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[Audio51]

Quote: Exactly what I was thinking...hold them until all have been laid and set them at the same time. That way there won't be one hatching every day for 10 days. What does everyone else think?

Well if I hold them all until the three week mark then I won't be able to set them all at the same time as there will be too many. I was thinking of setting a dozen once I have a dozen, then setting the rest after the eggs I currently have in the bator hatch.

That would work too. I just meant you don't want to set each on the day it is laid. If you are starting to collect tomorrow then you would not have 12 until the 7th of June.. That will be a couple of days after the 3 weeks...but if they have good fertility you may get lucky and still get a few fertile ones after that.

Don't forget that I also have two other white egg layers, and both of them are laying an egg nearly every day. I'll be setting those eggs, too, even though they are infertile because I can't tell them apart from the Tolbunt eggs. And Deb says her pen of 7? Tolbunts lay about 6 eggs each day so I expect to get an egg from her *most* days. So I will have quite a few to set, if I get 2 white eggs a day then in just a week I'll have 14 eggs.

That's right....is there a way to separate the other 2 white egg layers in another pen?

 

[BCollie]

Quote:
That is a good idea. Hmmm...I don't think so, I mean I don't have another pen. I wish I did!

 

[Audio51]

Quote:
That is a good idea. Hmmm...I don't think so, I mean I don't have another pen. I wish I did!
Amy portable barriers...dog crates.....spare bathroom?

 

[BCollie]

Quote:
That is a good idea. Hmmm...I don't think so, I mean I don't have another pen. I wish I did!
Amy portable barriers...dog crates.....spare bathroom?

I mean, I have my dog yard but they will start roosting in the trees or on the fence & my foster puppy has decided that it's fun to chase the chickens so that won't work. No spare dog crates right now since I have two foster dogs...no spare bathroom, I live in my parents guest house so there's only one bathroom. I have no idea what else could work. I think my only option is to set their eggs, too.

 

[Audio51]

Quote:
That is a good idea. Hmmm...I don't think so, I mean I don't have another pen. I wish I did!
Amy portable barriers...dog crates.....spare bathroom?

I mean, I have my dog yard but they will start roosting in the trees or on the fence & my foster puppy has decided that it's fun to chase the chickens so that won't work. No spare dog crates right now since I have two foster dogs...no spare bathroom, I live in my parents guest house so there's only one bathroom. I have no idea what else could work. I think my only option is to set their eggs, too.

Someone on here mention putting food coloring on the vents of the hens so the eggs are marked as they are laid. You could do that with the other 2 hens so theirs get marked.

 

[BCollie]

Quote:
That is a good idea. Hmmm...I don't think so, I mean I don't have another pen. I wish I did!
Amy portable barriers...dog crates.....spare bathroom?

I mean, I have my dog yard but they will start roosting in the trees or on the fence & my foster puppy has decided that it's fun to chase the chickens so that won't work. No spare dog crates right now since I have two foster dogs...no spare bathroom, I live in my parents guest house so there's only one bathroom. I have no idea what else could work. I think my only option is to set their eggs, too.

Someone on here mention putting food coloring on the vents of the hens so the eggs are marked as they are laid. You could do that with the other 2 hens so theirs get marked.

I wonder if that would work....it wouldn't just come off when they pooped?(rainbow chicken poop!)

 

[caychris]

Well lots of progress but not nearly enough should be done this week

 

[BCollie]

Well lots of progress but not nearly enough should be done this week

It looks great!! You're going to have some very happy chickens.

 

[ronott1]

Well lots of progress but not nearly enough should be done this week

It all looks very nice!

 

[BCollie]

Does anyone have experience with marking the vents of chickens with food coloring to see whose egg is whose? Or know of anyone who's done this? How well did it work?