May hatch-a-long

[sawilliams]

Thank you for the clarification. I thought the biggest difference of blue vs lavender was wether or not they breed true? Not necessarily the color of feathers. Maybe your friend can offer some clarification. I'm very interested in chicken color genetics. But it's almost overwhelming between base colors and patterns.

It was a little confusing to me at first to. But the little bit i could understand about genitics is blue breeds blue black or splash when bred blue to blue. But the blue gene is different from the lavender and a lavender will always breed lavender if breed lav to lav. The 2 colors are slightly different. But all of mine are lavender cross many being some sort of lavender and red. But lavender pairs with the other colors weirdly like turning reds black did it will be interesting to see what they look like

 

[UThobbyfarmer]

It was a little confusing to me at first to. But the little bit i could understand about genitics is blue breeds blue black or splash when bred blue to blue. But the blue gene is different from the lavender and a lavender will always breed lavender if breed lav to lav. The 2 colors are slightly different. But all of mine are lavender cross many being some sort of lavender and red. But lavender pairs with the other colors weirdly like turning reds black did it will be interesting to see what they look like

I understand the BBS coloring. Just not how the lavender expresses itself when crosses. Thank you for explaining what you know and describing your crosses. It's be interesting to see what comes from your F1 and future generations.

 

[sawilliams]

So mad at myself. One of the chicks in the bator got stuck on its back. I left it for a while to let it figure things out but it just wasn't getting the hang of it. So I finally decided to help it a little and the damn lid slipped and smashed the other sebright egg. Grrr. So i checked the egg it was beatup pretty bad and had whites and blood oozing, but it didn't look like the chick was breathing of moving at all (thinking it might have already been dead in the shell) so i left it in for a while and just kept watching it but there was change. I finally decided to remove the egg, and do an eggtopsy. The chick looked much smaller then the hatched sebright, not a lot but enough that i think it might have died just before or after lockdown. There was still a lot of whites in the egg to which again tells me it had infact stopped developing. But despite the fact that it may have already been dead I feel bad that I literally took its last chance away if it had any chance left... off to check some fresh laid sebright eggs to see if there are still any fertile.

 

[TheFarmSchool]

Currently we are on the 7th day of our process.

 

[UThobbyfarmer]

Currently we are on the 7th day of our process.

You should be seeing something. Can you post some pics? This is a cream colored Bantam egg on Day 7.

 

[UThobbyfarmer]

So mad at myself. One of the chicks in the bator got stuck on its back. I left it for a while to let it figure things out but it just wasn't getting the hang of it. So I finally decided to help it a little and the damn lid slipped and smashed the other sebright egg. Grrr. So i checked the egg it was beatup pretty bad and had whites and blood oozing, but it didn't look like the chick was breathing of moving at all (thinking it might have already been dead in the shell) so i left it in for a while and just kept watching it but there was change. I finally decided to remove the egg, and do an eggtopsy. The chick looked much smaller then the hatched sebright, not a lot but enough that i think it might have died just before or after lockdown. There was still a lot of whites in the egg to which again tells me it had infact stopped developing. But despite the fact that it may have already been dead I feel bad that I literally took its last chance away if it had any chance left... off to check some fresh laid sebright eggs to see if there are still any fertile.

Oh no! That's terrible. I agree it was already DIS based on your description. But still heartbreaking.

A couple of hatches ago I dropped some eggs about 18" onto other eggs in the incubator. I think they were just under a week and all developing perfectly. About half (8+eggs) we're damaged. Some cracked beyond repair and 2 I used wax on (one hatched). But many had dislodged their air cells. I put them upright in a carton, no turning for 2 days, like shipped eggs. Most hatched, some didn't, but I felt terrible and stupid about jeopardizing or eliminating
their best chance of hatching. Just know your not alone. Many have had these slip ups along the way.

 

[rsb911411]

I had chocolate turkey eggs in my incubator that had about a week left. We had a power outage and I had to move them to a different area so I could plug them into our generator. My hisband had a mishap with all the cords and the whole incubator fell off the cabinet and on top of the eggs. None of them made it and I was heartbroken. I looked at them and all were fully developed but needed to grow a bit more. Now I have silkie eggs in it and am hoping I don’t have any mishaps with them, but I learned my lesson from the first.

 

[sawilliams]

So I can't remember if i updated we have a 4th hatch, and a 7th pip. 5 and 6 are starting to zip

Names in hatch order are
Shelldon ee/cross
Thunder ee/cross
Tiny sebright
Mildred jr red/cross
5 is an ee/cross
6 is a tan egg (cross fingers for a bard/cross)
7 is an ee/cross

Tiny and Mildred pictures

 

[TheFarmSchool]

Ill be posting pictures soon today of tomorrow morning. We don't see any veins though.

 

[TheFarmSchool]

How can you tell if they are fertile or not?