for laying hens since technically it could reside in their eggs indefinitely.

 

[ronott1]

I did not measure it but I would say it was close to 11-12 inches. The cutting board it is on is 18" and it was a couple inches short of the board on each side. It was in a pile in her carcass and not in a line like it is in the photos.

I wish we had removed the cluster more carefully. We disrupted her innards and there were eggs everywhere. I only collected the ones I could collect neatly, the rest were all over the inside of her cavity and were washed down he drain.


I also wish I had the foresight to look for a germinal disk on the yolks. In one photo it looks like I can see a germinal disk but I can't tell if it is fertile. I understand better now why eggs can remain fertile for up to three weeks.

It is interesting to consider that chickens are born with all the eggs they will lay in their lifetime; and it makes more sense now why some anti-biotics are not recommended for laying hens since technically it could reside in their eggs indefinitely.

In order for a medicine to make permanent changes to an ovum, it would have to be a mutagen. Humans are the same--Born with all the eggs they will every have and those eggs sit until they develop.

I am pretty sure we do not give mutagens as medicine so the chemicals used would disperse. That is what withdrawal is for. I do not think all the eggs in a hen would be contaminated just the 5 or so that are closed to being laid.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Great photo's Petrock!

 

[farmhand]

It is interesting to consider that chickens are born with all the eggs they will lay in their lifetime...

...Humans are the same--Born with all the eggs they will every have and those eggs sit until they develop.

I didn't know that.

 

[OR4-hmom]

I can't wait to see her (thinking positive) all fluffed out!  I am hoping that she has feathered legs!  So far, she looks just like a Pita Pinta.

She sounds adorable, hope she has lots of sisters!