I dyed my eggs tonight! - UPDATED!! They're Hatching!! *GRAPHIC PIC*

[walkswithdog]

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I wouldn't worry.

 

[MysticScorpio82]

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*Cheers* YES!!

 

[sueg6255]

I just want to see the pictures too.

 

[shay20]

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LOL You got it

we drool to see colored duck pics.

 

[desertlovers]

When are the ducks due?? And how many? We can hardly wait to see them!!!!

 

[jywel417]

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Hahaha!! When my youngest nephew was about 3 (he is now 10) my sister's cat had a litter of kittens. Jack was naming all the kittens, he named the first 4 "Max", everything he had gotten to name the previous few months he wanted to name Max. The last kitten he picked up, turned to us and goes "And this is Creamy Chefeater" talk about a weird out of the blue name . . . at least Frank is normal

 

[jywel417]

**edited because someone else already answered the question, I just didn't get far enough in reading first

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[LA~Poulet]

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HaHAH! Kids can be so funny sometimes! That sounds just like our recent fish naming experience. My sister gave my kids 4 goldfish recently for their turtle tank, and my 3 y/o named them "Jack", "Jackson", "Jack-ja-Jackjack", & "Frosty the Snowman". Frosty is the littlest orange one. ???

 

[dancingbear]

I want to see more pics!

Comment about dying chicks for I.D. purposes vs. marking the shell: After the chick hatched out can't tell which shell it came from, so that only tell you which ones hatched, it doesn't help follow them later.

Example: I have Roo X, and want to see what his chicks turn out like from various hens. I have a Delaware hen, a light Brahma hen, and a Columbian rock. All 3 hens have similar coloring. I segregate the 3 hens separately, and collect the eggs, mark them so I know which egg came from which hen, then incubate them all together.

Once they hatched, I'd have no idea which is which. Except for part of the Brahma's chicks, the ones that got feathered legs, but some could be clean legged, so they'd mix in with the others, (unless Roo X was feather leg type, too, then, there's be no telling at all.)

However, if on day 12, 13, or 14, I very carefully, following all directions, keeping everything sterile, injected each group with a different color, I could easily tell them apart until they feathered out, by which time they'd be big enough to put identifying leg bands on. I could match the leg bands to the colors I dyed each group, too, so it would be easier to keep them straight.

 

[countrybum]

I want to say I read all through this post and I think the needle injection is why the chicks did not make it. Actually, until this post I have never heard of such a thing.

I have dyed chicks for Easter for the past 2 years, never even thought it could be illegal, but I have never inserted the dye through the egg after the chick had already started to develope.

The safest way in dying is through their feed, my granddad did it and I do it the same way.

for 2 days I mix red dye into their food, then 2 days of green, 2 days of yellow etc. This in turn causes the whole yoke to be the color of the dye and does not leave the crappy looking stuff all over the chick. I have almost a 100% hatch rate of colored chicks doing it this way and it is very easy. Put the feed in a bowl, add in food dye and collect eggs, 21 days later you have colored chicks.

When you insert the dye directly into the egg in some eggs it is like holding their head under water.