Eggs are porous the hen secretes a film on them when laying that keeps out bacteria. if you wash them they are subject to the bacteria getting into the chick inside.
Garrison is your BBS Roo an English?
Seems crazy the lunar ecpilse but when you think about it the gravity change affect the oceans and lakes.No dispute..Cops say( my son in law) ppl get wilder and my daughter a nurse in peds says ppl are zonkier then too..... why not an egg?its been a crazy setting of november!!! this are the end results of my Dec 8th hatch
on nov 17 i started with 75 eggs, a week later i candled and went down to 66 (9 were unfertiled), candled again on day 14 and went down to 60 and made it to lockdown....here is the crazy part....out of the 60 eggs only 5 hatched......out of the 5, i had to put down 2 (bad legs) so i ended up with 3....two black astros and one white naked neck. i was a little concerned during lockdown cause i talked to my neighbor, who also hatches, and told me that he had a really bad hatching rate (being that he always hatches a good 80 to 90 percent) this time around out of 100 quail eggs he only got 5 and i really dont remember of his chicken eggs but it was also really low (i think 12 out of 60) anyway he said it was because of the lunar eclipse on the 28 of nov.....got a little concerned and sure enough i ended up with 3 out of 60 to lockdown. after this i decided to candle my 30 eggs i had laid on the 25th of nov for a egg sexing project i had started and again, i got bad news ....out of the 30 production red eggs i had for this project all of them were dead except for 6 which still showed life, so the project was terminated. i was so upset and decided to check my DOOMSDAY CHICKS which i set on the 30th. expecting the worst i came to find out that all 60 eggs showed life and are develping allright. so now i also beleive as my neighbor, that the eclipse ruined my hatching! since eggs that were set before the 28th failed and eggs set after the 28th are doing ok.....for this reason im calling off any egg settings until january....after the alignment of the planets and the holidays are over.......
p.s. i also forgot mentioning that maybe that was the reason i lost 2 of my old english bantams out of the 3 that were due a couple of days ago.
I just read a post somewhere on here about Merek's disease and Coccidiosis and stuff, and my thoughts were- should I get my chicks vaccinated? They will be mostly pets more than anything, so I don't really care about "organic and all natural" things. As long as they're happy, I will be happy.What do you guys think? Do they give vaccines for chickens at everyday animal hospitals/vets? Hmmm... Would they be expensive? Merek's disease is not curable, is it? I wouldn't want them all to die... Look at me! They haven't even hatched yet, and I'm all ready worrying! They might not even hatch!
