Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

[Chaneys Ranch]

I checked Sally's article. At first, I was sure I had a problem. Further down, it looks like I don't. Blood ring could be a dark vein.
Wait and see.

yes, I have the whole thing memorized I think! She did an excellent job on the article, I read it every week during hatch to remind me on stuff.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

my girls are on a roll! 10 eggs again today! it was crisp today, 50*, sunny in the afternoon.

Peach taught Pebble how to roost for sleeping tonight. it was cute, I did get a few pics at the end, wanted to get a video when I realized what was happening... but by the time I got the camera from inside the house, all the good jostling was over when I got back outside. but... Pebble was desperate to get under his Mama while on the roost. she kept shoving him back, giving him a gentle peck, he was peeping loudly in protest... but he got the hang of it, and she did cover him with her wing.

can't remember anything else... busy time coming up... carrier in nearby office had a heart attack last night. he's alive and recovering, but it's scary, he's 35. 2 little kids. I will cover his route til he can come back. I'm so pooped... g'nite everyone! double route tomorrow! yee haw!

Aww, momma peach gave in

So sorry to hear about the carrier, wow thats young!

 

[kian]

Tomorrow will be one week for my broody and her eggs. So far so good. She's kicked two of the girls out of the favored nest, now they're laying in the previously never used box. Two more will still lay next to her. She'll take their eggs the moment they drop! One of them tries to take her eggs too, but I'll move her off and she leaves. Then Georgia takes her eggs back. She cracks me up the one time a day she's off the nest: she goes around yelling at everyone and acting all antsy and fidgety. I think all the others are relieved when she goes back in and settles down!

 

[okallthis4eggs]

Tomorrow will be one week for my broody and her eggs. So far so good. She's kicked two of the girls out of the favored nest, now they're laying in the previously never used box. Two more will still lay next to her. She'll take their eggs the moment they drop! One of them tries to take her eggs too, but I'll move her off and she leaves. Then Georgia takes her eggs back. She cracks me up the one time a day she's off the nest: she goes around yelling at everyone and acting all antsy and fidgety. I think all the others are relieved when she goes back in and settles down!

The others don't like the bossy/crabby broody hens when they do get off the nest. Walking around all puffed up and fussing the whole time. The other hens are glad when they go back to sit on the eggs. My poor girls have two of them to deal with.

 

[cheeka]

plus
equals 12!

12! a dozen eggs!

of the eggs in my hand, the larger is Olive's, the smaller is Peach's. Olive has either graduated to laying larger eggs, or it's a double yolk!
I had fun this afternoon photographing and videoing the girls dustbathing.

 

[cheeka]

http://youtu.be/rQ-54Ch8rSg it won't be ready for at least another 10 minutes or so... dust bathing. I have a second video also uploading, but it will take hours, and I'll post it in the morning.

http://youtu.be/99wLx0w8JuE will be ready in 90 minutes

a 3rd had been chosen, upload will begin shortly, but I'm half asleep in my chair, so nitey nite!

 

[okallthis4eggs]

plus
equals 12!

12! a dozen eggs!

of the eggs in my hand, the larger is Olive's, the smaller is Peach's. Olive has either graduated to laying larger eggs, or it's a double yolk!
I had fun this afternoon photographing and videoing the girls dustbathing.

You have a great looking bunch of birds who lay a nice variety of eggs. You have done very well them. Nice job.

 

[okallthis4eggs]

Videos are great cheeka. I might give mine some ashes from the wood stove to bath in. It won't stop raining long enough for them to make dust.

 

[okallthis4eggs]

I caught both of my broodys off of the nest yesterday which was great. I really needed to see what they were sitting on besides the fertile eggs. I marked Rogers hatching eggs and they are lighter than the eggs that the Comets have been laying beside her. That was easy. I got four good eggs that I can keep for eating. The big broody BO was the tough part. She had six extra eggs that made her egg count 17. So the challenge was to remove the eggs that were not fertile without taking a egg that was or is going to hatch. The pencil markings are all rubbed off now and the eggs all looked pretty much alike. So I had to work quick to find the bad eggs and leave the good. The automatic door opener I have on the pop door has a light on it so I quickly started taking a egg at a time and holding it to the light. Had to find the six eggs that didn't belong. I found six and kept them separate from the eggs I got from Rogers snake pit. I don't want to make a mistake and give somebody a egg with a chicken in it. Might gross somebody out. Also I don't know how long she had them under her at 100+ degrees. They could be rotten. Cracked open each egg I took from that nest and all but one was a normal egg. One egg looked like it was scrambled inside the shell. Nothing to indicate it was ever going to develop into a chicken. I think it was just a egg that got buried under the bedding in the nest box that was not fertile and was about to rot. The five good looking eggs that I have no idea how long she had them under her got cooked and they will eat them today. (Not me). Less than a week to go now. Both broodys sitting tight. If all goes according to plan next Sunday Roger should be a mommy. Big BO should be a octamom

 

[cheeka]

http://youtu.be/UHFHIA5NXh4 the 3rd video... shows Olive at my feet bathing, just a few feet from everyone else... funny girl

OK, what an ordeal, might be easier to take a pencil back out with you and remark the eggs... the marks on my eggs rubbed down too, but were still visible under good light, the one that did hatch... still had a nice #2 on it... but she didn't have other hens jostling around her laying more eggs...