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[tommysgirl]

My Icelandics lay a large-XL egg.

Were their first eggs big like that or did they start out little and get big? Also do they lay round eggs? This one is like a ping pong ball almost. I suppose it could be my dorking/polish's second egg but it is so little and her first egg was pointier.

Dorkings lay eggs like the one on the right.

Those are great eggs! I love the purple color. What is shining on them?

Thanks Ron! The color isn't accurate I wish it were. I just took the pic with my phone. They are all nice and white though the CA Grey in the middle is brighter. Thanks for the verification on the Dorking/Polish egg. The white feather was sticking to it so I assumed. I thought the one today was hers too but it is so much smaller and that doesn't usually happen does it?? Where a pullet lays a smaller egg after her initial one?

I have no idea why I obsess over the details like I do...I just feel like I should be praising the layers

 

[tommysgirl]

Laura did you end up with two Isbars and a Daisy Jr or one of each?

 

[Chickengirl1304]

 your ayam cemani.   good luck with your hatch.  Like chiqita said you are going to have a vare interesting assortment of rare chickens!

My cousin found some in Pennsylvania and is shipping them to me from there. I have a feeling she's getting them from greenfire and not telling me.

 

[chiqita]

Were their first eggs big like that or did they start out little and get big? Also do they lay round eggs? This one is like a ping pong ball almost. I suppose it could be my dorking/polish's second egg but it is so little and her first egg was pointier.


Thanks Ron! The color isn't accurate I wish it were. I just took the pic with my phone. They are all nice and white though the CA Grey in the middle is brighter. Thanks for the verification on the Dorking/Polish egg. The white feather was sticking to it so I assumed. I thought the one today was hers too but it is so much smaller and that doesn't usually happen does it?? Where a pullet lays a smaller egg after her initial one?

I have no idea why I obsess over the details like I do...I just feel like I should be praising the layers

CHICKENS! Layers of many eggs! from the bottom of our omelets we thank you! May bugs rain on you from above and all the grass be succulent!

 

[ronott1]

Were their first eggs big like that or did they start out little and get big? Also do they lay round eggs? This one is like a ping pong ball almost. I suppose it could be my dorking/polish's second egg but it is so little and her first egg was pointier.


Thanks Ron! The color isn't accurate I wish it were. I just took the pic with my phone. They are all nice and white though the CA Grey in the middle is brighter. Thanks for the verification on the Dorking/Polish egg. The white feather was sticking to it so I assumed. I thought the one today was hers too but it is so much smaller and that doesn't usually happen does it?? Where a pullet lays a smaller egg after her initial one?

I have no idea why I obsess over the details like I do...I just feel like I should be praising the layers

You can't really tell exactly what the eggs are going to be like that a pullet will be laying for a couple of weeks. Then they change again after the first molt. I have a hatchery Barred Plymouth Rock that layed nice large eggs and then after the molt she started laying huge torpedo eggs. They do not fit in the egg cartons! She is almost three years old now and I got an egg from her today.

Those first little pullet eggs are the best for baking!

 

[debs_flock]

Quote: It's pretty standard for most birds to start out smaller and get larger as they mature. Some breeds seem to get larger faster than others and of course things vary from individual bird to bird. Mine lay a very standard shape and white to very pale tint.

 

[lawatt]

Laura did you end up with two Isbars and a Daisy Jr or one of each?

one isbar (splash), one Daisy Jr. -- although another Daisy Jr hatched about 3 (or 4? i've lost track) weeks earlier, via one of the broodies -- this was its last portrait (i need to update!):

it's either blue or a darkish splash at this point, definitely not black like its mom (she was a black australorp, dad is an SFH)

here's the new chicks yesterday evening, mostly fluffed out -- one trouble with using the EcoGlow to keep them warm, it's harder to get photos, since they're always underneath it! i had to lift it out of the brooder-box to take this:

both appallingly cute.

and the remaining eggs still showed zero pips late today, and none looked promising when candled -- so the incubator is now off, and i'm delighted with the two chicks. will look forward to trying another batch of eggs (should be receiving some more birchen and/or duckwing marans from Texas sometime this fall), but am certainly... aware of how shaken-up shipped eggs can get! maybe i can do another road trip to the sierra foothills one of these days for some more isbar eggs from Dab or Mary/The Sheriff... in the meantime, crossing fingers that this chick is a girl (since i've already got a blue isbar cockerel, who's about 22 weeks old now).

 

[ronott1]

one isbar (splash), one Daisy Jr. -- although another Daisy Jr hatched about 3 (or 4? i've lost track) weeks earlier, via one of the broodies -- this was its last portrait (i need to update!):

it's either blue or a darkish splash at this point, definitely not black like its mom (she was a black australorp, dad is an SFH)

here's the new chicks yesterday evening, mostly fluffed out -- one trouble with using the EcoGlow to keep them warm, it's harder to get photos, since they're always underneath it! i had to lift it out of the brooder-box to take this:

both appallingly cute.

and the remaining eggs still showed zero pips late today, and none looked promising when candled -- so the incubator is now off, and i'm delighted with the two chicks. will look forward to trying another batch of eggs (should be receiving some more birchen and/or duckwing marans from Texas sometime this fall), but am certainly... aware of how shaken-up shipped eggs can get! maybe i can do another road trip to the sierra foothills one of these days for some more isbar eggs from Dab or Mary/The Sheriff... in the meantime, crossing fingers that this chick is a girl (since i've already got a blue isbar cockerel, who's about 22 weeks old now).

Congrats on getting two!

It is always a good hatch when at least two hatch. One chick all alone is very sad.

 

[chicksnthestiks]

CHICKENS! Layers of many eggs! from the bottom of our omelets we thank you! May bugs rain on you from above and all the grass be succulent!

That would make a great T-shirt!

 

[lawatt]

Congrats on getting two!

It is always a good hatch when at least two hatch. One chick all alone is very sad.

yes, i was quite relieved when the isbar finally made it out of the egg! and they both seem healthy and perky so far -- gave them vitamins, just to be on the safe side, but are both in love with their EcoGlow but also occasionally venturing forth to explore the concepts of eating and drinking. no troubled feet or any other problems associated with incubator problems -- at least there's that, given the crazy start i had with the Rcom!