EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[dan26552]

Oh no!  You poor deluded human..

 

[5Sons Coop]

Look at that little lovey dovey honeypot snuckums poopies mama baby girl/boy!!!

 

[BantyChooks]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/910197/why/0_20#post_13845565


I found something very, very interesting....

Evidently Ralphie got attached to his geese?

 

[kwhites634]

This is a 1st for me. The flash washed it out a bit, and I don't know how to correct that. but the near end of this freshly laid (as in some time after I collected yesterday evening) is perfectly smooth, as you'd expect it to be; the lower portion (which appears considerably darker, but really isn't) has a rougher texture. What appears in the photo as an irregular band goes completely around the shell. The only thing I can liken the band to is the cluster of eggs that some common local insect lays on tree leaves.


Any ideas?

 

[duluthralphie]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/910197/why/0_20#post_13845565


I found something very, very interesting....

Evidently Ralphie got attached to his geese?

Taken completely out of context in a fictional writing contest I was partaking of..

BTW those geese are partially to blame for my current anti-webbed stance.

 

[duluthralphie]

This is a 1st for me. The flash washed it out a bit, and I don't know how to correct that. but the near end of this freshly laid (as in some time after I collected yesterday evening) is perfectly smooth, as you'd expect it to be; the lower portion (which appears considerably darker, but really isn't) has a rougher texture. What appears in the photo as an irregular band goes completely around the shell. The only thing I can liken the band to is the cluster of eggs that some common local insect lays on tree leaves.


Any ideas?

I get those quite often, I figure the girls just forgot to refill the paint sprayer.

 

[AnneInTheBurbs]

Good morning all!

I woke up this morning and found an egg carton on the table with 4 big white, messy eggs in it. I know that someone DH works with has a pair of Pekin ducks since he's been asking advice and talking to DH about it for months so I'm assuming they are Pekin eggs. I'm also guessing that they're here for me to hatch lol. I've never incubated a duck egg. Is there anything I need to do that's different or can I just throw them in with everything else?

When the enabling happens at home...

Good morning all!


I woke up this morning and found an egg carton on the table with 4 big white, messy eggs in it. I know that someone DH works with has a pair of Pekin ducks since he's been asking advice and talking to DH about it for months so I'm assuming they are Pekin eggs. I'm also guessing that they're here for me to hatch lol. I've never incubated a duck egg. Is there anything I need to do that's different or can I just throw them in with everything else?

Duck eggs should be thrown against the wall before you try to hatch them. If they break they were not worth hatching.  Please throw them hard a soft throw does no one any good.

Look at that little lovey dovey honeypot snuckums poopies mama baby girl/boy!!!

So cute! What a great picture!

 

[kwhites634]

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And Good morning to you, dear friend.

 

[duluthralphie]

I have devised my own numbering system for my birds. I am tired of numbered zip ties where the number wears off in no time and becomes unreadable. I also tired of finding the numbered wrap around bands all over the yard and no idea which belongs to which bird..

So I have a color coded number system I will be trying. I bought a bunch of colored cable ties on Amazon.

I have given each tie a value:

Red------- 1
White----- 2
Green---- 3
Yellow---- 4
light blue---- 5
purple------- 10
Black------- 20
grey-------- 50
dark blue---- 100


I think I can get any number I need with 4 bands or less.

Bird 49 = Black+black+yellow+light blue
bird 16= purple+green+green or Purple,white and yellow...

How you get there makes no difference, I will be able to tell the birds from a distance also..

I sure hope this works, as I get ready for testing again I dread having to buy more numbered bands just to have them turn worthless is a couple months.

I will still need numbered bands for the bird shows, but I can put them on and off as I need them.

I know it is not a big thing, but I get tired of spending money on bands when this might just work better for me.

 

[dan26552]

Trixie had a kid!!!