June Hatch A Long

[CluckNDoodle]

Reminds me of a recent post about a visible air cell on a duck egg. I’m pasting the link below. I thought that blood might have gotten into the air cell, darkening it?
https://www.backyardchickens.com/posts/21480020

Just looked at the image of the duck egg in the link. Very interesting, I noticed this with the lone duck egg I currently have in my incubator. I don't know what causes it but it has only been incubating for about a week and it doesn't seem to even be fertilized to me so I don't have any idea what would make the air cell line visible like this.
I'm going to wait until next week to ditch the egg but it doesn't seem to me like this will not be my year for duckies since the entire first batch of Mallard eggs was no good either.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Just looked at the image of the duck egg in the link. Very interesting, I noticed this with the lone duck egg I currently have in my incubator. I don't know what causes it but it has only been incubating for about a week and it doesn't seem to even be fertilized to me so I don't have any idea what would make the air cell line visible like this.
I'm going to wait until next week to ditch the egg but it doesn't seem to me like this will be my year for duckies since the entire first batch of Mallard eggs was no good either.

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Hmmm. The infertile duck eggs that I collect daily have a visible aircell like that...

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Hmmm. The infertile duck eggs that I collect daily have a visible aircell like that...

On the outside of the shell? Maybe it's just a duck egg thing? lol

 

[jolenesdad]

Duck eggs are WEIRD. They’re harder .... but wayyyy more transparent. I feel like I can see the air cells in some of these eggs without candling, too. Not a line like those, but just the shadow of it.

I’m so excited to lockdown I don’t know what to do! Thankfully like all of us I’m also too hot to care and grateful i don’t have anything to do tonight.

Are most of us done with the awful heat wave in the next couple of days?

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Legbar #2 to hatch is FROSTED!!

 

[two j farm]

Summer is like this every year where I live in Georgia. It's like living in a sauna, hot and humid, yuck! We keep making more and more little adjustments to try and keep our flock safer and more comfortable in this heat. I think if we don't get a greenhouse fan installed in the coop to circulate more air soon then I'm just going to paint the roof white to reflect the sun a little better. I feel like every little bit has to help but honestly, nothing seems to lower the temps more than where trees and bushes are growing. They provide shade, release water vapors, and photosynthesis actually lowers the temps as well from absorbing carbon dioxide. Our chicken coop is half under an oak tree but we converted a Rubbermaid shed so it's like a hot box for a couple of hours every day. So far the hens have been ok but lots of panting and my broodies like to stand in a water bowl and dunk their heads before sitting some more, I don't blame them!



I'm sorry for your loss to the fox! Little chicks do seem to make everything a bit better though, don't they!

I live in Louisiana, hot and humid here to. I have trees over my coop and run so that helps.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

On the outside of the shell? Maybe it's just a duck egg thing? lol

Yes, no candling or anything, but I can make out the aircell just looking at them! Some of our ducks and chickens lay similar eggs, so that’s one way I tell which is which!

 

[jolenesdad]

Legbar #2 to hatch is FROSTED!!

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YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!

I’m so excited for you, I know HOW BAD you wanted one!!!!

 

[jolenesdad]

I lost a bird tonight. Weird. In my Broiler pen I have a male and female Delaware I was going to keep with my layers later and see about working on a heritage meat breed. No one in TX has heritage/breeder Delawares and the guy who gave them to me, they were his last he is hatching and got rid of his flock. To someone NOT in TX.

Anyway, that boy and girl range the farthest of all the young 50+ birds I just put out on pasture. They never really bonded to the other birds and were stuck to each other’s side. Tonight at feeding and closing up he is nowhere to be found! I wondered if maybe he overheated but they were in shade there and no one Else is heat stressed. I’m thinking a snake. Ugh.

At least I sort of hope so. 90% of my birds are too big for a snake to really try to take them down. If those Delawares were just laying in the grass they absolutely could have been gotten.

Luckily she doesn’t seem bothered. Maybe he was holding her back.

Guess that answers if I’m starting THAT project this year!

 

[LilyD]

Day 9 for my eggs and I think the ones I marked as good are still doing okay veining is better and seems to be a little more full than it was the last time I checked. One egg looks like it may be developing blood ring and veining dying back. But there are others that are still going strong so far. Harder to see than the mottled eggs. Going to make me crazy until lock down. Will be locking down in plastic egg cartons so they are upright and protected from each other after hatching.