Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[krazykat0373]

Quote: I would love to have the Blue Wheaten and the tolbunt....but I don't think hubby would like me paying for more birds....

 

[krazykat0373]

Hello everyone
I'm new to BYC and I have some vital questions about candling and hatching Guinea Eggs.
My guineas are laying in a community nest and I have a pile of eggs nobody is sitting on. So I grabbed 18 eggs from the pile and started candling. All 18 eggs are totally clear with the exception of 2 eggs that have a reddish tint around the inside egg surface but the inside is totally clear too. I do not see any veins though. O.K. Here's my questions: does it take time for something to grow or is there supposed to be something there right away after the egg is laid? Are the eggs with the redish around the inside shell any good? When I check the eggs do I mark them and put them back in the nest if they are not any good for incubating or eat them? How do I know if the egg is good to eat without poisoning my family?

you will not see anything unless a hen has been sitting on them, they require heat to begin development........to tell if the the egg is good to eat is the float test, put it in water. if it floats its bad
you can google that part of it, will come up with pictures/examples

 

[crfarm]

Very excited!!!!!!!!

I am off today to do a bird trade. I am trading for a trio of breeding rhodebars that were bought directly from Greenfire as babies last year. She said they are laying machines.

 

[krazykat0373]

Very excited!!!!!!!!

I am off today to do a bird trade. I am trading for a trio of breeding rhodebars that were bought directly from Greenfire as babies last year. She said they are laying machines.

mine!

 

[minihorse927]

Talking about birds that need new homes, I have a few call ducks looking for some new homes.

 

[BHep]

I just call my place unofficially.. "The Chicken Ranch".
When we bought the place...the 2 commercial chicken houses were still in use. And NO... I have converted these 500 foot long old chicken houses into my coops. I keep myself contained to the 36 x 70 pole barn.

Sort of......

 

[Ridge Farm]

lol...our little place, we call (unofficially) The Little Valley,...and you guessed it! It's in a little valley between two hills....

We laughed ourselves sick when our insurance agent said we should get flood insurance - we're 800 ft above the valley floor!

 

[tdhenson86]

Right now I've just got ducks and cyborgs, don't plan on getting quail (again) or peafowl.

How do those two species get along? lol...

 

[tdhenson86]

Quote:
x2!!!!

 

[caj1985]

How do those two species get along? lol...

Obviously from her post the ducks and cyborgs get along fine. It's the quail that are the troublemakers.