"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[TerriLaChicks]

12 isbars, 4 bieles, 4 niederrheiner, 4 merlerault, and 11 of my own. Terri, that darkest one is from the BCM pullet! She just started this week.

And the blue in the top row is from Georgette's daughter.



I finally got my eggs set last night! Don't fuss, Mrs. Pam.

I didn't realize that my cruise was in the middle of incubation!

If I had set them Wednesday, then I would have gotten back on day 18. So I waited one more day, so I can be back on day 17.

Everything is a calculated risk at this point. I have a turner and a baby sitter, so hopefully she can check once a day and it won't need anything.

She's going to watch the rest of the farm for us, plus my kids.

How's everyone liking this cooler weather?

SO happy for you! Yep, Georgette & Gracie both laid those robin's egg blue eggs. Nice color on the BCM egg! All in all, a very colorful incubator. Enjoy your cruise!

 

[mixedUPturk]

Sorry i havent been around much, busy busy...

Had a great time helping at the car show in Gonzolas on Saturday!

Also, brought a puppy who was dropped off at my house last week? (Apparently ive made a name for myself among my neighbors :/ ) anyway Found her The Perfect home! The lil girl n the blu shirt came and told me "God bless you," for giving her family the puppy! Im not super relegious but i feel like its a sign of good things to come

Also:

Sold 12 birds in four days, 5 adults, 7 @8 wks old straight run, they netted 170$ best wk ive ever done w em.

All the extra EE boys i hatched are now in the freezer/fridge or icebath

Ate both my bresse boys, their sisters are now ready to meet their father, who i am buying for breeding

sold both my jonnys so as not to breed them bro-sis (since i got attached an couldnt eat em :/ ) and have plans to get some more BRed eggs from another line to start my second generation.

Sold the silkie roo that was over my cochin hens and am awaiting a pure roo for those girls, frienda mine has a black frizzled one itll b a fun project even tho they were origionally just spose to b setters

Sold all the D. cornishX i was playn w but its fine the friend w that flocks only 5 mins away.

Got the Hona+ outside

I think thats all

 

[lakones]

^^^ You neglected to mention helping out with the school hatch
Today is day 21 !!!!' The teacher is stoked and texting me play by play. We're going by after school to check things out, but there's definite activity!

 

[mixedUPturk]

As I am still new to chicken raising,  I want to know what does a week old fertilized egg look like if you were to break it to eat?  I cracked three eggs today that had blood and a large spot and some thready material.  the yolk was very watery and the white was cloudy.  are these eggs good? there was no smell at all, just like a good fresh egg.

theres a number of things your witnessing there

That egg was good, but after a week you notice the runny white as the egg beggins to deteriorate...

The thready materail was the chalaza that hold the yolk and air cell where theyre suposed to be. Thats part of Any egg

Im thinking a large spot and blood would mean it had started developing, but theres two types of blood spots, wispy and veinish looking? Or; a splotch looking like a red bruise? The red bruise splotch would be somthing that happens to some hens during the eggs cycle. Were those eggs left in the coop for a long time possibly?

The best way to determine fertility is to lookit the lil white spot occuring on every eggs yolk. The blastodisk is the females genetic reproductive end and when infertile it is only a spot. When fertalized by the roo's sperm it becomes the blastoderm, appers as a bullseye, those are best checked 36-48 hrs after theyre layed. Sorry i dont have a pic of it

 

[mixedUPturk]

^^^ You neglected to mention helping out with the school hatch
Today is day 21 !!!!' The teacher is stoked and texting me play by play. We're going by after school to check things out, but there's definite activity!

i shouldve thought harder apparently

This is what it looked like last time i saw it w my friends beautiful eggs

Im anxious to see the changes!

 

[mixedUPturk]

As I am still new to chicken raising,  I want to know what does a week old fertilized egg look like if you were to break it to eat?  I cracked three eggs today that had blood and a large spot and some thready material.  the yolk was very watery and the white was cloudy.  are these eggs good? there was no smell at all, just like a good fresh egg.

I found you another pic

theres a number of things your witnessing there

That egg was good, but after a week you notice the runny white as the egg beggins to deteriorate...

The thready materail was the chalaza that hold the yolk and air cell where theyre suposed to be. Thats part of Any egg

Im thinking a large spot and blood would mean it had started developing, but theres two types of blood spots, wispy and veinish looking? Or; a splotch looking like a red bruise? The red bruise splotch would be somthing that happens to some hens during the eggs cycle. Were those eggs left in the coop for a long time possibly?

The best way to determine fertility is to lookit the lil white spot occuring on every eggs yolk. The blastodisk is the females genetic reproductive end and when infertile it is only a spot. When fertalized by the roo's sperm it becomes the blastoderm, appers as a bullseye, those are best checked 36-48 hrs after theyre layed. Sorry i dont have a pic of it

 

[lakones]

Ok, I wasn't going to post this cause it seemed so far fetched, but after a little reading, it seems I'm not the only one to experience this.
I have a few broodies right now and I have marked the eggs that they started with and take any new ones twice each day. Yesterday morning I did just that and placed the new one in the adjacent nesting box to bring in later. My DH picked up eggs last night and as I was putting them away realized THAT specific egg wasn't in the basket. No big deal, I'll get it in the morning, right? Nope, it wasn't there this morning. Hummmm...
Now tonight when I picked up eggs THAT egg and another new one from the same hen were BOTH under the broody. I think the broody moved it from the adjacent nesting box back to her box!
From what I read, they will put it under their wing and carry it like a football. Wish I'd a been there to see it!!!

 

[lakones]

Looks like our school hatch is happening today. 2 chicks out, at least 3 more working on it and tons of peep, peep, peeping going on.

Timing is perfect, day 21 started yesterday at 4pm. Much thanks to Turk for helping on this!

 

[LaPoulet]

Looks like our school hatch is happening today. 2 chicks out, at least 3 more working on it and tons of peep, peep, peeping going on.

Timing is perfect, day 21 started yesterday at 4pm. Much thanks to Turk for helping on this!

Oh how exciting!

 

[aprilgrem]

Looks like our school hatch is happening today. 2 chicks out, at least 3 more working on it and tons of peep, peep, peeping going on.

Timing is perfect, day 21 started yesterday at 4pm. Much thanks to Turk for helping on this!

That is just so neat!!!