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Our Serama are forever broody bratts!! I can have ten in there broody at a time..
INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!
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@TJChickens , @ChickenCanoe and everyone else, got the brooder temp to 32c and the little piggy seems maybe a little more active.
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I just candled my 14 turkey eggs that go into lockdown tomorrow. Not only are all 14 looking good and kicking and moving, I got a bonus. I got to see a perfectly formed little poult foot wiggling it's toes against the side of the egg 
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TJ I didnt say I am sorry to hear your eggs are gross and smelly, I am sorry about them,
and I am sorry that I found more humor than sadness reading your post.
Guilty so smak me much. or as chickenlov would do, I will just go ahead and smak myself
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awesome!!!!! no pic of this cool sighting?I just candled my 14 turkey eggs that go into lockdown tomorrow. Not only are all 14 looking good and kicking and moving, I got a bonus. I got to see a perfectly formed little poult foot wiggling it's toes against the side of the egg
dont have to tell me that, I live it
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I'm sorry too. I thought it was a joke. Why would they stink in 2 days?
Bama did that to me when I sent him eggs. He said the box looked like a bus ran over it.
It was a joke. They all arrived safe and sound.
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WHY do we need less humidity to get the best weight loss for colored hatching eggs during incubation?
Marans being the best example!
Bj's purty eggs are in the image below
First you have to understand egg shell composition!
Eggs with white shells are made almost entirely from calcium carbonate (CaCO3), and 5%est. of egg shell is made up from other minerals such as calcium phosphate, magnesium carbonate, and various proteins. As an egg is produced, it goes through the hens oviduct, which consists of five parts, Infundibulum, Ampulla, Isthmus, Uterus and that there Vagina.
Tan eggs or brown eggs can vary in color depth, the color seen on these eggs is actually a pigment/coating applied during the last few hours in the hen’s uterus and isthmus, see image below. A tiny amount of this brown pigment over a white egg will produce a light tan egg, a lot of this pigment will produce the dark brown Marans eggs. Since this color is not actually part of the shell and "painted" on the surface you will see that it can be rubbed off and scratched when its still wet, note the scratched eggs in the image above.
Now we should all understand this part......
A Marans hen sends out thick coatings of pigment/protoporphyrins, which are by-products of blood synthesis, and deposited during the long hours passing in the uterius/egg duct and then finally in the BLUME stage, and those proto things, well they fill in thousands of spores in which create a dark beautiful egg, and in turn make the shell thicker.
STOP
WAIT WHUT????
Of course there are other factors involved, thickness of shell from calcium intake, size of eggs, and so forth, but with understanding the entire egg shell composition we can easily understand WHY there is a need to lower incubation humidity compared to commercial hatcheries that hatch white eggs, and why some breed eggs need a much much lower incubation humidity to reach the correct weight loss.
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Marans being the best example!
Bj's purty eggs are in the image below
First you have to understand egg shell composition!
Eggs with white shells are made almost entirely from calcium carbonate (CaCO3), and 5%est. of egg shell is made up from other minerals such as calcium phosphate, magnesium carbonate, and various proteins. As an egg is produced, it goes through the hens oviduct, which consists of five parts, Infundibulum, Ampulla, Isthmus, Uterus and that there Vagina.
Tan eggs or brown eggs can vary in color depth, the color seen on these eggs is actually a pigment/coating applied during the last few hours in the hen’s uterus and isthmus, see image below. A tiny amount of this brown pigment over a white egg will produce a light tan egg, a lot of this pigment will produce the dark brown Marans eggs. Since this color is not actually part of the shell and "painted" on the surface you will see that it can be rubbed off and scratched when its still wet, note the scratched eggs in the image above.
Now we should all understand this part......
A Marans hen sends out thick coatings of pigment/protoporphyrins, which are by-products of blood synthesis, and deposited during the long hours passing in the uterius/egg duct and then finally in the BLUME stage, and those proto things, well they fill in thousands of spores in which create a dark beautiful egg, and in turn make the shell thicker.
STOP
WAIT WHUT????
Of course there are other factors involved, thickness of shell from calcium intake, size of eggs, and so forth, but with understanding the entire egg shell composition we can easily understand WHY there is a need to lower incubation humidity compared to commercial hatcheries that hatch white eggs, and why some breed eggs need a much much lower incubation humidity to reach the correct weight loss.
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someone check that please, I had to do it fast for shellee making supper too and kids are getting picked up!! thank you!! tag me with additions and changes if you can add to it I would appreciate it!!!
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