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[casportpony]

Congrats on all the new chicks, they're all really cute!

-Kathy

 

[Happy Chooks]

OK @chickee Here is a shot of one of the Mottled. I stole it from under the broody to get a shot of the come for comparison. I will get one of all of them once they are all hatched. There are a couple that look like this and a couple that are more spotty. #5 is working it's way out of the shell right now

Oh my gosh, they are so cute. And they are even more beautiful as adults!

Quote: Cuties! Congrats!

 

[sewandgrow]

Thanks! Now we need pictures of yours!

I am thinking I am only going to end up with 12 mixed from these. 11 have hatched and the one Mottled AM has pipped and is working on getting out. I started with 33. I removed 4 or 5 clears at about 7 days. 2 OE broke under the broody fairly early on, but looked infertile. I removed one cracked one yesterday that was an early death. I had a few other sloshy ones that had an early death and I have 2 more OE, 3 more mottled AM and 4 more Marans that are still in the 'bator but not really doing anything yet. I will leave them a couple more days. Today is day 22.

I learned the hard way to give Marans extra time. I lost a whole incubator full of Cuckoos a long time ago by thinking they were dead & dumps the eggs only to find live chicks inside that I had killed. Experience is such a goo teacher. I wait a long time now before I toss eggs.2 years ago I was taking out egg cages to toss the eggs on day 25 when I head a peep. Sure enough one of the White Marans was pipping in one of the cages. I took it out of the cage & it finished & was fine.

 

[casportpony]

That is wierd......They usually have such a thick waxy coating I wouldn't think any bacteria could get in there. I hope that was the only one.

I'm no expert, but I've had hundreds of chicks and ducklings hatch and I've never seen anything like it. Will send the pictures to UC Davis and see what the pathologist says. And if I have more like that I'll ship them for necropsy.

-Kathy

 

[sewandgrow]

x 2 Happy Birthday Deann

Happy Birthday Deann. So nice chatting with you at Stockton.

 

[Chickengirl1304]

Does anybody know what makes an egg Porous? Sometimes when I gather eggs I notice a porous egg so I'm guessing it does not have to do with age. I never ship or sell pourus eggs and once had a complaint that someone received some. Maybe temperature?

 

[lawatt]

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?

 

[casportpony]

Does anybody know what makes an egg Porous? Sometimes when I gather eggs I notice a porous egg so I'm guessing it does not have to do with age. I never ship or sell pourus eggs and once had a complaint that someone received some. Maybe temperature?

I notice those in some of mine and those are the ones that never seem to hatch.

-Kathy

 

[SilkiesForEver]

Does anybody know what makes an egg Porous? Sometimes when I gather eggs I notice a porous egg so I'm guessing it does not have to do with age. I never ship or sell pourus eggs and once had a complaint that someone received some. Maybe temperature?

I've wondered the same thing. I purchased hatching eggs and a few of the eggs were porous but the chicks had no problem hatching. I've also noticed though, that I've never gotten a porous egg from my birds. Strange. Maybe it's the diet?

 

[EZFarms]

I get porus eggs now and then and i dont think its diet. i feed my chickens leftovers from everything and feed them layer crumbles