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

[daxigait]

Oh my gosh, she's huge! How much do you think she weighs?

I don't know. Two hundred plus maybe.

 

[ronott1]

Well... I candled. 2/14 showed possible signs of life. One of them had veins attached to the shell this early in incubation? Is that normal? From broody experience, the veins stay on the yolk for the first week. I am really excited for baby chicks!

Veins cannot attach to the shell--There is a membrane between the shell and the albumin(white).

Sounds like all is well! It is good to see veins at 4 days. You will see a lot more by day 10. Your Rooster is doing his job

 

[daxigait]

It's amazing those little twig-legs can carry her

They are not really a small as they look, she's just that big in the body.

 

[BantyChooks]

Well... I candled. 2/14 showed possible signs of life. One of them had veins attached to the shell this early in incubation? Is that normal? From broody experience, the veins stay on the yolk for the first week. I am really excited for baby chicks!

You setting upright or on the side?

 

[daxigait]

Well, this wet spell rain to snow followed by the brutal cold is going to cost my rooster that points on his comb.

 

[daxigait]

He is really big and his comb ends up way at the top near the metal I think. If I ever build another coop like that one I will not put the roost at the higher point of a slanted roof.

 

[kwhites634]

Whites: Why do the young doubt us? We know what we did and they refuse to listen-----It is so sad----- to see them not benefiting from our accumulated knowledge.

That's a true fact (as opposed to an untrue fact which, by definition, cannot exist 'cause if it were untrue it wouldn't be a fact, but I digress). Unfortunately, every new generation must learn the hard way; the elders, unless they're American Indians, never know anything.

 

[kwhites634]

Haha yes! Great memory! Thank you. Y’all seem like a cool bunch of people I’m really excited to hatch with you!

We are definitely cool. In fact, several of us are downright cold.

 

[kwhites634]

How do you start that?

How do you start being a mother? Well, the little bee......

 

[kwhites634]

I realy think that you need some Sunshine. .....

There ya go changing the subject again. Lots of folks do that when they know they're wrong.