Cream Legbars

Awesome!!!!

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OK here's some photos I took just for fun today, with my dinky little 6 year old Kodak EasyShare. Hubby just let me order a Canon Rebel T3i for my birthday! Can't wait for it to get here!

Three CL X White Leghorns and one white CL female



The white CL. Female, right?



A dozen cuties. Hatch still underway, these were the ones I pulled out this afternoon to give the others a little more room. The incubator was PACKED. So far I have 7 regular girls, 1 white girl, and 6 boys.



What a gentleman to give the little lady a lift, right?

Way too cute! Love the farm set!
 
I have carried eggs from CA to ID and several other cities to Idaho and had no problems. You pretty much have to insist on the hand inspection. I have told them that they are live embryos of a rare breed of poultry and they do their little inspection. A lot depends on how long they have been with the TSA as to how much trouble they cause.
 
I have carried eggs from CA to ID and several other cities to Idaho and had no problems. You pretty much have to insist on the hand inspection. I have told them that they are live embryos of a rare breed of poultry and they do their little inspection. A lot depends on how long they have been with the TSA as to how much trouble they cause.
Good advice. A lot probably depends on the particular airport too.
 
I have carried eggs from CA to ID and several other cities to Idaho and had no problems. You pretty much have to insist on the hand inspection. I have told them that they are live embryos of a rare breed of poultry and they do their little inspection. A lot depends on how long they have been with the TSA as to how much trouble they cause.

That and some airport's security is sub-contracted out so it's not really the TSA running the show.

When I wasn't sure if I could get the hand inspection I looked up some info about the radiation levels in the machines and potential damage to embryos.

I could not find exact dosages of radiation of the screening devices, but the TSA says they have to have signage and inform everyone if the dosage is more than one milliroentgen during the inspection http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2010-title49-vol9/pdf/CFR-2010-title49-vol9-sec1544-211.pdf.

I then looked up radiation guidelines for human embryos in the first trimester (most vulnerable) and they advise a fetal dose less than 1,000 millirem http://www.safety.duke.edu/radsafety/fdose/fdrisk.asp

Then had to convert the units: 1 milliroentgen is equivalent to 0.87 millirems http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/radiation/rrmroentgen.html

Bottom line: the level of radiation is so low it will likely not cause problems for the hatching eggs who are still not actively developing and thus even less vulnerable to radiation. The following advice was recommended for undeveloped film and I am extrapolating to eggs: that to minimize time through the x-ray scanner, put the eggs in a tray all by themselves as the dose is varied to see through everything being checked. If the eggs go through with a thick bag containing metal boxes, the dosage will necessarily increase to image the contents of the metal boxes.
 
my legbars are from green fire but they are only 5 weeks old but i will be selling i have a friend that has a laying pair she wants to sell from green fire that are beautiful
 

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