California - Northern

[ronott1]

I vote we do an experiment and feed all the porus egg hens calcium drops (chelated if you can get it)and see if it makes any difference!

This is my thought of the week!

It is very possible that the porous look is a lack of the bloom coating and not a shell problem. All shells are porous but the bloom covers the pores.

 

[casportpony]

I vote we do an experiment and feed all the porus egg hens calcium drops (chelated if you can get it)and see if it makes any difference!

This is my thought of the week!

That sounds like a great experiment, one I'd like to do, but mine free range! For those that are interested, you can get 500ml of 230mg/ml Calcium Gluconate online or at Tractor Supply.



-Kathy

 

[CackleJoy]

Most of the birds ive seen up here are basically barred rocks,RIR,etc basically all egg laying and dual purpose breeds

Where are you?

 

[lawatt]

Birchins all the way baby !

Birchen Marans and Silver Campines get my vote.

ok, birchens it is! fortunately they are a totally different colored egg than any of the layers in Mabel the broody's pen -- and since i was a little worried about the size difference between marans chicks and campine chicks, i just gave her 8 marans eggs from two girls. will see how she does!

go mabel!

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Several of my Muscovies have pipped, but all seem like they're shrink-wrapped. Also just did an eggtopsy on one that probably died yesterday and was quite surprised by what I found.... It's yolk sac was a sack of infection, that's something I haven't seen before.

-Kathy

what humidity are they at?

okay, decision time: one of my isbar/marans crosses is broody. but which eggs to give her to hatch? the choices are:

-- isbar/marans x isbar F2s
-- isbar x SFH
-- isbar x araucana
-- birchen marans
-- silver campine

(no pure isbars are laying yet, and my incubator is hopefully about to pop with CLs, plus three campines and three isbar/SFHs on monday or tuesday, then five more campines possibly hatching two weeks later)

any suggestions?

ok, birchens it is! fortunately they are a totally different colored egg than any of the layers in Mabel the broody's pen -- and since i was a little worried about the size difference between marans chicks and campine chicks, i just gave her 8 marans eggs from two girls. will see how she does!

go mabel!

I was going to say the campine because they hatch the easiest

 

[Hangtown Farms]

let the hatch begin
the first of the Crele olive egger project has hatched. one more trying and a bunch of eggs wiggling

 

[lawatt]

I was going to say the campine because they hatch the easiest

well, i've already got a bunch of campines in the incubator, and i only have three on-hand to put under the broody (only one of my two campines is laying, fortunately she is the "better" one) -- so will see how the incubator ones do. i can always add more to it once the first batch hatches (hopefully monday or tuesday!)...

plus a broody may do better with marans eggs than i would!

 

[Audio51]

Quote: Smart! I didn't even think of that!

 

[casportpony]

Quote: Now they're at 65-70%, but were incubated at 45% in an RCOM 20 Max. Have a few that either tried to pip or did pip in the non-air cell portion at the large end. This brown spot is where one was trying to pip.




-Kathy

 

[lawatt]

let the hatch begin
the first of the Crele olive egger project has hatched. one more trying and a bunch of eggs wiggling

hooray!! so exciting! mine will just be a day or two behind yours...