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[ronott1]

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Thank you Molly! I have one of those wooden ones getting ready to fall apart so now would be a good time to get a new one.

 

[ronott1]

It's been fun tonight but tomorrow will be another early day for me and I am rambling just a bit!

Good night!

 

[redriver]

Is anyone here in/around Redding?

Yreka here, if that still counts as around.

 

[PetRock]

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!

The undeveloped ones did kind of glow! The developing ones were dark and the no good ones glowed yellow. My 11 year old daughter, Monet, is my chicken partner. She is really good at candling. She is so decisive! I hold the egg and flashlight and she tells me good or bad. Sometimes I argue with her but so far, she has been correct every time. It was nice with the quail because it was so obvious which eggs had developing chicks in them.

 

[HighNDryFarm]

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Thanks Amy Beth, I had to go back 4 pages to make sure I'd actually posted! Lost the first one I posted and then thought I lost this one.

I just refilled their food and some of the other chicks now have a full crop....maybe this one is just a little piggy! I just don't want to sell any sick chicks, especially when they're going to families and Easter this Sunday.

 

[Miss Molly]

YOU TALKIN TO ME!

Love this little Cream Legbar Rooster. He's so Sassy <3

 

[lawatt]

I'm getting there. You use what you have, and use it well,that's what makes a great photographer, not having the best of the best. I'm currently salivating over the new D700's, but until I get that kind of income, my little D5000 serves me well. Natural light is great, lol and it's free and you don't have to plug it in or pop in the AA's.

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re: photography gear, i use everything from my iphone to an old speed graphic 4x5, with lots of toy cameras and polaroids and medium-formats in between. the chickens look good regardless of which camera i use.

 

[lawatt]

A first time broody should do great with at least six eggs. My silkie just hatched her first chicks, I had 10 bantam eggs under and she hatched out 3.5 (died zipped). Your bird could easily cover 10, but I'd make it easy on her since she'd be a first timer.

Good luck.

thank you!! this is very helpful -- i think i'm settling on giving her 8, but will keep thinking about it over the next few days (getting eggs on saturday). so far a couple of the other chicklets keep adding eggs to her nest, to i'll have to take a bunch out! (will mark the ones i want her to incubate)

and here's a question, when i take out the ones she's been sitting on for three or four days now, to put in the ones i hope to hatch -- are the ones i take out still useable, or will development have already started? i could always donate them to my resident raccoon/fox/etc population, just am not sure how quickly the eggs start to transform inside...

 

[ronott1]

Quote: They will be fine, but crack them into a bowl one at a time when you use them.

We had chickens run off into the orchard and hide their eggs when I was growing up. One time we found a nest with close to 20 in it. Those you had to ve very careful with--sometimes there could be a little chick inside. Another time a Barred Rock hatched out a bunch of first generation Rhode Bars... I had no idea what they were but they were the cutest little chicks.

 

[juststruttin]

A super generous customer who came to buy eggs also brought me 11 of the most beautiful Marans eggs I have ever seen. The hens are 2nd gen bev line and the roo is peddler. I have the worst luck hatching Marans eggs and I really do not want to mess these ones up. Does anyone on here raise Marans? If so, what is the best humidity to run them at? Advise please