online Crazy Egg Chain Chat thread

[meepitqueenie]

what do you do??? i had a person buy eggs from me i shipped them on sat they should have been to his house on monday........... obviously not my fault but i feel bad.

as for the float test i thought if it floats its bad- like for undeveloped eggs= because the air cells are larger so they float to the top. thats what i thought for eating eggs anyways. oldest ones will float. how does that work for eggs not incubated yet?

 

[CapricornFarm]

I would think it would be the same, if it sinks then it's fresh, if it floats, chuck it. Unless it has been in the incubator and lost weight from dehydration. Ok experts, clue us in

 

[emvickrey]

I read that if it floats just where the air cell is it's good. If it floats more or sinks it's bad. Either no air or too much.

 

[bockbock2008]

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I'm no expert but I'm not sure this is correct either. If you take a fresh, laid that day egg, it will sink, so is it not good? I typically don't do it with shipped eggs, but I've set my own eggs that are 14 days + and they have still hatched. I collect my guinea eggs until I have about 60 or more of them at a time to incubate so those are setting for at the very minimum of 10 days since I only have 6 hens and thats if they all lay everyday. I candle every egg before I start incubation. I look for cracks and any development or oddities of what should be a fertile egg ready to set. Believe it or not, just recently in some shipped eggs I got, there was a partially developed fetus. And I'm not just talking a couple days! It was already dark and the size of nickel. Anway, if they look good, even if they have ruptured air cells, I'll give them a chance. If after 7-10 days they are still clear, then they get pitched.

 

[emvickrey]

These guinea eggs I had that arrived in the mail very late and by the time I did the float test they where at least a month old. When I unpacked them some where smelly and of course they got tossed right away and I was going to set them that night and I ended up staying with my grandson at the hospital for a week.

On another note: my sizzles and silkies are hatching. I have 9 out so far and most all are pipped. I hear an announcement so another has probably hatched. It was about out a few minutes ago. They are the first ones from my new roo and I never got white sizzles from my white hens but this time so far most are white. Well, yellow and most likely will be white but i'll see. There are 2 that look calico and a few black maybe. They haven't fluffed up yet.

 

[CapricornFarm]

:cdHey Em, Did that really fluffy chick you hatched from my eggs ever grow up? You sent me that pic right after the hatch and I was wondering how it did. I took about 2dozen silkie eggs out from under my broodies today, they were getting ridiculous. There were three hens in one box, and several empty ones adjacent. Silly hens, I left them a few to keep them busy. Today I have barred rocks and lavendar orpingtons hatching.
Wish we would get some rain, it is bone dry around here and still way too hot for this time of year. I pulled a barrel of weeds out of the garden and gave them to the chickens tonight, they were loving it.

 

[emvickrey]

I do believe there where 2 that hatched and they are both fine. It's hard to keep up with who I got which from especially the silkies. I had 2 cuckoo and a buff with black spots on it's back and wing tips that came from renegaderidgefarms. The ones that I got from Gordonhillfarm didn't hatch but that was my fault. I was gone and the bators and hatcher wasn't tended. I lost alot of eggs from other people.

The guinea eggs I got from you I have 6 keets that are feathering out nicely. I just bought 6 more keets from TSC today and added them to their pen. Although they are smaller they are getting along fine.

We had bought 2 hens and 1 roo from the auction and they had been in a pen for a while so they don't run away. But it was so hot and they had very little shade, I let them out so they could find shade. The roo ended up going after my less dominant roo that runs loose and in the attempt to safe him they flew off and one of the hens went with them. So we lost 3 but we still have a pair. They hang out around here somewhere. I see them a couple times a day. We just haven't had much luck with guinea.

About the chicks hatching now, the only silkie is yellow and has a vaulted skull. It's down is pretty much pasted down. I attempted to fluff it up but it's pretty pasted. One of the oegb's pipped and zipped a little ways then stopped and I saw blood coming out of the hole. So I opened up the top and let it come out on it's own. It's alive but only partially out of the shell. I don't think it will make it but my fingers are crossed.

One of the sizzles didn't make it out of the shell before it died. I don't know why because it just pipped today and died a few hours later.

 

[shelleyd2008]

I need to liquidate my flock, you can view my recent posts to see a list if you're interested.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Did you know that if you raise a chicken with the guinea keets they will do better? I raised a batch with a RIR rooster and those guineas used to follow him around. At night they would follow him back to the coop. It might help.

 

[CapricornFarm]

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Ouch! How come? I don't know how to view your recent posts,but I bet you are selling some nice birds! What are you offering in silkies?