My little mystery rooster is 8 weeks old now, and showing off blue ears. Any guesses on breed? He is tiny and hatched from a blue egg that I thought was cream Legbar.
For what it's worth, just so you know, white earlobes can look aqua blue when bruised (happened to a Cream Legbar hen of mine who scratched her earlobe). Chicken bruises can be alarmingly bright blue, compared to what you might expect from human bruises.
You guys might (or might not) find this interesting. When I blot fountain pen ink on a wet paper towel (e.g. to wipe off a pen), over time the different components of that particular ink will spread in the paper towel at different rates and separate (like you may have done in chromatography in chemistry class).
Well, I used paper towels to help tend to Goodwin's tail picking injury and when I had to pull out the blood feathers, and was so flustered about the whole thing that I didn't discard the bloody paper towels once done. I came back a day later to tidy up and found this:
- Ant Farm
Kidding!
Ditto that!!! So very cool! BTW, if Y'all ever get the chance to look at cocci under a microscope in person, you should. It is amazing!
When I candle from the air cell down (because I am being so careful not to disrupt the air cell anymore than USPS already did) I see what is like an egg with 4 layers. I see the air cell, then veins raining down the sides of the shell, then a darker ring, then clear egg. I do not see an embryo or a circle of vessels. Not sure if I will see that around day 10, or maybe never? I look at the candling pics online and it looks so perfect. That lottle round emryo and the vessels radiating out from it. My eggs are light brown. They're barred rock. Does it sound like they're normal or is there a problem?
