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[jake hill farms]

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Post one of your pure Typewriter cocks please sir. This is one of my Typewriters
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i dont have any pure i would like to get a pullet or two do u sell any?

 

[B123]

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Somehow the hens prevent moisture loss from eggs, otherwise hatch rate would be lower during periods of low temperatures and drought. Later I will try to post picture of what I called spurred hens for comparison.

Moisture loss is reduced by the oil coating the eggs from the hen's body. Optimal moisture loss from eggs during incubation is about 12-14% of starting weight.

 

[centrarchid]

Can they up relative humidity under brood patch by effectively sweating? Some desert birds fly a good ways for water each day during incubation where consumption is more than needed for bird itself.

 

[centrarchid]

Eclipse molt is interesting. From what I have read, there is a cost to having those bright flashy colors. It appears to be somewhat hormonal/environmental as having females around can delay the molt. Maybe it goes hand in hand with the high energy cost of mating season and chasing off rival males?

There may be something to the presence of stressors beyond heat. A couple of my males even had henny feathering develop on their saddle which was lost during heavy molt. It was not done every year during 5 year life span of the birds doing it. They were penned with some distance between them.

 

[flypen]

It's hard for me to think if a egg got stuck to a hens breast, someone or something made a hole in it. A setting hen is constantly turning the eggs with their feet, I know for a fact that a needle pointed spurred hen can and do sometimes poke holes in the eggs.

 

[centrarchid]

Evidence for me is reaching under brooding hen to find an egg impaled on a spur, especially in the last three days. Then the spur need not have much of a point as chick has extracted some of the calcium for bone development during that last little bit.

 

[roosterhavoc]

I’m sure they do poke holes in them. I’m saying the broken eggs I’ve seen more than likely have stuck to the hen where she pulls her own feathers for the nest. I’ve had quite a few spurred hens hatch eggs without breaking any. Some hens just suck. That hen just hatched all 8 eggs she had yesterday and she is double spurred. The nest was a small egg crate and there was a rooster in with her the whole time.

 

[SOHC-FTW]

I just have issues with hens accidentally killing chicks I would have had 7 kelso had she not been scratching and killed two.

 

[roosterhavoc]

I just have issues with hens accidentally killing chicks I would have had 7 kelso had she not been scratching and killed two.

I have even more issues with hens intentionally kicking the sh*t out of them.
Or killing them as they hatch. I’ve got two hens with numbered days left. As soon as they molt in fall I’ll skin them and use the feathers.

 

[SOHC-FTW]

I haven't had that issue this year yet I did last year but got rid of em. All seems well so far so good in that sense.