California - Northern

[liz9910]

Happy Hatching!

It is a nice low cost experiment--and a good way to test your incubator.

Only incubator I have is my Aseel hen she's proven lol. How do I pick the best 6 eggs?

 

[ronott1]

Only incubator I have is my Aseel hen

she's proven lol. How do I pick the best 6 eggs?

Candle them--save any with cracks or are too porous along with bad aircells for tomorrows omelette.

Do you have an incubator on your wish list?

 

[Chrysolinsbirds]

Candle first make sure air sac is intact and attatched, test shells for thickness, and cracks, do the float test, other then that for refrigerated store bought eggs that have already probably been washed I wouldn't know.. Good luck on your science project, I'm going to look for a local trader joes now, I like leghorns =)

 

[liz9910]

Ok I've never candled or anything like that I usually just stick them under her lol. I can see some that are porous so won't use those for sure.

 

[CackleJoy]

From what I understand that is the day they are packed in cartons and not the day they are laid. Here is a video on egg distribution.

 

[CackleJoy]

Deb, thanks for checking I did get the box labeled Fertile. The date on them is Nov 20. I take it that means they were laid on 10/20. That makes them kind of old but the others had a date of Nov 15.

CackleJoy. I'm not set on white Leghorns, just Leghorns who lay white eggs? Where are you getting your leghorns from? I didn't want to pay the tremendous shipping fee for the small number of hatcheries who still have leghorn chicks available.

We are getting ours from JustStruttin and super excited about it! We havn't seen their eggs yet so I can't say how white they are.

I too am finding that this time of year is extremely difficult to nail down certain breeds. These MFL are a unique opportunity that we are grateful for! Can hardly wait to get our birds settled in.

We use lights in the houses so I expect they will start laying again in a month or so. Here in the Central Valley our weather isn't terrible. Our experience is that with lights the production is reduced but doesn't disappear. What is your experience?

 

[ronott1]

We are getting ours from JustStruttin and super excited about it! We havn't seen their eggs yet so I can't say how white they are.

I too am finding that this time of year is extremely difficult to nail down certain breeds. These MFL are a unique opportunity that we are grateful for! Can hardly wait to get our birds settled in.

We use lights in the houses so I expect they will start laying again in a month or so. Here in the Central Valley our weather isn't terrible. Our experience is that with lights the production is reduced but doesn't disappear. What is your experience?

I find the same thing here in Woodland. I run lights to one coop so only about half of my hens get the light. I get plenty of eggs that way. My three year old Golden Comet laid a very nice egg yesterday too.

 

[Happy Chooks]

http://www.rarebreedauctions.com/au...r-double-laced-barnevelders&auction_id=116553

I'd ask questions on this one before buying and want to see the parent stock. Greenfire imported bantam silvers, but I don't know of anyone that imported LF silvers. These could be a project that some are working on (and from the pictures it leads me to believe they are) crossing Barnevelders to Silver Pencilled Rocks. That isn't necessarily a bad thing, it's just good to know what you are dealing with. Crossing breeds is a more labor intensive job to get back to Barnevelder type.

 

[chrissyr]

ChrissyR...I love your "story". What a blessing that you connected with your Grandmother in that way. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you WndyJeepchick

 

[chrissyr]

Thank you, Dian and Ron! I guess I am too late for the lump of dirt or am I? The babies are 2 weeks old now. Hmmmm....have to think about that.

I thought medicated starter was, not 100%, but a huge boost to not getting cocci. What are the benefits on not using medicated? Never had it, so what are the signs of cocci?